Book History, Education, Learning & Printing / Education & Pedagogy

[ABC BOOK]. Correttissima Santa Croce per facilissima istruzzione de' fanciulli.
[Rome], Francesco Ansillioni, [ca. 1750]. Small 8vo. With 2 nearly full-page woodcuts (the Holy Virgin on the front cover and a monk with a shining nimbus containing the word "charitas" around his head on the back cover) and 7 small religious woodcuts in text. Front and back cover and the first two pages with alphabets and numbers in ornamental woodcut borders. Sewn. [16] pp. Full description

ADLER, Jacob Georg Christian. Brevis linguae Syriacae insitutio in usum tironum edita.
Altona, Johann David Adam Eckhardt, 1784. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and typographical ornaments at the head of every page. The text is set in Roman and Syriac type. Early 19th-century blue marbled paper wrappers. 64, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[AERTS VAN BOCXTEL, Henrick]. Den spiegel der jonckheyt dienende voor alle jonckheyt, d'eerbaerheyt en deught beminnende tot eenen spiegel, daer sy in siende, moghen leeren hoe sy hun selven behooren te houden in hun inwendigh gemoet, in hun uytwendigh gaen, staen, kleedinge, spreken, eten, ende alle ander gelaet.
Antwerp, Johannes Petrus Willemsens, [ca. 1766]. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and final leaf, numerous decorated civilité initials, and a headpiece built up from typographical materials. Contemporary overlapping wrappers. 79, [1] pp. Full description

AESCHYLOS and Gulielmus CANTERUS (editor). Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium, ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1580. 16mo. With a small woodcut printer's device on the title page, 9 decorated woodcut initials, 7 woodcut headpieces, and 8 woodcut tailpieces, further with printed manicules in the margins throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. [2 blank], 355, [1 blank], [7], [3 blank] pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Zeelands chronyk-almanach, voor den jaare 1777 (1778-1780, 1785-1788, 1790, 1791-1792). Bevattende eene beschryvinge der Provincie Zeeland ... Ten dienste der Jeugd, gesteld in vragen en antwoorden, voorzien met alle het noodige, behooorende tot een Almanach. Als mede veele byzonderheden betrekking hebbende tot de Provincie Zeeland.
Middelburg, Jan Dane (1777-1780); P. Gillissen & Zn. (1785-1788, 1790); W.A. Keel & Comp., (1791), 1777-1791. 11 volumes. 16mo. With an engraved emblematic frontispiece in each volume, 18 folding engraved maps, plans, and views, and 18 full-page engraved plates. With the 1777 volume included twice. The second volume in contemporary beige printed wrappers with the coat of arms of Zeeland with the title on the front, and the coat of arms of Middelburg with the imprint on the back. Contemporary gold-tooled red, green, or brown morocco, with the coat of arms of Zeeland in a medallion in the centre of both boards, a banderol underneath with the title, both in an ornamental frame, gilt or marbled edges, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers in all except the first volume. Each ca. 200 pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Zeelands chronyk-almanach, voor 't jaar 1782. Bevattende eene beschryving der provincie Zeeland ... ten dienste der jeugd, gesteld in vragen en antwoorden.
Middelburg, Jan Dane, 1782. 16mo. With an engraved title by R. Vinkeles, and 5 folding plates. Original publisher's printed boards, with the title and the arms of Zeeland in black on the front, and the arms of Middelburg with the imprint on the back, both within an ornamental border, red sprinkled edges. [70], 475-568 [=22] pp. Full description

[ALMANAC]. Calendrier pour l' année 1826.
Paris, chez Janet, [1825].
With: [SONGS]. La morale du cœur.
Paris, chez Janet, [1825]. 2 works in 1 volume. 32mo. With an engraved title page, and 6 full-page engraved plates. Original publisher's pink boards, gilt edges, housed in a matching pink slipcase. [2], 24, [2]; 24 pp. Full description

[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. Le sentiment analysé ou l'école de l'adolescence.
Paris, Chez Janet, [1805]. 32mo. With 12 full-page engraved plates showing young people talking, playing, and courting. Contemporary gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco. 16, 24, 17-31 [=15], [1] pp. Full description

ANSINGH, Lizzy; Nelly BODENHEIM (illustrator); Tine BAANDERS (decorated script). 'n Vruchtenmandje. Versjes Lizzy Ansingh. Illustraties Nelly Bodenheim. Sierschrift Tine Baanders.
Amsterdam, De Spiegel (printed by Dieperink & Co.), 1927. Folio (29.5 x 23 cm). With the classic illustrated front board, a small illustration of a tea set on the title-page, 21 full-page illustrations of anthropomorphic fruits, nuts, and vegetables. All illustrations, including the illustrated front board, are lithographs designed by the illustrator herself on stone and coloured by hand by her as well. The verses by Lizzy Ansingh are written by Tine Baanders by hand in a decorative script. The work is printed on Simili Japon paper of the Dutch "Van Gelder" paper factory. Original half parchment and (hand-coloured lithographed) paper over boards, bound in the Japanese style with green ribbon through 5 holes. [1], [1 blank], [41], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

APHTHONIUS of Antioch; Rodolphus AGRICOLA and Giovanni Maria CATANEO (translators). Aphthonii sophistae progymnasmata. Partim à Rodolpho Agricola, partim à Ioanne Maria Catanaeo latinitate donata. Cum luculentis & vtilibus in eadem Scholiis Reinhardi Lorichii Hadamarii. Nunc verò omnia multò quàm antea & emendatiora & meliori artificio disposita.
Paris, Gilles Gourbin, 1580. 16mo in 8s. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 3 woodcut headpieces in the beginning of the work, and 9 decorated woodcut initials throughout. 17th-century limp vellum. [12], 259, [3 blank] ll. Full description