A PRIVATE PRODUCTION “UNA DELLE PRINCIPALI CAPPELLE MUSICALI ITALIANE” — BALDI MAGISTERIAL. THE COMPLETE LITURGY OF THE HOURS — COMMISSIONED BY AND PRINTED ON THICK VELLUM FOR THE CHAPEL CANONS AT THE TURIN CATHEDRAL. It includes a THEORETICAL TREATISE ON POLYPHONIC COMPOSITION by the editor, music professor and Turin..... More

[Paris], Henri Gissey 1656 (altered in contemp. 4to (197 x 136 mm.). Etched architectural title with the dedicatee’s arms, Gissey’s etched dedication & TWENTY-FIVE ETCHED EMBLEMS (Nicolas Cochin after Gissey; numbered 1-25 in the plates). GILT RULED EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CITRON MOROCCO, corner-&-center spine ornament, gilt lettered title, marbled pastedowns &..... More

Venice, Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino 1495. 4to (216 x 157 mm.). [29] leaves. Roman type (107/8), 30 lines per page, two rubricated initials, two series of floriated white-line woodcut initials. Dark blue Jansenist morocco (Chambolle-Duru, rubbed), spine title & turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. FIRST EDITION: THE ONLY PROSE FABLE..... More

Dijon, Petrus Metlinger 4 July 1491. 4to (218 x 153 mm.). [ii blank], [ii], [392], [4 blank]p. Gothic type (86 text, 106 leaded to 120 summaries, 185 first word of each privilege), 35 lines per page (text), TWO FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS (165 x 105 mm.) & THREE SERIES OF LARGE RESTLESS..... More

Opus Regale. 1508. 4to. CCCXII, [7] leaves. Gothic type, ONE HUNDRED THREE PAGES DECORATED WITH EIGHT LARGE, ONE HALF-PAGE AND FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE TEXT WOOD- AND METALCUTS INCLUDING A FINE DANCE OF DEATH SERIES & another of INSTRUMENTAL MUSICIANS, eleven pages in four-block borders, ninety-one pages with three-block borders, two..... More

“The carved and painted oak school box made at Hindeloopen, Holland was the forerunner of the well in a purpose-made school desk, and each child had one of these boxes which hung on the wall in the schoolroom during term-time” (Pinto); see, e.g., Jan Steen’s The Schoolroom. In good condition.Pinto..... More