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How to teach young children to pronounce the various sounds of the Dutch language

HEIJNINGEN BOSCH, Mattheus van. Figuurlijk onderwijs. Abe-prentjes voor moeder en kind.
Groningen, Mattheus van Heijningen Bosch, 1820. Oblong 32mo (ca. 7.8 x 9.5 cm). With 31 small woodcuts on 16 pages, illustrating the pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet which are printed in red, all pages are framed in a typographical border. Original blue wrappers with title printed on the front and an advertisement for educational booklets by the same publisher on the back, both in a lithographed floral border. 18, [4] pp. Full description
€ 600
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The second ever work to be printed in Didot's microscopic Polyamatype

HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus and Auguste FILON (editor) Opera Omnia, recensuit Filon.
Paris, A. Sautelet, 1828. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled dark blue morocco, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, a floral border in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a single fillet frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk end papers. VIII, 229, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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In defence of the fart, bound by Thouvenin

MARTI, Manuel. Oratio pro crepitu ventris habita ad patres crepitantes.
Cosmopoli [= Strasbourg], ex typographia societatis patrum crepitantium, 1768. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a tailpiece built up from typographical ornaments, and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco by Thouvenin. 70, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Unrecorded issue

NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. Zaagmans almanach na de nieuwe en oude-stijl. Op 't schrickel-jaer onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1680. Met de jaer, paerde, beeste en leer-marckten, s maens op en ondergang door D.R. van Nierop.
Including:
(2) Zaagmans tijt-wijser.
(3) Korte chronyck van alle de gedenkwaerdigste geschiedenissen t' sedert de geboorte onses Heeren Iesu Christi, tot desen tegenwoordigen jare.
(4) MAGINO, Antonio. De Italiaensche waer-segger op het jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi 1680.
[Amsterdam], Gillis Joosten Zaagman, 1680. 4 parts in 1 volume. 24mo. With the title page and calendar printed in red and black, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 13 woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each months and 1 for the eclipses), and 4 half-page woodcuts in the text. Contemporary dark brown shagreen with blind ruling along the edges, gilt edges. [80] pp + 12 interleaved blanks and 6 thick cardboard leaves Full description
€ 3,250
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Miniature edition of an important classical work on human behaviour

THEOPHRASTUS. Characteres ethici, sive Morum descriptiones. Graecè et Latinè. Cum notis & monitis Ioannis à Werdenhagen.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1653. 24mo. With a vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments, the work is partly printed in Greek type. Contemporary vellum. 359, [1] pp. Full description
€ 450
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Extremely rare miniature almamac in a mother-of-pearl chemise

[ALMANAC - DUTCH]. De kleine tydwyzer of jufferlyke almanach voor den jaare 1797.
Amsterdam, Jan van Gulik, [1796]. 16mo (ca. 6.3 x 3 cm). With an engraved title page, 5 numbered double-page engravings, and an engraved text page on the sounding of the bell of the Amsterdam Gate. Contemporary decorated wrappers, side stitched through two holes. The work is inserted into a contemporary mother-of-pearl chemise with a silver spine and a metal clasp. [24] ll. Full description
€ 1,500
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Only know copy of this miniature Almanac for 1763, in a fine gold-tooled red morocco binding

[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. Le joli Pont-Neuf, ou recueil de chansons; vaudevilles, &c. Almanach nouveau.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris?], sold in Paris, Duchesne, [1763]. 24mo (9.5 x 5.6 cm). Each page printed in simple woodcut border, with several small head and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled French red morocco, fine green, gold, and white brocade paper endpapers with a foral pattern. [40] ll. Full description
€ 1,700
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Dutch literary almanac

[ALMANAC]. Miniatuur almanak voor het jaar 1838. 2de jaargang.
Utrecht, L.E. Bosch en Zoon, [1837]. 12mo. With a lithographed title printed in blue and gold, 4 full-page lithographed plates by H.J. Backer and by De Weijer at Utrecht, and 4 folding leaves with musical score. Original publisher's lithographed pink boards, gilt edges. 51, [2], 121 [5], V, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 250
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