Search Results: Titles starting with I from Knuf Rare Books

1876. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. Paris, Auguste Fontaine, 1876. 392pp. Frontispiece portrait of Molière. Nineteenth century half morocco, marbled boards, original wrappers bound-in. No. 262 of only 500 copies and printed on papier d'Hollande.

1916. Hrsg. v. H. Bauer-Gera & Paul Kersten. 6e neu verbesserte und vermehrte Aufl. mit 258 Textillustrationen, 24 Tafeln enth. 52 modern künstlerisches Einbände und 18 orig. Marmoriermustern. Halle 1916. x,486pp + plates. In a later blind cloth binding (with a library stamp).

No place, 1743. 508 mm tall by 646 mm wide, single sheet of parchment folded.Indenture made the second day of March, in the seventeenth year of the reign of our sovereign lord, George the Second, in the year of our Lord 1743 between Robert Allen of Chelsfield in the county of Kent, yeoman, and Stephen Allen, of the same place, yeoman, & William Willmott of Shoreham, in the county of Kent, Papermaker. This is a property lease for one year. Manuscript is 38 lines long in black ink. Upper left corner engraved royal arms with surrounding scroll- and trelliswork extending along 1/3 of upper line 160 x 158 mm. Within scrollwork are four women (muses or fates perhaps?) and the name of the stationer who created the document (T. Brookbank, Stationer at Furnivals Inn). Below this, 3 stamps of VI pence each in blue embossed with a crowned garter motto with a Tudor rose in the center. Folded lower border with 3 cloth ribbons and red seals about 20 mm down with portrait of a Renaissance (?) man facing left along… Read More

1743. No place, 1743. 508 mm tall by 646 mm wide, single sheet of parchment folded, not paginated. Indenture made the second day of March, in the seventeenth year of the reign of our sovereign lord, George the Second, in the year of our Lord 1743 between Robert Allen of Chelsfield in the county of Kent, yeoman, and Stephen Allen, of the same place, yeoman, & William Willmott of Shoreham, in the county of Kent, Papermaker. This is a property lease for one year. Manuscript is 38 lines long in black ink. Upper left corner engraved royal arms with surrounding scroll- and trelliswork extending along 1/3 of upper line 160 x 158 mm. Within scrollwork are four women (muses or fates perhaps?) and the name of the stationer who created the document (T. Brookbank, Stationer at Furnivals Inn). Below this, 3 stamps of VI pence each in blue embossed with a crowned garter motto with a Tudor rose in the center. Folded lower border with 3 cloth ribbons and red seals about 20 mm down with portrait of a… Read More

1862. 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… Read More

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

Three titles in one volume. 8vo. All three: Third editions, Amsterdam, Daniel van den Dalen, 1697. [12], 151; 92; 111 pp. With two engraved frontispieces (for the first two titles) and a few copper engravings, one of them full-page. Some foxing and browning. Half calf with paste paper boards, edges sprinkled red. (binding rubbed and spine damaged at the top and bottom, part of the hinges cracked, interior fine). All in all a good copy.Willem Goeree (1635-1711), the son of a physician and born in Middelburg, was unable to go to University because of his father's early death. He then chose to become a printer and bookseller, first in Middelburg from 1666 to 1677 and then in Amsterdam but he also wrote books on antiquities and art like the present work. His works, published during the Golden Age of Dutch painting were some of the most popular manuals on painting and remained so into the eighteenth century. They also give valuable insight into this golden age of Dutch painting. It is probable that many… Read More

Augsburg, 1743. 8vo. 58 full-page engravings (size c. 10 x 16 cm), numbered 1 - 58 (including title). (complete). Each plate pasted down on a leaf of a nineteenth century cloth album. (cloth a bit faded).
The engravings are by Tobias Lobeck after the drawings by Gottfried-Bernhard Götz. Each engraving is accompanied by a Latin prayer to the Virgin Mary. They refer to the Loreto Litany, a Marian litany that was approved in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V. Gottfried Bernhard Göz (also Goez, Goetz or Götz 1708- 1774) was a German Rococo painter and engraver. In 1737 he founded a joint engraving publishing company in Augsburg with the Klauber brothers. Between 1737 and 1742 they worked together to produce more than 360 graphic sheets. Then they each went their own way. The Klauber company became the European center for Catholic icon publishing through new representative engraving series, leading it to new paths in the Rococo. Göz founded his own publishing and engraving business, inventing a typographical… Read More

1817. A Paris, chez Firmin Didot, imprimeur du Roi, et de l'Institut, rue Jacob, no. 24, 1817. 124 pp. Uncut. No wrappers, as issued. Gives details about the new organization of the Institut Royal de France, lists of members.

1802. Second edition. Budae, Typis Regiae Universitatis Pestanae, 1802. xvi,403pp. + 5 folding plates. Contemporary half calf binding with marbled bds. (inner hinge slightly dam. & spine a bit rubbed). Name in ink in contemporary hand on verso of titlepage (visible on recto.). Exlibris J.M. Ackner's Sammlung" (some light foxing trhoughout). Second edition of the first Hungarian book on paleography. The first edition was published in 1790. Martin Schwartner (1759 - 1823) became the director of the University Library in Pest in 1788. The publication of the present work in 1790 makes him the founder of Hungarian paleography.

1867. A Paris, pour la Société des Bibliophiles, 1867. xliv,318pp. Title printed in red and black. Uncut and unopened copy in original wrappers (front wrapper loosening) The preface contains an analysis of the library by subject and mentions most of the important manuscripts.