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

[TEXTBOOK - PERSIAN]. Ganjína-i-muhárawát. The Wazír-i-Lankurán and a selection from the diary of Násiru-d-dín Sháh containig [!] an account of the journey of the Sháh of Persia from Tehrán to Russia. Being a text book for the lower standard examination in Persian.
Calcutta, "published by authority", 1909. 8vo. With a floral ornament on page 3. The text is set in Persian script. Original quarter purple cloth and blue printed paper over boards, with the title in Persian on the front board and in English on the back board. [1], [1 blank], 80, [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description

THOMPSON, Captain R. Campbell, Elias GEORGES, and others (editors). A list of words and phrases in the Basrah dialect of Arabic.
Simla, Government Central Branch Press, 1916. 8vo. Original beige waxed cloth wrappers, with the title printed on the front wrapper. V, [1 blank], 21, [3 blank] pp. Full description

VALERIUS, Cornelius. In universam benedicendi rationem tabula, summam artis rhetoricae complectens: recognita & emendatius excusa.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1573. 8vo (16.1 x 10.2 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description

VALERIUS, Cornelius Physicae, seu de naturae philosophia institutio.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1574. 8vo (16.1 x 10 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title, and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 103, [1 blank] pp. Full description

VALERIUS, Cornelius Grammaticarum institutionum libri IIII. I. De primis grammatices Latinae rudimentis. II. De etymologiae, seu analogia. III. De syntaxi, seu recta partium orationis consecutione. IIII. De carminum ratione, seu de versibus faciendis.
Including:
- II. De etymologiae, seu analogia.
- III. De syntaxi, seu recta partium orationis consecutione.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1575.
With: (2) IDEM. IIII. De carminum ratione, seu de versibus faciendis.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1573. 4 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (16.1 x 10.3 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on all 4 title pages, some woodcut initials throughout. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 94, [1], [1 blank]; 97-207, [1 blank]; 209-285, [1], [2 blank]; 259-287, [1 blank] pp. Full description

VEGIO, Maffeo. De liberorum educatione aurei libri sex noviter recogniti Francisci Philelphi. poete. Oratoris. philosophique prestantissimi. Succincto cum iudice [recté indice]: et brevibus marginariis annotationibus obscurarum sensa dictionum aperientibus. Nicolai Bonespei trecensis campani cura superadditis.
(Colophon: Paris, "apud Gourmontios" [= the brothers Robert, Gilles and Jean de Gourmont], 1508). Small 4to (19 x 13 cm). With numerous printed so-called Lombardic initials, but also with 2 spaces (with guide letters) left for manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in a roman type with the beginning of the title and one heading in a large rotunda gothic type with decorated capitals. Blind-tooled calf (19th century? in a "Medieval" style). CXXVIII, [6] ll. Full description

[VENEMA, Pieter] and M. JANSEN. Beginselen van de algebra, uytgewerkt door M. Jansen.
[The Netherlands?], 1765 (29 November 1763-5 July 1765). Folio (ca. 32 x 21 cm). With a calligraphed title page, the text in the rest of the manuscript is neatly written within a reddish brown ruled border, with calligraphed headings. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [2], 311, [50 blank] pp. Full description

VEUR, Adriaan Teunisz. van. Zeemans schatkamer, daar in de stuurmans-konst niet alleen als voor deezen beschreeven; maar ook verscheide zaken verbetert en bygevoegt zyn ...
Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, 1755.
With:
(2) De tafelen sinuum, tangentium, en secantium ...
Amsterdam, Isaac Swigters, [ca. 1752].
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, numerous woodcut mathematical figures, tables, decorated initials, and tail-pieces. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title and author on the spine, red edges. [4], 326, [16]; [256] pp. Full description

VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. Latina grammatica ... in usum scholarum ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1666. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the 2 title-pages, first title-page printed in red and black, with some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red edges. [10], 176; 177, [3] pp. Full description

WALBEEK, Willem and Frans WALBEEK. [Three calligraphic prize books by Willem and Frans Walbeek].
Warmond (near Leiden), the Netherlands, 1752-1756.
Comprising:
(1) WALBEEK, Willem. Prijs boek. Inhoudende verscheyde geschriften.
Warmond, 1752.
(2) WALBEEK, Willem. Prijs-boek. Inhoudende eenige schriften.
Warmond, 1753.
(3) WALBEEK, Frans. Prijs boek.
Warmond, 1756.
Three oblong albums (ca. 35 x 44 cm). With the same hand drawn illustration of 2 putti holding a laurel wreath on the title-pages of ads 2 and 3, and an ink drawing of a compass as part of a calligraphic exercise also in ads 2 and 3. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. [12]; [1 blank], [13]; [10] ll. Full description