Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Epistolarum ad Titum Pomponium Atticum Lib. XVI. M. Brutum Lib. I. Quintu[m] Fratrem Lib. III. Praeterea Titii Pomponij Attici Vita. Et Interpretatio Graecorum.
Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe 1536. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and a variant of the device on the verso of the last leaf, and several decorated woodcut initials with cherubs. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, the manuscript title on the spine, red edges. [28], 643, [1] pp. Full description

[CIRCULAR - FIRST MEXICAN EMPIRE - José Antonio de ECHÁVARRI]. [Drop title:] Con fecha 19 del actual me dice el Escmo Sr. ministro de Estado y de relaciones interiores y esteriores lo que sigue.
Mexico, 26 October 1822. Ca. 22 x 16 cm. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius and Francisco TORRESANO (editor). Opera quam diligentissime castigata, quorum indicem in sequenti pagina reperies.
Venice, heirs of Aldus I Manutius, and Andrea I Torresano, 1523. 8vo. With the Aldus anchor woodcut vignette on the title page and the verso of the last leaf, both hand-coloured and highlighted in gold. 17th-century gold-tooled quarter calf, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, 18th-century gold-tooled polished and sprinkled calf sides, red sprinkled edges. 176 ll. Full description

CLEEFF, Jacob van. Catechismus der zeevaartkunde, of vragen en oefeningen over het beschouwende en werkdadige der stuurmanskunst; ...
Groningen, J. Oomkens, 1840. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, with at the back an advertisement for 6 other works by Van Cleeff. 115, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CLICHTOVE, Josse (Judocus CLICHTOVEUS). De vita et moribus sacerdotum, opusculum: singularem eoru[m] dignitatem oste[n]dens, & quibus ornati esse debea[n]t virtutibus: explanans.
Paris, Henri Estienne I, 1519 (colophon: 4 August). With woodcut title-page with the letterpress title and imprint in the central opening; further with about 21 woodcut initials (4 series, mostly criblé) plus about 4 repeats.
With: (2) MARRE, Jean. Enchiridio[n] sacerdotale concinnatu[m] ad salutarem eruditionem Christifideliu[m] ab lo[n]ge revere[n]do in Christo patre d[omi]no Ioanne Mare Co[n]domien[sis]. episcopo. In quo haec sunt capita. ...
[Paris], (colophon: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 25 November 1519). With numerous woodcut decorated initials (4 series, the largest 45-47 mm. criblé initials). 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (20 x 14 cm). 16th-century blind- and gold-tooled calf, each board in a panel design, with the owner's name "D. Ioa[n]mes[!] Lassere" on the front and motto "memento mortis" on the back, the motto and fleurs-de-lis on the back in gold. 75, [1 blank]; “LXI” [= LXXI], [1 blank] ll. Full description

CLINCHAMP, François Étienne Victor de. Nouveau traité de la perspective des ombres, et de la théorie des reflets, a l'usage des artistes et des ecoles de dessin.
Paris, M.A. Sautelet, [1826]. 4to. With 27 folding engraved perspectival plates. Contemporary quarter green buckram with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, brown sprinkled edges, marbled end papers. [4], IV, 240 pp. Full description

[COLENSO, William]. He kupu wakatupato, ...
[Paiha (New Zealand), Mission Press], 1842. 8vo. Never sewn, stitched or bound. 7, [1] pp. Full description

[COLENSO, William]. [Drop-title:] He Inoinga ma te tangate e wakaaro atu ana ki te Iriiringa.
[Heretaunga, William Colenso, ca. 1847]. Leaflet (17.2 x 11 cm). [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

CONDIO, Luigi. Preghiere. Miniature di Vittorio Vulten.
Torino, Carlo de Martini (printed by Stab. Litografico Giovanni Fraschini & C., Milan), 1902. 18mo (13.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 cm). A wholly chromolithographed Art Nouveau prayer book, printed in numerous pastel colours plus gold, with (mostly floral) decoration on every page and numerous additional illustrations. In a silver binding (hallmarked "800" at the foot of the otherwise blank back cover), with "Our Lady of the Rosary" from the shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary in Pompei depicted on the front cover in high relief (madonna and child presenting rosaries to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine) flanked by two irises, above "Ave Maria" and a panel with "SS. Vergine di Pompei", endpapers lithographed in pastel colours plus gold, in a repeating pattern of abstracted flowers, crosses, anchors, hearts and initials "VD" or "DV", gilt edges. [104] pp. Full description

[CONFESSIO BELGICA - Hierotheos ABBATIOS (translator)]. Tōn ekklēsiōn tēs Belgikēs christianikē kai orthodoxos didaskalia kai taxis : ēgoun exomologēsis, katēchēsis, leitourchia, kai kanones ekklēsiastikoi.
Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevier, 1648. 4to. With Elzeviers woodcut device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled calf. [2 blank], [12] 500, [2 blank] pp. Full description