Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

MIGNET, François Auguste Marie. 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. XII, 175, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

[MIGOEN, Jacobus Wilhelmi]. Proeve des nu onlangs uyt-ghegheven drooms, oft t'samenspraack tusschen den coningh van Hispanien ende den Paus van Roomen. Met noch eenen anderen droom, contrarie den voorschreven. Mits gaders eene vermaninghe, aan alle vroome ende ghetrouwe vader-landers, hoe zij haar in dezer tijdt te draghen hebben (...). Beschreven door een lief-hebber aller menschen, maar in sonderheydt den Godt-zoeckeñ ende trou-hertighen in gheboorne dezer vrijer provincien. Door NISEMVOLBG472HC58A22W.
[Gouda, J.W. Migoen, 1607]. 4to. Modern wrappers. Full description

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. Le petit volage. Pour l'an 1819.
Paris, [chez Louis Janet, 1818]. 128mo (ca. 2.7 x 1.7 cm). With 8 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, with an upside down fleuron in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border, gilt edges. 64 pp. Full description

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. La miniature.
Paris, A. Marcilly, [1843]. 128mo (ca. 2.5 x 1.8 cm). With 6 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, a fleuron in the centre of the front and back, surrounded by an ornamental border, gilt edges. 64 pp. Full description

[MINIATURE BOOK - ALMANACK - LONDON]. London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1788.
London, T. Carnan, [1788]. 24mo(?) (5.7 x 3.3 cm). With an engraved armorial title page, 4 full-page engraved portraits, and a half-page engraved view. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco, the gold-tooled boards are beautifully decorated with a white morocco trellis-like (mosaic) pattern with red and green lozenge shaped morocco inlays, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [24] pp. Full description

[MINIATURE BOOK - ALMANACK - LONDON]. London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1851.
[London, Company of Stationers, 1851]. 24mo(?) (5.8 x 3.3 cm). With a steel-engraved armorial title page, a four-page steel-engraved view, and a steel-engraved half-page armorial vignette. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, both boards show a beautiful geometrical design of gold-tooled black, white, and green morocco, gilt edges, in a matching slipcase. [24] pp. Full description

[MINIATURE BOOK - BIBLE]. Kern des Bybels.
The Hague, Anthoni de Groot and sons, 1750. 128mo (or possibly 96mo) in 4s (4.5 x 3 x 1 cm). Title-page in red and black with a woodcut title-vignette (an open book on a shell, with decorations), 7 full-page (3.3 x 1.6 cm!) woodcuts depicting important scenes from the Bible (1 as frontispiece and 1 opening each of the 5 "books" and the appendix). Contemporary gold-tooled calf. 80 pp. Full description

[MINIATURE BOOKS - DUTCH]. Bibliotheek in miniatuur.
Comprising:
(1) De aardrijkskunde.
(2) De gewijde geschiedenis.
(3) Vaderlandsche geschiedenis.
(4) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der viervoetige dieren.
(5) De natuurlijke geschiedenis der vogelen.
(6) Natuurlijke geschiedenis der insekten, kruipende dieren en visschen.
(7) De kruidkunde.
(8) Zedelijke verhalen.
(9) Arabische vertellingen.
(10) De mythologie.
Amsterdam, M. Westerman, 1823. 10 volumes. Ca 7.7 x 6.5 cm. With 31 engraved plates and 5 engraved maps, including a folding world map. In the original pink and green cardboard case with glass lid, green printed paper wrappers, with cream paper dust jackets with the titles in manuscript on the front. Full description

[MISSAL - LATIN]. Missale Romanum, ex decreto Sacrosancti Consilii Tridentini restitutum Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum. Additis aliquot SS. Officiis, ex praecepto S.D.N. Sixti Papae Quinti.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1587. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette with Peter and Paul by Peeter van der Borcht on the title page, 6 full-page woodcuts (ca. 112 x 75 mm) by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht, 6 half-page square woodcuts (55 x 55 mm) in border, one signed by Antoon van Leest, one woodcut (90 x 76 mm) by Antoon van Leest after Peeter van der Borcht, and 2 smaller oval woodcuts. The work is printed in red and black.
Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 4 double supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the manuscript title in the first compartment and the original manuscript shelf mark label ("H.36") of the Monastery of Buxheim in the fifth compartment, both boards with an ornamental roll and a roll with the portraits of Salvater (sic!), Maria, S. Bruno, and S. Johannes in a panel design, two original brass clasps and catches, ornamented with a small star, leather tabs, and six original bookmarkers plaited into a big knot. XLV, [19], 528, CX, [2] pp. Full description

MOLÉ, Joseph. Épreuves de caractères Arabes, gravés et fondus par Molé Jeune, sous la direction de M. L. Langlès.
Paris, (back of title-page: Imprimerie d'Éverat), 1823. 4to. Modern boards. 14 ll. Full description