Search Results: Titles starting with J from Knuf Rare Books

1800. Card, c. 16 x 9,5 cm. Text in Dutch within a decorative border. It seems that there were more cards printed on the same sheet as the border at the bottom is different and the ones at the sides seem to continue.

1847. Traduit du manuscrit allemand par le chevalier Jean de Carro. Bruxelles, 1847. 104pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, spine strenghtened with brown paper. Exlibris on inside front wrapper. Bigmore & Wyman say: "These pages go to prove the usual account of Gutenberg's parentage erroneous, and that he was born at Kuttenberg, a small town in Bohemia."

Contents: Mercantile precedents for the use of commercial schools. Engraved and published by Jones & Compy. ... London; Select passages by Wm. Jones (with imprint: J. Souter, London, 1838); Clarke's Latin apothegms [by Joseph Clarke?]; Jones' small hand, historical (with imprint: J. Souter, London, 1838); Latin examples, for the use of classical schools. Engraved and published by John Souter ... London.Printing: engraved throughout by Jones and Co. and John Souter, some after William Jones. Oblong. (8.8 x 24.7 cm) [6], [12], [1], [8], [6]fol. Half cloth, black spine and green gauffred wrappers. (sl. dam.). Lower margins cut short. Rare little booklet (I have only found one copy in Worldcat) showing different kinds of commercial writing. [not in Bonacini].

1690. Amsterdam, by Aart Dircksz. Ossaan, Boekverkooper op den Dam, no date. (but 1690?) 16pp. Unopened. Stitched as issued. Some foxing and dustsoiling. Hans Willem Bentinck, Earl of Portland (1649-1709). There is no date on this pamphlet but there exists an English edition (London, Richard Baldwin) dated 1690.