Manuscrit

Proverbes et nouvelles

- Librairie de Charles Gosselin, Paris 1850, relié. - Nouvelle édition. Reliure en demi chagrin bleu marine, dos à quatre nerfs sertis de pointillés dorés et orné de doubles caissons dorés décorés en angles de fleurons dorés, plats de cartonnage bleu marine comportant de très légères éraflures, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, deux coins très légèrement émoussés, reliure de l'époque. Notre exemplaire est enrichi d'une lettre autographe datée et signée d'Eugène Scribe, montée sur onglet, qui a signé également pour Noël Parfait, à en-tête de la "Commision des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques", dans laquelle il refuse une demande de subvention. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Proust ou la généalogie du roman moderne

- Grasset, Paris 1979, 13x20,5cm, broché. - Nouvelle édition pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers. Envoi autographe signé de Dominique Fernandez à Maurice Paz. Dos légèrement ridé et insolé. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Proof Impressions of Engravings, Designed to Illustrate Mr. Roscoe's Catalogue of the Manuscript Library at Holkham.

Small folio, title page followed one leaf (2pp.) of letterpress description of each plate, one of 50 copies printed, 25 interleaved engravings by William Camden Edwards (1777-1855), 23 of illuminated pages from manuscripts from the library at Holkham, and 2 portraits of the Coke family, some light internal foxing, this copy bears the bookplate of Sir Willoughby Jones, Bt., of Cranmer Hall, Norfolk, cont. half morocco, corners and spine scuffed and worn, t.e.g. The 1st Earl of Leicester commissioned Roscoe to undertake the cataloguing of the important library at Holkham Hall. This was the third and most detailed catalogue of the library, composed during 1820-1829 and consisting of eight hand-written volumes. Initially written by William Roscoe and later revised and extended by Frederic Madden.

Projet ou reproduction d'affiche de la guerre 14-18. Prends-garde ! Derrière ce billet l'espion se cache….

S.l., s.e., 1914; 325/250 mm, 1 pp., une feuille. Signé Perany. Bon état.

Projet ou reproduction d'affiche de la guerre 14-18. Méfie-toi ! Partout l'espion t'écoute.

S.l., s.e., 1914; 325/250 mm, 1 pp., une feuille. Signe Perany. Bon état.

Projet de réunion des églises grecque et latine sous Charles le bel en 1327

4pp., extrait de la "Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes" T.53 (1892)

Programme de spectacle dédicacé par Raymond Devos

- S.n., s.l. s.d. (circa 1999), 23x32cm, agrafé. - Edition originale illustrée de photographies de l'humoriste. Plats marginalement jaunis, deux taches noires en pied du second plat. Envoi autographe signé de Raymond Devos sur la cinquième page du programme à un couple. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Prognosticon Genethliacum quod Per-Illustri et Generosissimo Domino, Dn. Ioanni Christophoro de Imhof, a Stephansmullen, in Merlac et Solar [...], natalitio ejus die, Anno MDCCXXV, d. IX. Octobris septuagesies septies feliciter celebrato, paucis licet Distichis, laeto tamen augurio, devote gratulabundus offert, M. Augustus Alberti, ad D. Laurentii Diaconus Senior. Wohl Nürnberg, 1735.

Eigenh. Manuskript m. U. 1 w. Bl., Titelblatt, (2) SS., l. w. Bl. Mit zwei lavierten Tuschzeichnungen. Grauer Pappband der Zeit mit Imhofs goldgepr. Wappensupralibros auf rotem Grund. Farbige aufgelegte Rankenwerksbordüre (am Vorderdeckel nur in Bruchstücken erhalten). Folio (ca. 340:215 mm). Geburtstagsode zum 76. Geburtstag (dem 77. begonnenen Lebensjahr) des Nürnberger Patriziers Johann Christoph von Imhof (1659-1736), Kurator der Universität Altdorf, Vogt in Stephansmühlen, Merlach (Staffelstein) und Solar (Hilpoltstein), wirklicher kaiserlicher, kurmainzischer und großherzoglich-toskanischer Geheimer Rat und kaiserlicher Burgvogt von Nürnberg. Die schöne Dedikationshandschrift kalligraphierte und zeichnete der Nürnberger Theologe Augustus Alberti, der in seiner Vaterstadt und in Altdorf studiert hatte. Er setzte seine Studien in Utrecht, Leiden, Franeker und Harderwijk fort; nach seiner Rückkehr bekleidete er eine Pfarrstelle in Eschenbach, bevor er 1716 Diakon zu St. Lorenz wurde (vgl. Jöcher/Adelung I, 415). Das am Schluß des Genethliacons in Aussicht genommene Jahr 1739, Imhofs 80. Geburtstag ("Deo volente, celebranda"), sollten Gratulant und Geehrter beide nicht mehr erleben: Imhof verstarb schon in Folgejahr; Alberti nur zwei Jahre hernach. - Deckel gering fleckig; insgesamt sauber und wohlerhalten.

Procris, 1902

- S.n., s.l. 1902, 6pp. in-4 , en feuillets. - Manuscrit autographe de 6 pages rédigées à l'encre noire et foliotées sur le recto. Quelques corrections manuscrites de l'auteur, date du 14 mars 1902 en tête à droite du premier feuillet. Acte I en vers mettant en scène les amants mythologiques Céphale et Procris. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Problems of the Masora. Off-print from Hebrew Union College Annual, Volume XVII

230X150 mm. 104 pages. Soft cover. Cover slightly stained and slightly wrinkled. Cover edges slightly worn. Spine yellowing. Spine edges worn. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.

Prières quotidiaines pour la sainte confession, communion et la messe [...]. O. O., um/nach 1718.

(164) SS. Französische und deutsche Handschrift auf Papier. Mit einigen unbeschriebenen Seiten. Titel und ein Vorsatzblatt auf Pergament. Rot eingefärbter blindgepr. Lederband der Zeit. Marmorvorsätze, dreiseitiger Goldschnitt. 8vo. Hübsches Gebetbuch des niederösterreichischen Land-Untermarschalls und Präses des nö. Ritterstandes Johann Joachim von Aichen (1664-1729). Zwei Drittel der Handschrift in französischer Sprache; durchgehend in ansprechender Kalligraphie. Mit eh. Besitzvermerk am Titelblatt unter Verwendung des Titels des Land-Untermarschalls, der Aichen im Jänner 1718 verliehen wurde, woraus sich das frühestmögliche Entstehungsdatum der Handschrift ergibt: "Mier Johann Joachim von Aichen L. U. Marschall gehörig". Ein kurzer Bericht über die Bruderschaft des heiligen Donatus in Arles mit einem Gebet zur Verschonung vor Unwettern in flüchtiger Kurrentschrift, datiert 1742, belegt eine Weiterführung des Büchleins nach von Aichens Tod. - Kleines Exlibris am Vorsatzblatt, datiert 1874 ("Homo hominibus"). Vorderdeckel leicht aufworfen. Papier durchgehend etwas gebräunt; die Ränder fingerfleckig.

Private-law treatises, the code of civil procedure of Lower Austria and other legal texts]. No place, (1551-1583).

Folio (ca. 212 x 310 mm). German and Latin manuscript on paper. 258 ff., including 6 blank leaves. Contemporary full vellum with spine title and leather straps. A unique compilation of 16th century Austrian legal texts, most of them by the lawyer and chancellor Bernhard Walther (1516-84), the "father of Austrian jurisprudence" (cf. Luschin-Ebengreuth 1896). Includes his code of procedure of Lower Austria (ordinaria and extraordinaria), of the lex familiae, an instruction for law students, the fees of the Lower Austrian chancellery, a copy of imperial privileges confirmed or newly issued by Emperor Charles V in 1522, an order by the Landmarschall of Lower Austria, Georg von Puchheim (died 1531), the rules for court hearings, including the hearing of witnesses, and regulations for procurators. Followed by 14 of Walther's famous 15 private-law treatises, omitting the one on familial trees. The treatises were edited and published by Max Rintelen in 1937, who, however, fails to note this manuscript source in his index of extant codices. - Folios 252-258 contain copies of imperial charters from 1528, 1568 and 1583, belonging to the treatise on fiefdom; folios 255-257 written by another hand. 1650 ownership by Hans Sauer v. Sauerburg, the town scribe of St. Pölten (1635-52), to flyleaf. - Binding somewhat brownstained, a little scratched. Cover warped, upper hinge starting. Paper evenly browned and brownstained throughout. Small tears to a few pages, mostly affecting the lower margins. Tear in f. 76 repaired with sealing wax. Flaws at the margins of the first page, rebacked with paper. Signs of use: some passages crossed out, old marginal annotations by another hand. Last in the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership to front pastedown, dated 1978. Not in M. Rintelen, Bernhard Walthers privatrechtliche Traktate aus dem 16. Jahrhundert (1937).

Private-Law Treatises [and other works, including (incipit): Der Fünff N.O. Lannde und Fürstlichen Graffschafft Görz Vergleichung Anno 1542]. Probably Austria, later 17th century.

Folio (210 x 310 mm). German manuscript on paper. 698 written pages on 396 unnumbered ff. Contemporary calf; spine gilt. Collection of almost entirely German (Austrian) 16th century legal texts, but also comprising a few 15th century sources (and one in Latin), thus assembled in the late 17th century. The tax legislation for all five Lower Austrian countries and Gorizia from 1542 (copied from the printed book) is followed by the extensive Treatises of Bernhard Walther (the "father of Austrian law" who in the mid-16th century collected the Lower Austrian customary law). The present, very complete manuscript comprises 14 of the 15 treatises (all except that on bankruptcy), and it was used by Max Rintelen for his critical edition, published in 1937 (cf. reference below). The treatises are followed by decisions concerning the law of inheritance ("Von Erbschafften drey Fragen, dem Herrn Landtmarschalkh ... alhier anzuzaigen"; "Ob deß abgestorbnen Wittib, oder Glaubiger den Vorgang haben: Der Regierung Rathschlag" etc.), "Bericht wegen der Caution im Landtsrechten in Österreich Under der Enß", "General wegen der Verstorbenen Pfarrer in Steyer Verlassenschafft", "Tractatus de testibus, ex secundo tomo actionum forensium D. Joan. Oldendorffii"; "Königlicher Bevelch daß ain jede Sach vor dem ordentlichen Gericht erster Instanz clagt soll werden (4 March 1534); "Khay. May. Declaration und Spruch zwischen der Löblichen Universitet zu Wienn, und gemainer Statt daßelbst" (1571), "Gemaine Beschwerung der Erblande" (with detailed regulations on mining and minting, manslaughter, gypsies, Jews, etc.), confirmations of decrees issued by Frederick III in 1444, 1462 and 1470, etc. - Some waterstaining near end; occasional slight staining. Spine-ends professionally repaired. Provenance: Handwritten ownership of Baron Anton von Egger (d. 1727): "Ex lib. Ant. L. B. de Egker". Later in the collection of the Austrian legal historian and numismatist Arnold Luschin von Ebengreuth (1841-1932) with his etched bookplate to the front pastedown. After Luschin's death his heirs presented the volume to his student, the legal historian Max Rintelen (1880-1965); cf. his entry in blue ink: "Von Luschins Erben erhalten. Max Rintelen". M. Rintelen, Bernhard Walthers privatrechtliche Traktate (Leipzig 1937), Ms. LE (p. XVIII).

Private Manuscript Telegraph Letter from Governor of Hong Kong, Sir George William Des Voeux, to Colonial Administrator Sir William MacGregor. Together with a Manuscript Decipherment, and a Signed Letter from Sir Henry Wylie Norman.

Manuscript telegraph letter sent from Governor of Hong Kong Sir George William Des Voeux, in cipher, to Colonial Administrator Sir William MacGregor, which offers to the post of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, on the same day which Colonial Secretary Frederick Stewart died. Together with a manuscript decipherment, and a signed letter from the decipherer of the message, Sir Henry Wylie Norman, Governor of Queensland. 8vo. Single-leaf telegraph on the stationery of the Telegraph Office Queensland completed in manuscript and dated 29 September 1889; Double leaf manuscript letter on the stationery of the Queensland Government House Brisbane dated 1 October 1889; hand trimmed manuscript note measuring approximately 17,5 x 11,5 cm. All three documents fastened together with a brass pin. Some creasing, minor wear at folds, otherwise in very good condition, a fascinating disclosure of of Hong Kong administrative history perhaps previously unknown to anyone but the parties involved. This is a little-known and private correspondence, concealed for delivery with a colonial cipher language, between two important colonial administrators, concerning the title of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong. A telegraph from Hong Kong reveals that an offer was made to MacGregor to work in China in 1889. The sender does not reveal himself, and the message in written in code, however a contemporary manuscript decipherment fastened with a brass brad discloses the contents. Sir George William Des Voeux, Governor of Hong Kong is the sender. Des Voeux knew MacGregor well from his time as Governor of Fiji from 1880-1885, during which period he worked with MacGregor who was Treasurer then Colonial Secretary of Fiji. Manuscript

Printing, Illustration, Binding & Illumination. A Classified Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts XIVth to XIXth Centuries. Catalogue No. 830.

4to, frontis., 38 plates, orig. printed wrappers, 528 items.

Printed exhibition pamphlet and typescript price list of paintings with autograph date signed 'Elibol' with an inscription to Bezeyisler [Turkish painter Sadan Bezeyis and his family].

Very Good Turkish Printed exhibition pamphlet and typescript painting list with autograph date signed 'Elibol' with an inscription to Bezeyisler [Turkish painter Sadan Bezeyis and his family]. 11,5x17 cm; 27x19 cm. Typescript list in 2 pages includes 69 paintings of different Turkish contemporary artists with their prices. 3 p. Signed and inscribed by Elibol as "Galeriler tarihimize katki getiren dost Bezeyisler'i kucaklamaga araci olan bir baslangiçta elbette bekliyor, içtenliklerimizi sunuyorum... Gültekin Elibol, 12.12.1980".

Principios de la Legislación Universal.

Manuscrito, fechado en 1795, realizado en clara caligrafía. Diez tomos en 8vo.; portada, 181 folios numerados, 1 h. + portada, 96 folios numerados, 1 h. + portada, 86 folios sin numerar, que contienen íntegramente el libro cuarto del "Contrato Social" de Rousseau + portada, 158 folios numerados, 2 hojas + portada, 97 folios numerados, 1 h. + portada, 123 folios numerados, 1 h. + portada, 115 folios numerados, 1 h. + 156 folios numerados, 1 h. + 139 folios numerados, 1 h. + 69 folios numerados, 1 h. Al parecer falta el texto de la traducción correspondiente al "Libro Noveno". Encuadernación uniforme, de época, en media piel. Una versión y traducción española de autor desconocido, probablemente preparada para las prensas, y de la que no se conoce edición contemporánea impresa. La obra fue publicada originalmente en francés, en Amsterdam, 1776, por el diplomático y jurista nacido en Aarau, donde Georg Schmid fue Presidente de su Sociedad Económica y Legado en la Corte de Sajonia-Weimar, tiempo en el que entraría en contacto con las obras de Voltaire, Diderot, D'Alembert. Se considera que su obra se adelanta en veinte años a las propuestas de Kant en "Para la Paz Perpetua".

PRIMAVERA I TARDOR.

Primary Source Manuscript Account Featuring Pioneer Aviators Blériot - Védrines - LeBlanc - Bellenger Wright Brothers - Letterbook of an English Governess at Pau - the Center of Aviation

Pau, 16 September 1911 - 16 July 1912. Manuscript letterbook containing primary source, contemporary, information on notable early aviators and fascinating descriptions by a first-time observer of the new air travel inventions, written at Pau, France, the city where the Wright Brothers had established the first flying school in history just one year earlier, and where the aerospace industry was beginning to flourish, by Doris Dowser Todd, English Governess to Dr. Louis Goudard, a founder of the Société Médicale de Pau et du Béarn. In this volume, Miss Todd has transcribed her own letters, written to family, while in Pau, France. Towards the end of the volume she writes to a man of romantic interest. 8vo. 152 pages in manuscript. Burgundy cloth boards, initials and border blindstamped to front, ruled leaves with the globe motif watermark of Midland Educational Company Birmingham. Inserted within the volume: one contemporary theatre program, one draft letter, one personalia document dating to the Great War. Wear to boards, book block split at hinge, otherwise internally in very good condition, a delightful account in a neat hand, by an inquisitive and enthusiastic young lady. Manuscript

Prikaz

- Nouvelles éditions Debresse, Paris 1956, 12,5x16,5cm, broché. - Nouvelle édition. Agréable exemplaire. Envoi autographe signé d'André Salmon à Hugues Fouras. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Premier Président du Parlement de Paris, Règne de Henri III, XVIe siècle, planche 39

estampe aquarellée et rehaussée à l’or, (rares traces)

PRELIMINARY HANDLIST OF DOCUMENTS & MANUSCRIPTS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.

50 p. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Occasional Publication No. 2, Bodleian Library. XLib stamp on front cover. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF1

Praised be your brush, Behzâd: The life and works of the Iranian miniature painter Hossein Behzâd.

New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (32 x 24 cm). In English and Persian. 72 p., text in English; 228 p. in Persian, many color and b/w ills. Praised be your brush, Behzâd: The life and works of the Iranian miniature painter Hossein Behzâd.

PoËmes d'exil

A MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF POEMS ILLUSTRATED WITH FOUR CHARMING SIGNED WATERCOLORS BY THE RENE GUESNERY (1900?-1974?), DEDICATED TO HIS DAUGHTER. 8, 156 pp. Written in a neat cursive hand on very good wove paper. 8vo. Bound in contemporary quarter morocco and decorated boards. Light wear to extremities of bidning, else fine and bright. Quite possibly the only surviving artifact of Guesnery's poetic and artistic work.