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Dialogo ..., nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, diversità, e proprietà de i colori. Venice, Giovanni Battista & Melchiorre Sessa and brothers (colophon: 1565). Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With woodcut scrollwork Pegasus device on title-page, the word "Dilogo" in a woodcut scrollwork frame, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut decorated initials (1 with a figure riding a griffon, 1 with a leopard(?)) and 3 fleurons. With the main text set in italic and preliminaries in roman. 18th-century half parchment (recased?).
Dialogo ..., nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, diversità, e proprietà de i colori. Venice, Giovanni Battista & Melchiorre Sessa and brothers (colophon: 1565). Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With woodcut scrollwork Pegasus device on title-page, the word "Dilogo" in a woodcut scrollwork frame, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut decorated initials (1 with a figure riding a griffon, 1 with a leopard(?)) and 3 fleurons. With the main text set in italic and preliminaries in roman. 18th-century half parchment (recased?).
DOLCE, Lodovico. · 1508
€6,700.00 ($7,384.79 | £5,588.77 | ¥1,179,396)
87, [1] ll.First (and only early) edition of an important treatise on colour by Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568). Dolce's work is typical for the Venetian tradition. At first the Aristotelian propositions on colour are outlined. The main part of the treatise is concerned with the ch...
L'art de faire soi-même les ballons aérostatiques, conformes à ceux de M. de Montgolfier.Amsterdam, for Hardouin, Libraire à Paris, [1783]. 8vo. With a full-page engraved plate, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary wrappers, side stitched through 2 holes, with the manuscript title and publication details on the front wrapper. The work is housed in a dark green clamshell box.
L'art de faire soi-même les ballons aérostatiques, conformes à ceux de M. de Montgolfier.Amsterdam, for Hardouin, Libraire à Paris, [1783]. 8vo. With a full-page engraved plate, a woodcut vignette on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary wrappers, side stitched through 2 holes, with the manuscript title and publication details on the front wrapper. The work is housed in a dark green clamshell box.
PINGERON, Jean Claude. · 1783
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
[2], 42 pp.Rare first edition of a letter describing one of the first hot-air balloon flights in history, written by a spectator. The flight took place in Versailles on the 19th of September 1783 in front of king Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, and was only the second...
Instrucção sobre os corpos celestes, principalmente sobre os cometas.Lisbon, Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1758. 4to. With 3 folding engraved plates by M. le Bouteux, etched headpiece and initial. Contemporary calf.
Instrucção sobre os corpos celestes, principalmente sobre os cometas.Lisbon, Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1758. 4to. With 3 folding engraved plates by M. le Bouteux, etched headpiece and initial. Contemporary calf.
AHLERS, Francisco Henrique. · 1698
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
[18], 86, [4] pp.Interesting Portuguese work on cosmography and comets, divided into two parts. The first part discusses cosmographical theories and the construction of the universe, the second is devoted to comets. The work includes a table listing the appearances of comets b...
Disegno ..., partito in piu ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura; de colori, de getti, de modegli, con molte cose appartenenti a quest' arti: & si termina la nobiltà dell' una et dell' altra professione. ...Venice, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, (colophon: February) 1549. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With the imprint in the base of an elaborate woodcut on the title page, with Ferrari's motto, initials and phoenix device, a different woodcut phoenix device on last page, and 21 woodcut pictorial initials (3 series) plus 1 repeat. Italian sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?).
Disegno ..., partito in piu ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura; de colori, de getti, de modegli, con molte cose appartenenti a quest' arti: & si termina la nobiltà dell' una et dell' altra professione. ...Venice, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, (colophon: February) 1549. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With the imprint in the base of an elaborate woodcut on the title page, with Ferrari's motto, initials and phoenix device, a different woodcut phoenix device on last page, and 21 woodcut pictorial initials (3 series) plus 1 repeat. Italian sheepskin parchment (ca. 1700?).
DONI, Anton Francesco. · 1493
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
63, [1] ll.First and only edition of six Italian essays on painting and sculpture by the many-sided Italian writer Anton Francesco Doni. Before the essays he gives a list of the painters and sculptors he discusses in the book and after them the texts of his letters to Italian ...
Conclusiones mathematicas, practicas, y especulativas defendidas en el principio del segundo año ... Manila, Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay, 1758. 4to. With engraved equestrian portrait of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain and Emperor of the Indies as a frontispiece. Contemporary salmon-coloured silk over flexible boards, preserved in modern portfolio.
Conclusiones mathematicas, practicas, y especulativas defendidas en el principio del segundo año ... Manila, Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay, 1758. 4to. With engraved equestrian portrait of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain and Emperor of the Indies as a frontispiece. Contemporary salmon-coloured silk over flexible boards, preserved in modern portfolio.
ARAYA, Fernando de. · 1727
€8,750.00 ($9,644.31 | £7,298.77 | ¥1,540,256)
[4], 4 ll.First and only edition of a brief dissertation on the practical use of mathematics in the military by the Spanish soldier Fernando de Araya, "alferez de una de las compañias del regimiento del rey nuestro señor", who studied at Manila's Jesuit University. With the Je...
Mémoire sur les colonies Américaines, sur leurs relations politques avec leurs métropoles, et sur la manière dont la France et L'Espagne ont dû envisager les suites de l'indépendance des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique.Paris, Pierre-Samuel Dupont, 1791. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine.
Mémoire sur les colonies Américaines, sur leurs relations politques avec leurs métropoles, et sur la manière dont la France et L'Espagne ont dû envisager les suites de l'indépendance des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique.Paris, Pierre-Samuel Dupont, 1791. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine.
TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. · 1727
€6,000.00 ($6,613.24 | £5,004.87 | ¥1,056,176)
75 [1 blank] pp.First separate edition of a revolutionary treatise on the relations between the American colonies and the colonising countries by the French economist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781). He explains his theory that the colonising countries should withdraw f...
Oeuvres de mathematiques. Contenant les elemens de geometrie, discours du mouvement local, la statique et deux machines propres à faire les cadrans.The Hague, Adriaan Moetjens, 1691. 4 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 9 engraved plates (5 folding, 4 full-page), and numerous woodcut geometrical figures in the text. Comprising:(1) Elemens de geometrie.(2) Discours du mouvement local. Avec des remarques sur le mouvement de la lumière.(3) La statique ou la science des forces mouvantes.(4) Deux machines propres à faire les quadrans avec très-grande facilité. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red mottled edges.
Oeuvres de mathematiques. Contenant les elemens de geometrie, discours du mouvement local, la statique et deux machines propres à faire les cadrans.The Hague, Adriaan Moetjens, 1691. 4 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 9 engraved plates (5 folding, 4 full-page), and numerous woodcut geometrical figures in the text. Comprising:(1) Elemens de geometrie.(2) Discours du mouvement local. Avec des remarques sur le mouvement de la lumière.(3) La statique ou la science des forces mouvantes.(4) Deux machines propres à faire les quadrans avec très-grande facilité. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, red mottled edges.
PARDIES, Ignace Gaston. · 1636
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
[12], 163, [5]; 294, [2] pp.First collected edition of four illustrated mathematical works by the famous scientist and Jesuit Ignace Gaston Pardies (1636-1673). The work present a systematic exploration of the principles and applications of geometry following the ancient disco...
Prospectus d'un nouveau dictionnaire de commerce.Including: Catalogue d'une bibliotheque d'économie politique.Paris, Les freres Estienne, 1769. 8vo. Contemporary tan calf, gold-tooled spine, gold triple fillet border on both sides, gold fillet on board edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, decorative endpapers (block-printed in gold), edges gilt over marbling.
Prospectus d'un nouveau dictionnaire de commerce.Including: Catalogue d'une bibliotheque d'économie politique.Paris, Les freres Estienne, 1769. 8vo. Contemporary tan calf, gold-tooled spine, gold triple fillet border on both sides, gold fillet on board edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, decorative endpapers (block-printed in gold), edges gilt over marbling.
MORELLET, André. · 1727
€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)
VIII, 381, [3], 34, [2 blank] pp.Fine copy of an interesting and very extensive prospectus, by André Morellet (1727-1819), announcing a new commercial dictionary in 5 folio volumes and calling for subscriptions. He first explains why a new dictionary is needed, extensively des...
Libro di arithmetica & geometria speculativa & praticale ... intitulato Scala Grimaldelli: novamente stampato(Colophon: Venice, Francesco de Leno), 1563. 4to. With the title in a 5-piece woodcut border with an allusive woodcut illustration (ladder and key), and with numerous woodcut diagrams, geometric figures and other illustrations printed in the large fore-edge margin. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
Libro di arithmetica & geometria speculativa & praticale ... intitulato Scala Grimaldelli: novamente stampato(Colophon: Venice, Francesco de Leno), 1563. 4to. With the title in a 5-piece woodcut border with an allusive woodcut illustration (ladder and key), and with numerous woodcut diagrams, geometric figures and other illustrations printed in the large fore-edge margin. Contemporary sheepskin parchment.
FELICIANO, Francesco. · 1563
€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)
[80] ll.1563 edition of a popular Italian treatise on arithmetic and geometry by the Italian mathematician Fransesco Feliciano da Lazesio (1570-1542). First published in 1526 at Venice, it became immensely popular and went through many, revised editions, the present edition pr...
Beautés historiques de la maison d'Autriche.Paris, Delaunay, 1811. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 16 illustrations on 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary light brown mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
Beautés historiques de la maison d'Autriche.Paris, Delaunay, 1811. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 16 illustrations on 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary light brown mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
PÉRIN, René. · 1810
€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)
XX, 360; [4], 388 pp.First edition of an illustrated account of the finest and most glorious moments in the history of the Austrian Habsburgs and their successors, from Rudolph of Habsburg in the early 13th century, to François II, whose daughter Marie Louise became Empress of...
Het leven van Benjamin Franklin. ... Een volksboek, ter voorbeeld hoe men door eigen vlijt en deugd tot rijkdom en aanzien kan geraken.Deventer, A. ter Gunne, [ca. 1858]. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Contemporary gold- and blind-stamped cloth.
Het leven van Benjamin Franklin. ... Een volksboek, ter voorbeeld hoe men door eigen vlijt en deugd tot rijkdom en aanzien kan geraken.Deventer, A. ter Gunne, [ca. 1858]. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Contemporary gold- and blind-stamped cloth.
MIGNET, François Auguste Marie. · 1706
€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)
XII, 175, [1 blank], [2] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of a brief biography of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), translated from the popular French edition by the historian François Auguste Marie Mignet (1796-1884). It chronologically describes Franklin's life, starti...
D'Oranjeboom verheerlykt [above:] Geslachtboom van de huizen van Oranje en van Nassau, ...(Colophon: Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth), [1747]. 4to. With an engraved armorial title-page by Hendrik de Leth, with the subtitle in a banderol at the head, a crowned tree representing the family tree of the houses of Orange and Nassau (with 27 family coats of arms), a wreath with an orange tree, the 7 arms of the Dutch provinces and military attributes, the whole beautifully hand-coloured as published. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, by the Van Damme bindery in Amsterdam, a rosette and fillets in each of the spine compartments, gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
D'Oranjeboom verheerlykt [above:] Geslachtboom van de huizen van Oranje en van Nassau, ...(Colophon: Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth), [1747]. 4to. With an engraved armorial title-page by Hendrik de Leth, with the subtitle in a banderol at the head, a crowned tree representing the family tree of the houses of Orange and Nassau (with 27 family coats of arms), a wreath with an orange tree, the 7 arms of the Dutch provinces and military attributes, the whole beautifully hand-coloured as published. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, by the Van Damme bindery in Amsterdam, a rosette and fillets in each of the spine compartments, gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
STRAAT, Pieter. · 1711
€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)
Engraved title-page plus [17], [1 blank] pp.Laudatory poem in praise of the new stadholder William IV also known as Willem Karel Hendrik Friso of Orange-Nassau (1711-1751), son of Johan Willem Friso, stadholder of Friesland and Groningen, who drowned at Moerdijk in the year of...
Correttissima Santa Croce per facilissima istruzzione de' fanciulli.[Rome], Francesco Ansillioni, [ca. 1750]. Small 8vo. With 2 nearly full-page woodcuts (the Holy Virgin on the front cover and a monk with a shining nimbus containing the word “charitas” around his head on the back cover) and 7 small religious woodcuts in text. Front and back cover and the first two pages with alphabets and numbers in ornamental woodcut borders. Sewn.
Correttissima Santa Croce per facilissima istruzzione de' fanciulli.[Rome], Francesco Ansillioni, [ca. 1750]. Small 8vo. With 2 nearly full-page woodcuts (the Holy Virgin on the front cover and a monk with a shining nimbus containing the word “charitas” around his head on the back cover) and 7 small religious woodcuts in text. Front and back cover and the first two pages with alphabets and numbers in ornamental woodcut borders. Sewn.
[ABC BOOK].
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
[16] pp.Only copy located of a Latin ABC book for children, published in Italy, starting with alphabets on the back of the title-page and continuing on the next page, also introducing the Latin names for the punctuation marks and including reading exercises in one-syllable wor...
Den schat der fabelen.Brussels, widow of G. Jacobs, 1739-1740. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 3 different engraved frontispieces and 115 engraved illustrations, all designed and engraved by the author. Contemporary polished calf, gold-tooled spines.
Den schat der fabelen.Brussels, widow of G. Jacobs, 1739-1740. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 3 different engraved frontispieces and 115 engraved illustrations, all designed and engraved by the author. Contemporary polished calf, gold-tooled spines.
KRAFFT, Joannes Laurentius.
€3,250.00 ($3,582.17 | £2,710.97 | ¥572,095)
[24], 384, [8]; [40], 395, [7]; [24], 432, [8] pp.Very rare enlarged Dutch edition of a beautifully illustrated fable book by Joannes Laurentius Krafft, first published in French prose and here translated, expanded and improved by the author. Each fable, in verse, is followed ...
La Fontaine en estampes, ou nouvelle édition des fables, plus complète que les précédentes; précédée de la vie de l'auteur, extraite du nouvel ouvrage de M. Walckenaer.Paris, Auguste Nepveu, 1821. 4to. With an engraving on the title-page (Aesop talking with the animals before a bust of La Fontaine) and 110 half-page engravings illustrating the fables. Contemporary half brown sheepskin, sewn on recessed supports, purple decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine with title and author in gold, gilt edges, silk endpapers and paste-downs.
La Fontaine en estampes, ou nouvelle édition des fables, plus complète que les précédentes; précédée de la vie de l'auteur, extraite du nouvel ouvrage de M. Walckenaer.Paris, Auguste Nepveu, 1821. 4to. With an engraving on the title-page (Aesop talking with the animals before a bust of La Fontaine) and 110 half-page engravings illustrating the fables. Contemporary half brown sheepskin, sewn on recessed supports, purple decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine with title and author in gold, gilt edges, silk endpapers and paste-downs.
[LA FONTAINE, Jean de]. · 1668
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
XXIV [= XXVIII, pp. XXV-XXVI and XXVII-XXVIII are misbound), 462 pp.Beautifully illustrated edition of the French verse fables of Jean de La Fontaine, loosely based on fables by Aesop, Horace and others and first published in the years 1668-1694 here including a "Précis de la ...
Cours pratique d'éducation à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles, et convenable aux jeunes gens qui ne sont pas à porté de suivre les études de collège, ou qui les ont suivies sans succès; contenant la grammaire, précédée de principes de lecture servant d'introduction; la rhétorique, l'arithmétique, la cosmographie, la géographie, l'histoire et la mythologie, traitée séparément pour l'enfance et pour l'adolescence, par demandes et par réponses. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême.Paris, Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, and the author (on back of title-page: printed by J.-B. Imbert), 1816 (vol. 3!)-1817 (vols. 1-2). 3 volumes. Large 12mo (17.5 x 10.5 cm). With a large folding engraved map of France, 3 astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 engraved plates, a large folding hierarchical "tableau synoptique" of French grammar, and numerous numerical tables and mathematical equations in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled, grained green morocco, each board with the large arms of the dedicatee, Marie Thérèse de France, Duchesse d'Angoulême, daughter of King Louis XVI: a crowned double coat of arms (each in an oval) in a wide border of fleurs-de-lis and tulip-like flowers, the dexter arms (of her husband) that normally used by the Duc de Berry, but also by the seconde maison Capétienne d'Artois and the sinister arms (of her father Louis XVI) matching that of the Kings of France, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges.
Cours pratique d'éducation à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles, et convenable aux jeunes gens qui ne sont pas à porté de suivre les études de collège, ou qui les ont suivies sans succès; contenant la grammaire, précédée de principes de lecture servant d'introduction; la rhétorique, l'arithmétique, la cosmographie, la géographie, l'histoire et la mythologie, traitée séparément pour l'enfance et pour l'adolescence, par demandes et par réponses. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême.Paris, Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, and the author (on back of title-page: printed by J.-B. Imbert), 1816 (vol. 3!)-1817 (vols. 1-2). 3 volumes. Large 12mo (17.5 x 10.5 cm). With a large folding engraved map of France, 3 astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 engraved plates, a large folding hierarchical "tableau synoptique" of French grammar, and numerous numerical tables and mathematical equations in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled, grained green morocco, each board with the large arms of the dedicatee, Marie Thérèse de France, Duchesse d'Angoulême, daughter of King Louis XVI: a crowned double coat of arms (each in an oval) in a wide border of fleurs-de-lis and tulip-like flowers, the dexter arms (of her husband) that normally used by the Duc de Berry, but also by the seconde maison Capétienne d'Artois and the sinister arms (of her father Louis XVI) matching that of the Kings of France, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges.
GALLAND, P.J. · 1778
€25,000.00 ($27,555.18 | £20,853.62 | ¥4,400,731)
[4], 515, [1]; 552, [2]; 492, [2] pp.Very rare first and only edition of a compendious educational work intended for girls, dedicated (in the newly restored Bourbon monarchy) to Marie Thérèse de France (1778-1851), Duchesse d'Angoulême and daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen ...
De liberorum educatione. (Colophon: Strasbourg, Johannis Schot for Georg Übelin, 10 August 1510). 4to. With charming woodcut vignette at end showing a running hare between ornamental flowers. Later boards.
De liberorum educatione. (Colophon: Strasbourg, Johannis Schot for Georg Übelin, 10 August 1510). 4to. With charming woodcut vignette at end showing a running hare between ornamental flowers. Later boards.
PORCIA, Jacopo di (Jacobus PURLILLARUS). · 1462
€4,850.00 ($5,345.70 | £4,045.60 | ¥853,742)
[10] ll.Second edition of a rare Latin treatise on the education of children, published in Strasbourg by Johannes Schot at the expense of George Maxillus, alias Übelin, Councillor of the Bishop of Strasbourg. Di Porcia (1462-1538), an Italian humanist, first published the pres...
Fables imitées de Lessing, Gellert, Lichtwer, Pfeffel, Dodley, et autres fabulistes étrangers suivies de fables originales.Stockholm, Johan Imnelius, 1819. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges.
Fables imitées de Lessing, Gellert, Lichtwer, Pfeffel, Dodley, et autres fabulistes étrangers suivies de fables originales.Stockholm, Johan Imnelius, 1819. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gilt edges.
JONCHÈRE, Charles Chrétien de la. · 1812
€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)
[2], 144, [2] pp.Very rare Swedish edition of a selection of translations and imitations of fables by German authors, by the French writer and linguist Jonchère. Parts of the book were originally published in 1812 as Fables traduites ou imitées de l'allemand in Paris, Lübeck a...
Traité des elemens présenté à M. Raoul de Choiseul-Gouffier.Paris, 1786. Small 8vo. Calligraphic manuscript written in French in dark brown ink on paper, in a formal Latin script hand (a French-style "batard"), with an ornamental, calligraphic title page in reddish brown, green, dark brown and black ink, each page in a thick-thin-thin border with circular decorations in each corner and centred at the head, running heads in the border, the heading of the "Avertissement" in a decorative script, and calligraphic chapter headings in circular or rectangular decorations and sub-headings in decorated horizontal bands. Contemporary red, gold-tooled morocco, the smooth spine divided into 6 panels (separated by lines flanked by dotted lines), the 2nd with a dark green title-label, each of the others with an 8-petalled flower, 10 dots, a decoration in each corner and another at each side, and a decorated band at the foot; each board with a border of thin-thick-thin fillets with a decoration stamped on each corner and a 6-petalled flower inside each corner; gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on the board edges (altogether about 130 impressions of 13 tools), gilt edges.
Traité des elemens présenté à M. Raoul de Choiseul-Gouffier.Paris, 1786. Small 8vo. Calligraphic manuscript written in French in dark brown ink on paper, in a formal Latin script hand (a French-style "batard"), with an ornamental, calligraphic title page in reddish brown, green, dark brown and black ink, each page in a thick-thin-thin border with circular decorations in each corner and centred at the head, running heads in the border, the heading of the "Avertissement" in a decorative script, and calligraphic chapter headings in circular or rectangular decorations and sub-headings in decorated horizontal bands. Contemporary red, gold-tooled morocco, the smooth spine divided into 6 panels (separated by lines flanked by dotted lines), the 2nd with a dark green title-label, each of the others with an 8-petalled flower, 10 dots, a decoration in each corner and another at each side, and a decorated band at the foot; each board with a border of thin-thick-thin fillets with a decoration stamped on each corner and a 6-petalled flower inside each corner; gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on the board edges (altogether about 130 impressions of 13 tools), gilt edges.
REMY, Claude. · 1752
€16,000.00 ($17,635.31 | £13,346.32 | ¥2,816,468)
[2], 186, [4] pp.Beautiful calligraphic manuscript by Claude Remy, writing master and tutor of the children of the Paris beau monde for more than a decade before the French Revolution. The author-calligrapher notes in an epilogue that he had executed more than 60 similar instr...
L'art de nager, demontré par figures, avec des avis pour se baigner utilement. Paris, Thomas Moette, 1696. 12mo. With 35 engraved plates of people swimming by Charles Moette. Contemporary calf.
L'art de nager, demontré par figures, avec des avis pour se baigner utilement. Paris, Thomas Moette, 1696. 12mo. With 35 engraved plates of people swimming by Charles Moette. Contemporary calf.
THEVENOT, Melchisedech. · 1620
€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)
[12], XII, 47, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a delightfully illustrated manual on swimming. It is one of the earliest works on the subject, being preceded, according to the author's preface, only by the works of the Englishman Everard Digby and the Dutchman Nicholas Wijnman. M...