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189856732London - New York: Society of Bibliophiles 1898. Book. Illus. by Jules Garnier E.r. Hughes A.r.w.s. Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. printed on venetian deckel edge paper. limited to 1000 copies. 7 volume set. contains tissue guard. gold gilted and stamped. T.E.G. 4 edge untrimmed edges.-the facetious nights volume 1: 399 pages -the Facetious Nights volume 2: 359 pages. some pages are lose from binding. -The Facetious Nights volume 3: 401 pages. The Facetious Nights volume 4: 315 pages. The Pecorone volume 1: 328 ages -the Pecorone volume 2: 321 pages. The Pecorone volume 3: 276 pages. A collection of 75 stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron it is significant as often being called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales; it would influence later fairy-tale authors like Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Madonna Corsina of Naples sends her son to study at Bologna where he falls sick and dies. Of a device of his contrived so that his mother may not be over-grieved at his death. Society of Bibliophiles Hardcover
1895003879London: Lawrence and Bullen 1895. 2 Vols - 294pp/illus and 352pp/illus. #313 of 1000. "The novellino is a collection of fifty stories each one told by the writer separately without any striving after continuity. Masuccio does not trouble himself like certain others of the Novellieri to construct a setting for his work and to feign that the tales are told in turn by the work and to feign that the tales are told in turn by the various members of a gentle company brought together by hazard. He tells us that all his novels are true and that in many cases he is only setting down what he has learnt by the evidence of his senses." . First Edition. Vellum. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Numbered Copy. Lawrence and Bullen hardcover
1873182351873 [Imprimerie De Jules Claye, Paris,1873 - IN FOLIO demi basane noire ,manques au haut du dos.Cet ouvrage expose la magnifique collection d'oeuvres d'art du collectionneur belge John W. Wilson. Sa collection classée par écoles et peintres anciens et modernes regroupe des oeuvres des plus grands maîtres tels que Watteau, Rubens, Delacroix, Géricault, Turner, Millet (dont l'Angélus du soir est aujourd'hui exposé au musée d'Orsay) etc. Cet ensemble expose le goût certain et les connaissances pointues en Histoire de l'Art de John W. Wilson.Text pristine & unmarked, crisp, tight to the spine - LIMITED EDITION, NUMBERED COPY. Text in French. Pages and plates not numbered. 68 plates (incl. Ports. ) , facsimile signatures of the artists whose works are represented ; 51 cm. Among the artists represented: F. Bol, N. Maas, Molenaar, Diaz, Rousseau, Milet, Plassan, and others. Decorated endpapers and edges.
18503448Great Britain 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions tables methods and exercises in a single hand with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name and the absence of a specific date prevents us from locating her in genealogy records the manuscript she left behind reveals much about how and why girls of her age and class were being taught arithmetic.<br/><br/>Caroline's elegant practiced hand suggests that she is a member of the rising middle class and the opening of the book suggests that she is a beginning to intermediate mathematician. At the top of the first page she defines Arithmetic as "the art of computing by numbers" which "has five principal sic rules for this purpose viz. Numeration Subtraction Addition Multiplication and Division." Using this definition she divides her notebook into a section for each providing a definition for that principle plus clear-cut examples of its use in both Simple and Compound formats. Numeration Subtraction and Addition are grouped together at the front; and after these sections conclude Caroline enters in Practical Questions in Compound Addition and Subtraction. These involve word problems involving the exchange of money and the calculation of wet and dry weights cloth measurements and time. She then mirrors this with Multiplication and Division before adding sections on Decimal Fractions more Practical Questions and sections on Federal Money and Simple Interest.<br/><br/>The organization of the manuscript suggests that Caroline copied it out for continued reference where sections are easy to locate and problems clearly illustrate each of the principles. And the emphasis in sample problems on currency conversion monetary exchange and banking implies that her family in some way wanted her to be aware of these concepts.<br/><br/>An exceptional and rich document Caroline's notebook is a rich resource for study including but not limited to the history of women's education middle class education women's domestic use of mathematics women in business paleography genealogy gender studies. unknown books
189499451894 demi-reliure havane (half binding) grand in-octavo, dos 5 nerfs (spine with raised bands) - entre-nerfs à fleuron (floweret) - titre frappé or (gilt title), légère épidermure sur le mors du deuxième plat (light scratch on the joint of the back cover), papier marbré aux plats (cover with marbled paper), tranches jaspées (marbled edges), envoi autographe manuscrit de l'Auteur sur la page de garde du premier contre-plat (author's autograph of front counter-cover), illustrations : 414 figures in-texte (pictures in text) et 2 planches (plates) en couleurs hors-texte in fine (full page engraving at rear), 380 pages, 1894 à Paris Octave Doin Editeur - à Bruxelles Bureaux du Moniteur du Praticien,