Grätzerischer Schreibkalender, auf das Jahr nach der gnadenreichen Geburt unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi 1795. Graz: Andreas Leykam, [1794/95].
4to (206 x 155 mm). [48] pp. Pictorial woodcut title border, title and calendar printed in red and black, woodcut astrological symbols. Interleaved with 11 leaves of contemporary manuscript notes in two different hands, in brown ink and graphite, on heavier paper. Small inkstamp on title with initial G and... More
Sujets Religieux. Paris: Fonderie Typographique Deberny & Cie., Rue de Hauteville, 58, [ca. 1890].
Folio broadsheets (441 x 275 mm). 98 leaves, including title (with vignette) and 97 specimen leaves, the latter numbered at bottom (Sujets Religieux 1 (-97), containing approximately 2780 vignettes and ornaments, all but 70 with a printed stock number (see below) and price. Some marginal foxing, marginal tears to last... More
![Les Saints Devoirs de l’Ame devote. Où il est enseigné au Chrestien la maniere d'employer le iour au service de Dieu. Par les PP. de la Compagnie de Iesus. Avec l'Office de la Vierge Marie. [Part 2:] Office de la Vierge Marie pour tous les temps de l’année. FRENCH EMBROIDERED BINDING.](/pictures/thumb/2868.JPG?v=1495732186)
Les Saints Devoirs de l’Ame devote. Où il est enseigné au Chrestien la maniere d'employer le iour au service de Dieu. Par les PP. de la Compagnie de Iesus. Avec l'Office de la Vierge Marie. [Part 2:] Office de la Vierge Marie pour tous les temps de l’année. Paris: Sebastien Feugé, 1648.
12mo (binding size 143 x 82 mm). 2 parts, separately titled and paginated, 262, [2]; 239, [1] pp. Woodcut title vignettes. A few corners creased. Contemporary French embroidered binding of ivory silk over pasteboards, each cover with a different floral design of flowering plants, buds, fruits and leaves, in variously... More
Etrennes mignonnes Curieuses et utiles Augmentées pour l’Année 1743. Paris: de la boutique de M. Jouenne chez Durand rue S. Jacques à S. Landry et au Grison, [1742/43].
24mo (binding size 99 x 57 mm). [64] pp. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, double-page engraved map of France at end. Contemporary gold-blocked brown goatskin, an emblematic binding with a panel stamp incorporating at center a scythe and hourglass, framed in a riot of curving lines, drawer-handle ornaments, leaf plants... More
Les Rébus de l'enfance ou Abécédaire en Estampes d'un genre nouveau. Paris: (E. Duverger for) Librairie de l'enfance et de la jeunesse de P. C. Lehuby, [1840].
Oblong 12mo (121 x 162 mm). xvi, 64 pp. Engraved title, 13 hand-colored etched plates (or transfer lithographs of etchings) containing 26 illustrations, each pair of scenes within a different whimsical and relevant ornamental border. Various typefaces. Occasional minor staining to text leaves. Publisher’s green printed boards (rebacked, somewhat rubbed).*** A.... More
![Cahier d’Ecriture et de dessin linéaire. Dédié au cher F[rè]re Aphrodise D[oc]teur de la Communauté par les Elèves de la 6ème Classe de Carcassonne l’an 1838. STUDENTS’ CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM.](/pictures/thumb/2859.JPG?v=1495732158)
Cahier d’Ecriture et de dessin linéaire. Dédié au cher F[rè]re Aphrodise D[oc]teur de la Communauté par les Elèves de la 6ème Classe de Carcassonne l’an 1838. Carcassonne, 1838.
Folio (409 x 267 mm). Manuscript album, 59 leaves (one full-sheet), written on rectos, in 2 parts: Part 1, foliated 1-16 18-33 35-49 [1] 50-60 ff., with calligraphic exercises and drawings, on thin wove paper watermarked J Whatman or Canson 1828; Part 2, unfoliated, [29] leaves including one full-sheet, of... More
Vive Jesus: Responses de notre tres-honoree et digne mere Ieanne Françoise Fremiot. Sur les Regles, Constitutions & Coustumier de nostre Ordre de la Visitation Sainte Marie. Paris: [s.n.], 1665.
12mo (157 x 90 mm). [4], 624, 108 (recte 116) pp. Shoulder notes, woodcut and typographic headpieces, woodcut initials. Ruled in red throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled black goatskin, sides with fillet and roulette border, spine compartments decorated with arabesque and leafy spray tools, comb-marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled dark brown, pair of... More
Dialogo da Esfera Celeste, e Terrestre para uso das escolas da Congregação do Oratoria na Real Casa de N. S. das Necessidades. Lisbon: Royal Press, 1807.
8vo, in sheets (sheet size 308 x 423 mm). Two and one-quarter sheets, signed A-C (A-B8 C2). 36 pp. First two leaves signed, catchwords on every page. Woodcut coat of arms on title. Armorial watermark; deckle edges. Slight soiling along fold of outer sheet (A), else fine. *** A rare pedagogical... More
Advice to a Son. Or Directions For your better Conduct, Through the various and most important Encounters of this Life. ... The Sixt Edition. Oxford [i.e., London]: H[enry]. H[all]. for Tho. Robinson, 1658.
Bound with: Advice to a Son. The Second Part. London: printed for Tho. Robinson in Oxford, 1658. 2 vols. in one, 12mo (139 x 83 mm). [8], 188, [8] pp., including final ad leaf. Part 2: [12], 189, [3] pp. Woodcut initials, type ornaments. Tear in leaf I1 in part... More
Eloge de la méchante femme, Dédié à Mademoiselle Honesta. Paris: Antoine de Heuqueville, 1731.
12mo (156 x 87 mm). [8], 49, [1] pp., 1 blank leaf. Woodcut title vignette, headpieces and initials. Offsetting of a title-page from a different work on verso of final blank leaf (see below). A few leaves browned. Early 19th-century French speckled calf, gilt Greek key border roll, spine gold-tooled... More
La Ivstification dv moyen le plvs favorable, pour abreger Les Trauaux des Longues Estudes; au Souhait de tout le Monde. Paris: F. L’Ermite, 1638.
12mo (137 x 79 mm). Collation: ã6 4; a-k6. [20], 120 pp. Woodcut tailpieces and a few initials, type ornaments as headpieces. Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gold-tooled with red morocco gilt lettering-piece, board edges gilt; green silk ribbon marker (rubbed, old patch repairs to covers).*** only edition, only copy located, of... More
A collection of printed and manuscript documents relating to religious relics in the private chapels of the Durazzo family palace and villa, including 12 printed and 2 manuscript relic authentications. Genoa, Rome and other places, 1661-1794.
Binding size 335 x 233 mm. Contents: 18 documents: 12 printed authentication forms (”authentics”), all accomplished in manuscript, most with woodcut arms of the issuing cleric at top, some with woodcut or typographic three-quarter borders; all with official wax seals or stamps, most attaching a second sheet of paper; plus... More
Le relationi vniversali ... diuise in sette parti... In oltre vi s’ aggiunge ... un breve racconto di Mostri, & Usanze di quelle Indie, con le sue Figure al naturale d’ Alessandro de Vecchi ... Quinta impressione stampata & ricorrette. Venice: Alessandro Vecchi, 1622-1623.
4to (221 x 156 mm). Eight parts, numbered to six: with the Aggiunta to Part 4, and Part 6 in two parts, separately titled and paginated. Collation as in ICCU except Part 2 (see below). Pagination: part 1) [30], [2 blank], 71, [1 blank] pp.; part 2) [2) 20], 130... More
![Raccolta di Trofej Sacri disegnate di Luigi Rancili [manuscript title]. Luigi MANUSCRIPT ORNAMENT PATTERN BOOK – RANCILIO.](/pictures/thumb/2857.JPG?v=1492458385)
Raccolta di Trofej Sacri disegnate di Luigi Rancili [manuscript title]. [Italy, late 18th or early 19th century].
Oblong 4to (200 x 277 / 211 x 300) mm.). 36 leaves with graphite drawings on rectos and many versos, foliated and paginated [1] 1-69 [2]. Two titles within cartouches (f. 1r and 23r), 103 pencil drawings of trophies, funerary statue designs, knights in armor, and a full-page allegorical drawing... More
![Sext[us] decretalium liber ... Cui adiecta sunt recenter summaria. [Part 2:] CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. [Part 3:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. [Part 4:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Pope CORPUS JURIS CANONICI – BONIFACE VIII.](/pictures/thumb/2856.JPG?v=1492458343)
Sext[us] decretalium liber ... Cui adiecta sunt recenter summaria. [Part 2:] CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. [Part 3:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. [Part 4:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Paris: Jean Kerbriand (at least in part for Pierre Gaudoul), 1531.
Bound with: CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. Paris: for Pierre Gaudoul, 1531 [And:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. Paris: [Jean Kerbriand], 1531 [And:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Paris: (Jean Kerbriand), 1531. 8vo (155 x 98 mm). Four parts... More
![Sefer T[e]hillim [Hebrew]. Hebraicum Psalterium. Edited by Conradus Pellicanus (1478-1556), with additional corrections by Sebastian Muenster (1488-1552). [Part 2:] WOLFGANG FABER CAPITO (1478-1541). Institutiuncula in Hebraeam linguam. Hebrew. Psalms BIBLE.](/pictures/thumb/3195.JPG?v=1492296820)
Sefer T[e]hillim [Hebrew]. Hebraicum Psalterium. Edited by Conradus Pellicanus (1478-1556), with additional corrections by Sebastian Muenster (1488-1552). [Part 2:] WOLFGANG FABER CAPITO (1478-1541). Institutiuncula in Hebraeam linguam. Basel: Johann Froben, November 1516.
16mo (105 x 72 mm). Collation: a-z8 A-B8 C4 (without C4 blank): [203] leaves, imposed in the Hebrew manner; aa-bb8: [16] leaves, imposed in the Roman manner. Hebrew, Roman and Greek types. Froben’s woodcut caduceus device on title, one metalcut initial, full-page table of the alphabet in the Institutiuncula. A.... More
Les Églogues ... Texte original et traduction nouvelle par Marc Lafargue. Imprimées par Harry de Kessler. Bois dessinés et exécutés par Aristide Maillol. Weimar: Cranach Press (sold in Paris by Galerie Druet), 1926.
Large 4to (binding: 326 x 242 mm). 110, [5] pp. Text in Latin and French. 44 woodcuts by Aristide Maillol, including Cranach Press device on front wrapper; 16 initials designed by Eric Gill and ornamented by Maillol. Copy no. 74 of the regular issue of 250 on Maillol wove paper... More
Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. London: William Seres, 1568.
4to (216 x 147 mm). [8], 118 leaves. Roman, italic and greek types; printed shoulder notes. 8-line historiated woodcut initial opening the dedication, 4-line initial opening the text. Title a bit soiled and ink-speckled, some old crease marks to corners, dampstaining in lower portion of last 30 or so leaves... More
Liber Sacrosancti Evangelii de Iesu Christo ... characteribus & lingua Syra, Iesu Christo vernacula ... diligenter expressa. Vienna: Michael Zimmermann, 1562.
2 works in one volume, 4to (204 x 146 mm). 1) New Testament: 4 parts, [27], 129, [3], 38, [2], 80, [2], 11, [28] leaves. Without quires Aa* and Aa**, the 8 preliminary leaves to Mark (as often, see below). Title in red & black, occasional red printing throughout. Syriac... More
Mammotrectus super Bibliam. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 23 Sept. 1479.
4to (212 x 146 mm). Collation: A10 B-C8; a-y8 1-68 710 (A1 blank, A2r-C8v subject index; a1r author’s prologue, a1r-7/9v text, colophon on 7/9v, 7/10r-v table of contents). [260] leaves. Double column, 38 lines and headline. Types: 3:106G (headlines and openings of each book), 6:84(75)G (text). Capital spaces with guide... More
Supplementum chronicarum. With additions by Barillas Bergomas. Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, 1 December 1485.
Median folio (311 X 209 mm). Collation as in BMC. [23], 358, [1] leaves, fols. aa1 & b10 blank. 49 lines and headlines. Tables in 2 columns, quire register at end (T8r) in 4 columns, printed marginalia. Types: 6:150G (headlines); 5:93G (text); 3:111R (capitals only). Capital spaces. Double rules along... More
Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 27 February 1479.
Royal folio (414 x 284 mm). Collation as in BMC & GW. 246 leaves, unfoliated, including first and final blanks. 51 lines and headline, double column. Gothic types 4:160 (headings and headlines), 3:110a (text). Initial spaces. Fine large opening initial supplied in pink with foliate modelling, green filigree geometric infill... More
Ad Capponianas Ruthenas tabulas commentarius. Rome: Giovanni Generoso Salomoni [for the author], 1755.
4to (310 x 216 mm). [40], 136 pp. Title in red and black with engraved vignette of the arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Millo held aloft by two cherubs, text in two columns, 5 engraved plates on thicker paper, two historiated initials, one engraved, signed by Gravignani, woodcut tailpiece. Light... More
![Livre de Compte de Mademoiselle Alexandrine Lambert [compiled in part by her brother Auguste Lambert], Commencé le 1e Novembre 1828. Alexandrine ACCOUNT BOOK – LAMBERT.](/pictures/thumb/2834.JPG?v=1492296816)
Livre de Compte de Mademoiselle Alexandrine Lambert [compiled in part by her brother Auguste Lambert], Commencé le 1e Novembre 1828. [France], 1828-1833.
4to (216 x 170 mm). Manuscript account book, 38 pages text in a notebook numbered in manuscript to 211 pp. of which all but the following pages remain blank: 2-3, 6-9, 12 [one line], 15-23, 101-105, 119-121, 130-131, 140-141, 150-151, 160-161, 170-171, 181, 183, 185-186. The first page (p. “2”)... More
De Beoefening der Teekenkunde, door de eerste gronden der Meetkunde gemakkelijk gemaakt. Amsterdam: J. van der Hey (part 1); W. van Vliet (parts 2-4), and H. van Munster and Son, 1807-1808-1810-1812.
4to (220 x 160 mm). Four parts, 23; [2],18; [2], 13, [2], 14 pages, 80 engraved plates (mostly numbered 1-20 in each part), all signed HN f[ecit], including 64 crayon manner engravings, 6 folding line-engraved perspectival diagrams (Part 2), and 11 aquatints or engravings with aquatint (Part 4). Woodcut title... More