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By Jean Jacques Rousseau's doctor View picture(s) 1 DARAN, Jacques. Observations Chirurgicales, sur les Maladies de l'Urethre, traitées suivant une nouvelle methode. Nouvelle edition. Paris, Debure l'Aîné, 1748. Sm.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt with red title-label, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides with gilt flowered ornaments at the four corners and large gilt coat of arms in centre on both sides, g.e. With large folding colour-printed plate by J. Gautier d'Agoty. (4), CCXX, 429, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Colour Platebooks  Medicine  Printing Techniques  Urology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare example of Dutch printing on silk View picture(s) 2 HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio Juridica Inauguralis de Substitutione Vulgari. Leyden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. Contemporary (original?) red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. With engraved title, printed in red and black. 35, (13, last 2 blank) pp. printed on silk leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Law  Leyden  Printing Techniques  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fine art of woodcutting View picture(s) 3 PAPILLON, Jean Michel. Traité Historique de la Gravure en Bois. Ouvrage enrichie des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure. Volume I. Contenant toute la partie Historique. Volume II. Contenant tous les principes de cet Art. Volume III. Supplément. Contenant plusieurs faits historiques, de nouvelles manieres, servant à perfectionner cet Art, les Arrêts rendus en faveur de la Gravure, & une Table des Matieres des trois Volumes. Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1766. 3 parts in 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt, red edges. With woodcut frontispiece-portrait of the author, large woodcut vignettes on 3 titles, full-page armorial woodcut to the dedication to Marquis de Boyer de Bandol, full-page woodcut portrait of Saint Andrew printed in chiaroscuro in the first historical part; 16 full-page woodcut plates illustrating the tools and technique of the art of woodcutting and 5 full-page plates illustrating the various stages of woodcut colour-printing in chiaroscuro in the second practical part; 2 full-page plates with 12 small woodcut illustrations each and 2 woodcut plates showing the tools and technique of erasing and of making shadows in woodcuts in the supplement; and numerous woodcut head-and tail-pieces, monograms, vignettes and illustrations in text, several full-page, throughout the whole work. XXXII, 540; XV, (1), 388; (4), 124 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Printing Techniques  Schoolbooks  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Courtsey A B Book View picture(s) 4 [ABC BOOKS]. La civilité puerile et Honneste, pour l'Instruction de l'Enfant. En laquelle est mise au commencement la maniere d'apprendre à bien lire, prononcer & écrire;  corrigée de nouveau: & augmentée à la fin d'un beau Traité pour bien apprendre l'Orthographe. Dressée par une Missionnaire. Avec des Préceptes & Instructions pour apprendre à la Jeunesse à se bien conduire dans les companies. Chartres, F. le Tellier, 1766. Sm.8vo. Contemp. stippled vellum. With woodcut vignette on title, some typographical  woodcut headpieces, and many fine smaller and larger woodcut intials. 86, (2) pp. printed mainly in civilité type. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  ABC Books  Children's Books  Education  French  Printing Techniques  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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127 striking nature prints of Ceylonese plants View picture(s) 5 [NATURE PRINTING - CEYLON]. GREEN, Samuel Fisk. Leaf prints. Ceylon. [Sri Lanka], [ca. 1849]. Large folio (44 x 28.5 cm). Contemporary half calf, cloth sides with gold-tooled red morocco title-label. With 127 full-page nature prints of Ceylonese plants, printed directly from the plants themselves. [2 blank], [127], [2 blank] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Ceylon  Printing Techniques  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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