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First edition in English (one of two issues) of this publication on the costumes of the
officials of the French Revolutionary Government. First published in 1795 under the title
Costumes des Représentans du Peuple Français.
Curiously this Anglo-French publication, published presumably to satisfy English
curiosity about the developments on the other side of the Channel, was produced by
Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810), a Canadian by birth, who later lived and died in
France, and published a number of costume books, after his own drawings. He is best
known for his comprehensic illustrated Encyclopédie des Voyages, containing over three
hundred costume plates.
ESTC t34964 (there is apparently another issue with the title reading 'the whole illustrated …').
Nineteenth Century Trivial Pursuit
38.
GELL, C. Mental amusement: an entertaining and instructive game; comprising two
hundred and forty subjects on history, geography, astronomy etc. London, J. Souter,
1832. $1100
12mo, pp. 32 (leaflet) and 40 green cards printed on one side only; contained in a
pale violet glazed slipcase with green printed side-label.
Early edition of an educational game of questions and answers. In the little booklet the
rules of the game are given, together with two hundred and forty questions covering all
fields of knowledge, including geography, economics, astronomy, history, with a healthy
dose of morals and religious. The answers are printed on the cards. Whoever holds the
correct card, additionally has to give further information on the subject in question.
Very rare, not found in Osborne, no copy found in OCLC, the British Library apparently has an earlier
undated edition of 1825.
The First Universal Bibliography
39.
GESNER, Conrad. Bibliotheca universalis, sive Catalogus omnium scriptorium
locupletissimus, in tribus linguis, Latina, Graeca, & Hebraica: extantium & nen extantiu,
verterum & recentiorum in huncusqu diem, doctorum & indoctorum, publicatorum & in
Bibliothecis latentium Opus novum, & no Bibliothecis tantum publicis privatisue
instituendis necessarium, sed studiosis omnibus cuiuscunq artis aut scientiae ad studia
medius formanda utilissimum. Zurich, Christopher Froschauer, September 1545.
$32000
Folio, ll. [viii], [i] blank, [x] index, 631, large printer's mark to title and large woodcut arms to verso
of *7; with ll. 15 mss leaves either pasted in or loosely inserted; two or three individual wormholes
extending through first few signatures only; original full richly blind-stamped pigskin over wooden
boards, with remains of one catch and one clasp; spine label lettered in manuscript; the upper board
has 'Bibliotheca I A 1546' stamped in black on three panels of the decorated binding; head and tails
of spine a little chipped, else well-preserved; with extensive manuscript annotations throughout and