Search Results: Titles starting with N from Patrick Olson Rare Books

UNRECORDED DUTCH BROADSIDE ¶ 1 broadsheet | 513 x 433 mm ¶ First and only edition, and only recorded copy, of this fifteen-stanza broadsheet poem. ¶ Dated 26 March 1814, the broadside commemorates the recent arrival of William I, Prince of Orange, as Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands. Napoleon's 1813 departure from the Dutch provinces had left a power vacuum. As a result, William had been invited to return to lead the country a year earlier. His inauguration ceremony took place in Amsterdam on 30 March 1814, and the present broadside was likely produced to celebrate the occasion. ¶ An instructive tour of typography to boot, incorporating roman letter, two italics (one very modern in character), an early shadowed display type, woodcut lettering (one letter cut backwards), column divisions assembled from type ornaments, all within an ambitious illustrated woodcut border. --- CONDITION: Printed on a single sheet of laid paper, preserving deckle edges and with plainly identifiable… Read More

CATTLE PLAGUE BROADSIDE BY DR. FAUST --- 1 broadsheet | 463 x 363 mm --- One of at least a dozen broadside editions of the prolific German physician's advice on treating the devastating cattle plague. We find others published at Stuttgart, 1797; Bückeburg, 1797; Leipzig, 1797; Dresden, 1799; Bamberg, 1801; Leipzig, 1813; a 1797 edition without place of production; undated editions at Karlsruhe and Gotha; an 1800 French version, Strasbourg, and another undated French edition. We suspect the content derives from the author's much more extensive Über die Rindvieh-Pest
(Stuttgart, 1797). His advice was also issued in pamphlet form, on which subject our broadside has a terse promotional note at end: "I have also written a book on rinderpest. Read it!" No doubt selling advice from any Dr. Faust required extra effort (though he was admittedly quite respected and widely known for his Catechism of Health). At bottom are prices for the broadside, both individually and in wholesale quantities… Read More