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1743367154Christopher Saur Germantown PA 1743. Good Condition. A single leaf from the Germantown PA. Bible of 1743. The first German language Bible printed in America. The 1743 edition was of just 1200 copies printed by Christopher Saur the elder d.1758. The younger Saur inherited the business on his father's death and printed numerous German language publications. This bible was printed many years before the first English language bible was printed in America. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: 19.5 x 25 cms. Text is in German. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Special Features; Printed before 1800; German Language; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Christopher Saur unknown
17771804180107Paris: De Imprimerie Royale 1777. Hardcover. Good. Vol. 38 XXXVIII. Thick quarto 26 x 20 cm. Bound in contemporary full calf. Hinges cracked. Rubbing to cover. Spine head and tail chipped. Gilt ruled spine compartments. All edges red. Marbled end pages. 8 290 2 597 p. 4 nautical plates 3 of which are fold outs. Pages are clean and unmarked. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Paris: De Imprimerie Royale hardcover
1796ZB1229448Palma de Mallorca corregits y reimpresos en la Imprenta Real 1796. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 126 pp. rebound in modern vellum covered boards with red leather label to the spine book plate to the front paste down small bookseller's tag to the verso of the front free endpaper small numeric hand stamps to the rear free endpaper else very good in a very good custom made marbled board slipcase. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. [Palma de Mallorca] corregits y reimpresos en la Imprenta Real hardcover
179379479Imprenta Real 1793. paperback. Aceptable. Madrid 1793. Imprenta Real. Rústica. Cubiertas anterior propietario. 544 pp. 14x10. Imprenta Real paperback
1793583991793. A Paris de l'Imprimerie Nationale Exécutive du Louvre An II 1793. 2pp one sheet folded in two. With contemporary note on last blank & signature at the end of the text. unknown
1769102012<p>Permis d'imprimer & distribuer; à Troyes le vingt-huit Février 1769 Truelle de Chambouzon. Leaflet 16 x 42 folded in three.</p><p>The present leaflet includes the texts of six new popular songs: Chanson nouvelle a danser en rond; sur l'air: De la Bourbonnoise - Chanson nouvelle sur la Boubonnoise sic Comme elle a mangé tout son gain en peu de temps; air de la greque - Chanson critique sur les perruques. Par la Joye; sur l'air : En revenant de S. Denis - Autre chanson: sur l'air; Ah! que la chasse est belle - Chanson nouvelle de la Pelerine qui a voyagé dans les Pays-Bas - Chanson nouvelle en forme de Coq-à-l'âne; sur l'air: La baraquette.</p>
17702515Mexico 1770. Very good. Small broadside approximately 12.25 x 8.25 inches. Minor wear a couple of small chips at edges. Light toning and dust soiling. This single-page production printed in double-column format in Roman and italic types shows a mid-18th-century change to the Catholic marriage service and is essentially a cancel to be inserted into the liturgy book. The place and date of publication are based on typography and watermark. This scarce example of job printing for the church in Mexico is not located by the standard bibliographies and OCLC locates only one copy at the Bridwell Library. unknown
179926898Brussels: Flon 1799. First. hardcover. very good. Thick 8vo 500 pages. 1/2 tan calf marbled boards. Bruxelles: Flon An VII 1799. First Edition. Very good .<br/> <br/> An important study on the origin and antecedents of printing by the Belgian bibliographer who did much to establish Gutenberg as the originator of the art. Brunet VI 31191. Biog. univ. 11 66-67.<br/> <br/> Flon unknown
1800102606<p>No place no date but Caen Calopin c. 1800. 12mo. Size: 85 x 135 cm. 12 pp. Droptitle. Original blue paper wrapper. lower margin of a few pages cut a bit short.</p><p>This chapbook contains an alphabetical list of dreams and their interpretations. It is an adaptation of Vulson de la Colombière's treatise that was first published in 1660. The text is unchanged from the original but there is less. The present chapbook contains 12 pages and the original had nearly 100 pages. The last lines of the work contain the 27 most commonly pulled numbers of the lottery. Is there a connection with the dreams and the lottery They are often associated but the dreams descriptions of not have a number in this chapbook. c.f. R. Helot La bibliothèque bleue en Normandie 1928 p. 245; OCLC locates 2 copies: Newberry & BNF.</p> Calopin
1799214620Brussels: Emmanuel Plon 1799. First edition. 2 engraved plates 5 text engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Half morocco and marbled boards. Slight foxing. First edition. 2 engraved plates 5 text engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Bigmore & Wyman I 418 "One of the monument of typographical bibliography" Emmanuel Plon unknown
177536968Londres: Et se trouve a Paris chez D. C. Couturier père Imprimeur-Libraire aux Galeries du Louvre 1775. First edition in French. 45 1 errata pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century quarter morocco and marbled boards. Minor rubbing else fine. First edition in French. 45 1 errata pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bigmore & Wyman II p. 41 Et se trouve a Paris chez D. C. Couturier père, Imprimeur-Libraire, aux Galeries du Louvre unknown
1701100900<p>Grenoble Alexandre Giroud 1701. 4to. 8pp. <br /><br />Reminder of the rules and regulations relevant to the printing trade given in VIII articles.</p>
18001744c.1800. Eight decorative writing sheets of laid paper with elaborate engraved decorative borders with hand-colouring each contemporaneously mounted to card with pink and blue coloured paper edges and a blank sheet of laid paper affixed to the rear. The group including five different designs. Each measuring between 36.5 x 26cm and 33 x 24cm. Three apparently unused the other five with contemporary cut blank paper sections affixed to the central panels presumably to cover previous manuscript text/signs of use. There is rubbing to the coloured paper edging and some occasional light finger marking and dust soiling otherwise condition is very good indeed. A visually striking collection of writing sheets dating to the close of the eighteenth century most likely French decorated with vibrantly hand-coloured engraved Rococo borders incorporating fairies cherubs and sphinxes. Their particular use in this instance is somewhat unclear although being mounted to stiff card and with some having replaced sections to the blank panel it possible that they were being utilised as menu cards. unknown
177241086Paris 1772. Pp. 1-12; 17 of 19 copper-engraved plates Goußier del. Benard fecit. 1 vols. Folio. Disbound. A clean bright extract lacking plates I & XIV. Small adhesion of first leaf to later blank wrapper else fine. Pp. 1-12; 17 of 19 copper-engraved plates Goußier del. Benard fecit. 1 vols. Folio. An especially attractive selection of plates from the Récueil de Planches that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict every aspect of the art and craft of printing in the late 18th century; the explanatory text is concise yet fully detailed. Printing and the Mind of Man describes the Encyclopedie as "a monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien régime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth-century civilization.". PMM 200; En français dans le texte 156 unknown
177315878Birmingham: John Baskerville 1773. FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION. Contemporary tree calf rebacked. An excellent copy from the library of Edward Davenport with his armorial bookplate. First Baskerville edition of this excellent work. Baskerville 1706-1775 was the greatest printer of his era. He began experiments in letter founding and produced his amazing series of types now named after him. <br /> <br /> “The volume itself can be divided into two main parts. First it contains Sallust’s opus which consists of the following works: two historical monographs Bellum Catilinae ca. 42/1 BC and Bellum Iugurthinum c. 41-40 BC; the extant fragments of Sallust’s Histories written in the conventional annalistic style and covering events from 78 BC onward; and a series of short works which have been wrongly ascribed to Sallust. They are two letters addressed to Caesar Orationes ad C. Caesarem de republica ordinanda and an invective against Cicero C. Crispi Sallustii Declamatio in M. Tullium Ciceronem. It is very likely that both the letters and the invective were actually written after Sallust’s death possibly by rhetoricians writing during the early empire. Finally the second part of the volume contains a summary of Roman history composed by Florus in the second century AD Lucii Annaei Flori Epitome rerum romanarum Lucius Annaeus Florus’ abridgement of Roman history. Composed in a panegyric style it covers 700 years emphasizing the wars leading to the reign of Augustus who is praised for being the emperor who finally brought peace to the Roman world. While in Baskerville’s edition we find this historical summary divided into four books the arrangement currently accepted by scholars is in two books with the following generic title: Flori epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri duoâ€Pablo Alvarez River Campus Libraries University of Rochester.<br /> <br /> Sallust 86-35 BC was a fourth-century writer historian and politician. A Roman aristocrat he was later a partisan of Julius Caesar. He is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name. Lucius Annaeus Florus 74-130 AD was a Roman historian born in Africa compiled his history of Rome that despite a number of flaws in geographic and chronological detail was used as a textbook into the nineteenth century. John Baskerville unknown
177241089Paris 1772. Pp. 1-17 18 blank; 25 copper-engraved plates Goussier or Des Hauterayes del. Niodot Sculp. 1 vols. Folio. Disbound. A very few spots in text leaves else fine. Pp. 1-17 18 blank; 25 copper-engraved plates Goussier or Des Hauterayes del. Niodot Sculp. 1 vols. Folio. An elegant and visually appealing selection of plates from the Récueil de Planches that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict alphabets and characters of more than 40 languages from Assyrian and Hebrew to Chinese Tibetan Japanese and Bengali; the explanatory text gives a fully detailed account of the level of scholarship current in the mid to late eighteenth century. Printing and the Mind of Man describes the Encyclopedie as "a monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien régime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth-century civilization." PMM 200; En français dans le texte 156 unknown
17747047London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols 1774. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Octavo. xvi 144 2 adverts pp. First edition. In 19th century half speckled calf with corners and marbled papers over boards. Joints are moderately rubbed but sound; light shelfwear; a very few instances of early ink corrections or brief annotations in addition to Bowyer's name being added in ink to the title page in an early hand; additionally a 20th word in green ink on p. 1; one leaf M4 has been excised likely at the time of printing as the text is complete and the pagination is correct matching catalogued and digitized copies. <br /> <br /> In content this work comprises an abridged reprinting of Conyer Middleton's Dissertation 1734-5 correctly arguing that contrary to popular opinion William Caxton was the first printer in England. The second essay is an English translation of Gerard Meerman's Origines Typographicase in which the Dutch collector argues that the first printing was done by Laurentius in Harleim improved upon by Gutenberg and then Schoeffer in Mainz. Both essays are accompanied by intelligent commentary by the printers in addition to appendices on early Greek Hebrew and polyglot books. Bigmore and Wyman state "The book although it has been robbed of its authority by modern researchers at the time of its publication brought in great praise to its compilers the 'learned printers' of the age" p. 75. An important book delving into the history of printing in Europe that was reprinted several times in the 18th century. This copy of the first edition is from the library of American collector Albert A. Howard with his small monograph plate on the rear pastedown. Bigmore and Wyman p. 74-5; ESTC N10660; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. W. Bowyer and J. Nichols unknown
1789372509Nuremberg: Grattenauer 1789. First edition. 16 178 5 iindex pp. 1 vols. 4to. Near contemporary glazed brown calf spine gilt paste paper endleaves edges red. Some rubbing very good overall an attractive copy. First edition. 16 178 5 iindex pp. 1 vols. 4to. Important chroncile of the early printers of Nuremberg. Bigmore & Wyman II 114 Grattenauer unknown
174036937La Haye: La Veuve Le Vier et Pierre Paupie 1740. First edition. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Schley. 2 parts in one volumes. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary French mottled calf gilt spine marbled endpapers. Upper joint starting at bottom and apart from some minor toning this is a lovely unsophisticated copy in contemporary dress. First edition. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Schley. 2 parts in one volumes. 1 vols. 4to. Printed by Prosper Marchand a Huguenot publisher and journalist who fled France in 1709 the work appeared at the 300th anniversary of the invention of printing. Marchand writes that he produced the book "a la sollicitation de quelques amis qui ont cru que le troisième jubile ou la troisième année séculaire de l'imprimerie reveilleroit infailliblement la curiosité du publique touchant l'origine de ce bel art at the request of some friends who believed that the third jubilee or the tercentenary of printing would infallibly wake the public curiosity concerning the origin of this beautiful art." The allegorical frontspiece by J.V. Schley show Minerva and Mercury descending from Heaven granting the gift of printing to Germany who in turn gives it to England Holland France and Italy. Bigmore & Wyman II p. 22 La Veuve Le Vier et Pierre Paupie unknown
176936938Leipzig; Wien: Johan Paul Krauss 1769. First Edition. With 24 folding plates. xxv 436 12 index & errata; xl 524 18 index & errata. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter red morocco and marbled boards spine label. Exterior worn tear at foot of spine internally tight and clean. A very good copy. First Edition. With 24 folding plates. xxv 436 12 index & errata; xl 524 18 index & errata. 1 vols. 8vo. Includes notices of Berlin artists graphic arts engravers early woodcuts & woodcut books history of printing and account of a journey through Lower Saxony Westphalia & and Holland. Part Two with striking images from early printed books such as the "Eagle of John" from Ars Memorandi includes "a dissertation on the earliest forms of wood-cutting as applied to the illustration . Heinecken conjectures that Gutenberg took the idea of printing from the playing-card makers who are said to have been the first engravers of historical subjects intermingled with texts. . Heinecken is of opinion that their first productions were taken from wooden blocks." Bigmore & Wyman. Bigmore & Wyman p.320 Johan Paul Krauss unknown
177241090Paris 1772. Pp. 1-3 4 blank; 8 copper-engraved plates Goussier del. Prévost fecit.; 1-17 18 blank; 25 copper-engraved plates Goussier or Des Hauterayes del. Niodot Sculp. 1 vols. Folio. Removed. In later paper wrappers. Some soiling to margins adhesion of wrappers at gutter of first and last pages generally near fine. Pp. 1-3 4 blank; 8 copper-engraved plates Goussier del. Prévost fecit.; 1-17 18 blank; 25 copper-engraved plates Goussier or Des Hauterayes del. Niodot Sculp. 1 vols. Folio. An important selection of 33 printing-related plates from the Récueil de Planches that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict the typefounding process and the alphabets and characters of more than 40 languages from Assyrian and Hebrew to Chinese Tibetan Japanese and Bengali; the explanatory text gives a concise account of the various arts and a more detailed account of linguistic scholarship current in the mid- to late eighteenth century. Printing and the Mind of Man describes the Encyclopedie as "a monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien régime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth-century civilization." PMM 200; En français dans le texte 156 unknown
178524331Paris: Renouard n.d. 1785. This copy with the engraved bookplate of Percy Hamilton Clark perhaps the most famous American cricketer of all time who in 1903 ushered in what has been called the “Golden Age†of cricket in the U.S.A. 167 engraved plates 154 of which are numbered and 13 unnumbered by Moreau the Younger Monnet and Lepicier depicting the history of France and including frameworks for descriptive text of Monsieur l'Abbe' Garnier. Large 8vo 29 by 20.5 cm in handsome antique three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards the spine ornately gilt lettered and decorated. 167 leaves printed on one side only. A very pleasing copy internally very fine and fresh the binding with some light expected evidence of age. A VERY BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED WORK. This impressive suite of engravings depict the history of France from the inauguration of Pharamond circa 428 to the year 1314. Moreau had intended to carry on with the engraving work and bring the book up to his own time but the project was unfortunately never completed. Renouard hardcover
1793ST20474Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve 1793. First Edition with these Illustrations. 350 x 262 mm. 13 3/4 x 10 1/4". 125 pp. <br/> VERY PRETTY 19TH CENTURY CRIMSON MOROCCO ELEGANTLY GILT covers framed with floral tools raised bands spine panels filled with rows of flower-and-lozenge roll gilt lettering gilt turn-ins top edges gilt. FOUR FINE STIPPLE-ENGRAVED PLATES by Colibert and Cazenave after Monsiau PRINTED IN COLORS. A Large Paper Copy. Cohen-de Ricci 400; Furstenberg 122; Lewine p. 188; Maggs 1930 Catalogue of French Illustrated Books 84; Ray p. 145. Occasional minor foxing the margins of one plate foxed a bit more otherwise a fine copy clean and fresh internally with immense margins the plates with pleasing colors and the unworn binding bright with gilt.<br/> <br/> This is an especially tall copy of Florian's pastoral romance in imitation of Cervantes one of the grander French books to be printed in colors when the vogue for such productions took hold during the last years of the 18th century. Ours is one of six such books all printed after 1786 that Ray singles out for praise as "handsome and imposing volumes." A noted painter of both classical and modern subjects Monsiau 1754-1837 was also an illustrator whose "abundant and interesting work in this line" is underrated even though it has the merits of being simple natural lively and piquant. Ray Monsiau's obscurity says Ray may be owing to the fact that he most often worked as a secondary collaborator on major illustrated works; the present book is one of the few he did on his own and it is among his best. Publisher Defer de Maisonneuve did not originate the technique of stipple engraving on copper plates but he did perfect the process which allowed for gradual tonal changes in hues and intensities of color rather than the "stained glass" effect of separately printed patches of color. Given the turmoil of the period when this book was published it is quite likely that it did not have an especially decorative original binding and may have remained in publisher's boards as was often the case. Happily a later owner supplied a period-appropriate binding here that matches the opulence of the contents. While our copy has the engraver's name just visible beneath the plates perhaps disqualifying them as the "avant la lettre" versions used in the Large Paper Copies per Cohen-de Ricci the size of the margins here and the quality of the paper certainly argue for that designation. Defer de Maisonneuve unknown
1791000015094Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Thomas edition. Hardcover. Good or better. 4to. 2 3-1310 pp. Contemporary paneled sheep with the spine in six compartments. Illustrated with two engraved frontispieces. Completing the title page: And with the former translations diligently compared and revised by the special command of King James I of England. With marginal notes and references. To which are added an index and an alphabetical table of the names in the Old and New Testaments with their significations. American Antiquarian Society "Isaiah Thomas’s Printing Press: "Old Number One". Darlow and Moule 1353. Isaiah Thomas' printing press first operated out of Boston: producing a newspaper and materials that encouraged American colonists to rebel against the British imperial government. Thomas moved his press to Worcester at the behest of his friends who suspected that it would be impounded by the British authorities. Thomas' Bible was produced in several quarto octavo and duodecimo editions. Darlow and Moule note that Thomas enlisted the help of clergymen and others to compare nearly thirty different editions of the scripture. The Thomas Bible is one of the more attractive productions of early American printing. The clasps largely perished quite a bit of rubbing to the leather's edges. Lacks leaves K3 and K4 the final verses of Maccabees also lacks the endpapers. An armorial bookplate that states "Williams" on the front pastedown an inscription reading Thomas Williams Jr. 1792 on the verso of the Apocrypha title page. Isaiah Thomas hardcover
173528870Chaalons' i.e. Châlons-sur-Marne 'pour la Communauté des Libraires' 1735 1735. New edition apparently unrecorded. Not found on OCLC or the Union Catalogue of France CCFr. A fine copy. 12mo contemporary polished continental calf marbled paper endpapers blind-ruled borders red morocco spine label gilt decorations and lettering a.e. stained red. Woodcut tailpieces. By the late 17th century the French government attempted to regulate all aspects of printing and the distribution of books in and around Paris. In 1686 those regulations were codified in the Édit du Roy pour le Règlement des Imprimeurs et Libraires de Paris and the Édit du Roy pour le Règlement des Relieurs et doreurs de Livres. Further revisions were made 30 years later and after some disagreements two editions of the code were published in 1723 and 1731 in the form of a decree. The code was extended to all of France in 1744 and remained in effect until 1777. This edition is a provincially printed version of the 1723 edition printed in Châlons-sur-Marne in 1735. The code is divided into 123 articles and is remarkably comprehensive in its regulation of all aspects of the trade including the import of books old and new bound and unbound and of imported printing types; books sold by subscription; requirements for the apprenticeships to booksellers and printers; the widows of booksellers and of printers; proofreaders; type founders; traveling booksellers; fairground booksellers and printers; prohibited books; auctions and inventories of libraries and bookstores et al. From the library of 19th century Châlons librarian and local historian Amédée Lhote with his bookplate on the front paste-down and ink ownership stamp in the margin of the final page of text; a bookseller's catalogue entry for the Histoire de l'imprimerie a Châlons 1895 on the rear paste-down. Marginal notations in ink on two leaves. Chaalons' [i.e. Châlons-sur-Marne], 'pour la Communauté des Libraires', 1735 unknown
