“Etrenne bien qui aime bien”

ALMANAC –

Etrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, augmentées pour l’année 1747.

Russian doll quiring

ALMANAC –

Les Etrennes à la Rose ou le Rosier d’amour.

The French rococo comes to Germany

BERAIN, Jean I, artist [and others] WOLFF, Jeremias, publisher.

Collected volume of ornament prints.

A female printer's largest production, with contemporary hand-coloring

BIBLE, German.

Biblia, Das ist Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft deutsch: Auffs new zugericht. D. Mart. Luther.

Making money from mockery

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521).

[Das Narrenschiff, in Latin:] Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher, Philomusus, in collaboration with Brant.

Time to let loose

CARNIVAL — SCHIESSLER, Sebastian Wilibald (1791-1867), editor.

Carnevals-Almanach auf das Jahr 1830 ... 1ster Jahrgang [all published].

Unattainable perfection: one of three known copies

CIBOULE, Robert (ca. 1403-1458).

Le Livre de la perfection de la vie crestienne [sic].

La belle Africaine and her rivals

COLOR COMPETITION —

Le Carousel des couleurs. Fait a Copenhaguen le 18 Aoust 1671.

Binding as metaphor

CRICKETS — AVESANI, Gioacchino (1741-1818).

Stanze sulla caccia de’ grilli, con una canzonetta per la morte di un grillo.

Emblematic instruction for Deaf children

EDUCATION OF THE DEAF — ASSAROTTI, Ottavio Giovanni Battista (1753-1829).

Emblemi sulla Dottrina Cristiana ad uso de' Sordo-Muti.

Hungarian neoclassicm

FÁBA, Simon (István) (1731-1801).

Carmina, e posthumis mss. pietate nepotum eius, Matthiae ac Stephani, edita.

Art vs. nature

FASHION, FARTHINGALES.

Traité de l'Origine & des progrèz du Vertugadin.

Before the thaw

GLACIERS – GRUNER, Gottlieb Sigmund (1717-1778).

Die Eisgebirge des Schweizerlandes.