A'Kempis, Thomas (1380-1471) Italian version by J. Gerson

DELL' IMITAZIONE DI CRISTO DI TOMASO DE KEMPIS, Canonico Regol. Volgarmente intitolato Gio: Gersone.

Lucca, per i Marescand[oli]. 1709 from imprimatur Printer's mark woodcut on titlepage + a few decorated small intials and a few printer's ornaments as headpieces. . Small 12mo vellum (head and foot of spine worn/some marks but neat and tight) 454pp + privilege leaf dated 1709. Two small holes to blank endpaper & titlepage leaving the attributed name as G*RSO*E (privilege leaf mentions Gerson also). Some edge dusting but mainly to endpapers and first and last pages. Print very clear and legible.

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Mots-clés: religious classic

Kirby, W. F.

EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS With 61 Coloured Plates based on Berge's "Schmetterlingsbuch"

London, Cassell and Company, Limited 1898 Hand-coloured plates (52 of 61) + 1 uncoloured plate. . Quarto half green calf (cover detached and spine leather missing all but label) lacks 9 plates and approx 8 text leaves. The lovely plates with flowers/plants among the butterflies and caterpillars would make fine frameable plates.

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Mots-clés: butterfly hand colored plates

Kirby, William (1759-1850) & William Spence (1783-1860)

INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY or elements of the natural history of Insects with Plates.

London, Longman etc.3rd edition 1818, 1818, 1826 Hand-coloured copperplates (5), supposedly by John Curtis (1791-1862). . 3 VOLUMES octavo (145 by 215mm) half calf marbled boards faux bands with 4 (of 6) spine labels (head of spine chipped/labels bit chipped, worn off on vol iii, partialy worn on vol ii) Printer's flaw Vol ii, p 33. Vol.I Frontis (Plate I) + xxxii (title & prelims) +[1]p contents + 512pp + [2]pp (explanation of plates & errata) + Plates II & III + [2]pp (list of other works & printer details); Vol.II Frontis (Plate IV) + title +[2]pp (contents & errata) +530pp + Plate V + [2]pp (list of other works). Endpapers foxed and tide-marked, plates and text with very little foxing. Text in good condition across all vols, signature of M-Butler atop title page on each volume. Some staining on title page of vol ii, no impact on text. Pullout on p354 of Vol iii, vol also contains portrait of Kirkby opposite title page. Vol I and ii second edition, Vol iii first edition. *Kirkby was a proflic figure in early entomology, a founding father of the Entomological Society of London in 1827, and a patron of natural history at the Ipswich Museum and the Norwich Museum. A prominent Tory, he pamphletered against Thomas Paine in his youth, and was supposedly refused profesership at Cambridge due to his partisanship. The four volumes of this work published between 1815-1826 are considered widley influential texts in the history of Entomology.

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N° du livre: V64536

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Mots-clés: Insects (Entomology)

Kirchhoff,A. Translated by George Philip Jr. Depicted by H. LEUTEMANN

GRAPHIC PICTURES OF NATIVE LIFE in Distant Lands. Illustrating the Typical Races of Mankind. Depicted by H.Leutemann .. Printed by G. Loewensohn, Fuerth.

London, George Philip & Son 1888 Doublepage chromolithographs (12). . 11.5 x 7.8 inches green pictorial cloth [Japanese scene] on beveled boards (rebacked with cloth rather faded/rubbed & corners quite worn) All Edges Gilt. Half title + titlepage + contents leaf + 54pp + plates on stubs. Aborigines of Australia +Papuas +Polynesians + Eskimo (corner loss & 2 clean tears with no loss) + American Indians + Hottentots & bushmen (torn mainly along fold) +Negroes +Nubians +Arabs +Indians +Chinese (tape repair to fold) +Japanese (tear to fold without loss). The paper is a bit brittle and there are some other tears but not touching printed or picture area. Some tanning towards edges and new endpapers. Each of the plates has about ten large figures figures hunting, cooking among their houses, fishing from boats, merchants selling. For example Japan shows a village square with a Temple, people watching acrobats, drummer wearing a mask, lady with children etc. American Indians are shown hunting, digging manioc, shooting turtles from canoes, on horseback with baby in cradle and loading pack animals with Guanaco skins among their tents, hammocks etc.

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Mots-clés: travel world ethnicity races lifestyle Victorian chromolith plates

Kirchmann, Johan of Lubeck (1575-1643) and Nicolas Ricault

DE FUNERIBUS ROMANORUM Libri Quatuor .. Accessit & FUNUS PARASITICUM Nicolai Rigaltii [bound with Kirchmann's] DE ANNULIS Liber Singularis.

Frankfurt, Thomas Henr. Hauenstein 4th edition 1672 . Three Works in one Volume, small octavo marbled roan on five raised bands, spine extra gilt with floral compartments with red gilt spine label (edges & corners worn/spine ends chipped). General title in red & black +[22]pp prelims +Ricault's FUNUS PARASITICUM 22pp (with separate titlepage dated 1672) bound here when it probably should be at the end + 489pp +[35]pp +[2]pp blank); red & black titlepage to DE ANNULIS with mask woodcut to title +[14]pp +184pp +[21]pp index. Sporadic browningthroughout but text otherise clean and complete. *The first work describes various Roman funeral ceremonies, burial customs, obituary etc. the second work everything on Roman rings. Text in Latin.

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N° du livre: V73550

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Mots-clés: funeral ceremonies Roman rings Latin

Prize binding - E.F.Knight

WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries

London, New York & Bombay, Longmans,Green & Co. 1900 Folding Map + ful-page and illustrations in the text [54] . 8vo dark gilt leather with spine with 5 raised bands. Overall gilding to compartments and to bands with a gilt red spine label & gilt coat of arms of Bradford Modern School to cover. Gilt double rules to edge of both covers. Dentelles gilt and reverses blind-tooled. [gilding of spine somewhat worn to away on spin /edges rubbed] All edges marbled. Half-title with books by the same author + Frontis. + titlepage with vignette + [2pp=Preface] + ix-xiii = Contents + xiv-xv for plate list + 528pp. Front pastedown with Bradford coat of arms prize label given to W.S.Allen in 1901. A handsome copy with clean pages, no marks or damage.

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N° du livre: V75990

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Mots-clés: travel in Kashmir & western Tibet and adjoining countries

Knox, John

A VIEW OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE MORE ESPECIALLY SCOTLAND With some proposals for the improvement of that country, the extension of its fisheries and the relief of tha people

London, J.Walter & J.Sewell & W.Gordon in Edinburgh 1784 First Edition . 8vo leather on five raised bands gilt rules to either side of the raised bands. No title {rather rubbed/ top edge darkened/upper hinge repaired] Titlepage + xxxviii pp [=Preface and introduction] xxxix - lxx [Antient and Present state of Scotland ] + 113pp + [1p= errata etc] Five leaves at the front with marginal damp marks and two leaves at the aend with darker stain affecting the upper corner and a few lines of text, which text is quite readable. Some other signs of use but really quite clean and paper crisp, without annotations or underlinging. The introduction deals with the worldwide empire as tp the exports and imports from the colonies, their their financial dealing with England, the cost of maintaining a dispersed empire and its revolutions the increases in population are dealt with over time. This is followed by a more detailed examination of Scotland especially the fisheries. An appendix extracted from Dr.Campbell's Political survey of Great Britain [1774] Dr.Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles in 1773 + Pennant's Tour in Scotland 1769 and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 and the author's tour of Scotland conclude the book. Kress B742

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N° du livre: V75862

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Mots-clés: Review of Economics England Colonies Scotland

Kornmann,Henry

ENUCLEATAE QUAESTIONES Complectentes perjucundum Tractatum De VIRGINUM STATU AC JURE [Brief Questions including a very pleasant discussion of the status & rights of Virgins] ..

Nuremberg (Norimbergae), Johann Zieger 1679 . Duodecimo black roan gilt and blindstamped with 5 raised bands blind-tooled and compartments gilt (one hinge splitting but holding/tips worn & scuffed) All Edges Gilt. Fine armorial bookplate on pastedown of Robert Marquess of Crewe. Titlepage +[22]pp prliminaries +284pp (? lacking 2 blanks after Finis). *First published in 1610 under the title Sibylla Trygandriana seu De Virginitate. Because this work deals with sexual, medical and occult matters it was an immediate success. Several editions were published with false imprints but this is not one of the pirated editions. A treatise on women & virgins as regarded by law and their status based on classical & theological writings, superstitious beliefs & occult practices. In 140 chapters each starting with a question which is then answered.

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N° du livre: V71095

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Mots-clés: women virgins virginity legal medical occult

Labbe, Philippe (1607-1667)

NOTITIA DIGNITATUM IMPERII ROMANI ex nova recensione Philippi Labbe Biturici Soc. Iesu Presbyteri. Cum pluribus aliis Opusculis, Indicibus ac Notis.

Paris, Typographia Regia 1651 Vignette to titlepage with crown and fleur de lis etc. . 12mo full tan calf on 4 raised bands with spine compartmens gilt. Both covers with elaborate large coats of arms gilt, helmet & mantling with dog supporters (old repair to spine, original neatly relaid, corners and front fore-edge worn). All edges rouge. Titlepage with vignette +[20]pp prelims +266pp +[53]pp Indices +[33]pp Variae Lectiones] +[1]p Facultas +[4]pp Altercatio Hadriani Imperatoris et Plini Secundi + Colophon dated MDCLI. A few notes to pastedown and titlepage with crossed out ink ownership otherwise a very clean tight copy of this rare historical work by French Jesuit Philippe Labbe (author of Thesaurus Epitaphiorum Veterum, La Geographie Royalle and De Byzantinae Historiae Scriptoribus).

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N° du livre: V76256

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Roman history Latin binding

LaMoyne, Pierre

LA GALLERIE DES FEMMES FORTES.

Leiden, Jean Elsevier et a Paris Charles Angot 1660 Frontispiece + woodcut printers mark to titlepage + . 133mm x 78mm tan gilt ruled leather on 4 raised bands with red gilt title label to spine [hinges cracked and held by cords/corners worn to tips/amateur repair to head & foot of spine but covers attached] All edges red [72pp =Engraved frontispiece +title with Elsevier printer's mark +dedication +ode +Preface + 2 further odes + contents] +452pp + [24pp =index]

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N° du livre: V75539

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Mots-clés: Strong women jewesses romans christians

Lamy, J.P. (edits) Gottfried Mind (1768-1814)

OEUVRE DE GEOFROI MIND de Berne receuilli de différens Cabinets particuliers et publié par J.P. Lamy, Editeur d'Arts à Berne et Bâle. Livraison accompagnée d'une Notice historique er biographique du Peintre.

Berne, Basle & Lausanne, J.P. Lamy 1816 approx (no date given) Hand-coloured aquatints (12) of children by Geofroi Mind engr. by [Ernst] Rauch mounted on printed titled brown art paper all but one with diamond or oval embossed blindstamp L.(Lamy) or JPL. . Oblong quarto red roan with green diamond shaped onlay gilt, titled JEUX D'ENFANTS DE MIND, later red cloth slip case (spine, corners & some parts of rear board repaired with leather & near matching gilt edge tooling) recased with new endpapers & large engraved label of Lamy laid down on older Free EP. Titlepage with stipple engraved vignette of Mind and his cat at work +[2]pp Foreword +[6]pp Life of Mind +12 plates mounted within rules with "Jeu d'Enfants Bernois, Mind del. & Rauch sc." on each and owner of the original picture on most. *This collection of 12 aquatints is the most charming of four published by Lamy and identical to the 3rd MIND-3 in the Helvetic Archives Gugelmann collection. They are: 1) Two boys and sled, no owner listed (black edge smudged into part of white of picture); 2) Girl riding on a boy with whip, Mr. Sigmond Wagner; 3) Four boys playing soldiers, owner as 2 (black edge smudged into mount only away from picture); 4) Boy riding goat, owner as 2 (outer edge of brown mount has minor tissue adhesion); 5) Line of 8 children, Comte Uxbridge; 6) Eleven children passing under a bridge made by 4 girls holding cloth, owner as 6; 7) Six sitting children pulled up by another & one watching, owner as 6 (small break-through at embossed stamp); 8) See-saw (Schaukeln), owner as 6 (only one without blindstamp); 9) Game of marbles, owner as 6 (2 corners torn where glued down without loss); 10) Whipping-tops with 9 children & dog (Kreiselspiel), owner as 6 (some light finger marks on white area 2cm old tear repaired without loss); 11) Girl in middle of circle, owner as 6 (sl. Crooked ?replaced on mount); 12) Ten children playing King of the Castle, Mr. J.J. Bacofen. Scarce complete set as published by Lamy in this collection, charming Berner Trachten, lively scenes of play.

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N° du livre: V68609

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Mots-clés: Swiss Bernese artist Gottfried Mind

lansius,T. [Thomas Lansius 1577-1657]

CONSULTATIO DE PRINCIPATU INTER PROVINCIAS EUROPAE.

Tubingen, Brunn 3rd edition of 6 1626 copperplate engraved title with doubleheaded eagle with an armoured man with emblems of war and a lady with book by Lucas Kilian (1579-1637). On plinthed below are a castle under seige and opposite a printing press a. Octavo blindstamped pigmant on 4 raised bands with eight figures incl. Charitas,Fides,Spes etc surrounding the two large female centre pieces one with a sword, the other with a ship and both with text phrase under [Suum quique juste tribuo, which translates as I give to each his just deserts]. On bevelled wooden boards. Letterred to spine in ink One of two intact clasps [somewhat rubbed /spine with press number in ink] All Edges red. Engraved title +[13=dedication] +{1p=bland] +[16pp+Preface] +1160 +[1p=Praescriptio pro Erratorum correctione] +verso blank. Side notes printed throughout, titlepage with neat blue ink stamp and traces of pencil notes to front endpaper. A very neat crisp copy. *Lansius was professor of law at Tubingen and this work he collated lectures on the various principalities of Europe, contributing observations either for or against the various countries stating their rights, possesions and qualities. Lazius then puts forward "counter arguments" outlining the faults and demerits of the countries. It did not limit the discussion to the major countries alone but also included much on the territorial possessions in the New world, America and conqest by the Spanish in the West Indies etc. The book was put on the index [ie prohibited books] by the Curia in 1615 although as this edition shows the protestant countries never-the-less went on printing editions during the Thirty Years War. An english edition was published as "The German Diet on the Balance of Europe, or a German Diet for Short". This is the 3rd edition of his most famous work, first published in 1613.

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N° du livre: V75306

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Mots-clés: disputations between european principalities BINDING

Lapide,Cornelio Cornelii a (Van den Steen ou La Pierre)

COMMENTARII IN CANTICUM CANTICORUM

Lugduni, Jacob & Peter Prost Brothers 1st first edition 1637 Large copperplate printers mark on Titlepage + 2 emblematic woodcuts (repeats) + foliated and tail pieces. . Folio contemporary blindstamped pig with 2 working clasps with central emblem within floriated concentric panels on 5 raised bands beveled wooden boards old paper titling label bands painted black (old if not even original) (some rubbing/staining but in very good condition) Titlepages in red and black +[14pp] =foreword & approbations 492pp +[26pp] The book is in such good state that aside from neat ownership Capucinorum Tubij, in which monastary it seems to have been for a long time having an early hand written, with a later rubber stamp of the same and also a printed strip tipped to below imprint date for the same, there are no other marks. *One of Lapide's commentaries on the books of the Old Testament. Only St.Paul & Pentateuch were published while he was still in Belgium, he was then called to Rome where he was Professor of Hebrew and Scripture and where he spent the last 20 years teaching and editing his commentaries until his death in 1637. This, as several of his other works were only published after his death and then were in almost continual print as "They explain not only the literal, but also the allegorical, tropological, and anagogical sense of the sacred text, and furnish a large number of quotations from the Fathers and the later interpreters of Holy Writ" [Catholic Encyc.]

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N° du livre: V68779

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Mots-clés: religion Bible commentaries Song of Songs Solomon First edition.

Law,William (1686-1761)

REMARKS UPON A LATE BOOK, ENTITULED, THE FABLE OF THE BEES, or Private Vices, Publick Benefits. In a Letter to the Author. To which is added, A Postscript, containing an Observation or two upon Mr. Bayle.

London, William & John Innys the West-end of St.Paul's 1726 Decorative headpiece of St. Paul's. . Octavo roan gilt ruled on 5 raised bands (rebacked /tips worn) Titlepage +106pp + [4]pp Innys' book list. Inner hinge strengthened else a very neat clean tight edition. *An attack on Bernard de Mandeville's Fables of the Bees dealing with Vices & ethics of the time. This is the third edition (first was 1724) with the 1762 edition by a different publisher wrongly also called the third.

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N° du livre: V72224

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Mots-clés: ethics vices fable bees morality

Lazius, Wolfgang (1514-1565)

DE GENTIUM ALIQUOT MIGRATIONIBUS, SEDIBUS FIXIS, RELIQUIS, Linguarumque initiis & immutationibus ac dialectis, Libri XII.

Frankfurt am Main, C. Marnius & J. Aubrius apud Andreae Wecheli heredes. 1600 Large woodcut illustrations (21) in text (12 full-page) + 2 foliated head-pieces with entwined figures + decorated initials. . Folio vellum, spine gilt-titled on 5 raised bands, overlapping original vellum covers on each side with more recent vellum tips. Titlepage with Wechel's 10cm. Emblem of winged horse, cornucopia & caduceus (repeated on last page). Text in Latin with some Hebrew & Greek. Collated complete, 675pp +[35]pp Index + final leaf with colophon. TP has 2 small ink stamps to fore-edge margin, "Libraria Colonia" in red & "Schlumberger Archiv" in purple, which are repeated on final leaves. Text area of most pages heavily browned, some brown spotting in margins, but all text easily readable. Middle of book has small area of worm holes covering less than 2cm in blank gutter area of 13 leaves, and another area of 10 leaves with wormhole incursion into max of 3 letters of text. *Wolfgang Lazius was a native of Vienna and official historian to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. He amassed many documents from libraries across the Empire during his life, which probably informed this book. First published in Basel 1557. This is the third edition (referenced by Adams L349).

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N° du livre: V76279

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Mots-clés: history Holy Roman Empire travel migrations genealogy