Eenvoud wordt het laatst geleerd. Uit een brief van Theodore L. Devinne. by DEVINNE, THEODORE L

Grenoble, Alexandre Giroud, 1701. 4to. 8pp. Reminder of the rules and regulations relevant to the printing trade given in VIII articles.

Nouvelle édition, corrigée & considérablement augmentée d'après les mémoires & les procédés des artistes... 5 vols. Paris, chez P. Fr. Didot jeune, 1773. 8vo. Contemporary full calf (rubbed, corners & tops & bottoms of spine slightly damaged). xxvi,3,595pp; halftitle, titlepage, 622pp with 3 (folding) plates bound in; halftitle, titlepage,574pp; halftitle, titlepage, 556pp + 4 pages catalogue of books; 640pp. The last (fifth) volume contains a dictionary of all the terms used in all the arts and crafts.Interesting work that was first published in two volumes only. Pierre Jaubert (1715-1780) took it upon himself to revise and augment this universal encyclopedia of all the arts and crafts. An important part is dedicated to the professions related to the book. We find interesting articles on engravers, typefounders, papermakers, makers of decorated paper, bookbinders, gilders, printers, booksellers and bibliographers. The three (folding) plates that are to be found in the second volume all deal… Read More

1736. A Paris, chez A. Jombert, 1736. 4to. (page size 215 x 270 mm, most plates about 170 x 125 mm). 30 leaves of numbered engraved plates (22 plates of cupids - including engraved title, 8 plates of masks). Plus, bound as preliminaries, are the engraved titlepage and the second plate of Abraham Bosse's Differents Manières de Dessiner et Peindre. Later 3/4 buckram with marbled boards. Buckram a bit soiled. Plate 13 cut a bit short and plate 18 with a stain in the upper margin, not affecting the plate. Re-issue of this appealing series of engravings by Abraham Bosse after designs by the Italian artist and draughtsman Paolo Farinato (1524 - 1606). Farinati's chiaroscuro drawings were often used as 'modelli'. The first edition was published in 1644. The highly decorative images were intended to be copied as wall decoration, door headings, etc. They show cupids and angels with swags of flowers, bows and arrows, cornucopiae, grape vines, etc. On this work Join-Lambert & Préaud say: "Bosse avait commencé… Read More

Bijvoegsel van de Amsterdammer, Weekblad voor Nederland, van 6 mei 1900. Lithography. Broadsheet, Folio (47 x 30 cm). Johan Coenraad Braakensiek (1858 - 1940) was a Dutch painter, illustrator and political cartoonist. The subject of this print is the strike of the typographers in Amsterdam from the end of April to the beginning of May 1900.

No place, no date (but Paris, 1748). Folio. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title, engraved dedication to the King, 78 engraved plates. Some (water)staining but still a good clean copy bound in nineteenth century 3/4 red morocco & red buckram boards. Edges stained red.Second, last and best edition of this collection of engravings of medals commemorating the real and imagined triumphs of Louis XV's reign.

Nouvelle édition, corrigée & considérablement augmentée d'après les mémoires & les procédés des artistes... 5 vols. Paris, chez P. Fr. Didot jeune, 1773. 8vo. Contemporary full calf (rubbed, corners & tops & bottoms of spine slightly damaged). xxvi,3,595pp; halftitle, titlepage, 622pp with 3 (folding) plates bound in; halftitle, titlepage,574pp; halftitle, titlepage, 556pp + 4 pages catalogue of books; 640pp. The last (fifth) volume contains a dictionary of all the terms used in all the arts and crafts.Interesting work that was first published in two volumes only. Pierre Jaubert (1715-1780) took it upon himself to revise and augment this universal encyclopedia of all the arts and crafts. An important part is dedicated to the professions related to the book. We find interesting articles on engravers, typefounders, papermakers, makers of decorated paper, bookbinders, gilders, printers, booksellers and bibliographers. The three (folding) plates that are to be found in the second volume all deal… Read More

1736. A Paris, chez A. Jombert, 1736. 4to. (page size 215 x 270 mm, most plates about 170 x 125 mm). 30 leaves of numbered engraved plates (22 plates of cupids - including engraved title, 8 plates of masks). Plus, bound as preliminaries, are the engraved titlepage and the second plate of Abraham Bosse's Differents Manières de Dessiner et Peindre. Later 3/4 buckram with marbled boards. Buckram a bit soiled. Plate 13 cut a bit short and plate 18 with a stain in the upper margin, not affecting the plate. Re-issue of this appealing series of engravings by Abraham Bosse after designs by the Italian artist and draughtsman Paolo Farinato (1524 - 1606). Farinati's chiaroscuro drawings were often used as 'modelli'. The first edition was published in 1644. The highly decorative images were intended to be copied as wall decoration, door headings, etc. They show cupids and angels with swags of flowers, bows and arrows, cornucopiae, grape vines, etc. On this work Join-Lambert & Préaud say: "Bosse avait commencé… Read More

Nova ediçao, Lisboa, na typographia Rollandiana, 1848. 294 pp. Unbound and in sheets as published. Printed label for the binder to use on the temporary wrappers next to page 289. Some light staining throughout.

Paris & London, Mai 1862. 8vo. (18,2 x 12,0 cm). 31 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts (including 2 full-page).Published for the London World Fair 1862 with map of the exibition halls on the inside front cover. The "Expositions Universelles" or World Fairs were intended to show the latest innovations and inventions. The earliest of these fairs were held in France but were national. The first one of 1798 was the start of eleven national fairs. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. Callebaut shows different models and explains the technqiue of them. Both full page illustrations of the factory show us what factories looked like at the time. At the 1862 exhibition about 50 types of sewing machine were on show on over 20 stands. M. Callebaut from Paris showed 'several modifications of shuttle sewing machines of the Singer type.' Callebaut was the Singer licencee in France (the only occasion on which the… Read More

Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1664. Small 12mo. (32 pp - including the engraved titlepage and the titlepage), 151 pp, (26 pp.). 9 full page plates and 2 folding plates. Contemporary calf binding (binding solid but top hinge damaged & small bit of leather lost on spine & a cut in the middle of the pages 101/102, without loss). Edges sprinkled red.Two ex-libris pasted on inside front cover, name of the top one erased. A manuscript note on the inside back cover says: "A M. Rabault de Vilers, auditeur des Comptes à Paris en 1775. "Il a vû casser toutes les cloches de France pour en faire du caon et des solz. Ne voyez jamais un pareil temps."This work on bells and their religious and secular uses by Girolamo Maggi (c. 1523 - 1572) was first published in Hanau in 1608. This is the second edition with notes by François Sweerts (1567-1629). It describes the invention of the bell and discusses bells in public and private spaces, towers with bells like the Turis Garisenda and the tower of Pisa - illustrated.… Read More