Europe / Central & Eastern Europe

PÉRIN, René. Beautés historiques de la maison d'Autriche.
Paris, Delaunay, 1811. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 16 illustrations on 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary light brown mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. XX, 360; [4], 388 pp. Full description

PEŠINA Z CECHORODU, Tomáš Jan. Mars Moravicus. Sive bella horrida et cruenta, seditiones, tumultus, praelia, turbae: & ex ijs enatae crebrae et funestae rerum mutationes, dirae calamitates, incendia, clades, agrorum depopulationes, urbium vastitates, aedium sacrarum et prophanarum ruinae, arcium et oppidorum eversiones, pagorum cineres, populorum excidia, & alia id genus mala, quae Moravia hactenus passa fuit.
Prague, Joannis Arnolti de Dobroslawina, 1677. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Wenceslaus Wagner after A. Lublinsky, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and large folding engraved map of Moravia (50 x 38 cm) by Samuel Dworzak, dated Prague 1677. Further with numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut ornamental head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red edges, remnants of green closing ties. [24], "958" [= 956], [16] pp. Full description

PESTALOZZI, Johann Heinrich. Meine Lebensschicksale als Vorsteher meiner Erziehungsinstitute in Burgdorf und Iferten.
Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, 1826. 8vo. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. [4], 251, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PFUEL, Ernst von]. Geschiedkundig tafereel van den aftogt der Franschen uit Rusland. Vertaald naar het origineel, te Petersburg uitgegeven in 1812.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1813. 8vo. Sewn. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 32 pp. Full description

[AUSTRIA - PHARMACOPOEIA]. Oesterreichische provinzial-Pharmakopee...
Vienna, Johan Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, 1776. 8vo. With a woodcut coat-of-arms on the title-page and typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, light brown morocco spine label with title in gold, red sprinkled edges. [10], 384, [18] pp. Full description

PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald. Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio.
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1530. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.5 cm). Title in a wide woodcut ornamented border, 2 woodcut historiated initials. Set in an Aldine-style italic with a word of Greek. Modern brown shell-marbled boards. [69], [3 blank] pp. Full description

[PRAYERBOOK - RUSSIAN ORTHODOX - KIEV LITURGY]. Posledovanie na den' s[via]tyia Paskhi i na vsiu svetluiu sedmitsu [=Order for the Holy Day of Easter and for the whole of Easter week].
Kiev, Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), [ca. 1801]. 8vo in 4s (18.5×11.5 cm). Easter liturgy in Old Church Slavonic, with title-page and about 20 other pages printed in red and black, the title in a woodcut border and with a woodcut Paschal lamb, a full-page engraving of Jesus's Resurrection on the back of the title-page, and all pages after the title-page with borders made up of 4 woodcut strips. Set in 3 sizes of Old Slavonic poluustav cyrillic type. Printed on laid paper with a blue-green cast. Contemporary gold-panel-stamped and gold-tooled calf by the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, with a panel stamp of Jesus on the front board and a panel stamp of Maria on the back, gilt edges. Full description

PUGET DE LA SERRE, Jean. L'isthoire [!] et les portraits des imperatrices, des reynes, et des illustres princesses de l'auguste maison d'Austriche, qui ont porte le nom d'Anne.
Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1648. Folio (44 x 30.5 cm). With 10 (of 14) hand-coloured full-page engraved plates, 14 contemporary hand-coloured engraved initials, 14 hand-coloured engraved headpieces, 8 engraved tailpieces, and a hand-coloured engraved vignette on the title page, all heightened with gold. The leaves have been outlined in red, and the title page has been outlined and decorated in red and gold, lacking the frontispiece. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the coat of arms of Anne of Austria onlaid in the centre of both boards, surrounded by two triple fillet frames, with ornaments in the corners of the inner frame, gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges, marbled pastedowns. [6], "51" [= 45], [1] pp. Full description

RABENHORST, Ludwig and Georg WINTER. Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz. Zweite Auglage ... Erster band: Pilze.
Leipzig, Eduard Kummer, 1884 (Weinheim, J. Cramer, 1963). 8vo. Modern black half calf. VIII, 924, 63, [1 blank] pp. Full description

RAUSCH VON TRAUBENBERG, Franz. Elementa architecturae, ad structura oeconomicas applicatae, in usum academiarum per Regnum Hungariae et eidem annexas provincias.
Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 76 architectural illustrations and figures on 11 folding engraved plates. With: BAUMEISTER, Friedrich Christian. Philosophiae moralis institutiones ius naturae, ethicam, et politicam complexae.
Budapest, Typis Regiae Universitatis, 1779. Contemporary blind-tooled marbled calf. XVI, 158; 235, [5] pp. Full description