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
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
Les Oeuvres. Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1579.
16mo (118 x 72 mm). 256 pp. Roman type. Title woodcut of a convivial feast, woodcut initial. Tiny rust-hole in fol. E3, trifling foxing to title and second leaf. 19th-century red morocco gilt, sides panelled with triple fillet border and central gold-stamped arms of the Marquis de Coislin, spine gold-tooled..... 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
Sainte Solange, Vierge et Martyre, patronne du Berry. Chartres: chez Garnier-Allabre, [between 1805 and 1815].
Broadsheet (378 x 310 mm.) on laid paper, deckle edges. Large central stencil- colored woodcut of Saint Solange, framed by letterpress text: a three-line title in large type, narrow bands of text on either side consisting of lyrics to a song about the Saint, and a litany, with imprint at..... More
Thirsis Minnewit. Bestaande in een verzameling der moyste en aangenaamste minne-zangen en voysen. Amsterdam: Joannes Kannewet II, [ca. 1750-1760].
2 works in 4 volumes, 12mo, bound dos-à-dos (binding size 134 x 74 x 50 mm). Thirsis Minnewit: 3 volumes: [8], 160; 164, [4]; [8], 160. Volume 1 with engraved frontispiece, all 3 letterpress titles with a woodcut vignette of men and women at a banquet, woodcut initials and tail-piece..... More
Zeven Spelen van die Wercken der Bermherticheyd. In rijm ghemaeckt, en nu tot Aemstelredam opentlijck ghespeelt, Anno 1591. Amsterdam: Herman Jansz. Muller, 1591.
8vo (143 x 95 mm). Collation: A-T8 (T8 blank). [302] pp. Text in gothic types, stage directions and lists of actors in italic. Title woodcut of a family meal, six text woodcuts of which 5 half-page and one smaller. Wormtrack in gutter of first few leaves, dampstaining to foremargins and..... More
Traité des songes et des visions nocturnes avec leurs significations, selon la doctrine des Anciens, expliquées par ordre alphabétique. [Caen: Chalopin, ca. 1800].
12mo (137 x 84 mm). 12 pp. Drop-title. Stab-stitched in original blue printed wrappers. Modern folding moroco-backed chemise and slipcase.*** A late chapbook incarnation of Vulson de La Colombière’s treatise on dream interpretation (first published 1660), this pocket-sized alphabetical list of dreams and their meanings had a practical purpose, being sold..... More
Grätzerischer Schreibkalender, auf das Jahr nach der gnadenreichen Geburt unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi 1795. Graz: Andreas Leykam, [1794/95].
4to (206 x 155 mm). [48] pp. Pictorial woodcut title border, title and calendar printed in red and black, woodcut astrological symbols. Interleaved with 11 leaves of contemporary manuscript notes in two different hands, in brown ink and graphite, on heavier paper. Small inkstamp on title with initial G and..... More