Book History, Education, Learning & Printing / Bindings

MEYER, Jacques de. Compendium chronicorum Flandriae, per Iacobum Meyerum Balliolanum. Opus nunc recens aeditum, anno M.D.XXXVIII. Norimbergae apud Io. Petrium.
Neurenberg, Johannus Petreius, 1538. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page of each work, and 33 decorated woodcut initials (2 in ad 1, 31 in ad 2). With: PANORMITA, Antonius (Antonio BECCADELLI). De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum libri quattuor. Commentarium in eosdem Aeneae Sylvii quo capitatim cum Alphonsinis contendit. Adiecta sunt singulis libris Scholia per Iacobum Spiegelium.
Basel, Ex officina Hervagiana (Joannes Hervagius & Joannes Erasmus Froben), 1538.
Contemporary panel-stamped calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, blind-tooled diagonal cross-hatching in the top and bottom compartment, a central panel on both boards (measuring 156 x 93 mm) with acorns on branches, surrounded by a floral border with acorns and wyverns, and an escutcheon at the bottom, the titles written in a humanistic hand at the top of the front board and on the fore edge, remnants of closing ties. [14], 134 ll; [8], 1-125, 226-299, 100-108, 209-212, 203, 213-214, 214-216, 117, 218-230, 221-278 [=282], [2] pp. Full description

MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Abregé chronologique de l'histoire de France. ... Divisé en six tomes.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1673-1674.
With: (2) MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Histoire de France avant Clovis.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1688.
2 works in 7 volumes. 12mo. Ad 1 with woodcut publisher's device on each of the 6 title-pages, engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe and full-page engraved portrait of Louis XIV by A. Zylevelt in volume 1, 61 engraved portraits of French rulers in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials. Ad 2: with engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe, title-page with woodcut publisher's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials. Uniform polished, crushed red morocco, gold-tooled boards, spines and wide turn-ins, fillets on board edges, edges gilt over marbling, marbled endpapers. Each volume signed and dated 1913 on the turn-in by the leading Brussels bookbinder Charles DE SAMBLANX (1855-1943). 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

[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

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

[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

NEAPOLIS, Carolus. Anaptyxis ad fastos P. Ovidii Nasonis.
Antwerp, Balthasar I Moretus, 1639. Folio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). With the title page engraved by Jacob Neeffs after a design by Erasmus Quellinus II, Plantin's large woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, several woodcuts in the text, several woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled reddish-brown leather, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a brown leather title label on the spine lettered in gold, the Jesuit monogram "IHS" central in the large lozenge-shaped centrepiece on both boards, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [1], [1 blank], [30], 304, [30], [2 blank] pp. Full description

NIDER, Johannes. Preceptorium divine legis [preceded by] Prologus in expositionem decalogi [= Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive expositio decalogi].
[Colophon:] Ulm, Johann Zainer the elder, [1478/79]. Chancery (Foolscap) folio. Set in a rotunda gothic type, the preliminaries in two columns, with spaces for manuscript paragraph marks and initials, filled in in red ink, the initials Lombardic, one with interior decoration. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over square-edged wooden boards (from an Augsburg bindery active 1473-1494: Eindbanddatenbank workshop w002141). Further with a brass catchplate on the front board and a brass anchor plate on the back board. [246] ll. Full description

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans comptoir almanach op 't Jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi M.DC.LXXXI. na de Nieuwe en Oude-stijl. Versien met de jaer-marckten, paerde, beeste- en leer-marckten: daer neven een prognosticatie, op alle nieuwe, volle en quartier-maenden. De dagelijkse uuren van des maens op en onder-gangh door Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, mathematicus. Mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Hollant in 's Graven-Hage, Utrecht, Vrieslandt, Groeningen, en de Stadt Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Zaagman, [1680]. 4to. With the title and calendar printed in red and black, a large woodcut view of the Amsterdam stock-exchange on the title page, 12 large woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each month, depicting the main activities practised during this month), a small woodcut of an eclipse and a larger woodcut of a Zodiac man. Contemporary silver-tooled vellum, with on the front a central panel with a maid carrying a lance next to a book (the Bible?) on a column, and on the back a central panel with three drummers, both surrounded by an elaborate large frame block with the coat-of-arms of Holland in the "garden" of the Dutch Republic flanked by the other provincial arms at the top (the arms of the major Dutch cities at the left and right and a view of Amsterdam from the IJ at the bottom). [16] ll. Full description