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
Equitis Franci et adolescentulae mulieris Italae. Practica artis amandi, insigni et iucundissima historia ostensa. Accesserunt Declamationes Philippi Beroaldi Oratoris... Frankfurt: Johann Saur for Cornelius Sutor, 1597.
12mo (132 x 78 mm). 168 pp. Roman type. Printer’s woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Title slightly soiled and with a few small inkstains. 18th-century Danish calf, sides with outer gold-tooled rule border and central gold-stamped crowned swan supra-libros of Count Christian Danneskiold-Samsøe, blind-tooled inner border with... More
De l'education des filles. Paris: chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1807.
18mo. [8], 204 pp., plus two publisher’s lists at end, [4] pp. and 6 pp. Printer’s woodcut device on title. Contemporary mottled calf, covers with gold-tooled border, smooth spine gold-tooled, green calf gilt lettering piece (joints and spine rubbed).*** Classic treatise on the education of women, a finely printed edition by... More
L’Ange des Enfants. Strasbourg: typographie de G. Silbermann [for] Paris: Humbert, [ca. 1855-1865].
A large triangular woodcut, printed on a single sheet of thin wove paper measuring 62.3 x 53.6 cm. at its widest points, with a xylographic image of a crowned angel with doll, puppet and toys, framed by architectural elements and flowering garlands, contemporary hand-coloring in red, dark blue, and yellow... 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
![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
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