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Les Rébus de l'enfance ou Abécédaire en Estampes d'un genre nouveau. ABC – REBUS.

ABC – REBUS. Les Rébus de l'enfance ou Abécédaire en Estampes d'un genre nouveau. Paris: (E. Duverger for) Librairie de l'enfance et de la jeunesse de P. C. Lehuby, [1840].

Oblong 12mo (121 x 162 mm). xvi, 64 pp. Engraved title, 13 hand-colored etched plates (or transfer lithographs of etchings) containing 26 illustrations, each pair of scenes within a different whimsical and relevant ornamental border. Various typefaces. Occasional minor staining to text leaves. Publisher’s green printed boards (rebacked, somewhat rubbed).***A.... More

Price: $1,600.00

Le Calendrier de la Cour ... pour l’année Mil sept cent soixante-dix-neuf. ALMANAC –.

ALMANAC – Le Calendrier de la Cour ... pour l’année Mil sept cent soixante-dix-neuf. Paris: veuve Herissant, 1779.

32mo (binding size 106 x 56 mm). [120] pp., the first and last leaves mounted on the free endpapers, and printed respectively on recto and verso only (the first leaf with publisher’s advertisement. Woodcut title vignette, small woodcuts of eclipses. Green morocco, covers gold-blocked with rocaille panel design, sunrays or... More

Price: $1,150.00

Le Trésor des almanachs, Etrennes nationales, curieuses, nécessaires et agréables. ALMANAC –.

ALMANAC – Le Trésor des almanachs, Etrennes nationales, curieuses, nécessaires et agréables. Paris: Cailleau, 1781.

24mo (binding size 98 x 60 mm). Collation: [A]8 B-I8 (nested quires, sewing between I4 and I5). 143, [1] pp. Woodcut allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 12 woodcut vignettes, rule page borders throughout. Publisher’s case binding of red morocco with large green morocco panels on each cover... More

Price: $1,150.00

Biographiae professorum medicinae qui in Academia Altorfina unquam vixerunt. Johann Jacob BAIER.

BAIER, Johann Jacob (1677-1735). Biographiae professorum medicinae qui in Academia Altorfina unquam vixerunt. Nuremberg and Altorf: heirs of Joseph Daniel Tauber, 1728.

4to (204 x 165 mm). [5] ff., 195, [5] pp. Title printed in red and black with large engraved emblematic vignette, 15 engraved plates: 14 portraits of professors of medicine by Wolfgang Philipp Kilian, each with engraved captions, and a portrait of the author by Michael Rössler; woodcut tailpieces and... More

Price: $2,850.00

Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments. Joseph BARROIS.

BARROIS, Joseph (ca. 1785-1855). Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments. Paris: Firmin Didot frères [for the author], sold by Didot, Jules Renouard and Techener, 1850.

Large 4to (308 x 230 mm). [8], 360; 35 pp. Large-paper issue on heavy wove paper (papier vélin). Includes Greek printing. 61 plates of pen-and-ink lithographs with text, lithographed by Lalanne, printed by Lemercier, including one double-page plate and two chromolithographs with gold-printed captions. Occasional light foxing. presentation binding commissioned... More

Price: $15,000.00

Le Satire et altre Rime piacevole. Ercole BENTIVOGLIO.

BENTIVOGLIO, Ercole (1507-1573). Le Satire et altre Rime piacevole. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1546.

Bound with: MORATO, Fulvio Pellegrino (d. 1549). Rimario de tvtte le cadentie di Dante, e Petrarca, raccolte per Pellegrino moretto Mantouano. Nouamente con la gionta ristampato. Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, 1546 (colophon 1547). 2 vols. in one, 8vo (155 x 96 mm). BENTIVOGLIO: [1], 2-27 ff. Woodcut printer’s... More

Price: $5,800.00

Sefer T[e]hillim [Hebrew]. Hebraicum Psalterium. Edited by Conradus Pellicanus (1478-1556), with additional corrections by Sebastian Muenster (1488-1552). [Part 2:] WOLFGANG FABER CAPITO (1478-1541). Institutiuncula in Hebraeam linguam. Hebrew. Psalms BIBLE.

BIBLE, Hebrew. Psalms. Sefer T[e]hillim [Hebrew]. Hebraicum Psalterium. Edited by Conradus Pellicanus (1478-1556), with additional corrections by Sebastian Muenster (1488-1552). [Part 2:] WOLFGANG FABER CAPITO (1478-1541). Institutiuncula in Hebraeam linguam. Basel: Johann Froben, November 1516.

16mo (105 x 72 mm). Collation: a-z8 A-B8 C4 (without C4 blank): [203] leaves, imposed in the Hebrew manner; aa-bb8: [16] leaves, imposed in the Roman manner. Hebrew, Roman and Greek types. Froben’s woodcut caduceus device on title, one metalcut initial, full-page table of the alphabet in the Institutiuncula. A.... More

Price: $28,000.00

Liber Sacrosancti Evangelii de Iesu Christo ... characteribus & lingua Syra, Iesu Christo vernacula ... diligenter expressa. NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE, IN SYRIAC.

BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT, IN SYRIAC. Liber Sacrosancti Evangelii de Iesu Christo ... characteribus & lingua Syra, Iesu Christo vernacula ... diligenter expressa. Vienna: Michael Zimmermann, 1562.

2 works in one volume, 4to (204 x 146 mm). 1) New Testament: 4 parts, [27], 129, [3], 38, [2], 80, [2], 11, [28] leaves. Without quires Aa* and Aa**, the 8 preliminary leaves to Mark (as often, see below). Title in red & black, occasional red printing throughout. Syriac... More

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Liber sextus decretalium. Commentary by Johannes Andreae. [With:] JOHANNES ANDREAE. Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis. BONIFACIUS VIII, Benedetto Gaetano, Pope from 1294.

BONIFACIUS VIII (Benedetto Gaetano, ca. 1235-1303, Pope from 1294). Liber sextus decretalium. Commentary by Johannes Andreae. [With:] JOHANNES ANDREAE. Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis. Venice: Andreas Torresanus, Bartholomaeus de Blavis & Mapheus de Paterbonis, 26 September 1482.

Chancery 4to (242 x 179 mm). Collation: A-R8 S10. Text with commentary surround, two columns, 66 lines of commentary. Gothic types 3:74 (text), 2:58 (commentary). First lines of books, capitals (in text and commentary), paragraph marks in the commentary, numbers in the tree of consanguinity, and colophon printed in red... More

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[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

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

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Défenses du beau séxe [sic] ou Mémoires historiques, philosophiques et critiques, pour servir d'apologie aux femmes. Philippe Joseph CAFFIAUX.

[CAFFIAUX, Philippe Joseph (1712-1777)]. Défenses du beau séxe [sic] ou Mémoires historiques, philosophiques et critiques, pour servir d'apologie aux femmes. “Amsterdam: aux dépens de la compagnie" [i.e., Paris: Charles ou Charles-Guillaume Le Clerc], 1753.

Four volumes in two, 12mo (165 x 95 mm). [2], xvi, 242; [2], xii, 268; [2], ix, [1 blank], 225, [1 blank]; [2], viii, 194 pp. Late 18th- or early 19th-century German half roan, sides covered in comb-marbled paper, red morocco gilt lettering-pieces on spine, edges stained red. Occasional light... More

Price: $4,000.00

La destruttione di Gierusalemme del Sig. Conte Ridolfo Campeggi, e la prigiona del Santo Sepolcro di Christo, Del Signor Girolamo Tortoletti. Ridolfo CAMPEGGI, Count, Girolamo TORTOLETTI.

CAMPEGGI, Ridolfo, Count; TORTOLETTI, Girolamo. La destruttione di Gierusalemme del Sig. Conte Ridolfo Campeggi, e la prigiona del Santo Sepolcro di Christo, Del Signor Girolamo Tortoletti. Rome: Lodovico Grignani, 1628.

Small 8vo (141 x 96 mm). Collation: A-D8. 64 pp. (last page misnumbered “94”). Small crucifixion woodcut on title. Slight browning. 18th-century pattern paper wrappers, blue-stained edges. ***Only Edition. Campeggi's posthumously published verses in 114 stanzas in ottava rima relate in heart-rending images the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by... More

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Discorsi apologetici, in che si da relatione della persecutioni, e trauagli patiti dal Reuerendissomo Padre D. Fr. Bernardino de Cardenas, Vescovo del Paraguay, nelle Indie Occidentali ... E si deffende la sva consecratione per valida, e legitima. Aggivstato il tvtto con le scrittvre presentate nel Consiglio delle Indie, e che presentara di nuouo, essendo necessario alla Maestà Santissima di Alessandro VII Sommo Pontefice, Fra Gio. di San Diego Viglialo, Religioso Laico di San Francesco. Alonso CARRILLO, Juan SAN DIEGO Y. VILLALON.

CARRILLO, Alonso; SAN DIEGO Y VILLALON, Juan. Discorsi apologetici, in che si da relatione della persecutioni, e trauagli patiti dal Reuerendissomo Padre D. Fr. Bernardino de Cardenas, Vescovo del Paraguay, nelle Indie Occidentali ... E si deffende la sva consecratione per valida, e legitima. Aggivstato il tvtto con le scrittvre presentate nel Consiglio delle Indie, e che presentara di nuouo, essendo necessario alla Maestà Santissima di Alessandro VII Sommo Pontefice, Fra Gio. di San Diego Viglialo, Religioso Laico di San Francesco. [Madrid?, not before August 1658].

Folio (283 x 202 mm). 2 parts: [5], 49; 29 leaves. Text of part 1 in Italian, printed in italic type with wide margins for side-notes (legal citations and documents) in Spanish in roman type; part 2 in Spanish in two columns. Two woodcut capitals. Occasional light foxing. bound by... More

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Etrennes Mignonnes Curieuses et Utiles, Augmentées pour l’Année 1741. Charles-Nicolas II COCHIN, artist.

[COCHIN, Charles-Nicolas II, artist]. Etrennes Mignonnes Curieuses et Utiles, Augmentées pour l’Année 1741. A Paris: de la Boutique de M. Jouenne, Chez Lambert et Durand, [1740].

32mo (binding size 90 x 52 mm). Etched frontispiece and etched title, unsigned but by Charles-Nicolas Cochin (printed on one bifolium), [32] leaves (a single quire), double-page engraved map of France (loose, small tears at top and bottom of gutter). Interleaved: 8 leaves in the middle of the quire. Contemporary... More

Price: $2,600.00

Sext[us] decretalium liber ... Cui adiecta sunt recenter summaria. [Part 2:] CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. [Part 3:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. [Part 4:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Pope CORPUS JURIS CANONICI – BONIFACE VIII.

CORPUS JURIS CANONICI – BONIFACE VIII, Pope. Sext[us] decretalium liber ... Cui adiecta sunt recenter summaria. [Part 2:] CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. [Part 3:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. [Part 4:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Paris: Jean Kerbriand (at least in part for Pierre Gaudoul), 1531.

Bound with: CLEMENT V, Pope. Clementinarum constitutionum liber. Paris: for Pierre Gaudoul, 1531 [And:] Extrauagantes comunes a diversis Romanis Pontificibus post Sextum edite. Paris: [Jean Kerbriand], 1531 [And:] JOHN XXII, Pope. Extrauagantes seu constitutiones viginti: a Joanne xxii edite. Paris: (Jean Kerbriand), 1531. 8vo (155 x 98 mm). Four parts... More

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Equitis Franci et adolescentulae mulieris Italae. Practica artis amandi, insigni et iucundissima historia ostensa. Accesserunt Declamationes Philippi Beroaldi Oratoris. Hilarius DRUDO, compiler. PIUS II pseud., Pope, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Filippo – BEROALDO.

DRUDO, Hilarius (pseud.), compiler. PIUS II, Pope (Enea Silvio Piccolomini, 1405-1464) – BEROALDO, Filippo (1453-1505). 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

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[Dialogus inter clericum et militem super dignitate papali et regia:] Disputacio inter clericum et militem. - Compendium de vita Antichristi. Pierre; d. after 1321? DUBOIS.

[DUBOIS, Pierre (d. after 1321)?]. [Dialogus inter clericum et militem super dignitate papali et regia:] Disputacio inter clericum et militem. - Compendium de vita Antichristi. [Cologne: Printer of Augustinus, `De fide', ca. 1473].

Chancery half-sheet 4to (209 x 147 mm). Collation: [1-28] (1/1r-2/5v Disputatio inter clericum et militem, 2/6r-2/8v Compendium de vita Anticristi). 26 lines. Type: 100(107). Two 4-line initial spaces. Initials and paragraph marks alternating in red and blue, the first with infill and flourishing in blue. First leaf rehinged, repairs in... More

Price: $16,000.00

Compendiöses Wirthschafts-Buch für Frauenzimmer. Friedrich Joseph ERNST,

[ERNST, Friedrich Joseph, editor]. Compendiöses Wirthschafts-Buch für Frauenzimmer. Quedlinburg: Friedrich Joseph Ernst, 1806.

8vo (171 x 105 mm). [iv], 107 pp. Contemporary brown speckled paper boards, edges sprinkled red.***Only Edition of a methodical guide for the German lady of the house, with instructions on domestic and personal care from the pantry to the boudoir. 216 short chapters arranged by subject in twelve parts... More

Price: $1,750.00

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

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De l'education des filles. François de Salignac de La Mothe- FÉNÉLON.

FÉNÉLON, François de Salignac de La Mothe- (1651-1715). 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

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Leipziger Messscenen. Erstes (-Zweites, -Drittes) Heft. Christian Gottfried Heinrich GEISSLER, illustrator.

[GEISSLER, Christian Gottfried Heinrich (1770-1844), illustrator]. Leipziger Messscenen. Erstes (-Zweites, -Drittes) Heft. Leipzig: E. Z. Steinacker, 1804-1805.

3 parts, small oblong 4to (178 x 219 mm.). 20; 18; “19” (recte 20) pp. Each part with half-title only, titles supplied on the wrappers. 12 plates of oval hand-colored tinted aquatints by Geissler. Occasional light foxing to text. Publisher’s original pale green printed wrappers (some wear and creasing, sewing... More

Price: $13,000.00

Supplementum chronicarum. With additions by Barillas Bergomas. DA BERGAMO GIACOMO FILIPPO FORESTI.

GIACOMO FILIPPO FORESTI, DA BERGAMO (1434-1520). Supplementum chronicarum. With additions by Barillas Bergomas. Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, 1 December 1485.

Median folio (311 X 209 mm). Collation as in BMC. [23], 358, [1] leaves, fols. aa1 & b10 blank. 49 lines and headlines. Tables in 2 columns, quire register at end (T8r) in 4 columns, printed marginalia. Types: 6:150G (headlines); 5:93G (text); 3:111R (capitals only). Capital spaces. Double rules along... More

Price: $16,000.00

Le Libérateur Helvétique. Abraham-Louis GIRARDET, artist.

GIRARDET, Abraham-Louis (1772-1820), artist. Le Libérateur Helvétique. Neuchâtel: chez les Frères Girardet, 1797.

Oblong 4to (145 x 195 mm). 24 pp. Six engraved plates by and after A.-L. Girardet. Some minor marginal soiling or spotting. Contemporary pastepaper boards (worn and soiled). ***A rare account of the life and bravery of William Tell, for older children, illustrated with dramatic engravings featuring storms on the... More

Price: $1,100.00

Das Buech der Warheit. Pedro de MEDINA, Aegidius ALBERTINUS.

MEDINA, Pedro de; Aegidius ALBERTINUS, translator. Das Buech der Warheit. Munich: Adam Berg, 1603.

Bound with: OSUNA, Francisco de and ALBERTINUS. Spiegel der Reichen. Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich, 1603. [Bound with:] DALNER, Andreas. Ein Tractat: Von Auffruhr od[er] Empörungen auß Geistl- und Weltlichen Historien... Ingolstadt: Andreas Angermaier, 1601. I: [12], 207, [4], [1 blank] ff. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut headpiece with hunters... More

Price: $2,800.00

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