Etrennes mignonnes Pour l’An de N. Seigneur M. DCC.LXXXIII. Liège: chez la Veuve J. Dessain, [1782].
24mo (95 x 55 mm). [98] leaves. Three parts, separately titled, titles within type-ornament borders and with woodcut vignette of the arms of Liege. Double rule page borders throughout. 12 pages containing 24 woodcuts of coins, depicted actual size; small astrological cuts in calendar (leaves 2-16), which is interleaved. Fine... More
Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of New York. At New York printed and sold by William Bradford, printer to their Majesties King William & Queen Mary, 1694. Edited and annotated by Robert Ludlow Fowler. New York: (Theodore Low de Vinne for) The Grolier Club, January, 1894.
Printed on vellum. Folio (285 x 185 mm). [6] leaves, clxiii, [1]; [4], 84, 4, 4, [6], 11 pp. [1] leaf. 2 blank leaves at front and 4 at back. Title with Grolier Club device, three engraved vignettes by Max Rosenthal in the first part (Fowler’s introduction), unsigned lithograph on... More
Le Dialogue de consolation entre lame et raison: faict & compose par ung religieux de la reformation de lordre de Fontevrault: nouvellement imprime a Paris. Paris: [Étienne Caveiller for] Denis Janot, 1537.
8vo (164 x 102 mm). Collation: A-V8. [160] leaves. Bâtarde type, shoulder notes. Title printed in red and black within four-part metalcut border with grotesques and flowering plants, full-page metalcut of the Trinity and All Saints on title verso. Metalcut and woodcut 5-line initials. Foremargins of ff. D2-4 with tear... More
Vita e miracoli della Beata Limbania Vergine, et Monaca del Monasterio di San Tomaso di Genova. Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1615 (colophon: 1612).
4to (197 x 137 mm). [8], 101, [3] pp. Title within woodcut architectural border with allegorical figures, emblematic motifs, and four armorial shields including the arms of Genoa (St. George’s cross), below the title a bird’s-eye view of the port of Genoa; four full-page engravings, historiated woodcut initials, type-ornament page... More
Les Oeuvres. Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1579.
16mo (118 x 72 mm). 256 pp. Roman type. Title woodcut of a convivial feast, woodcut initial. Tiny rust-hole in fol. E3, trifling foxing to title and second leaf. 19th-century red morocco gilt, sides panelled with triple fillet border and central gold-stamped arms of the Marquis de Coislin, spine gold-tooled... More
Ein schön newes und lustiges Buchlein von dem Stifft Bambergk. [Rothenburg ob der Tauber: Zacharias Gros for the author], 1571.
8vo (153 x 100 mm). Collation: A-D8 E4. [72] pages. Title in red and black. Gothic types. Small hole in B1 affecting a letter of each headline (on recto and verso). Contemporary interim wrappers of reversed parchment, long-stitched, manuscript title on upper cover (partly faded), plain endpapers, 4 blank leaves... More
Sermo de gloriosa virgine Maria. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, before 10 October 1470].
Chancery half-sheet 4to (210 x 146 mm). Collation: [a-e8 d2] (without e2 blank). 25 (of 26) leaves, unfoliated. Contemporary manuscript quiring preserved on 2 leaves (a1 and d1). 27 lines. Type 1:96 (leaded to 109). Watermark: two keys (Briquet 3819). No visible pinholes. Three- and four-line initial spaces. Initials supplied... More
Le Confrère Charitable, aux ames sovffrantes dans le pvrgatoire, Pour la deuote & charitable Confrairie de Nostre Dame du Suffrage. Toulouse: Arnaud Colomiez, Imprimeur du Roy & de l’Université, 1650.
12mo (148 x 84 mm). [36], 259 [recte 261], [3 blank] pp. Large title woodcut, woodcut tail-pieces and initials, type-ornament headpieces. Shoulder notes. Tear in fol. F6 due to paper flaw, last two dozen leaves creased at upper corners and with some staining in lower margins. Contemporary parchment over flexible... More
Postilla super totam Bibliam. With the Additiones of Paulus de Sancta Maria, bishop of Burgos (ca. 1350-1435) and commentaries of Gulielmus Brito (d. 1356) and of Matthias Döring (d. before 1465). Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 22 January 1481.
2 volumes, royal folio (415 x 285 mm). Collation: (Vol. 1:) [1-58 6-146 158 16-346 3510 366 37-388 39-676 6810]. (Vol. II:) [1-26 38 4-256 268 27-366 376(6+1) 386 (38/6 a cancel) 39-828 8310]. 430 leaves (of 432, without first and last blank leaves) and 506 leaves (of 507, without... More
De institutis coenobiorum. - Collationes patrum XXIV. Basel: [Johann Amerbach, after 24 Sept.] 1485.
Bound with: THOMAS À KEMPIS. Opera: Sermones, epistolae et alia opuscula. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder [for Peter Dannhauser], 29 November 1494. Two volumes in one, chancery folio (284 x 195 mm). Cassianus: collation: 10 A-B8 C-F6.8 G8; a-b8 c-d6 e-h6.8 i8 k-n6.8 o-t8 v6. 208 leaves, unrubricated. 47 lines and headline... More
Boussole de la Cour ou Maximes pour se bien conduire á la cour d'vn prince & dans les autres états de la vie. Tirées de l'Allemand ... par H.B. [N. p., Germany?], 1713.
12mo (133 x 68 mm). Collation: A-E12 (E10-12 blank, E11 and E12 removed). 114 pp. Title printed in red and black. Type ornament head-piece. A modest copy: small marginal repairs to first and last leaves, the latter catching 3 letters, browning. Contemporary calf, spine gold-tooled, red-stained edges (worn). *** A compass... More
Le Nouvel ami des enfans, ou le Berquin anglais...Traduction libre de l'anglais ... Cinquième édition, considérablement augmentée. Paris: (Imprimerie de Casimir for) Ledentu, 1827.
4 vols. in two, 18mo. viii, 202; 204; 215, [1]; 214, [2] pp. 24 engraved plates, including 12 stipple engravings in vol. 1, faintly signed Dien sc. Contemporary tree calf gilt (scraped and worn). Inscription on front flyleaf of vol. 1: Souvenir de Thse de Butler à son frère Maurice... More
![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
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
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
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