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Etrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, augmentées pour l’année 1747. Paris: Durand, 1747.
24mo (binding size 96 x 66 mm).Collation: A-D8 E6 (nested quires). [76] pp. Engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title. Publisher’s woodcut gryphon device on letterpress title, engraved two-page map of France at end. Publisher’s gold-blocked olive morocco (abstract design), Dutch-gilt endpapers, gilt edges.*** The very long-running Paris almanac known as the..... More
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
Etrennes mignonnes Pour l’An de N. Seigneur M. DCC.LXXXIII. Liège: chez la Veuve J. Dessain, [1782].
24mo (95 x 55 mm). [98] leaves. Three parts, separately titled, titles within type-ornament borders and with woodcut vignette of the arms of Liege. Double rule page borders throughout. 12 pages containing 24 woodcuts of coins, depicted actual size; small astrological cuts in calendar (leaves 2-16), which is interleaved. Fine..... More
Le Calendrier de la Cour, tiré des Ephémerides ... Pour l’annee Mil sept cent trente-neuf. Imprimé pour la Famille Royale, et Maison de Sa Majesté. Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1739.
36mo (binding size 108 x 55 mm). [72] pp. (a single quire of 36 leaves, the first and last leaves mounted on the free endpapers and printed on visible sides only). Woodcut royal arms on title, 2 astronomical woodcuts, typographic moon symbols in calendar. Double rule page borders. Publisher’s case..... More
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
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
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
Ad suos compagnones studiantes, qui sunt de persona friantes, bassas Dansas & Branlos practicantes, nouvellos quamplurimos mandat. [With:] [BOLLA, Bartolomeo]. Nova Novorum Novissima, Sive Poemata Stylo Macaronico. [Paris?]: “Stampatus in Stampatura Stampatorum,”, 1670.
12mo (142 x 80 mm). 191 pp. Two parts, separately titled but continuously paginated. Woodcut peacock device on title. A pretty copy; occasional light foxing to upper margins. Eighteenth-century French red morocco, sides with triple gilt fillet, smooth spine gold-tooled with green morocco lettering-piece, edges gilt over marbling, marbled endpapers..... More
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
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
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
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
Liber bibliae moralis. Ulm: Johann Zainer, 9 April 1474.
Royal 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
Sermo de gloriosa virgine Maria. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, before 10 October 1470].
Chancery half-sheet 4to (210 x 146 mm). Collation: [a-e8 d2] (without e2 blank). 25 (of 26) leaves, unfoliated. Contemporary manuscript quiring preserved on 2 leaves (a1 and d1). 27 lines. Type 1:96 (leaded to 109). Watermark: two keys (Briquet 3819). No visible pinholes. Three- and four-line initial spaces. Initials supplied..... More
Le Nouvel ami des enfans, ou le Berquin anglais...Traduction libre de l'anglais ... Cinquième édition, considérablement augmentée. Paris: (Imprimerie de Casimir for) Ledentu, 1827.
4 vols. in two, 18mo. viii, 202; 204; 215, [1]; 214, [2] pp. 24 engraved plates, including 12 stipple engravings in vol. 1, faintly signed Dien sc. Contemporary tree calf gilt (scraped and worn). Inscription on front flyleaf of vol. 1: Souvenir de Thse de Butler à son frère Maurice..... 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], 16 October 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
Le plaisant livre de noble homme Jehan Bocace poete florentin, auquel il traicte des faictz & gestes des illustres & celebres dames. Paris: [Jean Réal for] Philippe Le Noir, [Guillaume Le Bret, and others], 1538.
8vo (144 x 85 mm). [8], 196 leaves. Title printed in red and black. Bâtarde type. Small typographic pointing hands used in text throughout. Half-page woodcut opening text of an author presenting his book to a seated dignitary, with reserved space for letterpress name, here “Jehan bocasse”; a variety of..... 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
Linguae vitia & remedia Emblematicè expressa. Antwerp: widow Cnobbaert, 1652.
Small oblong 16mo (74 x 97 mm). Collation: a8 b4 A-M8. 2 parts, continuously paginated. [12] leaves, 191, [1 bl.] pp. Half-title, etched title, 93 full-page etchings. This copy includes the cancelled leaf A8, blank except for pagination and headline on the verso. Nineteenth-century red morocco with triple gilt fillet..... More
Le Temple de Gnide ... Par ordre de Mgr. le Comte d’Artois. Paris: imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1780.
18mo (binding size 136 x 80 mm). 76 pp. Half-title, title with woodcut arms of the Comte d’Artois. extra-illustrated with 24 plates, comprising an engraved portrait medallion of Montesquieu by Auguste de Saint-Aubin from the 1795 edition by Pierre-François Didot; 10 etched and engraved plates by Bertaux and other engravers..... More
![Das Narrenschiff, in Latin:] Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher,...](/pictures/thumb/3166.JPG?v=1472593726)
[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
La grand 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
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