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First edition, limited to 75 copies View picture(s) 1 ACHTERBERG, Gerrit. Huis. Ode. (The Hague), Mansarde pers [=Bert Bakker, C.A.B. Bantzinger & F. Tamminga], (1943). Folio. Orig. wrappers, uncut. With vignette on front wrapper and two sepia illustrations by C.A.B. Bantzinger. (12) pp.- First edition, limited to 75 copies.- Good copy.- De Jong 23. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Dutch  Forbidden Books  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best description of Haarlem with the plates by and after Saenredam View picture(s) 2 AMPZING, Samuel. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. In rijm bearbeyd: ende met veele oude en nieuwe stucken buyten dicht uyt verscheyde kronijken, handvesten, brieven, memorien ofte geheugenissen, ende diergelijke schriften verklaerd, ende bevestigd. Mitsgaders Petri Scriverii laure-kranz voor Laurens Koster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boek-druckerye. De voor-rede aen den leser geeft enig onderwijs van onse Nederduytsche sprake, ende spellinge, in desen gebruykt, onder den tytel ofte opschrift van Nederlandsch tael-bericht: handeld ook een weynig van rijm-konste, tot nut ende lust der weet-gierigen. Haarlem, Adriaan Roman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. With large printer's device at the end of the first  part and on title of the second part, richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with view of Haarlem at the top by T. Matham after I. Bouchorst, 3 full-page engraved plates, 1 with the coat-of-arms of Haarlem by J. van Velde, 1 with the seals of the city of Haarlem, and a view of a printing shop, both by J. van Velde  after Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 11 double-page engraved plans and  views of Haarlem by J. van Velde and W. Akersloot after designs by Saenredam, and 2 original full-page etchings by Pieter Jansz.  Saenredam: of the Houses of Assumberg and of Berkenroede. (88), 520; 124, (6) p. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Haarlem  Netherlands  Topography  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful Bodoni edition from the library of one of the most outstanding book collectors of 19th century Russia View picture(s) 3 ANACREON. Anakreontos Teiou mele praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lect. Parma, in aedibus Palatinis (Typis Bodonianis), 1791. Sm. 4to in quires of f leaves (151 x 110 mm). Contemporary full green morocco with gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, gilt inside dentelles, purple endpapers: the pastedowns with a frame of small silver leaves pasted on. Engraved vignette of Anacreon in a roundel on title, engraved vignette of the dedicatee Jos. Nic. de Azara in a roundel on dedication page. (4), CXVIII, (2), 111 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Poetry  Provenance  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful large paper copy of the famous 4to edition, admired by Dibdin View picture(s) 4 BODONI.- ANACREON. Odaria praefixo commentario quo poetae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lectionibus. Additis var. lectionibus. Parma, Ex Regio Typographeio, (1784-5). Large 4to. Contemporary citron morocco with blind-tooled ornamental border on both covers, gilt spine, gilt inside dentelles, inside covers and endpapers lined with blue silk, g.e. (PADELOUP), preserved in cloth slipcase. Engraved vignette of Anacreon on title, engraved coat-of-arms on dedication page of D.D. Nicolaus De Azara. (4), XCIV, 100, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Literary History  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pioneering study of Roman coinage: the best book on the subject written up to that time View picture(s) 5 BUDÉ, Guillaume. Libri V de asse, & partibus eius post duas Parisienses impressiones ab eodem ipso Budaeo castigati, idque authore Io. Grolierio Lugdunensi Christianissimi Gallorum regis secretario, et Gallicarum copiarum quaestore, cui etiam ob nostram in eum ob servantiam à nobis illi dicantur. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Asulani Sorceri, September 1522. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title in ink on spine, parts of ties preserved. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. [12], 262 [=260], [2] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Numismatics  Typography  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Start your own Couperus collection View picture(s) 6 COUPERUS, Louis. Collection of 32 works by Louis Couperus. 1900-1967. 36 vols. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  20th Century  Art Nouveau  Bindings  Dutch  Literature  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two treatises on the origin of book printing by the famous French 18th century typographer Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune View picture(s) 7 FOURNIER, Pierre Simon le Jeune. Dissertation sur l'origine et les progrès de l'art de graver en bois, pour éclaircir quelques traits de l'histoire de l'imprimerie, & prouver que Guttemberg n'en est pas l'inventeur.- IDEM. De l'origine des productions de l'Imprimerie primitive en taille de bois ; avec une réfutation des préjugés plus ou moins accrédités sur cet art; pour servir de suite à la dissertation sur l'origine. Paris, J. Barbou, 1758-59. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with orange title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges. 92, (3); 263 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Book History  Bookhistory, Printing & Publishing  History of Printing  History of Publishing  Typography  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Latin text printed in civilité View picture(s) 8 GALTHERUS, Philippus. Alexandreidos libri decem, nunc primum in Gallia Gallicisque characteribus editi. Lyon, Robertus Granjon, 1558. Small 8vo. 19th century dark-brown morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with fine arabesque central vignette on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CAPÉ). Large woodcut printer's device on title, and text entirely printed in Granjon's Civilité type. 84 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unknown issue of the very rare second and last edition of a famous Dutch copy book View picture(s) 9 HONDIUS, Jodocus. Theatrum artis scribendi, varia summorum nostri seculi, artificium exemplaria complectens, novem diversis linguis exarata. Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1614. Oblong 4to. Contemporary half vellum. With engraved title-page and 42 engraved plates with calligraphic texts. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Calligraphy  Modelbooks  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The zenith of 17th-century Hebrew typography in Utrecht View picture(s) 10 LEUSDEN, Johannes. Philologus Hebraeus, in quo pleraeque quaestiones generales philologico-hebraicae, concernentes textum Hebraeum veteris test. dilucidè pertractantur. In fine adjunctus est catalogus Hebraicus & Latinus sexcentorum & tredecim praeceptorum, in quae totus Pentateuchus ex sententiâ Judaeorum divisus est. Utrecht, Meinardus van Dreunen, 1657. 4to. 19th-century half black cloth with marbled boards. Title in red & black, woodcut endpieces and initials. Printed in Roman and Hebrew type. (22 incl. title), 447 (9) pp. [Collation: a-c4 (-c4, blank?) A-3L4]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Hebraica  Hebraica & Judaica  History  Judaica  Typography  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important study on the Irish language and typography View picture(s) 11 MARCEL, Jean Joseph. Alphabet Irlandais, précédé d'une notice historique, littéraire et typographique. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, Nivose An XII (1804). 8vo. Contemporary blue wrappers. Tables  with alphabet throughout text. 104 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ireland  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The predecessor of 'Brunet' View picture(s) 12 OSMONT, Jean Baptiste Louis. Dictionnaire typographique, historique et critique des livres rares, singuliers, estimés et recherchés en tous genres; contenant, par ordre alphabétique, les noms & surnoms de leurs auteurs, le lieu de leur naissance, le temps où ils ont vécu, & celui de leur mort, avec des remarques nécessaires pour en distinguer les bonnes éditions, & quelques anecdotes historiques, critiques & intéressantes, tirées des meilleures sources. On y a joint le prix qu' ils se vendent la plupart dans les ventes publiques. Paris, Lacombe, 1768. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with brown morocco title labels lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges. With woodcut head-and tailpieces. XII, 515; (4), 456, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliography  Book History  Dictionaries  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Love poetry in a beautiful binding View picture(s) 13 ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo de. Scherzi poetici e pittorici. Rome, Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1795. 8vo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, one with black morocco title-label and 5 with gilt ornaments on oval inlaid black morocco pieces, sides with triple fillet borders and gilt corner ornaments with same inlaid oval black morocco pieces as on spine, central oval ornament executed in gilt green morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (R. PETIT). 41 engravings, incl. frontispiece (ca. 70x112mm). 52 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Engravings  Erotica  Literature  Poetry  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Greek poetry translated from a manuscript found in St. Petersburg View picture(s) 14 SAPPHO. La Faoniade. Inni ed odi di saffo tradotti dal testo Greco in metro Italiano da S.I.P.A. Crisopoli, Caratteri Bodoniani, 1792. 16mo. Contemporary red morocco; gilt fillets and cornerpieces on both sides; spine gilt in compartments and lettered in gold; marbled endpapers; inner dentelles; g.e. XV, 100 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Italy  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Designed by H.Th. Wijdeveld View picture(s) 15 SCHOTMAN, J.W. Der geesten gemoeting. Vier morgenlandse verzen in dromen. (1e dr.). Amsterdam, 1927. 5 vols. Orig. wrappers preserved in original cloth portfolio. With fine book-decoration in black and gold, designed by H.Th. Wijdeveld, and 7 original Chinese illustrations by Moh Shih Chen. 33 (1) ; 23 (1); 79 (1); 29 (1); 18 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Art Nouveau  Bibliophily  Dutch  Literature  Netherlands  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Haarlem 'prize binding' with work celebrating the invention of printing in that city View picture(s) 16 SEIZ, Joannes Christianus. Annus tertius saecularis inventae artis typographicae, sive brevis historica enarratio de inventione noblissimae artis typographicae, in qua ostenditur, quo tempore, à quo & ubi locorum ea primum fuerit inventa ... Haarlem, Isaac et Joannes Enschede, (1742). 8vo. 'Prize binding' from Haarlem: contemporary vellum, richly gilt with two borders, centre-pieces and in the centre of both sides the Haarlem virgin in arms with the coat of arms of Haarlem; spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gold: 'Ars typogr. a L. Kostero inventa'; inner dentelles; gilt edges. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece with four Latin verses by Petrus Scriverius underneath (dated 1741), engraved vignette on title (also dated 1741) and engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, all by A. van der Laan; 4 full-page engraved plates showing the statue of Laurens Jansz. Koster by A. van der Laan (1740), and three plates with memorial medals; and a folding engraved view of Haarlem, showing Coster's house, by H. Spilman. Added and mounted on the verso of the half-title is the engraved portrait of Coster by J. van Velde after the painting by Jacob van Campen with the four lines of Latin poetry by Petrus Scriverius. XXIV, 248, 14 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Book History  Engravings  Haarlem  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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600 examples of monograms View picture(s) 17 SYMPSON, Samuel. A new book of cyphers, more compleat & regular than any ever published wherein the whole alphabet twice over consisting of 600 cyphers, is variously chang'd interwoven & reverse'd. Very entertaining toy curious & useful to all sorts of artificers. London, for John Bowles and Son, (1750). Sm. 4to. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed in 6 compartments. Engraved title, 102 full-page engraved plates each with 6 monograms, of which last plate with crowns and helmets of the nobility. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Applied Arts  England  Ornaments  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The complete works of Tacitus, beautifully printed by Bodoni View picture(s) 18 TACITUS. Opera. Parma, In aedibus palatinis, typis Bodonianis, 1795. 3 vols. Large 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, marbled edges. XII, (4, 1, 1 blank), 284; 297, (3 blank); 281, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Bodoni  Literary History  Literature  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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British standard edition View picture(s) 19 THEOCRITUS & Thomas WARTON (ed.). Theocriti Syracusii quae supersunt. Cum scholiis Graecis auctioribus, emendationibus et animadversionibus in scholia editoris et Joannis Toupii. glossis selectis ineditis, indicibus amplissimis. Praemittuntur editoris dissertatio de Bucolicis Graecorum, vita Theocriti a Josua Barnesio scripta, cum nonnullis aliis auctariis. Accedunt editoris et variorum notae perpetuae, epistola Joannus Toupii de Syracusiis, ejusdem addenda in Theocritum, necnon collationes quindecim codicum. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1770. 2 parts in 2 vols. Large 4to. Early 19th-century dark blue morocco, sides with elaborately gilt ornamental border decoration with triple gilt ruled border, richly gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold, gilt sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Vol. I: (4), LXX, (2), 1-134 (4), 135-236 (80). Vol. II: (4), 1-388 (i.e. 390), (4), 389-412 (i.e. 391-414); VII (1), 45 (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bibliophily  England  Greek & Latin  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most beautiful pieces of italic typography produced in Italy in the 16th century View picture(s) 20 TRISSINO, Giovanni Giorgio. Epistola de le lettere nuovamente aggiunte ne la lingua Italiana. (Vicenza, Tolomeo Januculo, 1529). Small folio. Modern calf, spine ribbed, blind tooled fillet borders on sides. Woodcut printer's device on title. 18 (last blank) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Linguistics  Literary History  Printing  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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