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4to (152 x 208 mm). 3 volumes. (6), 236 ff. (6), 203 ff. (8), 284 ff. With woodcut printer's device to title-pages. Early 19th century full vellum with giltstamped spines and double labels. All edges gilt and goffered with a floral design. Rare collection of correspondence by significant personalities and rulers, including Andrea Doria, Annibale Caro, Baldassare Castiglione, Bernardo and Pietro Bibiena, Cardinal Bessarion, Lorenzo and Cosimo de' Medici, Pietro Gonzaga, Hieronimo Fracastoro, Giovanni Bembo, Francesco Guiccardini, Emperor Charles V, Pope Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici), etc. Important both as historical and linguistic documents; the definitive edition. - Ruscelli was a prolific and versatile Italian scholar who published on topics ranging from cartography to alchemy. A native of Viterbo, he eventually settled in Venice, where the first edition of "Delle Lettere Di Principi" was published in 1562 in a single volume. The collection demonstrates the rich social context of 16th century Venice, as Ruscelli himself is a classic example of the multidisciplinary Renaissance man. - Light foxing throughout and occasional light soiling or waterstaining. A prettily bound set with 19th century collection stamp to title-pages of vols. 1 and 3. Edit 16, CNCE 16617. Adams L 564. BM-STC Italian 376. Melzi II, 115f. Gamba 1470 ("a very valuable collection").
1992ref. 45401ABMonaco, Editions Andre Sauret et Editions Michele Trinckvel, 1992. 4°. 32 cm. 247 Seiten. Original-Leinenband mit Original-Schutzumschlag.
1762ref. 44592Arles, Jacques Mesnier, 1762. In-12 de (8)-235-(1) pp. maroquin rouge, dos lisse orné, roulette, filet et frise dorés d'encadrement sur les plats, armes et devise dorées de la ville d'Arles frappées au centre, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque).
Folio (230:340 mm). (18) pp., 1 bl. f., 551 (but: 549), (4), 552-651, (41) pp. Attractively blindstamped contemp. pigskin binding over bevelled wooden boards. 2 brass clasps. Second issue by Herwagen (printed by him previously in 1550), first published at Ortona in 1518. The author "defends Catholicism against Judaism and also stands up for Reuchlin as regards the assaults of his contemporaries" (cf. Fürst). With many Hebrew passages and quotations. At the end: Reuchlin's "De arte cabbalistica" (not included in the first edition). This famous work on cabbalistic art is written in the form of a discussion between three men: the Jew Simon, the Muslim Marranus, and the Pythagorean Philolaus, who come together for talks at Frankfurt/Main, the residence of the Jew. - Altogether well-preserved. Very rare. VD 16, C 4616. Adams C 2420. Benzing 102. Goed. I, 416, 20. Fürst I, 314.
4to. [287] ff. (B-C6, D-E8, F28 [!], G8, H6, J8, K4, L-N8, O6, P-Q8, R6, S-V8, X6, Y-Z8, a8, b4, c7 [6+1: includes "c medium" between c2 and c3], d-e8, f6, g-h8, i4, k-l8, m6, n-p8; published thus without a gathering A, agreeing with ÖNB copy). With title woodcut, 8 pp. of musical notes, and numerous (32 large, 12 almost full-page, and hundreds of small) woodcuts in the text (wanting the woodcut map and the folding plate on musical theory). Contemp. wooden boards with blindstamped pigskin spine and one central brass clasp. The first encyclopedic work in modern European history. The first Strasbourg edition, a revision of the Freiburg first edition published the previous year. In the manner of a dialogue between teacher and student, the book discusses the sciences and liberal arts, including music (with notes), medicine, geometry, surveying, etc. Grüninger modified several woodcuts from the first edition and added others; he also incorporated a brief Hebrew grammar by Conrad Pellicanus, making this the first Strasbourg-printed book to include Hebrew type (cf. Schmidt). - Among the illustrations are a map of the world on f. c6r and many charming miniature woodcuts in the margins. Occasionally, details of the initials (F11r) and woodcuts (e.g., F18v, c2v [salamander], and c3v [dragon]) have been coloured in red. Several contemporary underlinings and marginalia, including a lengthy note on earthquakes that supplements the printed text by additional sources, such as the Arabian astronomer Abu Ma'shar: "Erdbebung bedeute straff Gottes. Naturliche Ursachen nemlich die Hitz und würckung etlicher Planeten, mit der Sonnen, als Martis, Iovis, Saturni, und sönderlich sagt Albumasar vom Saturno. Bedeuten stets künfftig Unglück, wie auch Plinius danen saget, das kein Erdbidem zu Rom geschehen sey one Bedeutung künfftiger ding [...]" (c5v). Some browning and fingerstaining; quires S and e misbound; several small edge defects (larger in d5, k6); paper defects to D4 and (almost touching text) d6. Some worming near beginning and end of volume, also concerning the binding; some damage to spine-ends. VD 16, R 1034. BM-STC 731. Proctor 9891. Schmidt (Grüninger) 66. Ritter 1984. Muller 24, 26. Smith, Rara, 82. Sabin 69123. Ferguson (Reisch) 201f. Alden/L. 504/2. Zinner 849. Eitner VIII, 183. Not in Adams.
Folio (189 x 290 mm). XVI, (1) pp. With large woodcut title illustration and 6 woodcut illustrations in the text, all by Jost Amman. Modern marbled boards with cloth spine, new endpapers. All edges red. Second independent edition of this "short account of the manner how towns, castles, and other places are to be garrisoned with soldiers in such a way that they may withstand the enemy". Formerly attributed erroneously to Fronsperger's "Kriegßbuch", from which Amman's fine title woodcut was taken, the treatise was first published privately in 1560 as the 8th volume of the monumental military encyclopedia by the imperial field marshal and fortification architect Reinhard count Solms (1491-1562); Feyerabend issued it separately in 1563. The text woodcuts show siege engines and instruments. - Leaves XIII and XIIII transposed. Colophon leaf repaired at foot and spotted. - Provenance: the library of Heinrich Stiebel, Frankfurt (his bookplate on pastedown, numbered 5272). Later in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research (purchased from Sotheran's, December 1936). VD 16, R 940. Jähns I, 550 (and cf. 509-514). Cf. Cockle 530 (1563 ed.).
1991ref. IMPRIMEDITION1014Villeurbanne, Ets A. Rey, 1991, 21 x 30, 154 pages cousues sous couverture souple imprimée. Préface de Charles Juliet. Iconographie noir & blanc et couleurs. Un des 650 exemplaires numérotés.
ref. 13978262London: The Studio, 1926 in-4, pp.145-192 + xii pages d'annonces, illustrations dans le texte et 4 planches hors texte en couleurs. Broché, couv. défraichie, dos cassé, avec manques. Sommaire: HAMILTON: F. Gordon Crosby a draughtsman of cars. Jiro HARADA: Modern Japanese posters. Wilhelm LOTZ: German industry, training the designer. J.M. BOWLES: The Ovington campaign. Aspects of the selling art. The Royal Society of Arts exhibition. Horace TAYLOR: The Cloister Press, a bold venture. Gerald REITLINGER: Machine production, a warning and a panagyric. R. P. GOSSOP: Holiday posters.
1916ref. 24393Marseille Imprimerie Moullot Fils Aîné 1916 une carte de visite double page (un bristol plié en deux) sur papier bristol, format : 13 x 9 cm, imprimée en rouge et chocolat, 1ère page : Maison pascal créée en 1829 et tenue de tout temps de père en fils, bouillabaisse à partir de 9h du matin avec la moitié gauche montrant une gravure représentant la mer devant le Fort Saint-Jean, les deux parties centrales de la carte donnent un plan de la Maison PASCAL pour rejoindre l'exposition COLONIALE (de Marseille) 1916 avec un tracé en rouge sur fond chocolat, la 4ème page décline les spécialités de la maison en rouge et chocolat avec une gravure animée de la Maison PASCAL en partie gauche, dans un encadrement d'un double filet rouge, Marseille Imprimerie Moullot Fils Aîné 1916,
1910ref. 26880nantes Jules Pequignot et Clouet 1910 une carte de visite sur papier bristol blanc, format : 12 x 15,5 cm, imprimée en noir et illustrée en partie gauche, d'une gravure représentant une tête de femme avec un trés grand chapeau à plumes en noir, 1910 Nantes Imprimerie Jules Pequignot et Clouet Editeurs,
ref. 21697Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1792. In-4° de 2 pp.[D46]
1898ref. 200483Périgueux, Imprimerie de la Dordogne, 1898, brochure in-8, 39 pp. et une planche hors-texte.
1930ref. 25638Nantes imprimerie chambon 1930 un tirage d'essai pour un couvercle de boite de Galettes Bretonnes avec illustrations en COULEURS représentant : "l'Ile Louët et le Chateau du Taureau", sur papier mat blanc pour la Marque : GALETTES BRETONNES "AR GUELLA" YVES CREAC'H - PLACE DE L'EGLISE - CARANTEC (FINISTERE) , certainement à l'occasion d'un devis demandé par la Maison GALETTES BRETONNES "AR GUELLA" YVES CREAC'H - PLACE DE L'EGLISE - CARANTEC (FINISTERE) à l'Imprimerie Chambon à Nantes, Format : 29 x 16,5 cm, sans date (1930) sans nom d'imprimeur (Nantes - imprimerie Chambon [LOUIS CHAMBON était le successeur d'Alfred RIOM industriel Nantais ferblantier, imprimeur sur métaux]) pour GALETTES BRETONNES "AR GUELLA" YVES CREAC'H - PLACE DE L'EGLISE - CARANTEC (FINISTERE),
1958ref. 41578Brooklyn NY: Consolidated Lithographing Corp 1958. Near fine. An enormous scrapbook of chronologically-arranged printing samples from the Consolidated Lithographing Corporation of Brooklyn preserving the company's packaging work for the undergarment industry. Labels include bands tags wraps and labels from predominantly women's products: stockings hosiery lingerie bras panties and the like. Men's and children's products also represented however socks undershirts etc. The printing processes evident in the samples evolve from chromolithography to color lithography to photo mechanical in the later examples - all vivid and exhibiting elegant postwar design. Hundreds of brands and products in total: Regent Hosiery Artemis Underthings Treo Undergaments Spick and Span Hosiery Lowenstein Fabrics Sport-Wear The Lone Ranger and Superman Branded Socks among many others. Consolidated Lithographing Corporation was founded by Jacob A. Voice around 1925 and operated as one of the finest and most prolific American commercial printers of the era specializing in cigar labels dust jackets for Doubleday liquor labels garment packaging and more. This rich archive likely containing the only extant examples of numerous works offers numerous worthy avenues for future study: from commercial printing methods to mid-century design and marketing. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Grey cloth screw-bound boards. Measuring approximately 24" x 16.5" containing 350 color lithographed and chromolithographed paper packaging elements in a wide variety of sizes adhesive mounted recto and verso to 38 paper leaves. Additional 65 leaves blank. Top board stamped "Consolidated Lithographing Corporation." Pencil notations recording catalog numbers and dates throughout. Mild handling wear to exterior. Penned notation to cover notes "Set 5 Book 5." Likely one volume from larger company archive. Contents clean well preserved and apparently complete. Near fine overall. Consolidated Lithographing Corp unknown books
1913ref. TK0187Leipzig:: Julius Maser no date ca. 1913. 1913. Small 8vo. IV 96 pp. Beautifully illustrated with a couple of figures that are supported with an unnumbered but substantial number of plates 67 that are printed in different ways to become a printer's specimen book of printing forms. Original blue gilt-stamped cloth; rubbed. On various methods of printing. PROVENANCE: Rubber-stamp of Dr. Franz Karl Muck Buch-u. Musikalienhandlung Vienna; bookplate of Fr. W. Graeser bookplate showing a partly nude young girl with arms outstretched – with a deer/stag with antlers signed with two interlocked letter forms possibly 'AP' for Alice Pinkus. Julius Maser, [no date, ca. 1913]. hardcover books
1927ref. 68776Salt Lake City UT: Porte Publishing Company 1927. First Porte Publishing edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 153pp. Duodecimo 19 cm 1/4 tan woven cloth with pale greenish-gray paper over boards. Light soiling to the boards. Underlying boards exposed occasionally along the edges. Pages tanned. Reprinted from The Inland Printer. Fiction depicting the printing industry. Roy Trewin Porte 1876-1936 was heavily interested in the field of printing and publishing. "His Porte's mastery of printing and his knowledge of cost finding led to his appointment as secretary and cost expert of the Commercial Printers’ organization in Cincinnati Ohio. In this role he traveled widely as a lecturer on the topic of printing costs. In July 1916 Porte found himself in Salt Lake City Utah to assume the position of secretary of the Ben Franklin Club. One year later he published the first edition of the Price List which later became well-known as the Franklin Printing Catalog. The success of the Price List was immediate and in 1924 the Porte Publishing Company was established to continue publishing the catalog." - J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah Blog. Porte Publishing Company hardcover books
1956ref. 8475Phoenix House London: Tinlings of Liverpool 1956. 11 specimens of printers’ ornaments including various arabesques flowers and shapes with an explanation accompanying each one. Drawings on pages 38 and 53 by Heather Copley. Set in monotype Bell and printed on Basingwerk Parchment. 12mo. original quarter parchment over marbled paper boards lettering and decorative design in gilt to spine. Slightly darkened at spine and rubbed at extremities but generally a very good copy.With the booklabel of Robert Elwell. Tinlings of Liverpool hardcover
1930ref. 8416New York: Covici-Friede 1930. Illustrated with more than 100 reproductions of text and title pages. One of 1050 copies of which 50 were special copies. Set in Baskerville type and printed by the Southworth Press Portland Maine. Sm. 4to. 18.5 x 27 cms specially bound for the author in half brown morocco over marbled paper boards fore and lower edges uncut lacking the label on the book spine housed in the original brown cloth slipcase. A partly unopened copy in a mildly rubbed slipcase. Original prospectus inserted loose. Inscribed by the author to friend and printer of the book Fred Anthoenson of The Southworth Press ‘with appreciation of his help and kindness’. Inscribed by the author to the printer Covici-Friede hardcover
1921ref. 14224Jena: Eugen Diederichs n.d. ca. 1921. Original edition. Decorated Boards. Very Good. Octavo pp. 23 and 3 Plates. Illustrated with b/w woodblock prints. Text in German Gothic script. A very nice copy. Eugen Diederichs hardcover
1908ref. 40636Chicago: Inland Printer Co. 1908. 8vo. 213 3 pp including publisher’s ads. Numerous text illusts. of apparatus & equipment. Burgundy linen white lettrng mnr soilng staining occasional interior soilng still a G copy. Second edition revised & expanded of this exceedingly scarce reference work on electrotyping which was used for making duplicate plates for letterpress printing and especially for finely engraved plates. It was a far superior process to stereotyping. Inland Printer Co., unknown
ref. 5081Without date circa 1850; 60 Wellington Street Goswell Street London. On good thick wove paper roughly six and a quarter inches by four and three-quarters wide. Dimensions of plate indentation five inches by three wide. Good on aged and lightly-foxed paper left edge irregular indicating extraction. A very attractive card carrying an engraving of a sylvan scene giving a very good idea of Sandon's qualities. Reads in a variety of hands 'EVERY Description OF ENGRAVING & PRINTING Neatly executed. vignette HENRY SANDON 60 Wellington Street Goswell Street London.' Sandon does not feature in BBTI. See Image Without date [circa 1850?]; 60, Wellington Street, Goswell Street, London. unknown
1958ref. 41578Brooklyn NY: Consolidated Lithographing Corp 1958. Near fine. An enormous scrapbook of chronologically-arranged printing samples from the Consolidated Lithographing Corporation of Brooklyn preserving the company's packaging work for the undergarment industry. Labels include bands tags wraps and labels from predominantly women's products: stockings hosiery lingerie bras panties and the like. Men's and children's products also represented however socks undershirts etc. The printing processes evident in the samples evolve from chromolithography to color lithography to photo mechanical in the later examples - all vivid and exhibiting elegant postwar design. Hundreds of brands and products in total: Regent Hosiery Artemis Underthings Treo Undergaments Spick and Span Hosiery Lowenstein Fabrics Sport-Wear The Lone Ranger and Superman Branded Socks among many others. Consolidated Lithographing Corporation was founded by Jacob A. Voice around 1925 and operated as one of the finest and most prolific American commercial printers of the era specializing in cigar labels dust jackets for Doubleday liquor labels garment packaging and more. This rich archive likely containing the only extant examples of numerous works offers numerous worthy avenues for future study: from commercial printing methods to mid-century design and marketing. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Grey cloth screw-bound boards. Measuring approximately 24" x 16.5" containing 350 color lithographed and chromolithographed paper packaging elements in a wide variety of sizes adhesive mounted recto and verso to 38 paper leaves. Additional 65 leaves blank. Top board stamped "Consolidated Lithographing Corporation." Pencil notations recording catalog numbers and dates throughout. Mild handling wear to exterior. Penned notation to cover notes "Set 5 Book 5." Likely one volume from larger company archive. Contents clean well preserved and apparently complete. Near fine overall. Consolidated Lithographing Corp unknown
1994ref. 12285San Francisco: M & H Type 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. M & H Type. Narrow 4to 10 3/4" x 4 3/4" Pp. vii 119 5 for notes. With introduction and index. Illustrated with 12 photographs in b/w. Bound in moss green cloth with title and decoration stamped in black. Laid in is a letterpress broadside featuring company history and information regarding tours location etc. A handsome copy of book limited to 1000 copies with 12 photographs in b/w by San Francisco photographer Dennis Hearne interspersed throughout. M & H Type hardcover
1848ref. 59211A la Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret Rue hautefeuille 10 bis.; Rue hautefeuille 12 1848-1850. Two vols. 1st - 12mo. 4 248 pp. Contemporary quarter brown-morocco over marbled boards marbled endpapers raised bands gilt ruling & lettering on spine wear rubbing edgewear some scuffing occasional foxing still VG- copy w/ former ownership markings of the noted illustrator Henri Stein 1843-1919 whose illustrations graced the El Mosquito a “satirical-burlesque with caricatures” newspaper appearing weekly from 1863 to 1893; 2nd - 4to. 4 pp. with 30 double-page engraved plates all mounted on paper stubs at gutter margin. Quarter plum-coloured pebbled publisher’s cloth over marbled boards edgewear rubbing minor bumping to corners ex-lib stamps on a few leaves still VG set. First edition of the first volume and early printing of the companion atlas of this scarce Roret set on decorative lettering geometrical details perspective and ornamental details. The alphabets encompass a variety of printer’s and sign painter’s fonts ornamental and historiated letters cursives Spencerian scripts and more. A la Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Rue hautefeuille, 10 bis.; Rue hautefeuille 12, hardcover
1930ref. 41599London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1930. Tall thick 4to. ix 1 447 1 pp. 100s of text illusts. photos diagrams colour plates colour printing samples and more. Three-quarter red calf over red cloth raised bands gilt lettrng on frnt cvr & spine w/ d.j. chipping head & foot of spine corners minor creasing closed tears NF/G- copy. First edition of this invaluable reference work including sections on advertising and printing terms typography and type faces commercial art and presentation window displays business planning & promotion specimens of printing writing papers cards and much more. Of particular interest are the tipped-in marbled paper and binding material samples with exceptional colours and quality. Exceedingly scarce with the original dustjacket. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., hardcover
