24mo (binding size 96 x 66 mm).Collation: A-D8 E6 (nested quires). [76] pp. Engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title. Publisher’s woodcut gryphon device on letterpress title, engraved two-page map of France at end. Publisher’s gold-blocked olive morocco (abstract design), Dutch-gilt endpapers, gilt edges.***The very long-running Paris almanac known as the..... More about Etrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, augmentées pour l’année 1747

24mo (binding size 103 x 65 mm). [32] leaves. Engraved title, 5 stipple-engraved plates by Duthé after F. Mossard, 6 leaves with engraved vignettes of reclining ladies or girls in empire dresses at top of each recto and verso, the rest blank for reader’s notes, fold-out letterpress calendar for 1815... More about Le Petit Glaneur Lirique

Small oblong 16mo (74 x 97 mm). Collation: a8 b4 A-M8. 2 parts, continuously paginated. [12] leaves, 191, [1 bl.] pp. Half-title, etched title, 93 full-page etchings. This copy includes the cancelled leaf A8, blank except for pagination and headline on the verso. Nineteenth-century red morocco with triple gilt fillet... More about Linguae vitia & remedia Emblematicè expressa

8vo (143 x 95 mm). Collation: A-T8 (T8 blank). [302] pp. Text in gothic types, stage directions and lists of actors in italic. Title woodcut of a family meal, six text woodcuts of which 5 half-page and one smaller. Wormtrack in gutter of first few leaves, dampstaining to foremargins and... More about Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam...

3 vols., 8vo (205 x 123 mm). I: 41, [3], 237, [1 blank], [3], [1 bl.] pp.; II: 14, 219, 2, [1 bl.] pp.; III: [4], 9, [3], 224 pp. 21 engraved plates: frontispiece, 2 folding maps of the Swiss Alps, including one mineralogical map, and 17 folding plates, by... More about Die Eisgebirge des Schweizerlandes

16mo (113 x 62 mm). viii, 97, [1] pp. (folding table counted as 4 pages). Ninety-one etchings after Gravelot, including allegorical frontispiece signed by N. Le Mire and dated 1758, and 90 etched plates of girls and women engaged in various activities of daily life. Text within double rule border... More about Almanach utile et agréable de la loterie de l’Ecole Royale Militaire pour l’année 1759 ......

8vo (148 x 89 mm). [30], 267, [23] pp. 12 engravings in text, woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces, large folding letterpress table. Fine condition. Stitched with a drawn-on Brokatpapier cover, the edges cut flush and sprinkled with a red pigment.***A devotional confraternity book produced for members of the Marian... More about Orationes Partheniae in Conventibus Ordinariis et Generalibus Ad Sodales Marianos in...

Oblong album (257 x 333 mm). [55] leaves of thick paper including sheets of blue, green and brown paper, on the rectos and some versos of which are carefully mounted approximately 425 cut-out illustrations from French books and periodicals, most from the 1830s and 1840s (but with 5 eighteenth-century illustrations... More about Album of illustrations from printed books and periodicals

4to (251 x 182 mm). 390, [10] pp. Engraved frontispiece after Jacques Stella, engraved title vignette and four figurative initials opening each book, thick and thin double rule page-borders throughout. Title a bit dusty, small tear and wrinkling in lower margin of G1, occasional minor stains, some dust-soiling to outer... More about De imitatione Christi libri quatuor

Oblong 8vo (118 x 164 mm). Collation: A-E4 (E4 blank). [19] leaves letterpress text (final blank removed), 5 text leaves printed on one side only. Italic type, extrait du privilege at end in roman type. Thirteen engraved plates: engraved title, self-portrait of the artist aged 24, dedication leaf, 9 numbered... More about Pinax iconicus antiquorum ac variorum in sepulturis rituum ex Lilio Gregorio excerpta