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
Les Differens Gouts et nouvelles Modes de Coeffures. Augsburg: Joh. Martin Will, [ca. 1780].
8vo (161x 95 mm). Engraved title, 23 (of 24) engraved plates of extravagant hairdos, all with caption “Coeffures d’Augsbourg” and signed “Joh. Martin Will exc. A.V.” [Augustae Vindelicorum], all except plate 15 with details highlighted in contemporary hand-coloring and grey lead. Lacking plate 14, pl. 13 cropped at fore-margin, slight..... 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
Le Temple de Gnide ... Par ordre de Mgr. le Comte d’Artois. Paris: imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1780.
18mo (binding size 136 x 80 mm). 76 pp. Half-title, title with woodcut arms of the Comte d’Artois. extra-illustrated with 24 plates, comprising an engraved portrait medallion of Montesquieu by Auguste de Saint-Aubin from the 1795 edition by Pierre-François Didot; 10 etched and engraved plates by Bertaux and other engravers... More
Linguae vitia & remedia Emblematicè expressa. Antwerp: widow Cnobbaert, 1652.
Small oblong 16mo (74 x 97 mm). Collation: a8 b4 A-M8. 2 parts, continuously paginated. [12] leaves, 191, [1 bl.] pp. Half-title, etched title, 93 full-page etchings. This copy includes the cancelled leaf A8, blank except for pagination and headline on the verso. Nineteenth-century red morocco with triple gilt fillet... 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
Nouveau Traité des Oeillets. La façon la plus utile & facile de les bien cultiver, leurs noms, leurs couleurs, & leur beauté. Avec la Liste des plus nouveaux. Par L. C. B. M. Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1676.
12mo (148 x 85 mm). [4], 162, [2] pp. Publisher’s woodcut device on title, woodcut head- and tailpiece and opening initial. Contemporary parchment over flexible pasteboards. Front pastedown unglued showing liners of printed waste. Dampstain to first few leaves, foxing and softening, corners creased, binding soiled and stiffened. Provenance: from... 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
An embroidered letter-holder or pocketbook. [France, second quarter of the 18th century].
Rectangular envelope-style pocketbook with flap, 110 x 179 mm., pasteboards covered in ivory silk embroidered with polychrome and silver-gilt silk thread (red, blue, several shades of green, brown, pink, orange, beige), the covers each with a different floral decor consisting of a large flowering plant with a straight stem entwined... 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
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Etrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, augmentées pour l’année 1747. Paris: Durand, 1747.
24mo (binding size 96 x 66 mm).Collation: A-D8 E6 (nested quires). [76] pp. Engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title. Publisher’s woodcut gryphon device on letterpress title, engraved two-page map of France at end. Publisher’s gold-blocked olive morocco (abstract design), Dutch-gilt endpapers, gilt edges.*** The very long-running Paris almanac known as the..... 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
Le plaisant livre de noble homme Jehan Bocace poete florentin, auquel il traicte des faictz & gestes des illustres & celebres dames. Paris: [Jean Réal for] Philippe Le Noir, [Guillaume Le Bret, and others], 1538.
8vo (144 x 85 mm). [8], 196 leaves. Title printed in red and black. Bâtarde type. Small typographic pointing hands used in text throughout. Half-page woodcut opening text of an author presenting his book to a seated dignitary, with reserved space for letterpress name, here “Jehan bocasse”; a variety of... More
Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam opentlijck ghespeelt, Anno 1591. Amsterdam: Herman Jansz. Muller, 1591.
8vo (143 x 95 mm). Collation: A-T8 (T8 blank). [302] pp. Text in gothic types, stage directions and lists of actors in italic. Title woodcut of a family meal, six text woodcuts of which 5 half-page and one smaller. Wormtrack in gutter of first few leaves, dampstaining to foremargins and... More
Carmina, e posthumis mss. pietate nepotum eius, Matthiae ac Stephani, edita. Posonius [Bratislava]: Georg Aloysius Belnay, 1804.
8vo (193 x 118 mm). 160 pp. Two engraved plates: portraits of the author and of Franciscus Barkóczy, by Sebastian Mansfeld of Vienna. Contemporary marbled sheep, smoooth spine gold-tooled in six compartments, the second with beige calf gilt lettering-piece, floral Kattunpapier endpapers (covers a bit scratched, dent in front cover)... More
Le Petit Almanach de poche, pour l'an de grâce de N. S. MDCCXXXVIII. Liège: Everard Kints, [1737].
24mo (binding size 94 x 37 mm). Collation: A-D8 E4. [72] pages. Woodcut arms of the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Georges-Louis de Berghes (1662-1743), as frontispiece. Quires A and B (the calendar) interleaved (single leaves, centers of quires with double leaves). Small text woodcuts of moon phases. Fine condition. Contemporary green... More
Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris apocalipsis et biblianis cum triumphis cesaris. [Paris]: Simon Vostre, [ca. 1508].
Printed on paper. 4to in 8s (249 x 167 mm ). Collation: A-E8 F2 G6 H-N8 O6. [102] leaves. Batarde type 98, 29/31 lines. Title in four lines below large metalcut Vostre device (Renouard 1105), within a metalcut border; Anatomical man metalcut within an architectural border; 26 large metalcuts of... More
Tableau de calligraphie. Munich: Anton Dreer, 1816.
Large folio engraved broadsheet (775 x 590 mm.) of calligraphic samples, with five engraved vignettes. Thick wove paper, deckle edges. Fine condition.*** A splendid calligraphic sample, beautifully preserved. The imprint states that it was “composed, engraved and published by J. B. Seitz.” Seitz was an engraver for the Royal Bavarian Bureau..... More
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Emblemi sulla Dottrina Cristiana ad uso de' Sordo-Muti inventati da S. R. Il Padre Gio. Bat[is]ta Ottavio Assarotti, delle scuole Pie. Genoa, 1824.
Manuscript on laid paper, 4to (236 x 176 mm). 126 leaves, foliated [3], 1-3, [1], 4-42, [1], 43-51 [1] 52-61 [1] 62-103 [1] 104-118 (apparently complete). The numbered leaves containing one hundred and eighteen highly finished emblematic drawings, all full-page, explanations written on versos, the unnumbered leaves containing the title... More
Stimulus missionum: Sive de propaganda a Religiosis per universum Orbem Fide. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1610.
8vo (162 x 99 mm). [8], 234, [5] pp. Title woodcut of Saints Peter and Paul flanking papal arms, woodcut initials. Some minor marginal dust-soiling, final errata leaf slightly creased. Contemporary parchment over flexible pasteboards, traces of two fore-edge ties, manuscript spine title. Provenance: Rouen, Cathedral library, 18th-century printed label... More
Christliche Tageszeit in auferbaulichen feinen Bildern, zu Morgen, Messe, Reise, und Abend, mit geistreichen Gebethern entworfen. Vienna: Kurzböck (”mit Kurtzböckischen Schriften”), [ca. 1769].
Bound with: STATIONS OF THE CROSS – Der Creutzweg Jesu Christi durch Betrachtungen in Versen entworfen ...Verbesserte Auflage. Vienna: Joseph Kurzböck, 1769. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (173 x 108 mm). Sailer: 3 parts, [36] leaves, 31 engraved plates. Title within floral woodcut border. Extra-illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by... More