Literature & Linguistics

MIDDELBURG, Isaak van; Catrina van MIDDELBURG, and others. [Collection of 22 manuscript occasional poems written by members of the Amsterdam family Van Middelburg(h)].
[The Netherlands, ca. 1717-1749]. With 22 broadsheets (one: 325 x 200; the others 21: ca. 415 x 325 mm), containing occasional poems written in a sometimes childish hand, all within a calligraphic frame, five of which printed: full of angels, horses, lions, skaters, a tour by sledge, city view with the daily activities, and religious scenes (Resurrection, Ascension, etc., see no. 21) in the margins. One of the printed broadsheets coloured by a contemporary hand (no. 16). Never bound, kept together in a clear plastic folder. [22] ll. Full description

MIMOSO, João Sardina. Relacion de la real tragicomedia ...
Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez, 1620. 4to. With the elaborate woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, the Duke of Braganza, on the title-page, and the woodcut coat of arms of Portugal and/or King Philip II of Portugal at the head of his dedication on leaf [6]r, all text is set within a double fillet frame, and with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary parchment binding with manuscript title on spine. [10], 163, [1] ll. Full description

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. Le petit volage. Pour l'an 1819.
Paris, [chez Louis Janet, 1818]. 128mo (ca. 2.7 x 1.7 cm). With 8 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, with an upside down fleuron in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border, gilt edges. 64 pp. Full description

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. La miniature.
Paris, A. Marcilly, [1843]. 128mo (ca. 2.5 x 1.8 cm). With 6 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, a fleuron in the centre of the front and back, surrounded by an ornamental border, gilt edges. 64 pp. Full description

MOOR, Edward. [Autograph letter to Louis Langlès, signed].
London, 18 March 1823. 4to. Folded. [4] pp. Full description

MORELL, Charles (pseudonym of James Kenneth RIDLEY). The tales of the Genii; or the delightful lessons of Horam, the son of Asmar.
London, printed for G. and T. Wilkie, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 2 letterpress title-pages and 14 engraved plates (including the 2 frontispieces) illustrating the various tales. Near contemporary, uniform calf (ca. 1800?), gold-tooled smooth spines in 6 fields, with a green (title) and red (volume) label in the 2nd and 4th fields, gold-tooled board edges, blind-tooled turn-ins. xxxvi, 285, [3 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 338 pp. plus 2 frontispieces and 12 other plates. Full description

[MORELLY, Etienne-Gabriel]. Naufrage des isles flottantes; ou Basiliade du célébre Pilpai. Poéme heroique. Traduit de l'indien par Mr. M******.
A Messine (Paris), Par une Société de Libraires, 1753. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece with the portrait of the "author/translator", both titles printed in red and black, and two engraved title vignettes. Contemporary marbled calf with triple gilt fillet along the edges. [4], XLI, [2], 216; [4], 307 pp. Full description

MORE, Thomas and François van HOOGSTRATEN (translator). Het onbekent en wonderlijk Eyland Utopia, ontdekt door Rafaël Hythlodeus, en by t'samenspraeke beschreven.
Rotterdam, François van Hoogstraten, 1677. 18mo. With an engraved portrait. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author and title on the spine. [24], 263, [1] pp. Full description

[MOUSSET, Louis-Marie and Louis-Savinien DUPUIS]. Vocabulaire Français-Tamoul.
Pondicherry, Imprimerie des Missionnaires Apostoliques de la Dite Congrégation, 1850. 8vo. With the text printed in two columns in roman and Tamil type. Contemporary speckled sheepskin, gold-tooled title label on spine, gold-tooled spine, blue sprinkled edges. [10], 420 pp. Full description

[NEBRIJA, Antonio de] (editor). Libri minores. et primum Catonis disticha moralia. cum ... annotationibus.
Granada, [Sancho & Sebastián de Nebrija (sons of Antonio de Nebrija)], April (Aesop colophon May) 1545. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With main title in an elaborate ornamental frame made from 4 woodblocks, with numerous figures, beasts, etc.; the Aesop part-title in an ornamental frame 4 different woodblock, with musicians, animals, etc.; 2 drop-titles; and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Set in roman type with authors' names in rotunda gothic type in the margins of the dedication.
Limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1652), stitched, with manuscript spine title: [Cato,] Disticha moralia cum an[n]otat[ione]b[us], and 2 leaves from a 1652 Leiden edition of Marcus Minucius Felix as endpapers. [63 of 64] ll. Full description