Almanach royal, année MDCCLXXIII
by FREEMASONRY
Paris: Le Breton, 1773. 8vo (192 x 120 mm). 566 pages. 5 leaves are cancels, as called for in the Avis au relieur on the last page (the 5 cancels were originally the last 5 leaves of the final quire). Marginal tear to pp. 399-400, not affecting text. Contemporary French gold-tooled morocco, covers tooled with a triple rule frame enclosing a wide dentelle border incorporating emblems of the Freemasons (compasses & squares), stars, shooting stars, and a pair of... Read More
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An album of gouache and watercolor paintings of furniture
by FURNITURE — ARCHAMBAUT, Aline
[Paris, 1890. Oblong folio (395 x 260 mm). 135 drawings of ornate furniture in lead and watercolor highlighted in gum arabic, on 104 leaves of heavy paper (later pencil foliation), including four mounted drawings on tinted paper and two smaller loose drawings, one of the latter signed A. Archambaut del., both with notes of measurements and pattern or stock numbers, the second with specifications of colors and material. No. 93, a bed, apparently unfinished. (Foxing and soiling to first... Read More
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Psalmi Davidici septuaginta quinque, in lyricos versus, servata ecclesiasticae versionis veritate et Hebraeorum varietate, redacti
by GAGNY, Jean de (d. 1549)
Paris: Nicolaus Dives (Nicolas Le Riche), 1547. 8vo (187 x 118 mm.). [8], “158” leaves (recte 148, misfoliated 80, 89-143, 146-158). Title with printer’s woodcut double anchor device (Renouard 636). Italic types (imitating the Aldine italic), shoulder notes in a very small italic font. Contemporary French calf, covers paneled with double blind fillets, gilt fleurons at corners of inner panel, two mirrored impressions of a large gilt fleuron with onlays of darker brown calf, later gold-blocked arms of Vincent... Read More
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Le Grand palais de la Miséricorde, Orné et tapissé de belles et riches pièces des vii oeuvres de l'aumosne corporelle
by GAZET, Nicolas
Douai: Baltazar Bellere, 1606. 8vo (159 x 100 mm). 2 parts, separately paginated; part 1: [40], 334, [2 blank] pp.; part 2: 3-570 pp. (but complete). Additional engraved title, repeated in part 2 with slightly different central text, ten full-page engravings, most signed or monogrammed by Jean Waldor [Valdor] of Liège, woodcut initials, woodcut and type-ornament tail-pieces, typographic head-pieces. (Small marginal stain to second leaf, slight fraying at foot of final leaf, but an appealing copy.) Contemporary alum-tawed sheepskin(?)... Read More
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Leipziger Messscenen. Erstes (-Zweites, -Drittes) Heft
by GEISSLER, Christian Gottfried Heinrich (1770-1844), illustrator
Leipzig: E. Z. Steinacker, 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 loose in part 1). Only Edition, a high spot of nineteenth-century German book illustration, a fine copy in the rare original wrappers. In... Read More
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![Album of designs of decorative objects, lamps, clocks, architectural elements, cartes-de-visite, and ornaments. [Nouveaux Desseins de Differens Ornemens de Meubles Inventés et composés par Jean Baptiste Hagenauer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/526/072/1721072526.0.l.jpg)
Album of designs of decorative objects, lamps, clocks, architectural elements, cartes-de-visite, and ornaments. [Nouveaux Desseins de Differens Ornemens de Meubles Inventés et composés par Jean Baptiste Hagenauer]
by HAGENAUER, Johann Baptist, artist
[Vienna, 1783. 4to (241 x 176 mm). 432 etched and/or engraved plates of decorative objects (platemarks 171-177 x 131 mm.), comprising parts (Cahiers) VI to XLI, by various engravers after Hagenauer. Printed on thick laid paper, watermark crown & shield with fleurs-de-lis watermark. (Overall discoloration due to paper quality, some spotting and finger-soiling, one or two short marginal tears, a few old ink splashes from users.) Bound ca. 1900 in brown morocco-backed boards, spine blind-tooled and with gilt-lettered title,... Read More
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Systême général d'administration pour les pauvres, ou projet d'un réglement relatif au soin des pauvres
by HARL, Johann Paul (1772-1842)
Erlangen: Junge, printer to the University, 1824. 8vo (193 x 122 mm). [2], 47 pages. A fine copy on heavy wove paper, bound in contemporary crimson morocco-grained boards, covers gold-tooled with central torch and wreath ornament and floral acanthus roll border, blue endpapers, edges delicately mottled and gilt (very slight scuffing to front cover). Paper label inside lower cover with number 515.*** First edition, printed for private circulation, of a rather sinister proposal to alleviate poverty by creating... Read More
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Urbs Bamberga, et Abbates Montis Monachorum prope Bambergam, elegiaco versu descripti
by HOFMANN, Martin (1544-1599)
Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann, 1595. 4to (198 x 140 mm). Collation: A-K8. [80] pp. Italic (text) and roman types (shoulder notes and preliminary verses), a few words in gothic and greek types, three full-page woodcut coats-of-arm within ornamental borders, woodcut title ornament, head- and tail-pieces and initials, two metalcut tailpieces, type-ornament section dividers. Light spotting to first and last few leaves, overall slight discoloration. Late 19th-century English tan calf, covers with central blind-stamped circular monograms of William Stirling-Maxwell, that on... Read More
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![Livre des cantiques ... Seconde edition, augmentée de plusieurs cantiques. [Part 2:] Les Evangiles et les Epitres Pour tous Les Dimanches, Jours solennels & Fêtes](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/302/338/1360338302.0.l.jpg)
Livre des cantiques ... Seconde edition, augmentée de plusieurs cantiques. [Part 2:] Les Evangiles et les Epitres Pour tous Les Dimanches, Jours solennels & Fêtes
by HUGUENOTS - [ARNELL, Laurent, editor]
Stockholm: de l'imprimerie de l'Historiographe du Royaume, Par Hartwig Gercken, 1734. Agenda format 12mo (168 x 69 mm). [4], 304; 392, [20] pp. 2 parts, with alphabetical index and final errata page. Woodcut title-page ornaments and tailpieces, type-ornament headpieces. Light foxing to first few leaves. Contemporary speckled sheep, gilt edges, marbled pastedown endpapers, very worn, spine completely abraded with loss at top, paper lettering-piece barely legible (Livre de Cantiques). ***A rare hymnal, with a catechism and prayers, for the... Read More
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Medallion portrait on vellum set behind an elaborate enameled glass frame
by [IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Saint]
[Italy?, 18th century]. An oval medallion gouache portrait of St. Ignatius of Loyola on parchment (56 x 46 mm.), backed in paper (visible on verso) and set within an oval border of gold ribbon, metallic gold embroidery, and parallel silver ribbons, displayed behind an enameled plaque of glass or possibly vitrified metal (194 x 138 mm.), the plaque enameled with a large ornamental border of gold volutes and stylized leaves with touches of red highlighting, the winged bust of... Read More
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Emblemata politica in aula magna Curiae Noribergensis depicta
by ISELBURG, Peter (1568?-1630), artist and publisher
[Nuremberg: Iselburg], 1617. Bound with: BRUCK-ANGERMUNDT, Jacobus à (ca. 1580-after 1622). Decades duae anagrammatum et emblematum. Ex nomine Illustris ... Dn. Andreae Kochticzky ... Concinnatorum. Strassburg: Anton Bertram for the author, 1615. 2 vols. in one, 4to (194 x 154 mm). Iselburg: [8] leaves, comprising engraved title, trimmed to platemark and mounted (on a verso, the leaf frayed), engraved armorial dedication leaf with arms of members of the Nuremberg Senate, letterpress dedication (1 leaf), 1 blank leaf,... Read More
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Confusion de la secte de Muhamed
by ISLAM — ANDRÉS de XÀTIVA, Juan (active 1487-1515)
Paris: Martin le Jeune, 1574. Small 8vo (151 x 92 mm). [6 ], “99” [recte 100] leaves (several foliation errors). Woodcut printer’s device on title (Renouard 609), headpieces and initials. Shoulder notes including some Hebrew text. Occasional light foxing, but a fine copy. 19th-century red morocco gilt, gilt edges, by L. Tripon. Provenance: Paul Desq (1816-1877), red gilt bookplate, his sale, Paris, 25 April 1866, lot 119 (misdated 1584); Joseph Renard (1822-1882), Lyonese bibliophile, bookplate, (his?) neat ink notes... Read More
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Tromba sonora per chiamar i morti viventi dalla Tomba della colpa alla vita della Grazia
by JUDGMENT DAY —
Turin: nella stamperia [Gerardo?] Giuliano, 1772. 12mo (151 x 85 mm). 180 pages. 26 half-page woodcuts printed from 23 blocks, of which 22 showing tormented souls in Hell and one a memento mori; five smaller woodcuts: title cut of St. Michael (printer’s device?), St. Francis receiving the stigmata, the Trinity with spheres of the cosmos, a skull and crossbones, and the Crucifixion; a few type ornaments. (Lower corners of fols. B1 and B2 torn with loss to a few... Read More
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Kurtz abgefasstes sehr nutz- und erbauliches Berg- und Saltzwercks-Buch
by KELLNER, David
Frankfurt & Leipzig: Carl Christian Neuenhahn, 1702.
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Opuscules... Traduits du Latin d'Horstius par le R. P. Colomme
by THOMAS A KEMPIS
Paris: Guillot, Libraire de Monsieur, 1785. 12mo (167 x 95 mm). xxiv, 525, [3 blank] pp. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary French calf gilt, sides with triple gilt border and central gold-blocked arms of Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Perigord (variant of Guigard I:368), cardinal and archbishop of Reims (1736-1821), smooth spine gold-tooled, olive morocco gilt lettering-piece, g.e., turn-ins gilt (slight scuffing to extremities).*** First Edition of this French translation of the most important of the minor works of... Read More
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Areostiade, ossia il mongolfiero. Poema di V.L.C.
by [LANCETTI, Vincenzo (1767?-1851)]
Milan: presso Agnello Nobile, 1803. 2 volumes in one, 12mo (157 x 97 mm). xi, [1], 296; [4], 383, [1] pp. Contemporary tree calf, smooth spine with red and dark green morocco lettering pieces, small gilt Montgolfier balloon tool at top and bottom, yellow red-sprinkled edges. First complete edition of an epic poem on ballooning and the first balloon flights. In elevated verse, the poem provides a history of aerostation and technical information on the construction of the first... Read More
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Schöne und rahre Landschafften in Italien und andern Ländern nach dem Leben gezeichnet von Joh. Wilhelm Baurn Solche von Melchior Küßel in Kupffer gestochen
by LANDSCAPES - KÜSEL, Melchior, engraver; BAUR, Johann Wilhelm, artist
Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Krauss, 1700. Oblong 4to (240 x 282 mm). 18 plates: engraved title and 17 numbered etchings, engraved captions in German, by Melchior Küsel after Baur. Watermarks: 1) hunting horn, 45 x 32 mm., lettered below A I F; 2) serpent (95 x 37 mm.) coiled around an anchor(?) with leaf-shaped upper escutcheon lettered MD(?). Most in very good impressions. Some marginal soiling or foxing, a stain to title from erasure of shelfmark, crease marks to a... Read More
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Ordonnances du treschrestien roy de France, Francoys premier de ce nom... ordonnées estre gardees et observees en ses pays de Provence, Forcalquier, et terres adiacentes. Selon et en ensuyuant la reformation par luy faict de la Justice desdictz pays, Lan Mil.CCCCC.xxxv
by PROVENÇAL LAWS
Avignon: Jean de Channey, 1536. Bound with three other volumes of laws of Provence: II. Ordonnãces Royaulx sur le faict de la Iustice & abbreuiation des proces par tout le Royaulme de France… faictes par le Roy nostre sire, Et publiees en la court de Parlement a Paris, le sixiesme iour du moys de Septembre Lan Mil D.XXXIX… Lyon: [?Pierre de Sainte-Lucie, dit Le Prince for] Thibaud Payen [and François Juste, after 10 August 1539]. III. Sensuyvent... Read More
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Sacra Poësis
by LE COURT, Benoît, owner — JUVENCUS, Gaius Vettius Aquilinus; SEDULIUS, Caelius; ARATOR, Subdiaconus
Lyon: Jean I de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, 1553. 16mo (111 x 72 mm). 316 pp., [2] blank leaves. 3 parts, parts 2 and 3 with half-titles. Italic (text) and roman types (preface). Printer’s double viper woodcut device (Cartier Vip. o) on title, type-ornament headpieces, woodcut initials. Ruled in red throughout (slight overall discoloration, inkstains on f. a2v.) Contemporary Lyonese calf, both covers stamped in gold with a geometric interlace panel, four small rosettes, and the central arms of... Read More
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Troiano, il qval tratta la destrvttione de Troia. Per amor di Helena Greca, laqual fu tolta da Paris Troiano al Re Menelao. E come per tal destruttione fu edificata Roma, Padoua, e Verona, e molte altre Cittade in Italia
by TROY LEGEND
Venice: Giovanni Antonio Giuliani, 1626. 16mo (142 x 99 mm). Collation: A-G16 (G16 blank, removed). [222] pages. Double column, small roman types. Large woodcut on title, 20 small woodcuts in the text, printed from four blocks (two used once each, the others repeated). Printing flaw, A9v. A couple of tiny marginal tears, slight creasing to leaves at end. 20th-century tree-marbled glazed paper over flexible pasteboards. Provenance: “Bagio,” inscription on front pastedown; Ex fondatione Giorgii ---, illegible ownership inscription on... Read More
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![De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/614/427/558427614.0.l.3.jpg)
De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]
by L'ESPINE, Jean de (ca. 1505-1597)
[Geneva]: Jacob Stoer, 1591. 8vo (173 x 110 mm). [24], 761, [15] pp. Roman and italic types, shoulder notes, woodcut printer's device on title (Silvestre 1002), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary blind roll-tooled alum-tawed skin, edges stained green (some minor rubbing). Provenance: Jesuits of Amberg (Bavaria), 18th-century inscription on title, later paper shelfmark label at foot of spine; a few 18th-century marginal notes and occasional underlinings in red ink in the last treatise. First Latin edition... Read More
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Traité des songes et des visions nocturnes avec leurs significations, selon la doctrine des Anciens, expliquées par ordre alphabétique
by LOTTERY DREAM GUIDE -
[Caen: Chalopin, 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 as an aid for the selection of lottery numbers (but see below).The association of dreams and lottery numbers derived from the Italian smorfia tradition, which linked... Read More
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![Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le Jugement de Pâris, Poëme en IV Chants](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/649/756/546756649.0.l.2.jpg)
Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le Jugement de Pâris, Poëme en IV Chants
by MALFILÂTRE, Jacques Charles Louis (1733-1767)
Paris: chez Chaignieau aîné, 1797. 18mo (150 x 85 mm). 205, [1 blank], [2] pp. Half-titles, two engraved titles, after Charles Eisen (Narcisse) and Moreau (Jugement), and 8 engraved plates, four in part 1 after Gabriel Jacques de St. Aubin, and four in part 2 after Moreau, most engraved by L. Duval. 2-page publisher's catalogue at end. Printed on wove paper. Contemporary straight-grained dark green morocco gilt, sides with double fillet panel and leafy vine border built up from... Read More
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Mammotrectus super Bibliam
by MARCHESINUS, Johannes
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1479. 4to (212 x 146 mm). Collation: A10 B-C8; a-y8 1-68 710 (A1 blank, A2r-C8v subject index; a1r author’s prologue, a1r-7/9v text, colophon on 7/9v, 7/10r-v table of contents). [260] leaves. Double column, 38 lines and headline. Types: 3:106G (headlines and openings of each book), 6:84(75)G (text). Capital spaces with guide letters. Rubricated: pearled Lombard initials in red, some with extenders, many with additional (slightly later?) black penwork infill, capital strokes and paragraph marks in red.... Read More
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Orationes Partheniae in Conventibus Ordinariis et Generalibus Ad Sodales Marianos in Congregatione Academica Salisburgensi dictae
by MARIAN CONFRATERNITY, SALZBURG
Salzburg: Johann Joseph Mayr, 1755. 8vo (148 x 89 mm). [30], 267, [23] pp. 12 engravings in text, woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces, large folding letterpress table. Fine condition. Stitched with a contemporary drawn-on Brokatpapier cover, the edges cut flush and sprinkled with a red pigment. An annual devotional confraternity book produced for members of the Marian sodality (or confraternity) of Salzburg University’s Congregation of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (Maior Congregatio Academica Beatissimae Virginis in... Read More
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