Search Results: Titles starting with E from Knuf Rare Books

No place, no date (but: Paris, Boulevard Saint-Germain 84, last quarter 19th century). One sheet, 21 x 27 cm pasted on the cover of a binding showing in chromolithography a selection of seven ink bottles sold by this Parisian ink manufacturer. (tiny piece of paper damaged).Important French ink manufacturer. Mathieu-Plessy sold their 'encres nouvelles' from before 1875 until at least 1925. The ink was praised for its quality.

1927. Cambridge U.P., 1927. 58pp. 55 plates. Cloth. Folio. The Sandars Lecture for 1927. One of 500 copies only. The book is divided into two parts: Early bindings before 1300 and Gothic Bindings 1450-1500.

1895. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Limited, 1895. Folio. Original blue cloth binding. (a bit faded and rubbed). Title in gold on the front cover. Top edge gilt. Uncut. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. xviii pp. introduction, 66 leaves with descriptions of the plates. With 66 tissue-garded beautiful colourplates: chromolithographs, sometimes heightened in gold. Neatly printed on thick handmade paper in 500 numbered copies. This is copy number 124, with the exlibris of the Lakeside Press Chicago. The bindings represented in the plates contained in this volume are all products of English or Scottish craftsmen, or of foreigners who were domiciled in England. Although they have been chosen principally on account of their beauty or historical interest, they also serve to illustrated the history of bookbinding in England from the end of the twelfth century to the latter half of the eighteenth, when the genius of Roger Payne raised the art from the… Read More

(Paris), Mendoze, (c. 1830). Oblong folio (size: 27 x 56.5 cm). Half green morocco, marbled boards. Spine goldtooled. Lithographed titlepage (= plate I), 2 ff letterpress text + 29 plates numbered II - XXX. (corners a bit rubbed and paper on inner front hinge a bit damaged & loosening, light waterstain in the lower margin of the titlepage and the textpages and plates 23 - 30, a bit more pronounced near the back).
The Aneid, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BCE, is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The present work contains 30 lithographs, including the pictorial title, made by C. Motte after the orginal mural paintings by Luigi Ademollo (1764-1849), whose work can be seen at the Plazzo S. Clemente in Florence. [OCLC mentions 5 copies: Köln, Antwerp, Leiden, Northwestern, BN].

Parisiis, apud Bartholomeum Macaeum, in Monte D. Hilarii, sub Scuto Britanniae, 1601. 12, 72 pp. (Text in Latin with sections in Greek throughout). BOUND WITH: Desiderii Heraldi Animadversiones, Ad libros XII. Epigrammat. M. Val. Martialis. Erratorum, quae ab operis commissa sunt, correctio, sexta pagina continetur. Parisiis, Apud Bartholomeum Macaeum, 1600. 8, 255, (i) pp. (Text in Latin with sections in Greek throughout. Includes index on pages 237-255).BOUND WITH: Index omnium vocabulorum quæ in omnibus M.V. Martialis poëmatum libris reperiuntur una cum ... annotatione tam ad linguae Latinae, quam ad poëseos rectum usum concinnatus ac editus. A.J. Langio. Parisiis, Apud Bartholomeum Macaeum, 1600. 4, 243 pp. Three works bound together in contemporary stiff vellum binding. Title on spine. All edges stained red. Bookplate of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943) on the inside front cover. A lovely copy.Three volumes of notes, commentaries and indexes on he famous epigrams by… Read More

1863. Paris, 1863. xiv,315 pages. A very good and pleasant copy in (later) 3/4 black morocco. Marbled sides.

1786. Paris, Imprimé par Franç. Ambr. Didot l'Aîné avec les caracteres de Firmin son 2nd fils, 1786. 12mo. 150,vi pp. Contemporary mottled calf, spine goldtooled, marbled edges. (tiny wormhole near spine, not affecting text or binding). A charming little booklet. Pages 103-150 contain 'un épitre sur le progrès de l'imprimerie', a reprint of a poem by Pierre Didot, dedicated to his father and first published separately in 1784. "The poem recites all the typographical successes of the author's father, to whom it is addressed, the expressions being of the most enthusiastic nature. At the end are certain notes on passages contained in the poem, and they have reference chiefly to the biographical, literary, and historical topics introduced. Incidentally they gave a very good and authentic account of the first manufacture of the papier vélin. The poem is altogether very curious and interesting." (B&W).

1843. 2nd édition, Paris, Levavasseur, 1843. 91pp. Somewhat later green wrappers made from a leftover wrapper intended to be used for the Journal Général de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie for 1875. The author says: "Prouver, dans les quelques pages que suivent, l'utilité des bibliothèques administratives et donner des conseils sur leur composition et les moyens de les agrandir, tel a été le but de mon travail..."

1833. No place, no date (but c. 1833) Offprint? Pp. 84 - 145. With two full-page plates. BOUND WITH: Mémoires de l'Académie. Littérature du Moyen Age. Essai analytique sur l'origine de la langue française et sur un recueil de monumens de cette langue, classés chronologiquement depuis le IXe siècle au XVIIe. Lu à la séance du 27 aout 1834. No place, no date (but 1834). Offprint. Browned. Pp 5 - 82 and page 157-158 which contain the "Table des mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon. Partie des Lettres. Année 1834" from which this article is an offprint. With five full-page plates (one of which is folding). BOUND WITH: Souvenirs relatifs à quelques Bibliothèques particullièrs des temps passés. No place, no date. Pp 165 - 184. BOUND WITH: Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Cl.-Nic. Amanton. Offprint Mémoires de l'Académie des… Read More

1846. 8vo. Rouen, 1846. xx, 86 pp. 8 engraved plates (including frontispiece). Bound with: EUSTACHE DE LA QUÉRIÈRE. Recherches historiques sur les enseignes des maisons particulieres. Paris / Rouen, 1852. vii, 122 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 27 illustrations in the text. Two volumes bound together in original half calf with marbled boards. Foxed throughout. Interesting works on weather vanes and signs for houses.

1880. Pons, Noel Texier, 1880. 208, (iii) pp. Six illustrations showing printers' marks. Index. 8vo. 3/4 morocco binding, original wrappers bound-in. Uncut. A very good copy. With a chronological list of printers. Interesting and scarce work, not in Bigmore & Wyman. Saintonge is a former province of France located on the west central Atlantic coast. The capital city was Saintes. Aunis is a historical province of France, situated in the north-west of the department of Charente-Maritime. Its historic capital is La Rochelle. The work gives information about when printing started and who were the printers in the several towns in these provinces.

Paris, 1863. 8vo. xiv, 316 columns. Original yellow printed covers. A lovely uncut and partly unopened copy. Presentation copy from the author to the Duc de Luynes with dedication by Ambroise Firmin Didot.First separate edition of this history of woodengraving. The author discusses the principal schools of engraving: The German School with Albert Dürer; The Dutch School with Hans Holbein; the Italian, French and Spanish Schools. He gives a lot of information about works, printers, engravers, places etc.

1862. Paris, 1862. 38pp. 429 items described. Some foxing. Nineteenth century dark brown morocco, marbled boards. Original printed wrappers bound-in. With prices and names in a contemporary hand in pencil throughout the catalogue. Interesting catalogue with very short descriptions but with names and prices in pencil throughout. The last heading is 'lithographies, photographies', an early use of 'photography as a header'. There are two photographic items described.

Segunda Ediçio. Porto, na Typografia a' Praça de S. Thereza N. 13, 1822. 4to. 136 pp. Uncut, wide-margined, copy in a lovely contemporary decorated paper binding. Some browning and staining and edges a bit dustsoiled and a bit damaged.Quite scarce edition of this in itself quite scarce satire on wine making in Portugal in the form of the minutes for the 1st-15th sessions of this assembly. Another (first?) edition was published the same year in Lisbon (Typografia Maigrense).OCLC 1 copy BL (Porto); 1 copy Bayerische Staats bibl. (Lisbon); In USA: Harvard, Kress collection (Lisbon), Newberry (Lisbon) and Univ. California Davis Shields Library (but cannot locate) and one of three in USA incomplete?

1715. Quam Moderante Christiano Gotl. Schwarzio, Prof. Publ. Ad D. XXIIII Septembr. A. R. S. 1715 publicae solemnique disquisitioni submittit Iohannes Iacobus Haller ab Hallerstein in Puckenhof et Weyerhaus. Altdorf, literis Magni Danielis Meyeri, 1715. 46,(ii)pp. Vellum binding. Edges stained red. Margins cut rather short. (upper left corner of fist page sl. dam.).

Philadelphia, T.K. and P.G. Collins, printers, 1847. 32 pp. Original printed green paper wrappers (sl. dam.). Heavy foxing throughout. Catalogue listing 543 items. Pages 28 & 29 contain an index (artists) and pages 30 & 32 contain a publicity and the constitution of the Art-Union of Philadelphia, fro the promotion of the arts of design in the United Stated (incorporated 1844). The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States.

Madrid, Sociedad Espanola de Amigos del Arte, 1934. 258pp. with illus. in b/w. + XLI full-page plates of bindings in b/w & colour. With list of lenders. Original decorated cloth (designed after a 16th century Spanish Renaissance binding - no. 115 in the book). Describes 534 bindings. This catalogue of the loan exhibition of Spanish bindings is, with its sixty-six plates, one of the few comprehensive surveys of Spanish bookbinding from the 12th to the 19th century. (Breslauer, the uses of bookbinding literature p. 25).

1719. Dijon, 3pp. Woodcut headpiece and decorated intial. Wide margins. The above mentioned work is forbidden and anybody who possesses a copy will get a corporal punishment and will have to pay a fine of 'trois mile livres' for disturbing the public peace.

1719. A Dijon, par J. Ressayre, 1719. 4pp. Woodcut headpiece. Printed on good paper with wide margins. This work that according to the court encourages a revolt is and will stay forbidden and everyone who possesses a copy should give it up within eight days.