Search Results: Authors starting with P from Knuf Rare Books

1848. And: Books Published by W.E. Painter, 342, Strand. London, (1848). One pages type specimens and fifteen pages catalogue of books published by William Painter.16 pages. 8vo. Stitched. Disbound. William Edward Painter was active in London in the period 1830's - 1850's. The present typespecimen contains five different types: Pica, Small Pica, Long Primer, Bourgeois & Brevier and includes prices for the cost of printing in the various types given in 10, 24, 36 & 64 page runs. Rare specimen for which I have not been able to find any reference. [not in B&W; not in Updike]

1823. Haarlem, Vincent Loosjes, 1823. viii,29pp. Original blue wrappers with brown craft paper pasted on the cover. Some waterstaining in the top margin of the first 12 pages or so. Exlibris pasted on the inside front cover. (Bigmore & Wyman)

1823. Haarlem, Vincent Loosjes, 1823. viii, 29pp. Paper browned throughout. Bound with: FABIUS, E. Bedenkingen over de sterfte in de beide stads-gasthuizen te Amsterdam. 17pp. Signed by the author on the titelpage. (Offprint: Archief voor de Geneeskunde van Dr. J.P. Heije, I Dl., 3de stuk, blz. 486). Two works bound together in a later, black leather binding

1780. Nürnberg, Monath, 1780. 4to. (4),148pp. In a half vellum binding (c. 1900). Some very, very light foxing throughout. Wide margins. George Wolfgang Francis Panzer, the eminent German bibliographer was born at Sulzbach, in the Upper Palatinate, 1729, and was educated at Altdorf where he took the degree of D.D., and was at the same time ordained a minister in the Evangelical section of the Church. Books were his delight and study from youth to old age, his library being choice and extensive. He died at Nuremberg, in 1804. His own collection of bibles was acquired in 1790 by the Duke of Würtemmberg and is nowadays part of the Bible collection of the Stuttgarter Landesbibliothek. [see B&W].

1778. No place, no date (1778?). Taken from an unknown publication. pp. 28-37. Uncut. Modern plain paper wrappers. Gottlob Epraim Hermann (1738-1800), a professor at the University of Strasbourg wrote several zoological monographs and two important textbooks. His book on paper-devouring insects was awarded a prize by the Royal Society of Göttingen in 1774. Here we have a summary in Italian of that work on paper-eating insects extracted from an unknown publication.

1934. Paris, Librairie Droz, 1934. Thick Folio. Orig. buckram. 54pp. With 205 leaves of facsimile. The manuscript described and reproduced was written in Northern France early in the 14th century.

1781. A Lille, de l'Imprimerie de N.J.B. Peterinck-Cramé, 1781. 4pp. Woodcut border at the beginning. Modern wrappers. Decree for controlling all books entering into France and measures to be taken to avoid the 'smuggling' of books.

1817. Paris, chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard & Dijon, chez Victor Lagier, 1817. xx,295 pp. Small 8vo. Half calf binding, paper boards. Edges stained yellow. Ex-libris on the inside front cover. Gabriel Peignot (1767-1849), a prolific scholar and librarian in Dijon, was one of the most important contributors to the development of historical bibliography. First edition of this classic guide to book collecting and bibliography, published in 754 copies only. The edition was sold out in six months (...der obschon es in einer Stärke von 754 Exemplaren gedruckt worden war... in weniger als sechs Monaten ganz vergriffen gewesen sein soll.... (Petzholdt, p. 91)). Peignot concentrates on Latin, Greek and French literature and provides advice to book collectors on the most important authors in each field and the best editions of their books. In the last chapter he gives a brief introduction to descriptive bibliography, and provides some information on the early history of printing, the physical… Read More

1833. No place, no date (but c. 1833) Offprint? Pp. 84 - 145. With two full-page plates. BOUND WITH: Mémoires de l'Académie. Littérature du Moyen Age. Essai analytique sur l'origine de la langue française et sur un recueil de monumens de cette langue, classés chronologiquement depuis le IXe siècle au XVIIe. Lu à la séance du 27 aout 1834. No place, no date (but 1834). Offprint. Browned. Pp 5 - 82 and page 157-158 which contain the "Table des mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon. Partie des Lettres. Année 1834" from which this article is an offprint. With five full-page plates (one of which is folding). BOUND WITH: Souvenirs relatifs à quelques Bibliothèques particullièrs des temps passés. No place, no date. Pp 165 - 184. BOUND WITH: Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Cl.-Nic. Amanton. Offprint Mémoires de l'Académie des… Read More

1821. Paris, chez Haut-Coeur et Gayet, 1821-22. Complete in 4 volumes. x,529; 529-984; 572; 659pp. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards (edges a bit rubbed). According to Milsand in his 'Catalogue par ordre alphabétique des ouvrages de G. Peignot' the present work is by Peignot, although he himself denied it. Michaud says: "Laborieux bibliographe et philologue français... Peignot a laissé un fort grand nombre d'ouvrages, qui ont été bien accueillis du public et qui ont contribué à repandre en France le goût de la bibliographie" Peignot, a native of Dijon, was an enormously learned and industrious scholar, whose career included law, librarianship and high academic posts. He wrote on practically everything - literature, philology, archeology, history, biography and bibliography. In the latter field he was often far ahead of his time. Brunet (4, 466ff) speaks of him with admiration mixed with some scepticism and… Read More

1832. Dijon, de l'imprimerie de Frantin, 1832. 56pp. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards. (more or less foxing throughout the text). One of 100 copies only. From the introduction: "Il m'est tombé sous la main un objet assez curieux... Cet objet consiste en vingt-deux grandes miniatures, ou tableaux en couleur, relatifs à la fondation du superbe Hôpital du Saint-Esprit à Rome en 1198, et à la fondation de l'Hôpital du même ordre à Dijon en 1204. Ces miniatures... sont toutes réunies en tête d'un manuscrit sur vélin, format in-folio renfermant beaucoup de bulles de différens [sic] papes, relatives aux Hôpitaux. Ce recueil précieux existe aux archives de l'Hôpital de Dijon"

1819. Paris, Renouard & Tournachon-Molin et H. Seguin / Dijon, Noellat, 1819. 8vo. lxiii, (1), 432, 116pp. With 6 plates (1 folding). The last 116 pages contain: Précis chronologique des événements politiques, civils, militaires et littéraires, suvenus, tant en France que dans les différens Etats de l'Europe, depuis 1814 jusqu'en 1819. Bound together in half green morocco with marbled boards. Spine richly gilt. Ex libris on inside front cover. Étienne Gabriel Peignot, the great bibliographer was born at Arc-en-Barrois, 15th May 1767. Originally a bookseller he later became librarian. Every leisure moment he gave to book and pen. He lived to be eighty three years old and left behind him no less than fifty or more unpublished works in manuscript.

Composé de recherches curieuses la plupart négligées par les historiens, et contenant, dans l'ordre chronologique, la généalogie détaillée des Princes de chaque race; l'indication des grands événemens, tous les établissemens politiques, religieux, civils, militaires et littéraires de chaque règne; les découvertes en tous genres; les costumes, moeurs et usages de chaque siècle; la nomenclature et évaluation des monnoies frappées par chaque Roi; les progrès de la langue française, de règne en règne, prouvés par les monumens du temps; enfin un précis de la révolution française, présentant jour par jour les principaux événemens depuis l'assemblee des notables en 1787, jusqu'à la fin de 1819.Paris, Renouard & Tournachon-Molin et H. Seguin / Dijon, Noellat, 1819. 8vo. lxiii, (1), 432, 116pp. With 6 plates (1 folding). The last 116 pages contain: Précis chronologique des événements politiques, civils, militaires et littéraires, suvenus, tant en France que dans les différens… Read More

1714. (London) 1714. 8vo. 19cm. 16pp. Unbound. Woodcut vignette with two griffins with foliage & arabesques at the beginning of the text and another decorative woodcut vignette at the end of the text. Extensive booksellers's catalogue, with printed prices, divided into works in folio (16 works) including the works of John Locke at (3 guineas three shillings), Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible (six guineas), quarto (5 works) including A Voyage to the Levant (one guinea 10 shillings) and Lowthorpe's Philiosophical Transactions from the year 1700 (four guineas 10 shillings), Octavo and Duodecimo (47 works) including A treatise of the spleen and vapours (5 shillings) and The Compleat Housewife (six shillings), "single sermons" priced at 6d each (32 works dating from 1715-1739). Plomer says about John Pemberton: "junior, bookseller and publisher in London, The Buck in Fleet Street, 1739 (?) - 1744 (?). Son of John Pemberton the elder. During his father's… Read More

Mexico, Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723. 4to. (xxviii),248 pp. Late nineteenth century half morocco. (rubbed, some offsetting on flyleaves, sllightly trimmed at the bottom with no loss, worming, partly severe worming, throughout with loss of text). A very early and important translation into Nahuatl. Father Manuel Pérez, was professor of Nahuatl at the Real Universidad in Mexico from 1701 to 1725. He was one of the leading Aztec scholars of his time. The present Roman Catechism is translated into Spanish and Nahuatl. It is a very early translation into Nahuatl and important in translation theory because Perez stresses the difficulties he encounters when translating a text for a different culture. In this case he translates catholic notions into Nahuatl and the cultures are so different that the languages do not have common notions. The author has taken great pains to produce an authentic Nahuatl text that can be understood by the reader. [c.f. Medina, México 2719 ("interesante como raro"); Palau… Read More

Five plano sheets (each 27 x 35 cm). Delt, J.C. Perk, n.d. (circa 1856). With horizontal folds in the centre, some fraying in the margins.Five extremely rare plano-printed type specimens from the printing establishment J.C. Perk in Delft, the Netherlands. Jacobus Clemens Perk (1818 - 1868) was an entrepreneur. In 1850 he founded the Archimedes insurance company (this is mentioned along with his printing-studio on one of the sheets). He also founded the newspaper 'Delflandsche Courant' (later continued as 'Delftsche courant'. The present sheets are the only witnesses of the fact hat he owned a printing business for a time. Sheets 2, 3 & 4 are classic sheets with the names of each type above a short text in Latin; sheets 8 & 10 use short text in Dutch as examples without stating the names of the types. As to the date: Sheet 8 shows a date '1856' and sheet 10 mentions the Archimedes Insurance Company that was founded by Perk in 1850. There is no address on the any of the sheet, just the name of the town, Delft.

Amsterdam, without date and printer (about 1740). 18 leaves (including title). Oblong 4to. Bound in marbled paper. Despite a clumsy attempt of calligraphy on the verso of the second leaf a fine copy. Third issue of the third book of Ambrosius Perling. This master calligrapher was born in Utrecht in 1657 or 1658 and became a citizen of Amsterdam in 1683. He kept a boarding school where calligraphy was taught and died in 1718. The first issues of the books written by Perling were published at his own expenses, the later ones were published (as in this case) by members of the family De Broen, engravers and publishers in Amsterdam. Ambrosius Perling reached a high fame during his lifetime as the last writing master who could hold in honor the calligraphic tradition of the Dutch republic. De Broen advertised his scripts as produced by "the jewel of the writing masters" and in fact the fame of Perling as unsurpassed calligrapher lasted well into the XIX century, both in Holland and abroad. Especially in… Read More

Amsterdam, without date and printer (about 1740). 18 leaves (including title). Oblong 4to. Bound in marbled paper. Despite a clumsy attempt of calligraphy on the verso of the second leaf a fine copy. Third issue of the third book of Ambrosius Perling. This master calligrapher was born in Utrecht in 1657 or 1658 and became a citizen of Amsterdam in 1683. He kept a boarding school where calligraphy was taught and died in 1718. The first issues of the books written by Perling were published at his own expenses, the later ones were published (as in this case) by members of the family De Broen, engravers and publishers in Amsterdam. Ambrosius Perling reached a high fame during his lifetime as the last writing master who could hold in honor the calligraphic tradition of the Dutch republic. De Broen advertised his scripts as produced by "the jewel of the writing masters" and in fact the fame of Perling as unsurpassed calligrapher lasted well into the XIX century, both in Holland and abroad. Especially in… Read More

1674. Pairs, Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1674. 12mo. Title, (x), 224 pp, (1 pp), 11 engraved plates with explanations, (54 pp) for the "Explication des mots difficiles" and 1 page privilege and errata. Contemporary calf, spine goldtooled (corners sl. rubbed and top and bottom of spine sl. damaged). Edges sprinkled red. Millard, French says on this: "This small, abridged version of Vitruvius' De Architectura appeared the year following the publication of Claude Perrault's folio translation and encyclopedic commentary on the entire Vitruvian treatise (Les dix livres d'architecture...). Although the text follows the original, Perrault, taking up a suggestion from Book 3 of Philibert de L'Orme's architectural treatise, selected and rearranged Vitruvius' text. Perrault has divided the material into a preface and two parts, followed by eleven plates reduced from illustrations in the larger Vitruvius. Part I contains an introduction to the topic of architecture,… Read More

1899. New York, Grolier Club, 1899. 309pp. With portraits & plates (10). Bound by the Club Bindery in half maroon morocco over orange brocade silk. (binding a bit rubbed). A very nice and clean copy. One of 303 copies on handmade paper printed by De Vinne. Hoym's collection was especially rich in bindings.