Rodez: Guillaume Grandsaignes, 1659.
Only edition. A strange relic of the glory days of France's most important and influential 17th-century literary salon, Catherine de Vivonne's Hôtel de Rambouillet. Very few period Gallic literary and social luminaries were not associated with the Hôtel in some way during their careers. Corneille, Balzac.....
Paris: Laurent D'Houry, 1696.
Exceptional example of a seventeenth-century Laurent d'Houry Paris almanac, interleaved, and bound in period retail vellum, decorated and dated in gilt. Grand-Carteret, in his bibliography of French almanacs and calendars, remarks that the bibliographer Edouard Fournier thought that the earliest in this series of almanacs was.....
Ghent? c1612.
Manuscript on paper. Ghent?: After 14 January 1612.
An early manuscript iteration of the costumen of Ghent, by an unknown scribe. The homologated customary law of the city has been printed several times. The original edition was published in 1564 by Henric van den Keere, at the expense.....
?Paris: 1614.
First Edition. Scott H. Duvall calls this work a "ribald tract in which the pseudonymous author states that he prefers food and peace to hunger and the tumults of war," and Alain Mercier calls the book "...un catalogue inépuisable des néologismes les plus fous," and excerpts a bizarre.....
London: Jeremiah Rich, 1660.
No bibliographer has written more eloquently or accurately about Jeremiah Rich's miniature shorthand Book of Psalms than Louis Bondy:
"As we have seen, the seventeenth century is rich in important and often beautiful miniature books. To these must be added some others which attract interest chiefly.....