Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

GARCIN, Jean. Le vrai patineur, ou principes sur l'art de patiner avec grace, précédé de réflexions et de remarques critiques sur la manière de quelques patineurs inélégans, ainsi que sur les différens formes de patins, le choix quel'on doit en faire, et les variations dont cette chaussure est susceptible.
Paris, Delespinasse, Delaunaux, Nepveu, the author (printed by Joseph-Gaspard Gillé fils), 1813. 12mo (18 x 10.5 cm). With 8 numbered engraved plates, namely a frontispiece view of a skating rink with many skaters, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 images of individual skaters, each in a different pose. Later blue paper wrappers. Preserved in modern half morocco slipcase. XXIV, 93, [1 blank] pp. Full description

GELDER, Jacob van. De van ouds vermaarde Erve Stichters Enkhuiser (...), voor den jare 1819. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkt., kermiss[en], paard[en], beest[en] en leermarkt[en]. in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden gehouden wordende; het op en ondergaan de maan, benevens de watergetijden, enz. Berekend op den middag-cirkel van Amsterdam door Jacob de Gelder.
Amsterdam, H. van Leeuwen, [1818]. 16mo (ca. 9 x 7 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, the title and calendar printed in red and black, 12 half-page woodcut illustrations (1 for each month), and 11 full-page woodcut illustrations. Original publisher's printed wrappers, with the title on the front and back. [252] pp. Full description

GELLERT, Christian Fürchtegott. Fabelen en vertelsels, in Nederduitsche vaerzen gevolgd.
Amsterdam, Pieter Meijer, 1781-1784. With large allegorical engraving on title and 148 (of 149) full-page engraved plates by N. van der Meer after J. Buys and one ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR by J. Buijs illustrating the poem "Het Proces".(2) IDEM. Bijdrage tot de gemeenzame brieven van C.F. Gellert uitgegeven door J.P. Bamberger. Utrecht, A. van Paddenburg & J.M. van Vloten, 1781. 2 works (the 1st in 3 volumes, the 2nd bound with volume 3). 8vo.
Contemporary "run marbled" calf (more root-like than tree-like), gold-tooled spine, gold fillets on boards, black morocco spine labels. [4], 166, [2]; [2], 168, [4]; [4], 155, [5]; [2], VI, 103, [1] pp. Full description

[GENEAOLOGY - NOBILITY]. Executoria de hildaguia de los Echeniques y Aguirres, y de sus descendientes.
[Spain, 1657-1664?]. Folio. With an elaborately decorated letterpress title page, the letters of the title are highlighted in blue, red, gold, and silver, and are surrounded by a contemporary hand-drawn, hand-coloured, and highlighted in gold and silver floral frame (in the same style as the other floral borders in this work) including equally decorated arms of the Echeniques y Aguirres family. All text is set within woodcut borders incorporating the familys coat of arms, the borders show two different floral designs which are repeated throughout the work. All borders are vividly coloured by a contemporary hand and highlighted in gold and silver. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco, sewn on six supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the gold-tooling is built up from numerous impressions of small (pointillé) tools creating a large intricate centrepiece within two detailed frames, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled pastedowns, and gilt edges. [24 blank], 232, [2], [24 blank] pp. Full description

GESSNER, Salomon. Mort d'Abel, Poëme. Traduit par Hubert.
Paris, chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793. Large 4to. With a stipple-engraved colour-printed frontispiece, and 5 stipple-engraved colour printed plates by Colibert, Casenave, and Clément after the designs of Nicolas Moniau. Contemporary gold-tooled brown and green mottled calf. 161, [3 blank] pp. Full description

GIETERMAKER, Klaas Hendriksz. 't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden.
Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen [frontispiece: Gerard van Keulen], [not before 1742, ca. 1747?].
With:
(2) [VOOGHT, Claas Jansz.]. De taeffelen der sinuum, tangentium en secantium, ofte der hoekmaaten, raecklijnen en snijlijnen.
Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, [late 17th, early 18th century].
(3) [Drop-title:] De tafel des aardryks breeten en langten, der voornaamste zee-plaatsen des bekenden aardbols.
Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, [late 17th or early 18th century].
3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled brown calf. [12], 106, [2]; 152, 8; 120; [2], 70, [66]; 16, [2 blank] pp. Full description

GJÖRWELL, Carl Christoffer (ed.). Almänna rese-beskrifwaren eller sammandrag af de nyaste och bästa rese-beskrifningar, hälst de som nyligast utkommit; til uplysning af andra länders geographie, natural-historia, stats-förfatning, hushålning, lärdom, bruk och seder: uti bref författat.
Stockholm, printed by Johan Arvid Carlbohm [and A.J. Nordstrom], 1780 [-1782]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of "Jacob" (James) Cook as a frontispiece in vol. 1, with some head and tail pieces throughout the 2 vols. Contemporary half goatskin. [4], 360; [2], 134, [2], 135-194, [2], 195-“168” [= 268] pp. Full description

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolph. Arca thesauris opulentia, sive appendix generalis omnium librorum hactenus editorum, ... in decem centurias distributum [= prima centuria]. [Vol. 2:] Opulenti thesauri, et arcae thesaurariae ... centuria secunda.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1660-1661. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Later boards covered with marbled paper, later printed title on spine. 190, [2]; 149 pp. Full description

GOLIUS, Jacobus. Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, contextum ex probatioribus orientis lexicographis. Accedit index Latinus copiosissimus, qui lexici Latino-Arabici vicem explere possit.
Leiden and Amsterdam, Bonaventura & Abraham Elsevier [= Johannes & Daniël Elsevier] and Johannes Janssonius, 1653. Folio (36 x 23.5 cm). With a large publisher's device on the title-page, the title-page is printed in red and black. The text is set in roman and Arabic type in two columns per page. Further with woodcut decorated initials and woodcut decorated head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf with the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [10], 16 pp.; 17-"2922" cols. [= 17-2920 cols. = 1452 pp.]; 40 pp. Full description

GONZALES DE MENDOÇA, Juan. Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del Gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de religiosos y otras personas que an estado en eldicho reyno.
Antwerp, Pierre Bellère I, 1596. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device and some woodcut initials. With a few (woodcut?) Chinese characters in the text. Contemporary mottled calf. [24], 380, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description