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Etrennes mignonnes Curieuses et utiles Augmentées pour l’Année 1743. ALMANAC –.

ALMANAC – Etrennes mignonnes Curieuses et utiles Augmentées pour l’Année 1743. Paris: de la boutique de M. Jouenne chez Durand rue S. Jacques à S. Landry et au Grison, [1742/43].

24mo (binding size 99 x 57 mm). [64] pp. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, double-page engraved map of France at end. Contemporary gold-blocked brown goatskin, an emblematic binding with a panel stamp incorporating at center a scythe and hourglass, framed in a riot of curving lines, drawer-handle ornaments, leaf plants... More

Price: $1,750.00

Le Petit Glaneur Lirique. ALMANAC –.

ALMANAC – Le Petit Glaneur Lirique. Paris: chez Le Fuel, [1814/1815].

24mo (binding size 103 x 65 mm). [32] leaves. Engraved title, 5 stipple-engraved plates by Duthé after F. Mossard, 6 leaves with engraved vignettes of reclining ladies or girls in empire dresses at top of each recto and verso, the rest blank for reader’s notes, fold-out letterpress calendar for 1815... More

Price: $1,500.00

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

ALMANAC – Les Etrennes à la Rose ou le Rosier d’amour. Paris: chez Janet, [1800/1801].

24mo (binding size 95 x 63 mm). Engraved title, 24 leaves text, partly engraved, paginated 13, [24], 14-24 pp.,12 plates, two calendars: traditional folding letterpress calendar with woodcut vignettes, and Republican calendar in 6 leaves. Embroidered binding of ivory silk, covers with metallic ribbom border enclosing oval cartouche of leafy... More

Price: $1,500.00

Collected volume of ornament prints. Jean I BERAIN, artist, Jeremias WOLFF, publisher.

BERAIN, Jean I, artist [and others] WOLFF, Jeremias, publisher. Collected volume of ornament prints. Augsburg: Jeremias Wolff, [ca. 1712-1724].

Broadsheets (378 x 301 mm). [58] leaves of engravings by various German engravers, mainly after Jean Bérain. Platemarks av. 34 x 28 mm. Condition: Fine impressions; old traces of horizontal folds to plates, occasional small marginal dampstain in last few plates, lower margin of last plate strengthened and verso stained... More

Price: $8,500.00

Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita. Latin BIBLE.

BIBLE, Latin. Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita... Lyon: Jacques I Mareschal [for Simon Vincent], 17 November 1519.

8vo (180 x 126 mm). [30], 500, [54] pp. (with pagination errors). Title and first table printed in red and black, text in two columns, indices and Gothi summary in 3 columns, publisher’s woodcut device (Baudrier no. 2) on title and verso of final leaf (otherwise blank), full-page Creation woodcut... More

Price: $7,800.00

Le relationi vniversali ... diuise in sette parti... In oltre vi s’ aggiunge ... un breve racconto di Mostri, & Usanze di quelle Indie, con le sue Figure al naturale d’ Alessandro de Vecchi ... Quinta impressione stampata & ricorrette. Giovanni BOTERO.

BOTERO, Giovanni (1544-1617). Le relationi vniversali ... diuise in sette parti... In oltre vi s’ aggiunge ... un breve racconto di Mostri, & Usanze di quelle Indie, con le sue Figure al naturale d’ Alessandro de Vecchi ... Quinta impressione stampata & ricorrette. Venice: Alessandro Vecchi, 1622-1623.

4to (221 x 156 mm). Eight parts, numbered to six: with the Aggiunta to Part 4 (dated 1623), and Parts 1 and 6 in two parts, separately titled and paginated. Collation as in ICCU except Part 2 (see below). Part 1: [30], [2 blank], 208; 71, [1 blank] pp.; part... More

Price: $22,500.00

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

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). [Das Narrenschiff, in Latin:] Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher, Philomusus, in collaboration with Brant. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 June 1497.

4to (195 x 135 mm). Collation: A-B6 C-H4.6 I4 K-X4.6 y6. 112 leaves, foliated with errors 1-”116”. 35-38 lines (variable) and headline. Types: gothic type 17:145 (title and headlines), roman type 22:89 (text). A few spaces for initials, unrubricated. 118 woodcut illustrations printed from 78 blocks. Title stained and soiled... More

Price: $25,000.00

La gra[n]d nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin version by Jakob Locher (1471-1528). Sebastian BRANT.

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). La gra[n]d nef des folz du monde. French version by Jean Drouyn (1478-after 1507) from the Latin version by Jakob Locher (1471-1528). Lyon: François Juste, 1530 (colophon: 29 June 1529).

4to (212 x 154 mm). 101 ff. (of 102, lacking final blank). Gothic types. Title printed in red and black within nine-part woodcut & metalcut title border, woodcut printer’s device in red and black. Red underlining to title. 119 woodcut illustrations printed from 108 blocks. Cuts on e6r and f2r... More

Price: $40,000.00

Varia carmina. With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe. Sebastian BRANT.

BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). Varia carmina. With additions by Johann Bergmann de Olpe. Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 May 1498.

4to (203 x 145 mm). Collation: A-C8 D-I8.4 K4; a8 bc4 d-h8 i4 k-m8 n4. 148 leaves, unfoliated. 30 lines, printed shoulder notes. Roman types 1:109 (title and Latin text), 3:77 (marginalia), gothic types 4:220 (title and headings) and 5:109G (German text). 7 woodcut illustrations printed from 6 blocks, including... More

Price: $17,500.00

La Dévotion à l’Image de la très Ste Vierge dite Notre Dame de la Delivrance. [And:] Notre Dame de Bonne Delivrance protectrice des Femmes Enceintes. BROADSIDES: Notre Dame de la Délivrance.

BROADSIDES: Notre Dame de la Délivrance. La Dévotion à l’Image de la très Ste Vierge dite Notre Dame de la Delivrance. [And:] Notre Dame de Bonne Delivrance protectrice des Femmes Enceintes. [Both:] Paris: chez Jean, rue Jean de Beauvais no. 32 [but imprint cropped in first broadside], [ca. 1797-1800].

Two hand-colored engraved broadsheets: 1) Large broadside, trimmed to borders (482 x 389 mm.), and laid down on modern paper; showing large central figure of Our Lady of Deliverance holding in her left arm the crowned Christ Child, on an altar with maritime background, surrounded by ex-votos, flanked by eight... More

Price: $2,800.00

Esemplari di caratteri scritti e incisi. Carlo CALLIGRAPHY – COMINOTTI.

CALLIGRAPHY – COMINOTTI, Carlo. Esemplari di caratteri scritti e incisi... Livorno: Calcografia Vignozzi, 1830-1852.

Oblong (170 x 338 mm). [18] leaves. Engraved title dated 1830, 16 engraved plates of calligraphic specimens by Cominotti, extra inserted leaf dated 1852, engraved by C. Castellini. Leaves of varying heights, some deckle edges. Occasional light foxing. Stab-stitched in original yellow printed wrappers, dated 1852, title on front cover... More

Price: $1,250.00

Bluettes et souvenirs poétiques (title on first drawing). Achille de CHOLET, Baron.

CHOLET, Achille de, Baron (1811-1888). Bluettes et souvenirs poétiques (title on first drawing). [France], 1836.

8vo (186 x 119 mm). 94 leaves, foliated [1] 1-14, [1], 15-19, 21-24, [1], 25-29, [1], 30-36, [1], 37-90, fols. 74 and 83-90 blank except for page numbers and 4 lines on fol. 85 verso; plus 18 blank leaves at end followed by [2] leaves containing 3 index pages, and... More

Price: $2,800.00

Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Marcus Tullius CICERO.

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Officia, in German, translated by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 7 December 1531.

Bound with: JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus. Des hochberümptesten Geschicht schreybers Justini warhafftige Hystorien die er auss Trogo Pompeio gezoge[n]... Translated into German by Hieronymus Boner. Augsburg: H. Steiner, 19 August 1531.[And with:] HERODIANUS. Der Fürtrefflich Griechisch geschicht schreiber Herodianus. Trans. by H. Boner from Poliziano’s Latin version. Augsburg: H. Steiner, 19... More

Price: $22,000.00

Manuscript weaving and dyeing manual: Färbebuch für Gottlob Friedrich Rose in Frohburg Anno 1769. COLOR RECIPES AND PATTERNS FOR WEAVERS –.

COLOR RECIPES AND PATTERNS FOR WEAVERS – Manuscript weaving and dyeing manual: Färbebuch für Gottlob Friedrich Rose in Frohburg Anno 1769. Frohburg, 1769.

Manuscript on paper (186 x 160 mm). [47] leaves plus two blanks. Fraktur & cursive script. Illustrated with 11 pages (ff. 41v-46v) of weaving patterns. No visible watermarks. Leaves 2-8 with remnants of red wax adhesive. Some soiling and staining. Contemporary half calf (sheep?), the boards covered in very crude... More

Price: $3,800.00

Carta de Irmandade de Jerusalem. CONFRATERNITY of JERUSALEM.

CONFRATERNITY of JERUSALEM. Carta de Irmandade de Jerusalem. Lisbon: Royal Press, 1813.

Broadsheet (434 x 325 mm). Printed text in two columns, fulfilled in manuscript; surmounted by a row of three woodcuts, at bottom the seal of the Portuguese Commissary General of the Holy Land. Fine condition, untrimmed, minor creases at folds.***An illustrated printed form granting induction into the Confraternity (Irmandade) of... More

Price: $1,500.00

La Bulle de la confirmation et concession des indulgences baillees par nostre sainct pere le Pape Gregoire 13. aux confreres de la société dite du Confalon... Sur l'exe(m)ple & forme de laquelle est dressee la confrairie des penitens, que nostre treschrestien Roy a faict eriger ceste presente annee en sa ville de Paris. CONFRATERNITY OF WHITE PENITENTS, GREGORY XIII.

[CONFRATERNITY OF WHITE PENITENTS]. GREGORY XIII. La Bulle de la confirmation et concession des indulgences baillees par nostre sainct pere le Pape Gregoire 13. aux confreres de la société dite du Confalon... Sur l'exe(m)ple & forme de laquelle est dressee la confrairie des penitens, que nostre treschrestien Roy a faict eriger ceste presente annee en sa ville de Paris. Paris: Michel Jullian, [after 20 March] 1583.

8vo (154 x 98 mm). 10, [2] pp. Two full-page woodcuts: the Virgin of Mercy, on title verso, and a chaplet, on recto of last leaf, woodcut arms of the Confraternity concluding the text (p. 10), woodcut title ornament, headpiece, and initial. Fore-edge border of the Virgin cut and lower... More

Price: $1,200.00

Planeten Büchlin. Wie mann eines jeden Menschen Art Natur unnd Complexion nach dem er unter einem Planeten und Zeichen geboren ist erkennen soll Anfenglich seines Lebens biss ans ende. Peter CREUTZER.

CREUTZER, Peter. Planeten Büchlin. Wie mann eines jeden Menschen Art Natur unnd Complexion nach dem er unter einem Planeten und Zeichen geboren ist erkennen soll Anfenglich seines Lebens biss ans ende. Frankfurt: Weigandt Han, [not before 1556].

Small 4to (183 x 128 mm). Collation: A-G4. [28] leaves. Gothic type. Title printed in red and black, large title woodcut of the wheel of fortune, thirty-two woodcut text illustrations consisting of 12 cuts of the astrological signs, 7 cuts of the planets, one zodiac man cut, and 12 small... More

Price: $12,000.00

La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes, Historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. DANCE OF DEATH.

DANCE OF DEATH. La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes, Historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Troyes: Jean-Antoine Garnier, [ca. 1770-1780].

4to (220 x 169 mm). 76 pp. Roman type, double columns. 60 woodcut illustrations, including title-cut, of which 44 oblong and half-page, the others various sizes, including a few repeats; one block signed “VERNIE.” Type-ornament head and tail-pieces and a border. Discreetly repaired tears to upper blank corner of fol... More

Price: $2,750.00

Architectura und Ausstheilung der V. Seuln. - Architectur von Portalen unnd Thürgerichten mancherley arten. Das Annder Buch. Wendel DIETTERLIN.

DIETTERLIN, Wendel (ca. 1550-1599). Architectura und Ausstheilung der V. Seuln. - Architectur von Portalen unnd Thürgerichten mancherley arten. Das Annder Buch. [Vol. 1]: Stuttgart: s.n., 1593; [Vol. 2]: Strassburg: heirs of Bernhardt Tobin, 1594.

Two vols. in one, folio (360 x 278 mm). Vol. I: Etched title in cartouches within an architectural and allegorical setting, 9 leaves letterpress text, comprising 2-page dedication to Conrad Schlossberger, 1-page note to the reader (Bericht an den Leser), 1-page table of architectural terms keyed to first plate, 6... More

Price: $32,000.00

Set of engraved calligraphic and emblematic display sheets of the seasons: De Lente - De Zomer - De Herfst - De Winter. With explanatory letterpress sheet. Adriaan DOESJAN.

DOESJAN, Adriaan (1740-1817). Set of engraved calligraphic and emblematic display sheets of the seasons: De Lente - De Zomer - De Herfst - De Winter. With explanatory letterpress sheet. [Amsterdam:]: Cornelius Focking, 1788-1790.

4 oblong broadsheets (sheet size 345/47 x 478/82), trimmed to platemarks but with large internal margins. Etchings with engraving, all after Doesjan, three engraved by Barent de Bakker, the fourth (Winter) by Hendrik Leffert Meyling, each with the large calligraphic name of the season in a different style, within a.... More

Price: $3,200.00

Le Triomphe d’Apollon ou les chefs d’oeuvres de ses favoris Almanach lyrique et galant. EMBROIDERED BINDING –.

EMBROIDERED BINDING – Le Triomphe d’Apollon ou les chefs d’oeuvres de ses favoris Almanach lyrique et galant. Paris: Jubert, doreur, [for] Bailly, libraire, [1785/1786].

24mo (binding size 97 x 60 mm). Collation: A12 (text ) [B]12 (gaming tables). 12; 24 (gaming tables); 13-24 pp., but bound without A5.8 (pp. 9-10 and 15-16). Hand-colored engraved title and 9 hand-colored engravings, printed two to a bifolium, fold-out engraved calendar for 1786 wrapped around the text block... More

Price: $3,000.00

A volume of pen-and-ink embroidery patterns. EMBROIDERY DESIGNS –.

EMBROIDERY DESIGNS – A volume of pen-and-ink embroidery patterns. [England?, not before 1814].

4to (240 x 193 mm). 203, [24] leaves, each with a different design, mainly in brown ink, some in black ink, the drawings on rectos only, on thin wove paper, watermark John Hayes / 1814. Occasional small inkstains, in fine condition. Contemporary English diced russia leather, covers gold-tooled with narrow... More

Price: $5,200.00

Wahre Bildnuss der MIRACULOSEN schmertzhafften Mutter Gottes zu Steinbach in oberschwaben. ATTACTA. Franz Xaver ENDRES, artist, Pilgrimage Church publisher – MARIA STEINBACH.

ENDRES, Franz Xaver, artist and publisher – MARIA STEINBACH, Pilgrimage Church. Wahre Bildnuss der MIRACULOSEN schmertzhafften Mutter Gottes zu Steinbach in oberschwaben. ATTACTA. A. V. (Augsburg): Franz Xavier Endres, [ca. 1760-1770].

Folio broadsheet (348 x 272 mm). Hand-colored and varnished engraving, trimmed almost to platemark and mounted on contemporary stiff card paper, the contemporary coloring in maroon, reddish orange, green, and pale pink, on a yellow ground; some creasing, a few small tears, patch-repaired on verso, one 1-inch open tear touching... More

Price: $1,150.00

Ad Capponianas Ruthenas tabulas commentarius. Niccolò Carminio FALCONI.

FALCONI, Niccolò Carminio (1681-1759). Ad Capponianas Ruthenas tabulas commentarius. Rome: Giovanni Generoso Salomoni [for the author], 1755.

4to (310 x 216 mm). [40], 136 pp. Title in red and black with engraved vignette of the arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Millo held aloft by two cherubs, text in two columns, 5 engraved plates on thicker paper, two historiated initials, one engraved, signed by Gravignani, woodcut tailpiece. Light... More

Price: $7,500.00

Kalendarium humanæ vitæ. The Kalender of mans life. Robert FARLEY.

FARLEY, Robert. Kalendarium humanæ vitæ. The Kalender of mans life. London: for William Hope, 1638.

8vo (142 x 91 mm). [152] pp. (plus 2 extra leaves). Final blank removed. Engraved title by George Glover, 16 full-page emblematic woodcuts, the oval emblems set within repeating ornamental cartouches (using 3 series of blocks), with inset letterpress Latin and English captions; typographical ornaments, woodcut factotum initials. This copy... More

Price: $6,500.00

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