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ABANDONED ON HER WEDDING NIGHT: L'illustre Olympie ou le St Alexis; tragedie

Nicolas-Marc Desfontaines (Nicolas Mary)
[8], 80 p. | 8vo | pi4 A-K^4 | 143 x 92 mm --- An early edition of this dramatized hagiography of Saint Alexius of Rome. The 1645 edition is typically considered the first, though the Bibliothèque nationale does report a 1644. Others appeared at least in 1649, 1653, and 1658; another 1661…
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POEM MASQUERADES AS PLAY: Graf Peter der Däne: ein historische Gemählde

Franz Alexander von Kleist
[4], 316, [2] p. | 8vo | pi^2 A-T^8 V^8(-V8) | 179 x 105 mm --- First and only edition of the German writer's dramatic poem on Piotr Włostowic (aka Peter Wlast or Peter the Dane), a 12th-century Polish knight who became something of a legend. True to its form, the work has many trappings of…
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DECORATED MANUSCRIPT WASTE BINDING: L'Anacréon françois, ou, Recueil de chansons, romances, ariettes, vaudevilles, et a-propos de société

edited by Louis-Pierre Couret de Villeneuve
[6], 280; [4], 248 p. (2 v. in 1) | 8vo | pi^4 A^8(-A1) B-R^8 S^4; pi^2 A-P^8 Q^4 | 172 x 105 mm ---- First edition of this collection of libertine French lyrics, "a selection of the most agreeable of erotic and Bacchic productions" (pi4v). Many poems indicate the tune to which they should…
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CUSTOMIZED WITH UNRECORDED APOTHECARY DIRECTORY: Stichtse almanach op 't jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi 1786; voorzien met de jaar- paarde- beeste- on Leer-markten, vacantien, vertrekken en aankomen der posten en bodens; het varen der trekschuiten en veerschepen; het afryden der postwagens, zo in 't sti

[48]; [24]; 96; 24 p. + [1] folding plate + folded apothecary handbill | 12mo | [A]^12 B^12; A^12; A^8 B^4 C-E^12; A^12 | Almanac: 120 x 75 mm Handbill: 178 x 127 mm --- A Dutch merchants' almanac for 1786, with an interleaved calendar providing dates, days, moon phases, and times of the…
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STUDENTS' ANNOTATED CICERO: In epistolas M. Tullii Ciceronis, quae familiares vocantur, Paulli Manutij commentarius; cum duplici rerum & verborum indice; cui additus est alter eiusdem ad M. Brutum & Quinctum fratrem

Cicero | commentary by Paolo Manuzio (Paulus Manutius)
[8], 951, [1] p. | 8vo | *^4 a-z^8 A-2N^8 2O^4 | 162 x 102 mm --- Title notwithstanding, this volume contains only Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares (with Manuzio's commentary). The letters to Atticus and Quintus appeared in a subsequent volume, but one continuing our pagination. In 1580,…
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A Leaf History of British Printing From 1610 to 1774

Wakeman, Geoffrey
Oxford: Plough Press, 1986. One of 110 copies. No binding. Fine. Folio. (6)pp., followed by ten annotated folders containing type and paper specimens. This collection of leaves was compiled to demonstrate some of the most important characteristics of nearly two hundred years of printing in…
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PAINTED LEATHER FOR THE NEOCLASSICAL CRAZE: The narrative of the Honourable John Byron (commodore in a late expedition round the world), containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coasts of Patagonia, from the year 1740 till their arrival in England,

by John Byron
xii, 264 p. | 12mo | A-Z^6 | 159 x 90 mm ---- Perhaps the fifth edition of the British navy officer's account of his ill-fated expedition to Chile, a travelogue that likely influenced the shipwreck scene in his grandson's more famous work, Lord Byron's Don Juan. It was first published in…
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JESUIT BUTTER SELLER SATIRE | MARIE DE GOURNAY ATTACKED: Le remerciment des beurrieres de Paris, au Sieur de Courbouzon Montgomery [bound with] Le fleau d'Aristogiton, ou contre le calomniateur des Peres Jesuites soubs le tiltre d'Anticoton

Louis de Montgommery
29, [3]; 15, [1] p. | 8vo | A-D^4; A-B^4 | 169 x 104 mm --- Both are among several editions published in 1610, each boasting a Dutch translation too, all part of a Protestant-Jesuit pamphlet war that accelerated after the 1610 assassination of Henri IV. Our Le fleau is not the 1610 Paris…
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ANNOTATOR AS CREATIVE WRITER: Epitome epithetorum Joannis Ravisii Textoris; accesserunt de carminibus ad veterum imitationem artificiosè componendis praecepta bona & utilia, collecta à Georgio Sabino

Jean Tixier de Ravisi | with a contribution by Georg Sabinus
423, [1] p. | 16mo | A-2C^8 2D^4 | 119 x 79 mm --- A later edition of the Parisian scholar's popular poetic thesaurus, first published in 1518, frequently reprinted, and drawn from for similar works even into the 18th century. It was "one of the most influential collections" among its genre…
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[VELVET, SILK, LINEN, GOLD AND SILVER - A PROTECTIONIST AND ZWINGLIAN ORDER OF MATERIALS] Ordnung wider den Pracht Und Uberfluß in Kleideren, Wie auch Andere Excessen und Uppigkeiten In der Statt Berm [Order against pomp and extravagance in clothing, as well as other excesses and extravagances in the city of Berm]

Cantzley Bern [State Chancellery of Bern]
Bern: Hoch-Oberkeitliche Druckerei, 1715. Small quarto (19.9 × 15.6 cm). Later colored paper wrappers; 44 pp. with a title woodcut of the Bern coat of arms. Toned and slightly fox-stained, with punched hole along the top edge and a silk ribbon threaded through.
Early printing of this…
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SINGULAR BINDING: De adipiscenda et retinenda possessione amplissima et doctissima commentaria, nunquam hactenus edita; haec quam sint omnibus utilia, commemorare, necessarium est minime; cum ipsa de se ipsis aperte loquantur; adiectae sunt rerum notabilium summae ac index

by Giacomo Menochio
[32], 90, [2], 91-169 leaves | Folio | *^4 a-d^6 e^4 A-P^6 chi^2 Q-2D^6 2E^8(-2E8 blank) | 313 x 215 mm ---- First edition of this influential treatise on the law of possession by the accomplished Paduan civil lawyer, "at the time one of the most sought-after of the Italian jurists"…
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LATIN FOR THE FRENCH, INTERLEAVED BY A GERMAN: Indiculus universalis, rerum fere omnium, quae in mundo sunt, scientiarum item, artiumque nomina; aptè, breviterque colligens | L'univers en abregé, où sont contenus en diverses listes, presque tous les noms des ouvrages de la nature, de toutes les sci

François Pomey
[24], 276 p. | 12mo | a^12 A-L^12 M^6 | 135 x 81 mm --- An early edition of the French Jesuit's bilingual guide to learning Latin vocabulary, which first appeared at Lyon in 1667, also as a bilingual Latin-French work. It went through dozens of editions, in multiple language combinations,…
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