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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
Proverbes commvns, et belles sentences pour familierement parler Latin & Francois a tous propos. Paris: Pierre Ménier II, [ca. 1605].
16mo (108 x 75 mm). [64] ff. Type ornament title border, printer’s woodcut device, woodcut initial and headpiece. Discreet marginal paper repairs to first half dozen leaves, causing loss to portions of title border, supplied in neat facsimile, a few other small marginal repairs. 19th-century green morocco, central gold-stamped arms... More
Abbregé des metamorphoses ou Fictions poetiques, reduites en questions, pour les curieux de l'Histoire profane, & pour l'instruction de la Jeunesse... Premiere edition. Lyon: Pierre Guillimin, 1685.
12mo (144 x 75 mm). [12], 206, [16] pp. Engraved arms of the dedicatee Marin Curty as headpiece, two woodcut initials, type ornaments. A bit dust-soiled. Contemporary French speckled calf, spine gold-tooled, edges red-sprinkled (worn).*** Only Edition. A question-and-answer guide to classical mythology for children. The gods and heroes are listed... 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