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Civilité Type for Courtesy Book 28 [CORDIER, Mathurin.] La Civilité puerile et honneste, pour l’instruction des Enfans, en laquelle est mise au commencement la maniere d’apprendre à bien lire, prononcer & écrire; corrigée de nouveau, & augmentée à la Wn d’un beau Traité pour bien apprendre l’Orthographe. Dressée par un Missionnaire. Avec des precepts & Instructions pour apprendre à la Jeunesse à se bien conduire dans les Compagnies. Paris, Herissant, 1785. £1000 12mo, pp. [vi], 102, [2]; title a little dust-soiled, lower corner worn and a little frayed; stitched in early manuscript leaf of an ?army list; ownership inscription of Robin Servon on the inside wrapper, with date in ink on upper wrapper. Servon also appears as one of the names on the army list; a little dog-eared and dampstain to lower wrapper. Later edition of a rare combined ABC and courtesy book, printed almost entirely in civilité type. After a brief introduction to the letters of the alphabet, vowels and consonants and some spelling exercises, the young readers are instructed on proper behaviour at church, at school, in polite company, while playing, at the table etc. The work concludes with a brief introduction to numbers and arithmetic, and 126 verses by De Pybrac, followed by a listing of homonyms. The Wrst edition of this version was apparently published in 1753. This is an attractive example of a civilité book, named for the type designed by Robert Granjon in 1557 and based on the gothic cursive handwriting in vogue at the time. ‘As early as the sixteenth century a particular French type face was given the name civilité after a French work by Mathurin Cordier, which combined doctrines from Erasmus’s treatise with those of another humanist, Johannes Sulpicius. And a whole genre of books, directly or indirectly inXuenced by Erasmus’s treatise, appeared under the title civilité or civilité puerile; these were printed up to the end of the eighteenth century in this civilité type’. (Norbert Elias, On Civilization, Power and Knowledge, 1998, p. 76.) Civilité type being similar to handwriting was mostly used for popular books, such as chapbooks, schoolbooks, songbooks etc. [Provenance:] The work is bound in a vellum manuscript leaf, apparently with military listings; included in a list of names is an oYcer Servon, which corresponds to the ownership inscription of Robin Servon on the inside wrapper. See Gumuchian 1763 (similar ed. of 1813); Carter-Vervliet 471 (similar Paris edition of 1757). How to Make Paper Flowers 29 DE MARIA, Claudio. La Fiorista dà Wori artiWciali con varie ricette per diversi colori. Compilato da Claudio DeMaria. Cesari, 1856. Manuscript in ink. £3750 susanne schulz-falster rare books
8vo, pp. [ii], 41, [7] blank, [96], with one very large folding plate (420 x 520 mm), 28 blank, folding plate with short splits to fold; specially produced vellum notebook with envelope-style Xap and remains of linen ribbon, with memo pockets at front and back, with four sheets of notes; binding a little rubbed, but very well preserved. A charming original manuscript in ink on the production of paper Xowers, illustrated extensively in colour, with the inclusion of numerous colour recipes. The manual is extremely well organised, with diagrams and tables, marked and referenced in the text. The Wrst section, extending to forty-one pages, contains detailed recipes for the production of diVerent dyes, with descriptions of the necessary ingredients and procedures. The second, more extensive part contains a comprehensive introduction to the production of paper Xowers, with full colour illustrations of diVerent Xowers, and the various steps in production, such as pattern cutting, advice on how to form leaves, petals etc., and Wnal assembly of the diVerent parts. There are many colour illustrations in the text, detailing either work steps, or the Wnished product. The large folding plate shows the diVerent tools used in paper Xower production. This manual must have been a notebook of either a master or an apprentice of paper Xower production, though clearly one with an artistic bend, as the illustrations are both charming and competent. There is no publication recorded with a similar title, and moreover, the spontaneous writing style makes it highly unlikely that this is a copy of an existing book. It was possibly meant for future publication, with a few later corrections in the text. However, no such book appears to have been published. European paper Xower production apparently originated in Italy, but in the eighteenth century the French made great advances in the accuracy of their reproductions and towards the end of the century Paris manufacturers enjoyed a world-wide reputation. catalogue fourteen
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Page 5 and 6: From the mid-sixteenth century the
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Page 9 and 10: Fifty Remarkable Women - A Discussi
Page 11 and 12: On Generation 14 BLUMENBACH, Johann
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Page 29 and 30: A detailed contents list at the end
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on hospital statistics. She and Far
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handsome woodcuts include amphora o
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The work was written between 1734 a
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mine a person’s mental faculties.
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the Wrst, and earliest, book in the
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exile. Even in England his radical
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of journal contributions, both well
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oth direct translations of Persian
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education for primary schools. The
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First edition, uncommon, of this un
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First Edition of Adam Smith’s Fir
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111 SONNENFELS, Aloys von. Controve
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Upstairs - Downstairs The Servants
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decorative wrappers; spine a little
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in compartments with gilt-lettering
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show what Englishmen thought. Much
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Not found in Kress or Goldsmiths’
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The Practicalities of Writing 125 [
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The Origin of Hebrew 127 ZENDRINI,
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