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.
by CARACCIOLUS, Robertus (1425-1495)
[Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1474. Chancery half-sheet 4to (216 x 155 mm). Collation: Caracciolus: a10 b-n8 o10 (a1r blank, a1v table, a2r-o10v text); Bollanus: a10 b12 (a1r blank, 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 blue with reserved decoration and red filigree infill and extensions, 4-line initials in red or blue with reserved decoration, smaller... Read More
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De institutis coenobiorum. - Collationes patrum XXIV
by CASSIANUS, Johannes
Basel: [Johann Amerbach, 1485. [Bound with:] THOMAS À KEMPIS. Opera: Sermones, epistolae et alia opuscula. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder [for Peter Dannhauser], 29 November 1494. Two volumes in one, chancery folio (284 x 195 mm). Cassianus: collation: π10 A-B8 C-F6.8 G8; a-b8 c-d6 e-h6.8 i8 k-n6.8 o-t8 v6. 208 leaves, unrubricated. 47 lines and headline, double column (except title verso). Types: 1:185G (title, incipit, headlines). 3:92G (text), 5:106(92)G (headings and colophon). Quarter-page woodcut of the conversion of Paul (b5r).... Read More
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Les Manteaux. Recueil
by [CAYLUS, Anne Claude Philippe de (1692-1765)]
The Hague [i.e., Paris?]: s.n., 1746. 8vo (168 x 101 mm). 2 parts, separately titled and paginated: [3]-vi-xxiv, 182 pages, 1 blank leaf; [2] leaves, 128 pages. Engraved frontispiece by Fessard after Cochin fils (apparently included in the pagination), typographic title ornaments, head- and tailpieces. An attractive copy (stain to fols. A2-3 in second part, 2 or 3 minor marginal tears, some spotting). Contemporary red morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, smooth spine sparingly gold-tooled and lettered, board edges... Read More
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Epistolarum selectarum Centuriae II
by CESARI, Domenico
Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi for Girolamo Tamburini, 1621. 8vo (150 x 98 mm). 2 parts, continuously paginated. Engraved fold-out title signed F. B. F. [Francesco Brizio fecit], [22], 262 pages (pp. [126-128] blank). Two woodcut initials. Marginal tear at fold of engraved title, very occasional minor marginal dampstain. Contemporary parchment (stain on front cover, backstrip torn). Provenance: author's presentation copy, ex dono inscription from the recipient: 1621 / Donum ipsius Auctoris, mihi Michi / Angelo Actio, Bononia [?].*** First Edition... Read More
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Les portraits parlans ou Tableaux animés
by CHEVILLARD, François (d. 1678)
Orléans: Gilles Hotot [II], 1646. 8vo (161 x 96 mm). [40], 136 pp. Woodcut title vignette, tailpieces, and initials, woodcut and typographic headpieces. Printing flaw, p. 123 (2 words covered in the press); slight soiling to title, a few small marginal stains. Contemporary acid-stained calf, smooth spine gold-tooled, edges stained red, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed).*** First? Edition of a rare collection of anagrammatic, devotional and occasionally macabre poetry. This is one of two editions or issues, both from... Read More
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L'Enfant sage a trois ans, Contenant les Demandes que lui fit l’Empereur Adrien & les Réponses de l’Enfant
by WISE CHILD
Troyes: Jean-Antoine Garnier, 1770. 24mo (118 x 67 mm). 24 pp. Title woodcut of the Virgin and St. Anne. Untrimmed, in contemporary French block-printed wrappers of floral papier dominoté with pansies, 5-petaled flowers, and closed buds on a dotted ground, printed in black and brown; title and date (1766) written in a 19th-century hand on front cover, back cover with erased Flemish library stamp (last line Flandre-Orientale); tears to backstrip.*** Only Garnier edition of a centuries-old staple of... Read More
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Printed emblematic fan, with captions in Spanish
by FAN — LOVE CHOICES
[France, 1810. Hand-colored and color-printed stipple-engraved folding paper fan, printed on recto of a single sheet, backed in plain paper, mounted on original wooden sticks, the guards with narrow fillets of decorative bone near rivet, the rivet pins with decorative glass inserts; the open fan leaf measuring approx. 169 x 450 mm., total fan height (including mount) 255 mm. The allegorical scene colored in watercolor and gouache; stenciled gold-printed acanthus border at top, a gold border at top of otherwise... Read More
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Le Livre de la perfection de la vie crestienne
by CIBOULE, Robert (ca. 1403-1458)
Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, 1510. 8vo (141 x 91 mm). [128] leaves. Bâtarde types. Title with small metalcut device of Simon Vostre (Renouard 1108), on verso a full-page metalcut of the Trinity and All Saints, large Pigouchet device on verso of last leaf (Renouard 919), 3- and 4-line metalcut initials. All quires with printed quire signatures on first two rectos and contemporary manuscript signatures on 3rd and 4th rectos. Small marginal repair to title-leaf, catching edge of... Read More
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Cura clericalis. Lege Relege
by GUIDE FOR CLERGY
[Lyon: Claude Nourry, 1524. Small 8vo (131 x 93 mm). [16] leaves. Collation: A-B8 (A1r title, A1v blank, A2r text, B8r explicit, Explicit iste liber gemmis qui charior extat, B8v blank). Title in two lines (Cura clericalis in very large type / Lege relege in the larger of the two text types), title woodcut of a scribe at his pulpit (54 x 70 mm., break in left border); the cut worn or poorly printed. Rounded French gothic types in two... Read More
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Novveav livre d'Eglise à l'vsage de Rome, pour la commodité vniverselle des Laiques. Premiere Edition reduite en un Volume... Auec un Exercice du Chrestien pour les Ames deuotes... Enrichy de nouuelles Figures
by CONFRATERNITY BINDING -
Paris: Pierre Rocolet, Pierre Charpentier, Mathurin Denis, Claude Calleville, 1644. 12mo (147 x 81 mm). [60], 911, [1], clxviii pages. Engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved plates. Red and black printing. Woodcut tailpieces. Tear to the Table des festes mobiles (a5), trace of mold in gutter of pp. 896-7. Contemporary calf, sides framed in double gilt fillets, central Arma Christi motif, and the gold-stamped name Charles (on front cover) de Meru (on lower cover) at top within double fillet cartouches,... Read More
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![Regla de la P[a]sio[n]: Manuscript rules for the Confraternity of the Holy Cross of La Horcajada, Spain](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/064/645/1246645064.0.l.jpg)
Regla de la P[a]sio[n]: Manuscript rules for the Confraternity of the Holy Cross of La Horcajada, Spain
by CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY CROSS, SPAIN
Ávila and La Horcajada, 1615. Manuscript on parchment (380 x 270 mm). [1]8. Complete. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Regla, in Spanish, in 30 numbered sections (inconsistent numbering on ff. 3v-4v), in a rounded script in brown ink (the first page slightly larger), up to 27 lines. F. 1r: incipit, first four lines in large lettering, with very large calligraphic initial: En el no[m]bre de dios todo poderoso padre y hijo y espiritu sa[n]cto tres personas y una esencia... Section 30... Read More
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Théodore Vierge et Martyre, Tragédie chrestienne
by CORNEILLE, Pierre (1606-1684)
“Jouxte la copie imprimée à Rouen, et se vend à Paris: chez Augustin Courbé” [i.e., Avignon: Jean Piot], 1654. 12mo (141 x 86 mm). [10], 120 pp. Title with assemblage of printing fleurons forming a solid square incorporating the words “Jouxte la copie imprimée,” type-ornament head-pieces and initials. (Some slight discoloration.) 19th-century quarter calf; a few deckle edges. Early inscription on front flyleaf (Vraye et [?] tragebie [sic]...).*** Rare Avignon counterfeit edition of one of Corneille’s less successful... Read More
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Gott gefällige Andachtsübung des heiligen Kreuzweges
by STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Amberg: s.n., 1840. 12mo (134 x 98 mm.). 46 pp. Title woodcut and 14 half-page woodcuts in the text. Light dampstain in second half. Contemporary block-printed paper over pasteboards, blue-sprinkled edges. A Bavarian chapbook edition of the Stations of the Cross, well-preserved in its patterned paper case binding. Following the papal permission granted by Innocent XI in 1686 to the Franciscans (the originators of the Vie dolorose found throughout Europe) to erect Stations of the Cross within... Read More
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Ronde joyeuse des fagotiers
by FAN — SEX & DEATH
[France], 1786. Hand-colored etched folding paper fan, printed on the recto of two joined sheets, backed in plain paper, mounted on 15 (later?) plain wooden sticks, the open leaf measuring approx. 112 x 460 mm., total fan height 260 mm. The etching shows two couples (and a small dog, and table with wine carafe and glass) flanking a female figure in white Grecian robes and a green wreath, holding in one hand a heart at her breast, and with... Read More
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Paravent de six feuilles
by DECOUPAGE - FURNITURE DECORATION. [WATTEAU, Antoine]
Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid & son, 1740. Six tall narrow folio-sized engravings with etching (platemarks 400 x 207 mm., sheets 435 x 277 mm., deckle edges), unsigned but by Jacop Wangner after Watteau, numbered 1-6 in the plate at lower right, imprint at lower right I. Haid et filius, excudit A. V. [Augustae Vindelicorum]. Upper edges archivally tipped to mats. Fine.*** A perfectly preserved suite of six large rococo engravings reproducing Watteau's paintings for a folding screen, intended to... Read More
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Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of New York. At New York printed and sold by William Bradford, printer to their Majesties King William & Queen Mary, 1694. Edited and annotated by Robert Ludlow Fowler
by DE VINNE, Theodore Low (1828-1914), printer
New York: (Theodore Low de Vinne for) The Grolier Club, 1894. Printed on vellum. Folio (285 x 185 mm). [6] leaves, clxiii, [1]; [4], 84, 4, 4, [6], 11 pp. [1] leaf. 2 blank leaves at front and 4 at back. Title with Grolier Club device, three engraved vignettes by Max Rosenthal in the first part (Fowler’s introduction), unsigned lithograph on a separate leaf at the end of the introduction (included in the pagination), showing William Bradford’s tombstone, woodcut... Read More
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![[Dialogus inter clericum et militem super dignitate papali et regia:] Disputacio inter clericum et militem. - Compendium de vita Antichristi](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/630/003/794003630.0.l.1.jpg)
[Dialogus inter clericum et militem super dignitate papali et regia:] Disputacio inter clericum et militem. - Compendium de vita Antichristi
by [DUBOIS, Pierre (d. after 1321)?]
[Cologne: Printer of Augustinus, `De fide', 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). 16 leaves. 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 gutter margin of last leaf, marginal paper flaw to 1/7, some marginal soiling. Old vellum (recased); folding cloth case. Provenance:... Read More
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Lettre d’un fabriquant de Lyon, à un Négociant de Paris, sur les vertus & avantages de l'Essence Vestimentale du Sieur Dupleix
by DUPLEIX, inventor
[Versailles: s.n., 1772. 12mo (156 x 105 mm). 12 pp. Caption title. Woodcut reproduction of the seal to be found on bottles of Dupleix’s “essence vestimentale.” (Short marginal tear to first two leaves.) Modern wrappers. *** A unique surviving publicity pamphlet in the form of a testimonial letter, describing the almost miraculously effective properties of a popular liquid stain-remover. A textile manufacturer from Lyon, writing to a businessman in Paris who had sent him a sample... Read More
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Question royalle et sa décision
by [DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Jean, abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581-1643)]
"Paris: chez Toussainct Du Bray, 1609. 12mo (161 x 99 mm). [1], 56 (recte 65) ff. Woodcut title vignette (harvesting scene with lion at top), woodcut headpiece and initial. Publisher's binding? of 18th-century French olive morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, flat spine gold-tooled and -lettered, gilt edges (joints and extremities scuffed, spine a trifle faded).*** Counterfeit edition of a meditation on suicide by one of the founders of Jansenism. Reputedly inspired by musings of Henri IV, reported... Read More
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Dottrina dello stoico filosofo Epitteto che chiamasi communemente Enchiridion
by EPICTETUS — SANCHEZ de las Brozas, Francisco; CITARELLA, Marco Antonio (translators)
Pistoia: Biagioni & Franchi, 1727. 4to (203 x 143 mm). Two parts in one, separately titled and paginated: [32], 115, [1] pages; [10], 88 pages, 1 leaf. Half-title, title with engraved arms of the dedicatee, Eugene-Francis, Duke of Savoy (known as Prince Eugene), engraved plate: a portrait of the translator above his arms and titles, signed by [Giuseppe] Filosi of Venice. Woodcut initials. (A few sheets in part 2 browned.) Contemporary parchment over flexible boards, ms. spine title (soiled,... Read More
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Portrait de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour fait par elle-même
by EROTIC SATIRE — [POMPADOUR, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de]
Paris: s.n., 1756. 12mo (169 x 96 mm). 10, [2 blank] pages. Woodcut ornament on title. (Title soiled.) Extra-illustrated with three states of an engraved bust portrait of Mme. Pompadour, in two states, of which two avant la lettre, one in black and one in sepia, the latter on very thick paper, and one with lettering (Mme. de Pompadour). Jansenist blue-green morocco, turn-ins gilt, gilt edges, silk ribbon marker, 5 blank leaves at front and 6 at back (spine... Read More
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De Lipsii latinitate
by ESTIENNE, Henri II (1531-1598)
Frankfurt am Main: [s.n.], 1595. 8vo (155 x 93 mm). [30] pp., [1 blank leaf], 560 pp. Woodcut title ornament, woodcut initials. Fresh, clean copy (single wormhole in text). Contemporary vellum tooled in silver-gilt, edges gauffered and gilt'; lacking fore-edge ties, slightly rubbed, small tear to front pastedown at gutter. Provenance: ownership inscription on title (Hermannij H L) of Hermann IV, Landgraf von Hesse (1607-1658, son of the dedicatee); Nordkirchen Castle bookplate. First Edition of Henri Estienne's... Read More
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Vita di Esopo frigio ... Alquale di nuovo sono aggiunte le Favole del medesimo Esopo, con molte altre d'alcuni elevati ingegni ... Hora in gratia della studiosa gioventù illustrate
by FABLES — AESOP, et al.
Venice and Bassano: Gio. Antonio Remondini, 1700. 12mo (134 x 67 mm). Collation: A-R12. 394, [14] pp. 2 parts, separately titled, second title-page on F5r. Woodcut printer’s device on titles, 120 text woodcuts, a very few repeated. A few cuts with black dots (e.g., on p. 257), apparently from wormed blocks. Fol. K12 with short closed tear touching a woodcut, a few headlines shaved; some light discoloration. Late 18th-century English green calf, covers with gilt intertwining feather and pointillé... Read More
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Libro di Sexto Ruffo huomo consulare, a Valentiniano Augusto, della historia de Romani. Nuovamente tradotto de Latino in volgare
by FESTUS
Venice: Agostino [Bindoni] Milanese, 1544. 8vo (149 x 98 mm). A8 B4 (B4, presumed blank, removed). [22] pages. Italic type. Fine woodcut title border with grotesques and St. George slaying the dragon at the foot, one metalcut initial. Fine. 20th-century havana goatskin, title gilt-lettered on front cover (Sesto Ruffo volgare). *** First Edition in Italian of the Breviarium rerum gestarum populi romani, a short and flawed epitome of Roman history written for the emperor Valens (who may have... Read More
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Regolamento della Pia Casa di Lavoro di Firenze
by POVERTY — HOMELESSNESS — FLORENCE
Florence: presso Niccolò Carli, 1818. 8vo (193 x 125 mm). 45, [3 bl.]; 37, [1 bl.] pp. Letterpress tables. The second part is an Appendix, separately paginated, with half-title, and approbation at end dated 1818. (A few small spots to title and last few pages.) Modern half linen and marbled boards, original rear wrapper bound in.*** Only Edition of the rules for the main Florentine workhouse for the destitute, mainly children, established by Napoleon in 1812, to honor... Read More
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