Recent Arrivals from Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.

Nuremberg: Christian Sigmund Froberg for Wolfgang Michahelles, 1710. 12mo (127 x 77 mm). [16], 145, [7] pp. Gothic types. Woodcut illustration of a pantograph (p. 8). Overall discoloration, some soiling and fraying to first and last few leaves. Contemporary speckled parchment over pasteboards (worn, covers bowed and darkened).*** A popular and now commensurately rare German translation of Claude… Read more about this item

Lyon: Pierre Rigaud, 1614. 12mo (132 x 70 mm). [2], 376 pages (last 3 blank leaves removed). 2 parts, separately titled but continuously signed and paginated. Spanish text in roman types, French translation in italic. Pagination errors, signatures with crooked sorts on h4r and h6r. Woodcut printer's device on general title, a metalcut headpiece, woodcut initials. Upper margins cut… Read more about this item

Madrid: por Juan de la Cuesta, a costa de Miguel Martinez, 1619. 4to (212 x 147 mm). [4], 399 leaves. 2 parts, separately titled but continuously signed and foliated. Printer's woodcut device on titles. Double column, woodcut head-piece, tail-piece, and initials. Underlining in pink and blue pencil in second part; scattered foxing, occasional marginal staining or soiling, a couple… Read more about this item

Venice & Verona: Andrea Rossi, 1672. 12mo (142 x 75 mm). Collation: A-F12 G4 (G4 blank). 150 pages. Forty-six woodcuts, of which one full-page, woodcut title ornament and initials. Wormtrack in gutter of last few leaves, affecting few letters on pp. 144-145, else a fine, fresh copy, untrimmed, in its original carta rustica binding.*** Rare pocket edition of… Read more about this item

Granada: Hugo de Mena for Juan Diaz, 1586. 4to (183 x 130 mm). [4], 251 leaves. Woodcut initials opening each of the 12 cantos. The Advertimientos to cantos 2-9 and first 4 lines of that of canto 10 crossed out in ink, apparently by the same early reader who supplied stanza and line counts at the end of each… Read more about this item

France, 1758. A large, flat satchel (approx. 390 x 380 mm.) of woven hemp and unbleached linen, the front side crocheted with five fleurs-de-lis, geometrical elements including an X and two diamonds, and the date 1758, with stripes of openwork, the scalloped bottom with fringes; the lower or inner side and an internal pocket in plain unbleached hemp; with… Read more about this item

Paris: [s.n.], 1649. Half-sheet 4to (binding size 106 x 44 mm). Collation: A-C2 (C2 blank). 11 [recte 10] pp. Woodcut headpiece and initial. Printing flaw on p. 4 with loss to first letters of 6 lines. Title-leaf creased. Nineteenth-century quarter brown morocco (extremities rubbed).*** Only edition of an actor's lament in rhyming couplets, describing the conditions in Paris… Read more about this item

Venice and Bassano: Gio. Antonio Remondini, 1700. 12mo (134 x 67 mm). Collation: A-R12. 394, [14] pp. 2 parts, separately titled, second title-page on F5r. Woodcut printer's device on titles, 120 text woodcuts, a very few repeated. A few cuts with black dots (e.g., on p. 257), apparently from wormed blocks. Fol. K12 with short closed tear touching a… Read more about this item

Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann, 1595. 4to (198 x 140 mm). Collation: A-K8. [80] pp. Italic (text) and roman types (shoulder notes and preliminary verses), a few words in gothic and greek types, three full-page woodcut coats-of-arm within ornamental borders, woodcut title ornament, head- and tail-pieces and initials, two metalcut tailpieces, type-ornament section dividers. Light spotting to first and last few… Read more about this item

Stockholm: de l'imprimerie de l'Historiographe du Royaume, Par Hartwig Gercken, 1734. Agenda format 12mo (168 x 69 mm). [4], 304; 392, [20] pp. 2 parts, with alphabetical index and final errata page. Woodcut title-page ornaments and tailpieces, type-ornament headpieces. Light foxing to first few leaves. Contemporary speckled sheep, gilt edges, marbled pastedown endpapers, very worn, spine completely abraded with… Read more about this item

Paris: N. Crapart & C.J.C. Durand, 1785. 32mo (92 x 58 mm). Collation: 1-68 (nested quires). [96] pages. Folding woodcut maps of France écclesiastique at front and Environs de Paris at back, printed on one sheet enclosing text. Contemporary gold-blocked green morocco, reddish-gold Brokatpapier pastedown endpapers, gilt edges (very minor wear to corners). Provenance: Carlos de Poortere, bookplate. *** … Read more about this item

Rome: Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni, Stampatori Pontificii Vaticani, 1756. 8vo (210 x 135 mm). [24], 407, [1] pp. 2 parts, the Office of the Dead separately titled. Printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by Arnold Van Weserhout and Jacob Frey after Joseph Passarus (Giuseppe Passaro), two engraved title vignettes and 12 tailpiece vignettes,… Read more about this item

Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1566. Folio (310 x 203 mm). Collation: 1) a4 A-L4 Aa6 M4. [8] 86, [2], [20] pages. Italic types. Title within elaborate woodcut allegorical border, several sets of historiated woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device (the Medici arms) on verso of errata leaf (Aa6); quire Aa, the table, bound before quire M (the papal privilege). First and… Read more about this item

Acqui: Carolo Oddicini, 1821. 4to (binding size 253 x 207 mm). 8 pages, printed on yellow paper. Drop-title, large woodcut arms of the Bishop of Acqui. Case binding of white velvet over pasteboards, decorated with metallic thread and gilt and silver-gilt appliqués, both covers with outer border of a gilt and gauffred textile or paper strip, inner border of… Read more about this item

Amberg: s.n., 1840.  12mo (134 x 98 mm.). 46 pp. Title woodcut and 14 half-page woodcuts in the text. Light dampstain in second half. Contemporary block-printed paper over pasteboards, blue-sprinkled edges. A Bavarian chapbook edition of the Stations of the Cross, well-preserved in its  patterned paper case binding. Following the papal permission granted by Innocent XI in… Read more about this item

[Caen: Chalopin, 1800. 12mo (137 x 84 mm). 12 pp. Drop-title. Stab-stitched in original blue printed wrappers. Modern folding moroco-backed chemise and slipcase. A late chapbook incarnation of Vulson de La Colombière's treatise on dream interpretation (first published 1660), this pocket-sized alphabetical list of dreams and their meanings had a practical purpose, being sold as an aid for  the selection… Read more about this item

Turin: s.n., 1836. 4to (binding size 257 x 203 mm). 20 pp. Case binding of ivory watered silk over pasteboards, covers richly embroidered with a variety of gilt metallic appliqués, both covers with outer border of braided or needle-looped silver thread, enclosing a frame of scrolling hatched gilt onlays, ornamented with laurel sprigs, tiny stars and concave gilt roundels… Read more about this item

Paris: Durand, 1747. 24mo (binding size 96 x 66 mm).Collation: A-D8 E6 (nested quires). [76] pp. Engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title. Publisher's woodcut gryphon device on letterpress title, engraved two-page map of France at end. Publisher's gold-blocked olive morocco (abstract design), Dutch-gilt endpapers, gilt edges.*** A fresh copy of the long-running Paris almanac known as the Etrennes… Read more about this item

Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1610. 8vo (162 x 99 mm). [8], 234, [5] pp. Title woodcut of Saints Peter and Paul flanking papal arms, woodcut initials. Some minor marginal dust-soiling, final errata leaf slightly creased. Contemporary parchment over flexible pasteboards, traces of two fore-edge ties, manuscript spine title. Provenance: Rouen, Cathedral library, 18th-century printed label, Biblioth. Rothomag., on title.  … Read more about this item

Posonius [Bratislava]: Georg Aloysius Belnay, 1804. 8vo (193 x 118 mm). 160 pp. Two engraved plates: portraits of the author and of Franciscus Barkóczy, by Sebastian Mansfeld of Vienna. Contemporary marbled sheep, smoooth spine gold-tooled in six compartments, the second with beige calf gilt lettering-piece, floral Kattunpapier endpapers (covers a bit scratched, dent in front cover). Provenance: book label… Read more about this item