Corona Mariana complectens duodecim viridarii parthenii lilia. Munich: Franz Joseph Thuille, 1746.
8vo (155 x 93 mm). [10], 373, [1] pp. Title printed in red and black, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Johann Heinrich Störcklin and 12 engraved plates by various engravers, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, one headpiece with inset red-printed dots. Some foxing. Slightly later German brown silver-gilt-tooled and painted goatskin, covers... 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
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