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
[Vicenza, Jacobus de Dusa] c. 1482. 4to (197 x 136 mm.). a8 b-c6 ($3 (+A4)). [20] leaves. Roman type (102), 29 lines per page (text block 148 x 98 mm.), two-line capital spaces with printed guide letters, quires signed on the last line of text. Early 19th-century English gilt ruled..... 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
![Manuale. Turin, P.P. Porro 1527. Folio (298 x 204 mm.). [x], CLII leaves. Double-column gothic...](/pictures/thumb/8540.jpg?v=1556223707)
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
Nürnberg, Friedrich Creussner 1476. Folio (409 x 280 mm.). [i], [202], [1 blank] leaves. Gothic type (110), double-column, 48 lines per page, rubricated throughout, leading majuscules stroked in yellow. Gilt English red morocco (c. 1820, rubbed, a couple of minor scuffs), panels framed by floral & geometric rolls, spine compartments..... More
Piazzola, [Camillo Bortoli overseeing] THE VIRGINS 1685. Six parts in one vol. 4to. Frontis. with etched arms on recto & verso, [iv], [7]p. & [Il vaticinio della fortuna] [ii], [6]p. & [La schiavitù fortunato di Nettuno] [ii], [11]p. & [Il merito acclamato] [ii], [6]p. & [Il ritratto della gloria] [ii]..... More
![Incipit:] Quam tibi Cisterci placeat sanctissimus ordo. Privilegia Ordinis Cisterciensis](/pictures/thumb/8046.jpg?v=1550163299)
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
FROM A WUNDERKAMMER? Playful, extravagant, costly, luxurious and, above all, marvelous, six-fold backless bindings entered the collections of north German Protestant princes and patricians from the 1570s to the 18th century. They are also known as tease books, Vexierbücher and reliures à surprise. When lying flat, three books can..... 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
