Das Buech der Warheit
by ALBERTINUS, Aegidius - MEDINA, Pedro de
Munich: Adam Berg, 1603. Bound with: OSUNA, Francisco de and ALBERTINUS. Spiegel der Reichen. Munich: Nicolaus Heinrich, 1603. Bound with: DALNER, Andreas. Ein Tractat: Von Auffruhr od[er] Empörungen auß Geistl- und Weltlichen Historien... Ingolstadt: Andreas Angermaier, 1601. I: [12], 207, [4], [1 blank] ff. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut headpiece with hunters, other type-ornament head and tail-pieces. II: [4], "91" [recte 88] ff. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. III: [8], 48 pp. Three... Read More
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Der unbefleckte Ehe-Spiegel, abgebildet in der edlen, tugendsamben Frauen Susanna der Ehefrauen Joakim eines vornehmen edlen Burgers zu Babel. Welche anno 1696. in ... Straubing in Bayrn durch die heil. Fasten-Zeit einer volckreichen Menge auf der Cantzel vorgestellet worden
by THEOPHILUS à Sancto Alberto
Salzburg: Melchior Haan, 1699. 4to (198 x 155 mm). [14], 264, [3], [1] blank pp. Engraved frontispiece of Susanna (fully clothed) and the elders, woodcut printer’s device at end; title in red & black, type-ornament headpieces, woodcut initials and tailpieces. (Fore-edge of frontispiece extended apparently at the time of binding, small wormhole in gutter of first few leaves, light browning to text block, occasional foxing.) 18th-century pink paper-covered boards backed in parchment manuscript waste from a ?15th-century (?folio) manuscript... Read More
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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
by ALMANAC –
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 binding of olive morocco, covers gold-blocked with very wide rocaille border, Dutch-gilt free endleaves, pastedowns removed gilt edges (small loss to border of lower cover,... Read More
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D'erven Stichters comptoir almanach, op't Iaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1753
by ALMANAC, DUTCH — DAM, Dirk Jansz van (1705-1784)
Amsterdam: heirs of the widow of C. Stichter, 1752. 8vo (158 x 95 mm). [48] pages. Printed in red and black throughout. Woodcut arms of Amsterdam on title. 12 half-page woodcuts in calendar. Interleaved and bound with 2 blank leaves at front and 72 at back. Annotated by a contemporary owner with a couple of stray notes on interleaves and a total of 70 pages of manuscript historical notes on the blank leaves at end (one blank leaf almost... Read More
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Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek
by GREEK ANTHOLOGY
Florence: Lorenzo (son of Francesco) di Alopa, 1494. Median 4to (226 x 162 mm). A-Ω AA-KK8; [ΛΛ]8 (A1r blank, A1v Greek alphabet and diphthongs, title and table of contents, A2r-KK8v text; [ΛΛ]1r Lascaris' verse epilogue in Greek, [ΛΛ]1v-7v editor's dedicatory letter to Piero de' Medici in Latin, [ΛΛ]7v Latin colophon, [ΛΛ]8 blank). 280 leaves. Types: 5a and 5b:114Gk (text) and 116R (dedication). 28 lines. Spaces for initials. Irregular line-endings. Occasional light foxing, small marginal dampstain in last quire. Bound... Read More
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La Biblioteca Aprosiana, Passatempo Autunnale di Cornelio Aspasio Antivigilmi
by [APROSIO, Angelico (1607-1681)]
Bologna: li Manolessi, 1673. 12mo (137 x 70 mm). 50, [10], “733” [recte 683] pp. 2 parts, separately titled. Engraved frontispiece of a library viewed through a columned doorway topped by the arms of the dedicatee Giovanni Niccolò Cavanna, engraved by Giovanni Mattia Striglioni after Domenico Piola, text woodcut of a monument with hieroglyphics (p. 71), woodcut initials and tailpiece. fine. 18th-century English(?) green calf, sides with leafy gilt frame, spine in 5 compartments, the second with red morocco... Read More
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Super quarto libro sententiarum Petri Lombardi
by THOMAS AQUINAS
Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1480. Royal folio (390 x 287 mm). Collation: [a12-1 [b8 c-d8 e8] f8 g-m10 n-z8 A-L8 M6 N8 O8 P-Y8 Z8 (Z8 blank removed). 388 (of 389) leaves, unfoliated. Double column. 53 lines and headlines. Types: 2:150 (headlines and headings), 1:102 (text). First page with a four-part historiated woodcut border. Initial spaces. Mostly unrubricated, except in the sections with annotations (including the final table of questions), in which paragraph marks, small initials and underlinings are supplied... Read More
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![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](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/667/756/546756667.0.l.2.jpg)
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
by ARENA, Antoine de
Stampatus in Stampatura Stampatorum," [i.e., Paris], 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 (edges slightly scuffed). Provenance: Marquis de Rognes, engraved armorial bookplate, signed and dated Nicolas de Mire, 1777; coded purchase note "ca" in... Read More
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Opera
by AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus (ca. 310-ca. 395)
Lyon: Jean I de Tournes, 1558. 8vo (166 x 110 mm). [16], 290, [12] pages, [1] blank leaf. Italic and roman types, shoulder-notes. Woodcut medallion author portrait on title, woodcut printer's device on last page, type-ornament headpiece (repeated), tail-piece and initial. Ruled in red throughout. (Marginal dampstaining to about 25 leaves, a couple of tiny marginal tears.) Contemporary laced-case binding of gold-stamped vellum, bound in 1577 for Hartmann II von Liechtenstein und Nikolsburg, covers with gilt rule border and... Read More
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Primera Parte de la Angelica
by BARAHONA DE SOTO, Luis (1547/48-1595)
Granada: Hugo de Mena for Juan Diaz, 1586. 4to (183 x 130 mm). [4], 251 leaves. Woodcut initials opening each of the 12 cantos. The Advertimientos to cantos 2-9 and first 4 lines of that of canto 10 crossed out in ink, apparently by the same early reader who supplied stanza and line counts at the end of each canto. (Title repaired, the paper of first two quires rather thinned from washing and dampstained, scattered mostly faint dampstaining elsewhere,... Read More
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Le Satire et altre Rime piacevole
by BENTIVOGLIO, Ercole (1507-1573)
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 marks on title and last leaf, two historiated woodcut initials. Morato: [28] ff. Woodcut device on title & last leaf (large cut... Read More
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Liber bibliae moralis
by BERCHORIUS, Petrus (d. 1362)
Ulm: Johann Zainer, 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 3-line woodcut capital initials (BMC 3a and 1b), the larger initials with foliate ropework, the smaller pearled outline lombards, one 6-line initial (34 mm. h.,... Read More
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Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate
by BERNARD, John (d. 1554)
London: William Seres, 1568. 4to (216 x 147 mm). [8], 118 leaves. Roman, italic and greek types; printed shoulder notes. 8-line historiated woodcut initial opening the dedication, 4-line initial opening the text. Title a bit soiled and ink-speckled, some old crease marks to corners, dampstaining in lower portion of last 30 or so leaves, a few small stains including early inkstains in some lower margins. Contemporary London binding of ca. 1570, by the “Macdurnan Gospels Binder,” of brown calf... Read More
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Le Nouvel ami des enfans, ou le Berquin anglais ... Traduction libre de l'anglais ... Cinquième édition, considérablement augmentée
by BERTIN, Théodore-Pierre; DAY, Thomas
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 Le 23 Aout 1838. An endearingly odd children’s book. This best-seller, Bertin’s first book for children, first appeared in 1803 with... Read More
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![Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/596/003/794003596.0.l.3.jpg)
Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita..
by BIBLE, Latin
Lyon: Jacques I Mareschal [for Simon Vincent], 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 with printed marginalia, indices and summary in 3 columns. Colophon on fol. RR4v. Publisher’s woodcut device (Baudrier no. 2) on title and final verso, full-page woodcut showing the six days of Creation, within ornamental border, historiated woodcut initials throughout; red paragraph marks to opening page and... Read More
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L'Amour victorieux ou Les Conquêtes de Cypris. Almanach chantant
by ALMANAC — EMBROIDERED BINDING
Paris: chez la V[euv]e Depoilly, et chez Jubert, 1784. 24mo (binding size 98 x 58 mm). Etched and engraved title, 24 pages (a single 12-leaf quire A), [16]-page calendar for 1785 bound in middle of quire, 12 etched and engraved “plates” (printed on 6 conjugate bifolia), rule page borders throughout (one or two borders shaved). A fine copy, in a contemporary case binding of embroidered ivory faille silk over binders’ boards, both covers with a central wheat sheaf of... Read More
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Étrennes plaisantes, ou Almanach nouveau contenant les plus jolies Chansons sur différens sujets comiques et sérieux; avec des proverbes chantans. Par un auteur réformé
by GOLD-EMBROIDERED AND PAINTED BINDING
“Au Parnasse,” et se trouve à Paris: Cuissard, 1762. 24mo (binding size 96 x 55 mm). [80] pp. Rule page borders (fore-edges cut close, some borders shaved, small hole in title). Text block stitched into a contemporary gold-embroidered case binding with two original watercolor drawings: both covers with large asymmetrical curving goldwork design couched on a gold basketwork ground, embroidered on a plain textile (visible at board edges), the design incorporating an abstract plant or cornucopia, and framing on... Read More
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An embossed silver-gilt binding, on a suite of 17th-century engravings of saints
by ROCOCO SILVER BINDING
The binding probably Augsburg, 1750. Agenda-format, binding size 155 x 78 x 24 mm. Contents: 143 small engravings (all but the first 48-50 x 35-37 mm., the first, mounted sideways, measuring 50 x 97 mm.), consisting of 11 engravings for each saint, trimmed to borders and mounted on 78 leaves of wove paper. 18th-century German silver-gilt embossed binding (regilt in the 19th century), both covers with a large oval cartouche, containing a scene of the Crucifixion on the upper... Read More
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A miniature silver binding decorated with painted enamel plaques and glass “jewels.”
by SILVER PLAQUE BINDING
[Paris, 18th century]. Silver filigree binding (82 x 60 mm., including spine). The covers of filigree volutes and curling tendrils with inset painted enamel oval centerpiece and heart-shaped corner-pieces showing putti in pastoral settings below love-related mottos in French (central plaque on front cover slightly damaged), both covers decorated with ten glass “amethysts”; hollow tubular filigree spine, pair of fore-edge clasps and catches, the silver binding mounted over later yellow silk-covered thin pasteboards, the yellow silk liners with pockets... Read More
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Small round box decorated with straw marquetry and embroidery
by STRAW MARQUETRY COSMETICS BOX
[France, 18th century]. A two-part round wooden box, approx. 68 mm in diameter x 30 mm. high, the top slightly rounded, top and sides covered in decorative designs composed of bands of straw marquetry overlaid with twisted and embroidered straw-work, the design on upper cover with sections in relief, the bottom of the box undecorated, the interior lined in strips of multi-colored straw. Condition: loss of one hook of the looped ribbon on sides, slight ungluing of straw decoration... Read More
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Les oeuvres du Sieur Hadoux, commentées expliquées et rendues intelligibles. Enrichies du portrait, de l'auteur, et autres Pièces intéressantes
by [BRAHAIN DUCANGE, Pierre Auguste (d. 1833)], pseudonym “André Rhiba d'Acunenga.”
“A Criticopolis” [i.e., Holland]: s.n., 1783. 8vo (195 x 116 mm.). 187 pages (including half-title Commentaire sur les oeuvres...). Type-ornament tailpieces and dividers. Contemporary mottled quarter calf, smooth spine gilt and with green morocco lettering piece, edges stained red (joints restored, corners bumped). *** Only Edition of a surreal literary spoof, mocking erudition and critical apparatuses. Under the anagram André Rhiba d’Acunenga, the author presents the idiosyncratically spelled “Euvres” of the fictional author Hadoux (printed in Criticopolis or... Read More
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Engraved miniature calendar for 1784
by CALENDAR
[Paris: Boulanger?, 1783. Oblong miniature (70 x 36 mm., binding 74 x 39 mm). 13 leaves, entirely engraved, printed on sheets that were cut up, the resulting strips skillfully glued to each other, opening longitudinally to form 12 page openings, one for each month. At the head of each month is an etched vignette. First leaf attached directly to the binding, last leaf adhered to a flyleaf, with second flyleaf pasted to back board. 19th-century metallic case binding, hinged... Read More
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Directorium cathedrali ecclesiae Litomericensi ad S. Stephanum proto-martyrem proprium, Authoritate et Mandato .... Emmmanuelis Ernesti ... de Waldstein Episcopi Litomericensis
by BOHEMIAN LITURGICAL CALENDAR
Prague: Joannes Carolus Hraba, 1777. 4to (238 x 192 mm). [84] pages. Interleaved. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and typographic ornaments. Contemporary Bohemian gold-tooled red morocco, covers with double decorative borders including drawer handle and flower tools, the two borders linked at the corners by flower tools, at center the gold-blocked arms of Count Emmanuel Ernst von Waldstein, Bishop of Litomerice within a wreath, spine gold-tooled in six compartments, Hernnhuter(?) pastepaper endleaves with a recessed saltire design of floral bands... Read More
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Souvenir Pour l’an 1816. Contenant le lever et le coucher du soleil et de la lune
by CALENDAR
Paris: (Doublet for) Caillot, 1815. Vertically oriented oblong 32mo (93 x 52 mm). Collation 1-48 (nested quires, stitched in the middle). [32] leaves, printed vertically, title-page printed on verso, woodcut royal arms on title, thick and thin page rule borders, colophon on recto of last leaf; first and last leaves mounted to wrappers. Contemporary pale orange wrappers, original pasteboard slipcase with scalloped gold-tooled border and title Souvenir on one side. Early signature of “Mme Dalmon” on slipcase (very sliightly... Read More
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Engraved miniature calendar for 1775
by CALENDAR, ROYAL
Paris: chez Boulanger, 1774. Oblong miniature (70 x 36 mm., binding 72 x 38 mm.). [15] leaves, entirely engraved, all but the first and last leaves printed on both sides (on sheets that were cut up and glued to each other). No title, first and last two pages with hexastichs honoring a princess named Thérèse (“Therese Souveraine”), calendar (on [2]v-[14]r) laid out longitudinally, creating twelve page openings, each with an etched genre scene, the month of January dated 1775.... Read More
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