Search Results: Titles starting with E from Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB

THE EARLIEST PRIVATE-LIBRARY CATALOGUE ARRANGED BY SUBJECTSFIRST EDITION. 8vo (ca. 19,5x15,5 cm), [20], 542 pp., Roman and Italic letter. Woodcut initials, large printers device on t-p and Cordes's full-page engraved portrait to verso of a2. Generally, a very pleasant copy, clean and crisp. Very occasional mild waterstaining at blank margins, stronger damp stains to the final 50 leaves. Upper blank corners of the 3 last leaves restored. Bound in contemporary semi-limp vellum, early ms. title to spine. A near-fine, wide-margined and complete copy of an extremely rare and iconic work, preserved in its original binding.The present work "did much to establish the use of catalogues of private libraries as reference works" (Taylor, p. 109; see also p. 238). The Bibliothecae Cordesianae catalogus is perhaps one the earliest major library catalogues to appear in print and surely the first printed catalogue of a French private library arranged by subject. For such reason, it is of greatest relevance for the… Read More

SCARCE EARLY-C19TH ENGLISH BRASSFOUNDER'S CATALOGUESmall oblong folio (ca. 20.5x32.5 cm). No title-page. 92 copperplates, some folding, showing several hundreds of hardware designs with their sizes in inches. Plates numbering: 20 n.n. (not numbered), 42-3, 2 n.n., 44-5, 47, 46, 33, 48-9, 1 n.n., 21-2, 20, 24, 23, 2 n.n., 25-6, 1 n.n., 29, 3 n.n., 30, 27, 32, 1 n.n., 41, 1 n.n., 106, 2 n.n., 108-9, 1 n.n., 110, 116-7, 114, 70-5, 2 n.n., 78-80, 1 n.n., 88, 1 n.n., 85, 2 n.n., 65, 127, 125, 126, 133-4, 2 n.n. Some pen annotations by some items throughout (prices?). Most plates are numbered and bound in mixed order. As usual, the catalogue includes both new items in production at the unidentified brass foundry and older standard hardwares already in production, thus the mixed plates and their not-always sequential numbering. Contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper over pasteboards, corners stiffened with vellum. A mark pencilled on the upper pastedown reports the catalogue number and the initials… Read More

PENNY DREADFUL, SCARCE AND COMPLETERARE FIRST EDITION. 8vo, [2], 286 pp., illustrated with 36 half-page vignettes in the text and 2 full-page plates signed "Pickering", probably J. Pickering (frontispiece plate printed in landscape format and the second plate bound in the middle of the book, at the beginning of chapter XIV); published in 36 parts. Early 20th century navy blue buckram binding, gilt title tooled to rounded spine and double gilt fillets decorating spine caps. All edges sprinkled in red. Early provenance stamp to verso of both plates and blank margin of p. 130: "From / Ann Plummer's / news paper office / Theobalds Road / London." Additional imprint statement printed at colophon: "London: Published by E. Lloyd at the office of 'The Penny Sunday Times', 231, Shoreditch." Very light browning throughout (a classic aging issue of the thin low-quality paper used in C19th newspapers), negligible repair to a small tear at gutter of final leaf. An excellent copy.Thomas Peckett Prest (1810 -1859)… Read More

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 227, [1], with engraved frontispiece and 4 folding plates. Head and tailpieces, small woodcut on t-p. Marbled endpapers, contemporary mottled leather, gilt decorations to spine, green silk bookmark. Ownership note on t-p: "Du chevalier de Robilant", perhaps Italian engineer Spirito Benedetto Nicolis di Robilant (1724-1801). Some small flaws at spine caps and corners of the boards. A very good copy. A.e.r.Frontispiece engraving by Brunet after Le Sueur, representing an experiment with electricity. Abbé Nollet (1700-1770), who was a pupil of Réaumur and collaborator of du Fay, opened an office in Paris where he performed his experiments "live". The success was unexpected: the whole court thronged there and experimental physics became an amateur's pleasure and a fashionable entertainment to which Nollet contributed doubly since he manufactured and sold the instruments which allowed the beholders to repeat the experiments in their own places.Mottelay, pp. 181-183; Wheeler Gift, 329.

EDITIONES PRINCIPES OF EUSEBIUS' EVANGELICAL PREPARATION AND DEMONSTRATIONEDITIO PRINCEPS. Folio, pp. 498, [2]; 138 [i.e. 338], [2]. Greek letter, very sporadic Roman. Estienne's device on both t-ps (serpent wound around the spear/olive tree branch) and in the classic large variant at end of the second work (the tree of knowledge), imprint repeated at colophon (dated 1546). Fine large woodcut initials and headpieces. Early provenance stamp on first t-p: "Biblioteca Se. Me. Novelle". Wide-margined copy, crisp and clean, bound in C19th rustic pasteboard wrappers, spine backed with marbled paper, handwritten title to paper label. Excellent copies. Evangelical preparation was the first work issued by Estienne as the official Printer in Greek to Francois I and was the first appearance of a full text in the first font of the 'grecs du roi' commissioned by the king through the printer. The font was designed by the Cretan scribe Angelos Vergikios and cut by Claude Garamont."Editiones principes of these two… Read More

RENAISSANCE BLIND-STAMPED BINDING; COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED IN AN EARLY HAND
8vo, pp. 350 [50]. Italic letter, little Roman. Woodcut printer's device on t-p and final leaf, historiated initials. Early annotations and underlining throughout, especially up to Book XIX. Later ownership autograph on t-p. Blind-stamped ornamental panels on both covers, contemporary calf, spine rebacked and refurbished, endpapers renewed (but not modern), recent C18th-style morocco label with gilt lettering. Author's ms. name written on foot fore-edge. A very good copy.

Dedicatory letter by the editor, German jurist and humanist Johann Sichard, to Peter Reich von Reichenstein, clergyman in Basel. Justin flourished in the third century AD. A Roman historian, he was the author of this Epitome, an abridgement of the Historiae Philippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs (Philippic Histories) by Pompeius Trogus, whose work is lost. Most of the abridgement is not so much a summary as passages quoted from Trogus. Nothing is… Read More