Art, Emblems, Illustrated Books

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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

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

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

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

Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris apocalipsis et biblianis cum triumphis cesaris. use of Rome HORAE B. M. V.

HORAE B.M.V., use of Rome. Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris apocalipsis et biblianis cum triumphis cesaris. [Paris]: Simon Vostre, [ca. 1508].

Printed on paper. 4to in 8s (249 x 167 mm ). Collation: A-E8 F2 G6 H-N8 O6. [102] leaves. Batarde type 98, 29/31 lines. Title in four lines below large metalcut Vostre device (Renouard 1105), within a metalcut border; Anatomical man metalcut within an architectural border; 26 large metalcuts of... More

Price: $32,000.00

Les Considérations des quatre mondes, à savoir est: Divin, Angélique, Celeste, & Sensible : comprinses en quatre Centuries de quatrains, Contenans la Cresme de Divine & humaine Philosophie. Guillaume de LA PERRIÈRE.

LA PERRIÈRE, Guillaume de (1499-1565?). Les Considérations des quatre mondes, à savoir est: Divin, Angélique, Celeste, & Sensible : comprinses en quatre Centuries de quatrains, Contenans la Cresme de Divine & humaine Philosophie. Lyon: Macé Bonhomme [for Jean Mounier and Jean Perrin at Toulouse], 1552.

8vo (167 x 106 mm). [236] pages (of 240, last 2 blank leaves removed). Printer’s woodcut device on title (Baudrier no. 2), full-page portrait of the author, eight different sets of four-part woodcut page borders of grotesques, including a lion’s head, fruits and scrollwork, typographic tail-piece ornaments, woodcut historiated initials... More

Price: $6,500.00

Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le Jugement de Pâris, Poëme en IV Chants. Jacques Charles Louis MALFILÂTRE.

MALFILÂTRE, Jacques Charles Louis (1733-1767). Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le Jugement de Pâris, Poëme en IV Chants. Paris: chez Chaignieau aîné, 1797.

18mo (150 x 85 mm). 205, [1 blank], [2] pp. Half-titles, two engraved titles, after Charles Eisen (Narcisse) and Moreau (Jugement), and 8 engraved plates, four in part 1 after Gabriel Jacques de St. Aubin, and four in part 2 after Moreau, most engraved by L. Duval. 2-page publisher’s catalogue... More

Price: $2,800.00

Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Roman MISSAL.

MISSAL, Roman. Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Paris: the Associated Booksellers to the Church (apud Societatem Typographicam Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici), 1600.

Folio (362 x 245 mm). Collation: ã6 ê6 î4 (i4 blank) õ6 ũ6 ãã6 êê4; A-Z Aa-Yy6. [38], 228, 42 leaves. Double column, printed in red and black, double rule page-borders throughout. 57 pages with printed music (staves red-printed). Woodcut title illustration of Saints Peter and Paul, seven full-page woodcuts... More

Price: $15,000.00

Officio della B. V. Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno, Con le dichiarazioni, e spiegazioni dell' Abate Alessandro Mazzinelli. Latin and Italian OFFICE OF THE VIRGIN.

OFFICE OF THE VIRGIN, Latin and Italian. Officio della B. V. Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno, Con le dichiarazioni, e spiegazioni dell' Abate Alessandro Mazzinelli. Rome: Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni, 1756.

8vo (208 x 133 mm). [24], 407, [1] pp. 2 parts, the Office of the Dead separately titled. Printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by Arnold Van Weserhout and Jacob Frey after Joseph Passarus (Giuseppe Passaro), two engraved title vignettes, 12 engraved tailpiece vignettes, most... More

Price: $7,500.00

Nouvelles étrennes spirituelles, dédiées à Monseigneur le Dauphin. Jean-Michel PAPILLON, engraver.

PAPILLON, Jean-Michel (1698-1776), engraver. Nouvelles étrennes spirituelles, dédiées à Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris: (Clousier for) de Hansy, 1778.

16mo (122 x 65 mm). xlviii, 288 pp. Text in French and Latin partly in parallel columns. Table of moveable feasts for 1782-1794. Woodcut frontispiece, title vignette, and 25 woodcut illustrations including six circular calendar emblems, 4 cuts signed Papillon inv. et f., a few woodcut headpieces. Marginal tear or... More

Price: $2,500.00

A collection of printed and manuscript documents relating to religious relics in the private chapels of the Durazzo family palace and villa, including 12 printed and 2 manuscript relic authentications. RELICS – DURAZZO FAMILY.

RELICS – DURAZZO FAMILY. A collection of printed and manuscript documents relating to religious relics in the private chapels of the Durazzo family palace and villa, including 12 printed and 2 manuscript relic authentications. Genoa, Rome and other places, 1661-1794.

Binding size 335 x 233 mm. Contents: 18 documents: 12 printed authentication forms (”authentics”), all completed in manuscript, most with woodcut arms of the issuing cleric at top, some with woodcut or typographic three-quarter borders; all with official wax seals or stamps, of which most attach a second sheet of... More

Price: $18,000.00

Himmlisches Freuden-Mahl der Kinder Gottes auff Erden. Oder Geistreiche Gebete, so vor, bey und nach der Beicht und heiligem Abendmahl, kräfftig zu gebrauchen. Johann RITTMEYER.

RITTMEYER, Johann (1636-1698). Himmlisches Freuden-Mahl der Kinder Gottes auff Erden. Oder Geistreiche Gebete, so vor, bey und nach der Beicht und heiligem Abendmahl, kräfftig zu gebrauchen. Lüneburg: Cornelius Johann Stern, 1730.

Long 12mo (150 x 67 mm). [24], 621, [3] pp. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, letterpress title in red and black, 10 engraved emblematic plates, the engravings by Johann-Benjamin Brühl. Bericht an die Buchbinder, listing the plates, at end. Contemporary German “sharkskin” (rayfish) binding, covers with mounted silver frames with... More

Price: $5,500.00

De imitatione Christi libri quatuor. THOMAS A. KEMPIS.

[THOMAS A KEMPIS]. De imitatione Christi libri quatuor. Paris: e Typographia Regia, 1736.

4to (251 x 182 mm). 390, [10] pp. Engraved frontispiece after Jacques Stella, engraved title vignette and four figurative initials opening each book, thick and thin double rule page-borders throughout. Title a bit dusty, small tear and wrinkling in lower margin of G1, occasional minor stains, some dust-soiling to outer... More

Price: $3,500.00

Tractatus physiologicus de pulchritudine, Juxta ea quae de Sponsa in Canticis Canticorum mysticè pronunciantur. Ernestus VAENIUS.

VAENIUS, Ernestus. Tractatus physiologicus de pulchritudine, Juxta ea quae de Sponsa in Canticis Canticorum mysticè pronunciantur. Brussels: Franciscus Foppens, 1662.

Small 8vo (154 x 86 mm). [8], 60, [1], [3 blank] pp. Line-engraved title vignette & 28 engraved illustrations in text, some two to a page, most of female busts, four of animals' heads, the last two showing full-length female figures including a saint next to a palm tree. Faint... More

Price: $2,800.00

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