Oesers neueste Allegoriegemälde. Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1782.
Small 8vo (166 x 102 mm). 60 pages. Etched title vignette of the Sphinx, etched vignette on final page of a winged flying cupid having just released a wreath, the latter signed R. f[ecit]. Contemporary green gilt-ruled paper over pasteboards, mottled edges (slight wear to corners and extremities of spine).*** First..... More
A pair of salesman’s pattern books, containing over one thousand finely woven textile samples. [probably Norwich, England, 1820s-1830s].
2 vols., agenda format (260 x 148/142 mm). 124 unnumbered leaves (75 and 49 leaves respectively) of wove paper (leaves [28] and [29] in the larger volume wider and folding), containing one thousand sixty-six highly varied woven wool textile samples (with no repetition): mounted on rectos only, within lithographic ornamental..... More
Bibliothecae Alexandrinae Icones symbolicae ... elogiis illustratae. Milan: Io. Bapt. Bidellinm [recte Bidellium], 1628.
4to (221 x 168 mm). [8], 140, [4] pp. + 32 leaves: engraved title on f. [1]r, signed Bassano, and 16 full-page engravings, also attributed to Cesare Bassano, each printed on the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium with a letterpress list of inscriptions or epithets for each..... More
Prolyta Victorius Emmanuel Stellardi Taurinensis aulae regiae clericus ad Theologiae Lauream... Turin: s.n., 1836.
4to (binding size 257 x 203 mm). 20 pp. Case binding of ivory watered silk over pasteboards, covers richly embroidered with a variety of gilt metallic appliqués, both covers with outer border of braided or needle-looped silver thread, enclosing a large border of scrolling hatched gilt onlays, ornamented with laurel..... More
Carlo Giuseppe Sappa De’ Milanesi limosiniere di S. M. per grazia di Dio, e della S. Sede apostolica Vescovo d'Acqui Conte, e Principe del S. R. Impero, Al Ven[erabile]. Clero, ed Amatissimo Popolo della Città, e Diocesi salute nel Signore, e spirito di Cristiana esultazione. Acqui: Carolo Oddicini stampatore dei R. Uffici, [1821].
4to (binding size 253 x 207 mm). 8 pages, printed on yellow paper (or the paper has browned uniformly). Drop-title, large woodcut arms of the Bishop of Acqui. Case binding of white velvet over pasteboards, decorated with metallic thread and gilt and silver-gilt appliqués, both covers with outer border of..... More
Rosario figurato della Sacratissima Vergine Maria madre di Dio nostra avocata ... raccolto per Il R. P. F. Andrea Giannetti dal Saló... Rome: (Giuseppe de gl’Angeli for) Giovanni Baptista d' Cavalleri & Lorenzo Oderico “conpagni” [sic], 1576-1577.
4to (198 x 140 mm). [12], “176” [i.e., 276] pp. Engraved allegorical title and 21 full-page engravings, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials, and printer’s device at end. Light foxing and staining, title-leaf and its conjugate discreetly reinforced at gutter, a few small marginal tears or small wormholes, lower forecorners of..... More
Vita et miracoli di S. Antonio de Padoa con le figure in rame. Venice: Nicolò Honorato, 1602.
4to (197 x 145 mm). [6 leaves], 206 pp. (some mispaginations). Engraved title and 20 full-page engravings. Page 197 (f. N3r) left blank except for headline, for an illustration that was not supplied. Historiated woodcut initials, a few typographic passe-partout initial borders, woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces. Printing flaw..... More
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Sermones dominicales ... Hyemales Estivales De Tempore.... Sermones medicinales [con]tra pestem epidemie... [With:] Sermones de Sanctis. Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, for Johann Rynman in Öhringen, 8 June [and 10 July] 1510.
2 volumes in one, 4to (216 x 153 mm). Sermones de tempore: [10], 166 leaves. Sermones de sanctis: 85 of 86 leaves, foliated [8], CCC-LXX-CCCCXLVII, without final blank leaf. Double column, gothic types. Initial spaces with guide letters. Rubricated: opening initial in blue, the rest in red, capital strokes in..... More
Summa Roselle de casibus conscientie. Strassburg: Johann Knobloch, 26 February 1516.
Folio (309 x 212 mm). [10], 265, [1 blank] leaves. Double column. Title printed in red and black within large woodcut border by Hans Baldung Grien showing Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I enthroned, holding scepter and orb, within a pillared hall, at his feet the imperial arms, signed with the..... More
Designs of Sundry Articles of Queen's or Cream-colour'd Earthen-Ware, manufactured by Hartley, Greens, and Co. at Leeds Pottery: with a great variety of other articles. The same enamel'd, Printed or Ornamented with Gold to any Pattern; also with Coats of Arms, Cyphers, Landscapes, &c. &c. / Abrisse von verschiedenen Artickeln vom Koniginnen oder gleben Stein-Gute... / Desseins de divers articles de Poteries de la Reine en Couleur de Creme ... Leeds, 1794.
Large 4to (308 x 240 mm). [24] pages text, comprising 3 printed titles, each with 6-page description of the items in the catalogue, in German, French and English; 45 copper-engraved plates, of which one folding, containing 186 designs, numbered 1-152, with an additional 34 numbered and lettered designs for "tea-ware"..... More
De la condition sociale des femmes au dix-neuvième siècle, et de leur éducation publique et privée. Brussels: (H. Rémy for) Berthot, Libraire du Roi et de la Cour, 1834.
18mo (155 x 100 mm). [8], 161, [3] pp. Half-title preserved. Wove paper. Some soiling, a few creases. Contemporary dark violet leather-backed marbled boards, title gilt-lettered on spine (extremities worn). Marginal reader’s marks in first chapter (Première Lettre).*** First edition in book form of a foundational text of Belgian feminism. This..... More
Den wech des eevwich levens.... Mit Beelden verllicht door Boëtius A. Bolsvert. Antwerp: Hendrick Aertssens, 1622.
Thick 8vo (193 x 116 mm). [16], 881 (recte 883), [41] pages. Black letter, roman and italic types. Engraved title and 32 numbered engraved plates by Boetius a Bolswert, woodcut initials and tailpiece ornaments. A modest copy: dust-soiling, first few leaves creased, old library markings on title, marginal dampstain in..... More
Gott gefällige Andachtsübung des heiligen Kreuzweges. Amberg: s.n., [ca. 1840].
12mo (134 x 98 mm.). 46 pp. Title woodcut and 14 half-page woodcuts in the text. Light dampstain in second half. Contemporary block-printed paper over pasteboards, blue-sprinkled edges.*** A Bavarian chapbook edition of the Stations of the Cross, well-preserved in its patterned paper case binding. Following the papal permission granted by Innocent..... More
Trois discours pour la religion catholique: des Miracles, des Saints & des Images. Rouen: Jean Osmont, 1604.
12mo (144 x 79 mm). [22], 626, [8] pp. Title printed in red and black and with woodcut printer’s device. Woodcut and type-ornament head- and tailpieces, ornamental initials. An attractive copy (title a bit dust-soiled). Contemporary parchment over flexible boards, manuscript spine title, traces of two fore-edge ties. Provenance: with..... More
Traité des songes et des visions nocturnes avec leurs significations, selon la doctrine des Anciens, expliquées par ordre alphabétique. [Caen: Chalopin, ca. 1800].
12mo (137 x 84 mm). 12 pp. Drop-title. Stab-stitched in original blue printed wrappers. Modern folding moroco-backed chemise and slipcase.*** A late chapbook incarnation of Vulson de La Colombière’s treatise on dream interpretation (first published 1660), this pocket-sized alphabetical list of dreams and their meanings had a practical purpose, being sold..... More
Suite of etched floral embroidery designs, in two states, colored and uncolored. Leipzig, [ca. 1800].
Oblong folio (200 x 327 mm). 36 etched plates, comprising 18 plates each in two states, colored and uncolored (all the colored plates bound first, followed by the uncolored plates), all numbered in the plate at upper right, “Tab. I [-XVIII] 3ter Bd.,” nearly all signed by Netto, some with..... More
Haandbog til Brodering og Tegning ... Förste Deel. Med XXVI illuminerede Kobbere, som angive de behörige Farver. Copenhagen: Glydendal, 1794.
Oblong folio (307 x 204 mm). 12 pp., 25 (of 26) engraved plates (without plate 1), all delicately colored in watercolor under the direction of the artist-publisher. Title within type-ornament border. First plate (pl. 2) somewhat soiled and with small ink splashes or spots, some marginal soiling elsewhere, a few..... More
Orationes Partheniae in Conventibus Ordinariis et Generalibus Ad Sodales Marianos in Congregatione Academica Salisburgensi dictae: Et jam ab eadem Congregatione Salisburgensi sub titulo Beatissimae Virginis Matris Dei Mariae Gloriose In Coelos Assumptae Partheniis DD. Sodalibus In Xenium oblatae. Salzburg: Johann Joseph Mayr, (1755).
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
Spécimen des divers caractères, vignettes et fleurons des Fonderie et Stéréotypie de L. Leger graveur, neveu et successeur de P. F. Didot. Paris: Place de l’Estrapade, No. 28 (Impr. de Panckoucke), [not before 1831].
4to (280 x 220 mm). 64 leaves, plus 4 large folding specimen broadsides bound at end. 3 preliminary leaves: title, with Leger’s monogram, 2-page Avis to printers and booksellers, 2-page price list, the latter bearing the official royal inkstamp (Timbre royal); 61 specimen leaves and 4 large folding plates, printed..... More
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Regla de la P[a]sio[n]: Manuscript rules for the Confraternity of the Holy Cross of La Horcajada, Spain. Ávila and La Horcajada, 1527-1615.
Manuscript on parchment (380 x 270 mm). [1]8. complete. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Regla, in Spanish, in 30 numbered sections (inconsistent numbering on ff. 3v-4v), in a rounded script in brown ink (the first page slightly larger), up to 27 lines. F. 1r: incipit, first four lines in large lettering, with..... More
Pinax iconicus antiquorum ac variorum in sepulturis rituum ex Lilio Gregorio excerpta. Lyon: Clément Baudin, 1556.
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
Almanach utile et agréable de la loterie de l’Ecole Royale Militaire pour l’année 1759 ... Enrichi de quatre-vingt-dix figures en taille douce, qui pourront servir de devises. Amsterdam & Paris: chez Prault père [and] Laurent-Fr. Le Clerc, 1759.
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
Thirsis Minnewit. Bestaande in een verzameling der moyste en aangenaamste minne-zangen en voysen. Amsterdam: Joannes Kannewet II, [ca. 1750-1760].
2 works in 4 volumes, 12mo, bound dos-à-dos (binding size 134 x 74 x 50 mm). Thirsis Minnewit: 3 volumes: [8], 160; 164, [4]; [8], 160. Volume 1 with engraved frontispiece, all 3 letterpress titles with a woodcut vignette of men and women at a banquet, woodcut initials and tail-piece..... More
Album of watercolor and pen-and-ink designs for embroidery. [British Isles, ca. 1820-1830].
Folio (397 x 250 mm). 110 leaves [plus 29 blanks], of varying sizes, many on guards, of which 6 are large and folding, and 2 small loose sheets, containing dozens of highly finished pen-and-ink or watercolor floral and foliate embroidery designs. Some dampstaining at front with traces of mold, some..... More
Etrennes mignones curieuses et utiles... pour l’année 1785. Paris: N. Crapart & C.J.C. Durand, 1785.
24mo (binding size 98 x 58 mm). Collation: 1-68 (nested quires). [48] leaves. Folding woodcut maps of France écclesiastique at front and Environs de Paris at back, printed on one sheet enclosing text. Map edges frayed, some discoloration. Embroidered binding of gray-blue faille silk, an outer floral vine border of..... More