Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

ERPENIUS (VAN ERPE), Thomas. Rudimenta linguae Arabicae.
Leiden, Boneventura and Abraham Elzevier, 1628. Small 8vo (15 x 9.5 cm). With title-page printed in red and black. 19th-century green sheepskin. [10], 172, [48] pp. Full description

ERPENIUS, Thomas. Grammatica Arabica; cum varia praxios materia, cujus elenchum versa dabit pagella.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1656. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. The title-page is printed in red and black, lacking the printer's device, with a few woodcut decorated initials and some head- and tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. The text is set in both roman and Arabic type. Quarter vellum and blue decorated paper sides, with the manuscript author and title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [4], [1 blank], [5], 172, "282" [= 284] pp. Full description

ERPENIUS, Thomas. Grammatica Arabica; cum varia praxios materia, cujus elenchum versa dabit pagella.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1656. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Mid 19th-century half tan calf, gold- and blind-tooled spine. [12], 172, “282” [= 284] pp. Full description

ESPAGNAC, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Sahuguet d'Amarzit d'. Relation de la campagne en Brabant et en Flandres, de l'an M.DCC.XLVI.
The Hague, sold by Pieter van Os, 1761. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 4 large folding leaves with the dispositions of the French troops, and 2 folding maps of battle fields, engraved by Kryt. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. 161, [1] pp. Full description

ESTIENNE, Robert (editor). Tῆò Káéíῆò ÄéáèÞêçò ἅπáíôá [Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta] | Novum Testamentum.
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1546. 2 volumes. 16mo (12 x ca. 7.5 cm). With Estienne's woodcut devices: the basilisk on both title pages and the olive tree on the otherwise blank last page of volume 2. Further with several woodcut decorated headpieces and initials. 18th-century red morocco, gold-tooled spines with the French (part) title lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, green and gold decorated endpapers. 528; 361, [3] pp. Full description

ESTIENNE, Robert (editor). Tῆò Káéíῆò ÄéáèÞêçò ἅπáíôá [Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta] = Novum Jesu Christi D.N. Testamentum Ex Bibliotheca Regia.
Paris, Robert Estienne, King's printer, 1550. Folio (35 x 24 cm). With a Greek and Latin title page including Estiennes woodcut basilisk device as Kings printer (and 1 repeat), his woodcut olive tree device on the otherwise blank last page (N6v), 3 single-piece decorated architectural frames with putti, etc. (plus 3 repeats) for the tables of the Eusebian canons for the Gospels, 9 woodcut headpieces and 21 decorated woodcut initial letters (plus numerous repeats). Set almost entirely in the three sizes of Claude Garamonts famous Greek printing types, known as the Grecs du Roi, and the first use of the largest size. The present copy has been richly decorated, probably around the time it was bound, not just by colouring Estiennes woodcut devices (the basilisk in gold), decorative frames, headpieces and initials, but also by adding extensive decorations in rococo style, the whole using a large number of mostly bright colours plus gold and silver. Gold-tooled black sheepskin, the gold-tooled spine with the title, publisher and date in the 2nd and 6th of 7 compartments in roman capitals, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt and richly gauffered edges, Dutch combed and curled endpapers. [32], “272” [= 268], 202, [2] pp. Full description

EUCHEL, Isaac Abraham. Gebete der hochdeutschen und polnischen Juden. Aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen.
Vienna, Anton Schmid, 1815. 8vo. The book is mainly printed in Gothic type with some Hebrew types to the titles and in the notes. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, with a brown label on the spine. 458 pp. Full description

EUSEBIUS. L[']histoire ecclesiastique ..., translatee de Latin en Fra[n]coys, par Messire Claude de Seyssel, Evesque lors de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Thurin.
Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser, 1533 (colophon: 17 April). 8vo. With a woodcut border on the title-page, assembled from 4 blocks (that at the foot with De Keyser's printer's device), about 10 woodcut decorated initials plus about 10 repeats (2 gothic series and 2 roman series). Set in three sizes of bastarda type with textura initials. Contemporary Flemish blind panel-stamped calf, each board with the same panel and double and single fillets, a triple fillet in the panel stamp separating the inner and outer panel. The inner is an acorn cresting panel with 4 1/2 acorns on each side and the flowers not attached to the acorns, remnants of leather ties. [12], "297" [= 299], [1] ll. Full description

FAERNO, Gabriello. Cent fables en Latin et en François, choisies des anciens auteurs, mises en vers Latins ..., et traduites par Mr. Perrault, ...
London, C. Marsh & T. Payne, H. Slater, S. Baker, F. Noble, W. Bathoe, J. Palairet, 1744. 4to. With richly designed, engraved frontispiece, and 99 (of 100) fine engraved illustrations to the fables on integral leaves. Early 19th-century half calf, for the Signet Library in Edinburgh, each board with the gold-tooled British Royal arms. [1], [1 blank], II, [1], [1 blank], [18], 238, [2], 45, [1 blank] pp. Full description

FAGUNDES VARELA, Luís Nicolau. O estandarte auri-verde cantos sobre a questao Anglo-Brazileira.
São Paulo, Typ. Imparcial, de J.R. de A. Marques, 1863. 8vo. Half dark green leather, marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers, and with the original blue printed wrappers bound in. [1], [1 blank], 24, [2] pp. Full description