Catechesis Ecclesiarum, quae in Regno Poloniae et magno Ducatu Lithuaniae ... affirmant. Rakow: [Sebastian Sternacki,], 1609.
12mo (131 x 75 mm). [12], 317, [1 bl.], 4 pp. [1 blank leaf]. Woodcut title border. Fine condition (title border slightly shaved at foot, a few light marginal spots, small hole in F8 catching a couple of letters). Bound with: Michael Gittichius and others. De gravissima quaestione num Christus... More
![“Brouillard no B Commencé le 26 aoust 1771 et fini le 27 fevrier 1774, de M & E” [cover title]. TEXTILE MERCHANT’S ACCOUNT BOOK.](/pictures/thumb/2958.JPG?v=1534185024)
“Brouillard no B Commencé le 26 aoust 1771 et fini le 27 fevrier 1774, de M & E” [cover title]. Grenoble, 1771-1774.
Folio (277 x 184 mm). 193 leaves, paginated 1-167 166-167 168-384. Densely written in several cursive hands, some rapidly written but most quite legible, approximately 36 lines per page. 3 columns, for date, debtor or creditor and items, and prices. First leaf wrinkled and darkened, a few corners creased, dusty... More
Ordinaire de la Messe. Avec les Vespres. Les Complies. Les Sept Pseaumes de la Penitence... Paris: Durand, 1756.
32mo (binding size 97 x 59 mm). Single quire of 32 leaves. [64] pp. Some browning. Contemporary mosaic binding of white calf, the covers almost completely covered with onlays and inlays: at top and bottom a gold-tooled red-morocco double cornerpiece frame enclosing at each corner an inlay of painted clouds... More
Meintzisch hoffgerichts Ordnu(n)g zu allen andern gerichten dienlich. Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 4 September 1521.
Bound with: Undergerichts ordnung des Ertzstiffts Meyntz. Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 23 May 1534. 2 vols. in one, small folio (278 x 193 mm). 1) [23] leaves (of 24, final blank removed). Woodcut title border composed of ten blocks. incorporating whimsical scenes, ornamental borders, and at bottom the arms of the... More
Gold-tooled morocco portfolio with papal arms. [Italy, probably Rome, ca. 1710-1750].
An agenda-format portfolio or letter-holder of gold-tooled reddish-brown goatskin (334 x 135 mm.), both covers with dense pointillé tools surrounding a large coat of arms in the upper compartment, consisting of the Papal arms on the front cover (the original Papal shield overlaid by a brown morocco onlay with the... More
Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Paris: the Associated Booksellers to the Church (apud Societatem Typographicam Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici), 1600.
Folio (362 x 245 mm). Collation: ã6 ê6 î4 (i4 blank) õ6 ũ6 ãã6 êê4; A-Z Aa-Yy6. [38], 228, 42 leaves. Double column, printed in red and black, double rule page-borders throughout. 57 pages with printed music (staves red-printed). Woodcut title illustration of Saints Peter and Paul, seven full-page woodcuts... More
Ceremonial romano para Missas cantadas y rezadas. En el qual se ponen todas las Rubricas generales y particulares del Missel Romano, que divulge el Papa Pio. Alcalá de Henares: heirs [widow] of Juan Gracián for Juan de Montoya, bookseller at the Court, 1589.
4to (200 x 139 mm). Collation: ¶8 A-B4 C-Q8 R4 (R4 blank). [8], 113, [10] leaves. Index in two columns. Title woodcut of Saints Peter and Paul, woodcut floriated initials. Wormtracks in gutters, scattered dampstaining, dark marginal stains to corners in quires K-L. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, stained, upper... More
Liber processionarius regularis observantiae Ordinis Cistercensis, in Hispaniarum Regnis iussu capituli Prouincialis nuper correctus. Salamanca: Juan Baptista de Terranova, 1569.
8vo (140 x 96 mm). [8], 155, [1] leaves. Printed in red and black. Typographic music throughout: 5-line staves in red, each with a line of printed text below. Title woodcut of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, printer’s woodcut device on recto of last leaf, woodcut initials. A modest copy: washed... More
d'Erven Stichters Comptoir Almanach, Op 't Jaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1759. Amsterdam: heirs of C[ornelius] Stichter [II], [1759].
4to (193 x 150 mm). [32] pp. Printed in red and black. Large woodcut printer’s device on title, 12 half-page woodcuts. Interleaved with double leaves. Contemporary Middleburg binding of gold-tooled calf, from the Rosette Roll Bindery, covers with outer ornamental bird roll and inner scallop roll, at center the crowned... More
Dictionnaire des femmes des Cinq parties du monde. Europe. 1ere Partie. 3eme division. [France, 1833?].
Manuscript on paper, 4to (212 x 165 mm). [272] pages, including 3 blank leaves (1, 37, and 136), written on rectos and versos in a legible cursive hand in brown ink, mostly 24-25 lines. A draft, with many crossings out and additions. The date 1833 (apparently in a different hand)... More
Leben, und Wunder-Thaten des heiligen Udalrici oder Ulrich, Beichtigers, aus dem Orden des heiligen Benedicti, der Cluniacenser Congregation, und ersten Priors des Closters der hh. Apostlen Petri und Pauli, jetzt von ihm St. Ulrich genannt, im Schwarzwald. Augsburg and Freiburg: Ignaz and Anton Wagner, 1756.
8vo (165 x 90 mm). [22], 340, [10] pp. Title printed across two pages, in red and black. Folding engraved frontispiece and three engraved plates (one loose), by and after Peter Maÿer of Freiburg. Typographic head-piece ornaments and initial borders, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Errata page at end. Some browning... More
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
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
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
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