Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

[MEXICO - José María BOCANEGRA]. Discurso del diputado Bocanegra. Pronunciado el 10 de enero de 1823, y reproducido por escrito el 6 de febrero del mismo año en sesiones publicas, sobre el proyecto de reglamento politico de gobierno para el imperio Mexicano, presentado a la junta nacional instituyente por su comision especial.
Mexico City, Imprenta del Suprema Gobierno, 1823. 4to. Stitched through 3 holes. 10, [2 blank] pp. Full description

MEYER, Jacques de. Compendium chronicorum Flandriae, per Iacobum Meyerum Balliolanum. Opus nunc recens aeditum, anno M.D.XXXVIII. Norimbergae apud Io. Petrium.
Neurenberg, Johannus Petreius, 1538. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page of each work, and 33 decorated woodcut initials (2 in ad 1, 31 in ad 2). With: PANORMITA, Antonius (Antonio BECCADELLI). De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum libri quattuor. Commentarium in eosdem Aeneae Sylvii quo capitatim cum Alphonsinis contendit. Adiecta sunt singulis libris Scholia per Iacobum Spiegelium.
Basel, Ex officina Hervagiana (Joannes Hervagius & Joannes Erasmus Froben), 1538.
Contemporary panel-stamped calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, blind-tooled diagonal cross-hatching in the top and bottom compartment, a central panel on both boards (measuring 156 x 93 mm) with acorns on branches, surrounded by a floral border with acorns and wyverns, and an escutcheon at the bottom, the titles written in a humanistic hand at the top of the front board and on the fore edge, remnants of closing ties. [14], 134 ll; [8], 1-125, 226-299, 100-108, 209-212, 203, 213-214, 214-216, 117, 218-230, 221-278 [=282], [2] pp. Full description

MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Abregé chronologique de l'histoire de France. ... Divisé en six tomes.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1673-1674.
With: (2) MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Histoire de France avant Clovis.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1688.
2 works in 7 volumes. 12mo. Ad 1 with woodcut publisher's device on each of the 6 title-pages, engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe and full-page engraved portrait of Louis XIV by A. Zylevelt in volume 1, 61 engraved portraits of French rulers in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials. Ad 2: with engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe, title-page with woodcut publisher's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials. Uniform polished, crushed red morocco, gold-tooled boards, spines and wide turn-ins, fillets on board edges, edges gilt over marbling, marbled endpapers. Each volume signed and dated 1913 on the turn-in by the leading Brussels bookbinder Charles DE SAMBLANX (1855-1943). Full description

[MICROGRAPHY]. S. Antonius cortinet si quaeris.
[Italy, 17th century]. 11.3 x 7.7 cm. Brown ink, charcoal, and watercolour on vellum. Full description

[VOC - MIDDELGEEST, Simon van]. Den vervaerlijcken Oost-Indischen eclipsis vertoont aende Vereenichde Provincien door de participanten van d' Oost-Indische Compagnie. Met een oodtmoedich beklach aen de hoogh moghende heeren Staten: over de groote abuysen ende disordren deser Compagnie, mits de groote swaricheden die uyt dese te verwachten staen.
[1625]. Small 4to. With a small woodcut on the title-page. Modern half red faux snake-skin, new endpapers and paste-downs. 19, [1 blank] pp. Full description

MIGNET, François Auguste Marie. Het leven van Benjamin Franklin. ... Een volksboek, ter voorbeeld hoe men door eigen vlijt en deugd tot rijkdom en aanzien kan geraken.
Deventer, A. ter Gunne, [ca. 1858]. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece-portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Contemporary gold- and blind-stamped cloth. XII, 175, [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

[MIGOEN, Jacobus Wilhelmi]. Proeve des nu onlangs uyt-ghegheven drooms, oft t'samenspraack tusschen den coningh van Hispanien ende den Paus van Roomen. Met noch eenen anderen droom, contrarie den voorschreven. Mits gaders eene vermaninghe, aan alle vroome ende ghetrouwe vader-landers, hoe zij haar in dezer tijdt te draghen hebben (...). Beschreven door een lief-hebber aller menschen, maar in sonderheydt den Godt-zoeckeñ ende trou-hertighen in gheboorne dezer vrijer provincien. Door NISEMVOLBG472HC58A22W.
[Gouda, J.W. Migoen, 1607]. 4to. Modern wrappers. Full description

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. Le petit volage. Pour l'an 1819.
Paris, [chez Louis Janet, 1818]. 128mo (ca. 2.7 x 1.7 cm). With 8 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, with an upside down fleuron in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border, gilt edges. 64 pp. Full description

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. La miniature.
Paris, A. Marcilly, [1843]. 128mo (ca. 2.5 x 1.8 cm). With 6 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, a fleuron in the centre of the front and back, surrounded by an ornamental border, gilt edges. 64 pp. Full description

[MINIATURE BOOK - ALMANACK - LONDON]. London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1788.
London, T. Carnan, [1788]. 24mo(?) (5.7 x 3.3 cm). With an engraved armorial title page, 4 full-page engraved portraits, and a half-page engraved view. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco, the gold-tooled boards are beautifully decorated with a white morocco trellis-like (mosaic) pattern with red and green lozenge shaped morocco inlays, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [24] pp. Full description