Confessiones. Milan: Johannes Bonus, 21 July 1475.
Chancery 4to in half-sheets (213 x 151 mm). Collation: [a-v8 x4].164 leaves, unfoliated. 26 lines. Type 1:105R. 4- and 5-line capital spaces, some with printed guide letters. Roman capitals supplied in red. Worming in first four and last two quires, marginal dampstaining to last dozen leaves. 18th-century parchment over pasteboards... More
Confessionum Libri tredecim. Rouen: Romain de Beauvais, 1608.
16mo (114 x 78 mm). Collation: A-Z AA-QQ8. [2] ff., “580” [i.e., 569], [51] pp. With pagination errors: p. 188 misnumbered 189; from that page forward odd numbers appear on versos and even numbers on rectos; pp. 520-529 are omitted. Printer’s woodcut device on title. Clean tear in gutter of... More
Explanatio psalmorum. Basel: Johann Amerbach [and Johann Petri de Langendorff? not after 8 September] 1489.
3 parts, in 3 volumes, median folio (303 x 204 mm). Collation: a-b8 [tables, bound at end of vol. 1]; a8 b-t8.6 v6 x8; A-K8.6 L8 M-P8.6 Q-R8 S-V6 X8 Y6 Z8 AA-DD6 EE8; 1-188.6 196 208 21-236 248 25-276 288. 549 leaves, of 550, blank leaf a8 preserved, blank... More
Liber bibliae moralis. Ulm: Johann Zainer, 9 April 1474.
Super-median folio (402 x 275 mm). Collation: 1-610 78 88 (8/7 + 1) 910 (9/8 + 1) 10-1510 16-178 18-2610 2712]. 266 leaves, unfoliated. 50 lines & headline, double column. Gothic type 1:116. Zainer’s two-sided woodcut border with foliage, flowers, and a jester (BMC 6a) on first page, 10- and... More
![Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita. Latin BIBLE.](/pictures/thumb/2682.jpg?v=1464284724)
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
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
Commentarius in primum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Type 2), between 1474 and 1479].
Royal folio (401 x 278 mm). Collation: [a-c10 d8 e6 f-h10 i4 k-m10 n8 o-q10 r8 s10; t4]. 168 leaves, [a]1 and [t]3-4 blank. 62 lines, double column. Type 2:93. Nine- to two-line initial spaces. Rubricated in red: pearled Lombard capitals, headlines, chapter numbers, paragraph marks and capital strokes. Paper... More
![Liber sextus decretalium. Commentary by Johannes Andreae. [With:] JOHANNES ANDREAE. Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis. BONIFACIUS VIII, Benedetto Gaetano, Pope from 1294.](/pictures/thumb/3129.JPG?v=1473013440)
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
![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.](/pictures/thumb/2805.JPG?v=1472143854)
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
Sermones de adventu, Sermo de S. Joseph, Sermo de beatitudine, Sermones de divina caritate, Sermones de immortalitate animae. With: Dominicus BOLLANUS. De conceptione B.V.M. [Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, about 1474].
Chancery half-sheet 4to (216 x 155 mm). Collation: a10 b-n8 o10 (a1r blank, a1v table, a2r-o10v text); a10 b12. (a1r blank, a1v a1v dedication to Doge Nicolò Marcello, a2r-b12v text). 116; 22 leaves, unfoliated. 40 lines, 2 columns. Type: 2:78G2. Capital spaces with guide letters. Rubrication: opening 7-line initials in... More
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
Novveav livre d’Eglise à l’vsage de Rome, pour la commodité vuniverselle des Laiques. Premiere Edition reduite en un Volume... Auec un Exercice du Chrestien pour les Ames deuotes... Enrichy de nouuelles Figures. Paris: Pierre Rocolet, Pierre Charpentier, Mathurin Denis, Claude Calleville, 1644.
12mo (147 x 81 mm). [60], 911, [1], clxviii pp. Engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved plates. Red and black printing. Woodcut tailpieces. Tear to the Table des feste mobiles (a5), slight mold in gutter of pp. 896-7. Contemporary calf, sides framed in double gilt fillets, central motif of the Cross... More
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
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
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
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
![[Dialogus inter clericum et militem super dignitate papali et regia:] Disputacio inter clericum et militem. - Compendium de vita Antichristi. Pierre; d. after 1321? DUBOIS.](/pictures/thumb/3130.JPG?v=1472593713)
[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
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
![Les Saints Devoirs de l’Ame devote. Où il est enseigné au Chrestien la maniere d'employer le iour au service de Dieu. Par les PP. de la Compagnie de Iesus. Avec l'Office de la Vierge Marie. [Part 2:] Office de la Vierge Marie pour tous les temps de l’année. FRENCH EMBROIDERED BINDING.](/pictures/thumb/2868.JPG?v=1495732186)
Les Saints Devoirs de l’Ame devote. Où il est enseigné au Chrestien la maniere d'employer le iour au service de Dieu. Par les PP. de la Compagnie de Iesus. Avec l'Office de la Vierge Marie. [Part 2:] Office de la Vierge Marie pour tous les temps de l’année. Paris: Sebastien Feugé, 1648.
12mo (binding size 143 x 82 mm). 2 parts, separately titled and paginated, 262, [2]; 239, [1] pp. Woodcut title vignettes. A few corners creased. Contemporary French embroidered binding of ivory silk over pasteboards, each cover with a different floral design of flowering plants, buds, fruits and leaves, in variously... More
Die brösamlin. Compiled by Johann Pauli. Strassburg: Johannes Grüninger, 4 February - 24 March 1517.
Folio (313 x 205 mm). 2 parts: 110 (recte 106); 92 leaves. Gothic types, double column. Title printed in red and black within a woodcut Renaissance-style border block, thirty-four text illustrations printed from 32 blocks (including several repeats and two illustrations printed from two or three blocks) by the Master... More
![En Nye Psalme-Bog, som indeholder de sædvanligste Gamle, som ogsaa mange Nye Psalmer. [Part 2:] En liden og Andaegtig Bonne-Bog, hvorudi allehaande Bonner ere forfattede. Berthold Christian GJØDESEN, compiler.](/pictures/thumb/2720.JPG?v=1472686845)
En Nye Psalme-Bog, som indeholder de sædvanligste Gamle, som ogsaa mange Nye Psalmer. [Part 2:] En liden og Andaegtig Bonne-Bog, hvorudi allehaande Bonner ere forfattede... [Copenhagen? or Tønder?]: E. D. Nagel, bookbinder in Tønder, 1765.
Bound with: KINGO, Thomas Hansen (1634-1703). Den Forordnede Nye Kirke-Psalme-Bog. [Part 2:] Collecter, Epistler, og Evangelier. [Part 3:] En andaegtig Bonne-Bog. Copenhagen [or Tønder?]: Ernst Daniel Nagel, 1765. 2 vols. in one, long 12mo (178 x 68 mm). First work in 2 parts, second work in 3 parts, the parts... More
Kalendarium Gregorianum perpetuum. Cum Privilegio Summi Pontificis, & aliorum Principum. Rome: Domenico Basa (for Francisco Zanetti), [after 3 April] 1582.
8vo (152 x 98 mm). Collation: A4 [chi]4 B-D8 E4. [36] leaves. Roman types. Printed in red and black throughout. Woodcut arms of Pope Gregory XIII on title, woodcut initials. Small hole in ff. B6-8, repaired in C1, affecting a few letters, marginal hole or paper flaw in quire E;... More
Quadragesimale. [Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 27 February 1479.
Royal folio (414 x 284 mm). Collation as in BMC & GW. 246 leaves, unfoliated, including first and final blanks. 51 lines and headline, double column. Gothic types 4:160 (headings and headlines), 3:110a (text). Initial spaces. Fine large opening initial supplied in pink with foliate modelling, green filigree geometric infill... More
Le Jardin de contemplation. (colophon:) Paris: Jean Petit, 25 October 1516.
8vo (134 x 90 mm). Collation: a-z8 et8 A-D8. [224] leaves, including final blank. Batarde types, 27 lines. Publisher’s woodcut device on title (not in Renouard), 8- and 4-line metalcut initials. Colophon printed in a cruciform X-shape. Title and last leaf stained, occasional small stains elsewhere, minor worming in lower... More
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, 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