Book History, Education, Learning & Printing / Education & Pedagogy

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SRI LANKA - HOSPITAL]. [Photograph of Sri Lanka's first hospital].
Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), [ca. 1893]. Photograph (10 x 14.6 cm.) on card (10.6 x 16.3 cm). Photograph (Albumen print) mounted on board (106 x162 mm), gilt edges, round corners. Advertisement of the photographer S.W. Lawton on verso, with a lady standing next to a late-19th-century camera, with the text: "Additional copies or enlargements of this Photograph can always be had", produced by Adams & Co, London. Full description

PIGRAY, Pierre. Epitome praeceptorum medicinae chirurgiae cum ampla singulis morbis conuenientum remediorum expositione ...
Paris, by the widow of Marc Orry, 1612. 8to. With an engraved title, an engraved portrait of the author, several woodcut head- and tailpieces, and decorated woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary overlapping vellum, 11, [1], 771, [33] pp. Full description

[GAME - PUZZLE - KING AND COURTIERS - FRANCE]. [Puzzle game of filling in the heads and parts of the costumes of a king, a young lady in a green dress, and a young man in a yellow and green outfit].
[Paris], R. Lacouchin, [ca. 1840]. 3 puzzles. 19.5 x 13 cm. With 3 finely lithographed plates mounted on 3 thick green paperboard cards. The lithographs are framed with a gold-coloured ornamental border. The images on the cards are all beautifully hand coloured and the 3 cards depict respectively a crowned king in ornate robes, a beautiful young lady in a green dress, and a young man (or possibly a court jester?) in an extravagant yellow and green outfit. Each card has 6 large circular movable pieces to be removed or inserted as the game demands in various circumstances. Full description

[RASPE, Rudolf Erich]. "Complete Original Edition" of the surprising travels and adventures of Baron Munchausen, in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic Ocean, and through the centre of Mount Aetna, into the South Sea. Also, an account of a voyage into the Moon and Dog Star ... A sequel, containing his expedition into Africa... humbly dedicated to Mr. Bruce.
London, R.S. Kirby, 1819. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a hand-coloured portrait of Baron Munchhausen as a frontispiece, and 27 hand-coloured engraved plates, including 8 folding. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, bound by Wallis (stamp on verso of first flyleaf). Kept in a marbled paper (and brown calf fore edge) slip case. XII, 179, [1] pp. Full description

RINGELBERG, Joachim Sterck van. Institutiones astronomicae ternis libris contentae. Quorum primus sphaerae ac mundi naturam declarat: secundus orbium: tertius circulorum.
Cologne, Petrus Quentell, 1528. Small 8vo. With a richly decorated architectural woodcut border on the title page, a large woodcut printer's device on the final leaf, four decorated woodcut initials, and four woodcut headpieces. Modern blueish-grey paper over boards. [7], "92" [=94], [3] pp. Full description

ROCKSTROH, Heinrich. Magazijn van belangrijke en leerzame kunststukjes, voor jonge lieden.
Zaltbommel, Johannes Noman, 1828. 12mo. With a hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 6 lithographed plates, and many smaller wood engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's printed paper boards. [2], XXII, 300 pp. Full description

ROEMER, Jan. Vruchtmandje voor de jeugd.
Amsterdam, J. Kaal, [1811]. 8vo. With a hand-coloured vignette (a fruit basket) on the title-page and 18 hand-coloured full-page plates. Original publisher's stiff brown printed paper boards. "XXXII" [= XXX], 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SADOLETO, Jacopo. De liberis recte instituendis, liber.
(Colophon:) Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio & fratres for Melchiorre Sessa, July 1533. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With Sessa's woodcut device of a cat with a mouse on the title-page. Modern overlapping vellum. 52, [1 blank] ll. Full description

SAINT-AUBIN, Augustin de. C'est-ici les différens jeux de petits polissons de Paris.
Paris, 1770. 4to (ca. 24.5 x 18.5 cm). A series of 6 unnumbered engraved prints (ca. 17 x 22 cm) representing children playing games. Each print is mounted on a paper leaf in a passe-partout (30 x 24 cm). Full description

SEBASTIANI, Pietro de’. Nuovo metodo, che facilita la lingua Toscana disteso con regole grammaticali, ...
Rome, Paolo Moneta, 1683. Small 12mo (14 x 8 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers. [4], 47, [1 blank] pp. Full description