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
![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
![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
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
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 Rancilio [manuscript title]. Luigi MANUSCRIPT ORNAMENT PATTERN BOOK – RANCILIO.](/pictures/thumb/2857.JPG?v=1492458385)
Raccolta di Trofej Sacri disegnate di Luigi Rancilio [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 Dionysii Alexandrini circa apocalypsin Johanneam sententia, huiusque vi in seriorem libri aestimationem. Observationes. Copenhagen: Andreas Seidelin, printer to the University, 1826.
8vo (185 x 104 mm). viii, 117, [3] pp. Contemporary Danish tan calf, covers acid-stained with overall repeated disk pattern within gold roll-tooled border, smooth spine gold-tooled, red morocco lettering-piece, gray endpapers (some wear to corners and joints).*** An eye-catching Danish binding on a dissertation on the Book of Revelation. More
Le Petit Glaneur Lirique. Paris: chez Le Fuel, [1814/1815].
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
Le Calendrier de la Cour, tiré des Ephémerides ... Pour l’annee Mil sept cent trente-neuf. Imprimé pour la Famille Royale, et Maison de Sa Majesté. Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1739.
36mo (binding size 108 x 55 mm). [72] pp. (a single quire of 36 leaves, the first and last leaves mounted on the free endpapers and printed on visible sides only). Woodcut royal arms on title, 2 astronomical woodcuts, typographic moon symbols in calendar. Double rule page borders. Publisher’s case... More
La Bulle de la confirmation et concession des indulgences baillees par nostre sainct pere le Pape Gregoire 13. aux confreres de la société dite du Confalon... Sur l'exe(m)ple & forme de laquelle est dressee la confrairie des penitens, que nostre treschrestien Roy a faict eriger ceste presente annee en sa ville de Paris. Paris: Michel Jullian, [after 20 March] 1583.
8vo (154 x 98 mm). 10, [2] pp. Two full-page woodcuts: the Virgin of Mercy, on title verso, and a chaplet, on recto of last leaf, woodcut arms of the Confraternity concluding the text (p. 10), woodcut title ornament, headpiece, and initial. Fore-edge border of the Virgin cut and lower... More
O modo de resuscitar os mortos. Conto Persiano. Lisbon: Typografia Rollandiana for F. B. O. de M. Mechas, 1819.
8vo, in unfolded sheets (sheet size 317 x 404 mm). One and 1/2 sheets, A8 B4 (A2 and B1 signed). 24 pp. Laid paper, no watermark, untrimmed deckle edges. Fine.*** A story from the Arabian Nights, the tale of King Feridoun and his vain search for a perfectly happy man. Most... More