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How to teach arithmetic according to the 19th-century educational system of mutual tuition

[JOMARD, Edmé François]. Arithmétique élémentaire ou tableaux d'arithmétique composés selon les principes et assujetis aux procédés de l'enseignement mutuel; par M. Jomard, secrétaire de la Societé pour l'enseignement élémentaire.
[France?, ca. 1822]. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 19 cm). With 6 folding text leaves. Contemporary quarter vellum. [1], 88, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
Education & Pedagogy France Manuscripts & Documents Mathematics
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Calligraphic copybook by a 14-year-old Dutch boy in 1761

JONG, Jacobus de. Geschriften.
Noordwijk-Binnen, 1761. Oblong folio (21 x 33 cm). Manuscript calligraphic copybook in brown ink on paper, with a calligraphic title-page followed by sample texts (mostly from the Old and New Testament) in Dutch in a roundhand script with decorative flourishes, and verses by Jacob Cats on the outside of the first and last leaves, the last illustrated with a penwork father, son and a large fish eating a small fish. Side-stitched, with the first leaf and last leaf serving as wrappers. [31] ll. Full description
€ 1,750
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Royal instructions, drafted for the Archbishop of Goa, with anti-Jesuit themes

JOSÉ I, King of Portugal. Instrucçõens com que el Rey meu senhor manda passar ao Estado da India o reverendo Arcebispo de Goa primaz do Oriente.
[Lisbon?, dated 10 February 1774 at the foot of each of the six Instrucçõens]. Folio. Manuscript on paper, written in a neat secretarial hand. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. [2 blank], [4], [68], [2], [4 blank] ll. Full description
€ 16,500
India & Sri Lanka Jesuits Manuscripts & Documents Portugal Religion (18th Century)
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The forbidden chronicle of Münster: a 1734 manuscript of Kerssenbroch’s Historia Monasteriensis

[KERSSENBROCH, Hermann von]. Historia Anabaptistarum Monasteriensium.
3 July 1734. Folio. With small calligraphic decorations. 18th-century sprinkled calf, sewn on six supports with corresponding raised bands, spine gilt, with title and author lettered in gold, and red sprinkled edges. At the foot of the spine a separate paper label inscribed "ZH 53" in ink. With a separate paper label on the front board bears an alternative title pasted-on the front cover of the binding: Historia Monasteriensis urbis et episcopatus, inprimis motuum in reformatione anabaptistarum ... ad an. 1576. 362, 28 ll. Full description
€ 18,000
Church History & Missions Humanism & Reformation Manuscripts & Documents Religion (16th Century)
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A leading French Armenologist studies Armenian and Arabic manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale

LANGLÈS, Louis Mathieu. [6 autograph letters, signed, mostly to Antoine-Jean de Saint-Martin].
[Paris], 7 April [1820?]-13 January 1824. 8vo & 4to. Signed autograph letters in brown ink on laid paper, the 1824 letter on a letterpress "Bibliothèque du Roi" letterhead with the royal arms. 7 letters, each written on 1 side of a single leaf. Full description
€ 3,500
Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Autographs & Letters Greek & Non-Western Types Literature
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Manuscript table of the provisions on board the French frigate “Amphitrite”

LAPLACE, Cyrille Pière Théodore. La frégate de Roi L'Amphitrite. États des consommations faites pendant le mois de Décembre 1824 et que restent abord le 1e Janvier 1825.
[On board, December 1824-1 January 1825]. Manuscript table in brown ink on a whole sheet of laid paper (40 x 52 cm), with the title at the head and signed at the foot right by Laplace. Folded twice. Full description
€ 3,500
Circumnavigation Manuscripts & Documents Ships & Shipbuilding
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Drilling the Austrian Imperial infantry, with 49 manuscript formation plans in colour

LEEUWEN, Engelhard August Baron van. Plans des neu herrauss gegebene Exercittii nach den dermahligen Kayserl: Königl: kriegs Fuss Volck eingerichtet. Herausgegeben im Jahr 1765. Zugehörig Titl. Herrn Obrist Wacht M[ei]st[er] Baron v[on]: Engelhard.
Austria, 1769[?]. Oblong 4to (18.5 x 23 cm). With title and the explanation of the key letters used in the plans written in red, the key to the colour coding in the troop formations in 8 colours, and 49 (of 55) numbered colour-coded plans of infantry exercises. Each text leaf and each plan (except no. 26) in a frame of rules, nos. 2-35 in red, the rest in black. Plans 1, 24, 32, 33, 42, and 46 have been torn out, in 2 cases leaving a small piece of the drawing. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [3], 16 ll. plus 49 (of 55) numbered plans. Full description
€ 5,000
Austria Battle Plans & Siegecraft Central Europe Fortification & Military Architecture Manuscripts & Documents Military History (18th Century)
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