![Le Livre de la perfection de la vie crestienne [sic]. Robert CIBOULE.](/pictures/thumb/2918.JPG?v=1519413970)
Le Livre de la perfection de la vie crestienne [sic]. Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, [ca. 1510].
8vo (141 x 91 mm). [128] leaves. Bâtarde types. Title with small metalcut device of Simon Vostre (Renouard 1108), on verso a full-page metalcut of the Trinity and All Saints, large Pigouchet device on verso of last leaf (Renouard 919), 3- and 4-ine metalcut initials. All quires with printed quire... More
Scrutinium scripturarum. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not after May 1470].
Chancery folio (289 x 209 mm). Collation: [a-b10 c12 d-k10 l8 m-r10 s12 sz10 t-v10 x6]. 217 (of 218) leaves, unfoliated, blank leaf g10 removed, blank leaves x5-6 preserved. manuscript quiring largely preserved, in two series, in red ink, possibly by the rubricator, and in brown ink at extreme outer... More
Super quarto libro sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 2 February 1480.
Royal folio (390 x 287 mm). Collation: [a12-1 [b8 c-d8 e8] f8 g-m10 n-z8 A-L8 M6 N8 O8 P-Y8 Z8 (numerous missignings, last leaf blank (lacking). 388 (of 389)] leaves, unfoliated. Double column. 53 lines and headlines. Types: 2:150 (headlines and headings), 1:102 (text). First page with a four-part historiated... More
A Embaixada a' China, Romance historico ... Traducção Portugueza. Lisbon: José Baptista Morando, 1837.
8vo, in sheets (sheet size 306 x 431 mm). Each volume in 9 and 1/2 sheets, collation [1] 2-108, totalling eighteen full sheets and two half sheets, paginated [1-3] 4-151, [1 blank]; [1-3], 4-152 pp. First and third leaves signed, the latter with the sheet number and an asterisk. One... More
![Degli uomini tali quali sono o come dovrebbero essere, opera di sentimento. [Translated by Orazio degli Arrighi Landini (1718-1755)]. Jean BLONDEL.](/pictures/thumb/2253.JPG?v=1517089083)
Degli uomini tali quali sono o come dovrebbero essere, opera di sentimento. [Translated by Orazio degli Arrighi Landini (1718-1755)]. Hamburg: [s.n.], 1759.
8vo (177 x 121 mm). 103 pp. Woodcut white-on-black title vignette (or printer’s device?) of 3 grotesque figures hammering on an anvil. Untrimmed. Printing flaw to p. 26, with beginnings of lines faintly printed. Light soiling to first text page and to a few deckle edges, small wormhole through upper... More
Vade mecum. Missale Itinerantium, seu Misse Peculiares valde devote. (Nuremberg: Wolfgang Huber, 22 August 1510).
Chancery 4to (207 x 142 mm.). Collation: A-G8. 56 leaves, foliated [1], 1-25, [6], 26-48, [1] leaves. Gothic types. Quires A-C and E-G and leaves D1-2 with text in two columns, 27 lines; D4r-D8r (Canon) in larger gothic type in one column, 22 lines. Title and colophon (G7v) printed in... More
De imitatione Christi libri quatuor. Paris: e Typographia Regia, 1736.
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
![Epistole ... nuper lima acriori castigate ... cu[m] aliis ejusdemq[ue] epistola de miseria curialium: et de egressu Karoli regis ex urbe Parrhisia superadditis. Litteris grecis undiq[ue] suis in locis impositis. Francesco FILELFO.](/pictures/thumb/2903.JPG?v=1516657891)
Epistole ... nuper lima acriori castigate ... cu[m] aliis ejusdemq[ue] epistola de miseria curialium: et de egressu Karoli regis ex urbe Parrhisia superadditis. Litteris grecis undiq[ue] suis in locis impositis. Paris: sold in the rue St. Jacques at the sign of St. Martin (Jean Philippi for Denis Roce), 1501.
4to (205 x 136 mm). 228, [4] leaves. Title printed in red above Denis Roce’s metalcut device (Renouard 1005), woodcut device of Jean Philippi on final verso (Renouard 917); colophon on f. F4r. Roman types, occasional Greek types; shoulder notes. Initial spaces with guide letters. A full-sized copy with several... More
Officio della B. V. Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno, Con le dichiarazioni, e spiegazioni dell' Abate Alessandro Mazzinelli. Rome: Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni, 1756.
8vo (208 x 133 mm). [24], 407, [1] pp. 2 parts, the Office of the Dead separately titled. Printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by Arnold Van Weserhout and Jacob Frey after Joseph Passarus (Giuseppe Passaro), two engraved title vignettes, 12 engraved tailpiece vignettes, most... More
Officium Rakoczianum, oder: Rakoczianisches Gebethbuch, in sich enthaltend: 17 Tageszeiten, und 16 Litaneyen ... nebst Andachten in der Allerheiligsten Dreyfaltigkeit, wie auch zu Maria ... samt 37 Lobgesängern zu verschiedenen Heiligen ...aus dem Lateinischen in das Deutsche übersetzet. Erste Auflage 1765, zweyte 1770. Graz: Widmannstätter heirs (for) Anton Karl Pruggmayr, Hofbuchbinder, [1775].
8vo (167 x 98 mm). 336, [6] pp. Double column, frontispiece by Johann Veit Kauperz (or Kaupertz) of Graz, included in the pagination, and 11 engraved plates of which 9 by Tobias Lobeck of Augsburg and 2 by Kauperz, woodcut and typographic head- and tail-pieces (the headpiece on p. 7... More
Corona Mariana complectens duodecim viridarii parthenii lilia. Munich: Franz Joseph Thuille, 1746.
8vo (155 x 93 mm). [10], 373, [1] pp. Title printed in red and black, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Johann Heinrich Störcklin and 12 engraved plates by various engravers, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, one headpiece with inset red-printed dots. Some foxing. Slightly later German brown silver-gilt-tooled and painted goatskin, covers... More
Christianae religionis brevissima Institutio, Per Interrogationes & responsiones, quam Catechismum vulgò vocant ... Opus imperfectum. Raków: Sebastianus Sternacius, 1618.
8vo (154 x 94 mm). 180 pp., [1] leaf (errata). Text in italic types, shoulder notes in roman. Ruled in red throughout. Slight overall discoloration due to paper quality, repaired tears in fol. A6, small abrasion on B1r. Eighteenth-century dark citron morocco, sides with triple gilt fillet borders, spine gold-tooled... More
Sainte Solange, Vierge et Martyre, patronne du Berry. Chartres: chez Garnier-Allabre, [between 1805 and 1815].
Broadsheet (378 x 310 mm.) on laid paper, deckle edges. Large central stencil- colored woodcut of Saint Solange, framed by letterpress text: a three-line title in large type, narrow bands of text on either side consisting of lyrics to a song about the Saint, and a litany, with imprint at... More
Lof en Oordeel van de Werken der Barmhertighyt. Amsterdam: Nicolaus Visscher II, [ca. 1695].
4to (182 x 140 mm). [9] leaves. Half-title, 8 full-page etchings by Luyken, including engraved allegorical title, each with letterpress text on versos. Fine impressions. 19th-century polished calf-backed boards, several sheets of blank paper bound front and back.*** First edition, first issue of one of Jan Luyken’s devout and inimitably cheerful... More
Versuch an dem Menschen, In Vier Sitten-Briefen an Henrich St. Jean, Grafen von Bolingbroke, über Die Natur und den Zustand des Menschen. Frankfurt: Franz Varrentrapp, 1741.
8vo (193 x 121 mm). [46], 191, [1] pp. Title in red and black with engraved publisher’s device, text in French and German on facing pages in roman and gothic types, eight engraved illustrations, each printed twice, by Martin Tyroff after G. A. Koch, woodcut tail-pieces and passe-partout initial borders... More
Le Jardin de contemplation. (colophon:) Paris: Jean Petit, 25 October 1516.
8vo (134 x 90 mm). Collation: a-z8 et8 A-D8. [224] leaves, including final blank. Batarde types, 27 lines. Publisher’s woodcut device on title (not in Renouard), 8- and 4-line metalcut initials. Colophon printed in a cruciform X-shape. Title and last leaf stained, occasional small stains elsewhere, minor worming in lower... More
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
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
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
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, of which most attach a second sheet of... 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 (dated 1623), and Parts 1 and 6 in two parts, separately titled and paginated. Collation as in ICCU except Part 2 (see below). Part 1: [30], [2 blank], 208; 71, [1 blank] pp.; part... 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
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
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
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