Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

PESTALOZZI, Johann Heinrich. Meine Lebensschicksale als Vorsteher meiner Erziehungsinstitute in Burgdorf und Iferten.
Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, 1826. 8vo. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. [4], 251, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PETIT, Mathieu]. [Writing master's copybook].
[Arnhem?, The Netherlands, early 18th century?]. Oblong small folio (32 x 19 cm). With 18 leaves showing engraved writing examples in Dutch and French. The texts vary in subject, so they could also serve as guides for how to write a letter or an invoice, but of course also contains simple poems and proverbs. The script shows is a very neat and legible cursive with plenty of curling decorations to add onto letters or to frame the text. Leaves [4] and [11] are bigger and folded at all edges, measuring ca. 40 x 32.5 cm). (Early) 18th-century multi-coloured brocade paper over brown paper wrappers, side stitched through 4 holes, with marbled endpapers. The brocade paper shows in relief a floral pattern and has been decorated with a "colour spotting pattern" (see KB Sierpapier & marmering 9.2, 10.14 and illustration 73). [1 blank], [18], [1 blank] ll. Full description

PETRI (PETRUS), Suffridus. De scriptoribus Frisiae, decades XVI. Et semis: in quibus non modo peculiares Frisiae, sed & totius Germaniae communes antiquitates plurimae indicantur, & veterum historicorum ac geographorum loci, hactenus non intellecti, explicantur.
Franeker, Jacobus Horreus, 1699. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [88], 498 pp. Full description

PFIZMAIER, August. Wörterbuch der japanischen sprache.
Vienna, P.P. Mechitharisten for Carl Gerold & Sohn, 1851. Large 4to (342 x 266 mm). Original yellow printed wrappers. xii, 80 ll [of which 80 pp. containing 1034 Japanese characters printed in two columns]. Full description

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri Augusto Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Recte tandem captui puerorum accomodati. Oder: deutliche und nach dem Begriff der Jugend endlich recht eingerichtete Erklärung der Aesopischen Fablen welche Phaedrus ... in fünf Büchern hinterlassen: ... durch Emanuelem Sincerum.
Frankfurt and Leipzig, [Heinrich Ludwig Brönner?], 1762. 8vo. Title-page in red and black, with 2 typographical head- and tailpieces. 19th-century light blue paper over boards. [10], 247, [248], [34] pp. Full description

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. Arabian jubilee.
London, Robert Hale Limited, 1954. 8vo. With a portrait of king 'Abdul-'Aziz Ibn Sa'ud as the frontispiece, 1 map of Arabia in 1950, and 16 double-sided plates. Black cloth with title information in gold on spine. XIV, 280 pp. Full description

PHIPPS, Constantine John. A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773.
London, William Bowyer and John Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4to. With 15 large double-page and larger folding engraved plates, and many letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled board edges, rebacked soon after with a richly gold-tooled spine with globes and numerous floral stamps, red morocco spine-label. VIII, 253 pp. Full description

PITHOIS (PITHOYS), Claude. Cosmographie ou doctrine de la sphere. Avec un traitté de la geographie.
Sedan, François Chayer, 1661. 8vo. Near contemporary half vellum. 127, [1 blank] pp. Full description

PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the Elder) The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie.
London, Adam Islip, 1634. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (23.5 x 32 cm). Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt. (58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp. Full description

PLUTARCHUS. Moralia, quae usurpantur. sunt autem omnis elegantis doctrinae penus: id est, varij libri: morales, historici, physici, mathematici, deniq; ad politiorem litteraturam pertinentes & humanitatem: omnes de Graeca in Latinam linguam transscripti.
Basel, Thomas Guarini, 1570. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and repeated on last page, some mathematical woodcuts in text and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Early 17th-century Jesuit prize binding in richly gold-tooled light brown calf, sides with arabesques in the style of Gascon, richly gold-tooled double borders and inner panel with small bands in a geometrical pattern. [12], 857, [91] pp. Full description