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 about Fabulæ
[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 about Hic Incipit Liber Magistri Esopi
“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 about A Child’s Carved and Painted School Box or Satchel Box (360 x 230 x 70 mm.; 14 3/8 x 8 x 2 7/8...
![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 about Manuale. Turin, P.P. Porro 1527. Folio (298 x 204 mm.). [x], CLII leaves. Double-column gothic...
[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 about Les Emblesmes Et deuises du Roy en la Caluacate Royale, et Course de bague 1656
France c. 1750. More about The covers and spine. Gilt ruled red morocco backed wooden boards with plaques of tortoiseshell,...
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 about Elucidarius scriptuarum
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 about L’Orologio Del Piacere Che Mostra L’Ore Del Dilettevole Soggiorno Hanto Dall’ Ernesto...
![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 about Incipit:] Quam tibi Cisterci placeat sanctissimus ordo
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 about A SIX-FOLD GERMAN BACKLESS BINDING of richly gilt calf and exuberantly decorated edges, c. 1680....
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 about Opus Regale