Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

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

MÖLLER, Christian Heinrich. Lexicon Entomologicum, oder entomologisches Wörterbuch, in welchem alle in diese Wissenschaft einschlagende Begriffe und die in den Linneischen und Fabrizischen Schriften vorkommende Terminologien überstezt, erklärt und mit Beyspielen, nach beyden Systemen, erläutert werden.
Erfurt, Georg Adam Keyser, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary blue boards. XVI, 704 pp. Full description

MONDE, Nicolaas van der. Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, oudheden en statistiek van Utrecht. Jaargang 1-9. 2de Serie. Jaargang 1-3.
Utrecht, Nicolaas van der Monde, 1835-1846. 12 volumes. With 12 lithographed titles, 64 lithographed or engraved plans, views, and plates (several folding and 1 handcoloured), and 14 folding tables. Contemporary gold-tooled half mottled calf. Circa 500 pp. each vol. Full description

[MONTALVO, Garci Rodríguez de]. Het XIIII.de - XVIII.de, boeck van Amadis de Gaule. Uyt de Fransche in onse Nederduytsche Tale over gheset.
Amsterdam, Hendrick Barentsz., 1615-1623, 5 parts in 1 vol. 4to. With ornamental woodcut borders and woodcut illustrations on 5 titles. Contemporary vellum, with red painted edges. [8], 166; [2], 145, [2, 3 blank]; 94, [2]; 200, [8]; [8], 402 pp. Full description

MORELLET, André. 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. VIII, 381, [3], 34, [2 blank] pp. Full description

[MOSAIC BINDING - BIBLE]. LEEMPUTTE, Henricus van den (editor). Het nieuwe testament ons salighmaeckers Jesu Christi, mitsgaders: d'epistelen uit het oude testament, soo die door 't jaer in den dienst der H. Kercke gelesen worden.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen (for Niclaes Braau in Haarlem), 1696. 8vo. With 39 detailed woodcut illustrations in the text, and woodcut decorated initials and small printed manicules. The text is set in a Gothic letter, with incidental use of Roman type. Exquisite 18th-century gold-tooled multi-colour morocco mosaic binding. Gilt edges and green silk covered end papers. [1], [1 blank], [14], 837, [27] pp. Full description

[MOUSSET, Louis-Marie and Louis-Savinien DUPUIS]. Vocabulaire Français-Tamoul.
Pondicherry, Imprimerie des Missionnaires Apostoliques de la Dite Congrégation, 1850. 8vo. With the text printed in two columns in roman and Tamil type. Contemporary speckled sheepskin, gold-tooled title label on spine, gold-tooled spine, blue sprinkled edges. [10], 420 pp. Full description

MÜLLER, Christian Gottlieb. Verzeichnis von Nürnbergischen topographisch-historischen Kupferstichen und Holzschnitten.
Nuremberg, printed for the author, 1791. 4to. Later boards. 208, [2] pp., interleaved. Full description

[MUHAMMAD]. Historie, van den oorspronck, geslacht, geboorte, opvoedinge, en leere des grooten valschen propheets Mahomets. Als mede, hoe hy zijn secte onder de menschen gestroyt: en van die aenghenomen is, en wat eynde hy slefs genomen heeft. Mitsgaders, hoe verre en breet hy zijn rijck onder de Turcken verbreydet heeft: en wat van den Roomsche Keyseren Leone en Severo tot op dese tegenwoordige tijt toe daer af voorseyt is.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1627.
With: (2) [PROPHECIES - OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. Prophetien, of voorseggingen der beyde Keyseren Severi en Leonis, die beyde in Orienten gheregeert hebben. ...
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1627. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved title page, depicting ten different scenes including nine based on illustrations by De Bry, only the scene of the Ottoman army at the head of the title is not from De Bry. These nine De Bry illustrations are also repeated, in larger format and greater detail, throughout the work. Further with a small ornament on the title page and several woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with a large woodcut on the title page showing the Ottomans reaching Constantinople, and 16 engravings in the text with emblematic scenes featuring sultans, including Mehmet II and Sulaiman I, animals such as unicorns, nursing bears, eagles, ravens, wolves, snakes, mythological figures, rulers, etc. Each plate is followed by an epigram and explanation. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold. [1], [1 blank], [4], 119, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [2], 41, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

MUHAMMAD ALI UTAY. [Egyptian ABC book].
[Cairo, ca. 1925]. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations in the text. The title-page with a frame of foliage (oval inside, rectangular outside) and part of its text printed from a woodblock. Further with a portrait of King Fuad I of Egypt and illustrations of animals, etc. Original publishers printed-paper wrappers, matching the title-page but with the frame in green and the text in red. 46, [2 blank] pp. Full description