Book History, Education, Learning & Printing / Education & Pedagogy

[SENETERRE, Henri-Charles de]. Nouveaux contes de fées.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris], aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1745. 8vo. With a large engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, the title is printed in red and black, 6 fine engraved illustrations at the head of each tale, and with one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the first tale. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled beige calf with red and black labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by René Simier (1772-1843), with his stamp in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf. XVI, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SHIRWANI, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-. Nafhat al-Yaman fi-ma yazulu bi-dhikrihi al-shajan. [= Breezes from Yemen].
Calcutta, printed by Mawlawi Kabir Ud Din Ahmad at the Urdoo Guide Press, 1881. 8vo. Original publisher's pebble-grain lilac cloth. [2], 276, [2] pp. Full description

[SMITH, Robert and others]. The elementary parts of Dr. Smith's compleat system of opticks, selected and arranged for the use of students at the universities: to which are added in the form of notes some explanatory propositions from other authors.
Cambridge, printed by J. Archdeacon, 1778. Large 4to (27 x 20.5 cm). With 17 numbered, folding engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled brown sprinkled calf, gold-tooled red morocco spine label, gold-tooled board edges. VI, [9], [1 blank], 119, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SODRÉ, Antonio Martins (pseudonym of Antonio DOS MÁRTIRES). Collectaneo pharmaceutico divido em duas partes, nas quaes se acharáõ as melhores perguntas, e respostas, e algumas eleiçoens de simples, com suas explicaçoens ao texto de Mesue, tiradas dos melhores autores antigos, e modernos da arte pharmaceutica. Obra utilissima para se examinarem os novos professores da mesma arte.
Porto, Antonio Alves Ribeiro Guimaraens, 1768. 8vo. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, sewn on 4 supports, gold-tooled spine. [32], 188, [4 blank] pp. Full description

SONNAVILLE, Louis de, S.J. De nieuwe muziekleermiddelen van het systeem-Sonnaville.
[Leiden, Johannes Eggers, ca. 1895]. 25 items in 1 box. All items in a green half cloth box (37 x 29 x 4 cm) which opens at the front and can be closed with cloth strings, with a letterpress title-label mounted on top. Full description

[TEXTBOOK - PERSIAN]. Ganjína-i-muhárawát. The Wazír-i-Lankurán and a selection from the diary of Násiru-d-dín Sháh containig [!] an account of the journey of the Sháh of Persia from Tehrán to Russia. Being a text book for the lower standard examination in Persian.
Calcutta, "published by authority", 1909. 8vo. With a floral ornament on page 3. The text is set in Persian script. Original quarter purple cloth and blue printed paper over boards, with the title in Persian on the front board and in English on the back board. [1], [1 blank], 80, [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description

THIBAULT, Jean Thomas. Application de la perspective linéaire aux arts du dessin, ouvrage posthume, mis au jour par Chapuis.
Paris, Paul Renouard for Mesdames Thibault, Jules Renouard, Bance ainé & Carilian Goeury, 1827. Folio. With a full page engraved portrait, an engraved frontispiece (bound after p. 168), and 53 full page, numbered, engraved plates. 19th-century gold- and blind tooled brown half calf. XV, [1 blank], 168 pp. Full description

THOMPSON, Captain R. Campbell, Elias GEORGES, and others (editors). A list of words and phrases in the Basrah dialect of Arabic.
Simla, Government Central Branch Press, 1916. 8vo. Original beige waxed cloth wrappers, with the title printed on the front wrapper. V, [1 blank], 21, [3 blank] pp. Full description

[TILL EULENSPIEGEL]. Histoire de la vie de Tiel Wlespiegle, contenant ses faits et finesses, ses aventures, et les grandes fortunes qu'il a euës, ne s'étant jamais laissé tromper par aucune personne. Nouvelle traduction de l'Alemand en François; où l'on a ajoûté à cette edition, plusieurs pieces qui n'ont point encore paru en François jusques à present.
Amsterdam, Pierre Marteau, 1703. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, and several head- and tailpieces built-up from typographical ornaments. 19th-century light brown morocco by Hardy. [8], 247, [7] pp. Full description

TROMMSDORFF, Johann Bartholomäus and C. G. REYNHOUT (translator). Leerschool der apothekers, of, beknopte tafelen der artsenijmengkunde, ten gebruike der leerlingen, en der zoodanigen welke zich voorbereiden tot het doen van hun examen.
Rotterdam, P. and J. Holsteyn, 1809. Folio (ca. 44.5 x 26 cm). With 10 double-page tables, and a half-page engraving of pharmaceutical tools and equipment by Hendrik Roosing (1763-1826). Original publisher's blue printed wrappers. VIII, 14 pp. Full description