Zürich, Orell Füssli, 1888, 24x17 cm, xylographie, stockfleckig.
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(Vienna, 1774), original vellum document, German text, 15 pp + 1 pp with the registration on the heraldry roll in Brussels and Mechelen , dated 1775. 36 x 31 cm, with a full page watercolored design of the coat of arms, heightened with gold, first three page printed with an engraved border ( signed ''Fransciscus Mayer fecit 1757''), in the text the begin sentences are calligraphed. Bound in a red damask binding with yellow and black silk ties. The seal kept in a wooden turned box (diameter ca. 15 cm), the complete document is kept in the original purpose made metal box. Adelbert Petit was a captain-lieutenant in the 3rd Field-artillary regiment under command of Colonel Bärenkopp, stationed in Mechelen (Flanders). Added are 10 original letters and documents send and received by Le Petit which illustrate the process of acquiring his Patent of Nobility and the price he had to pay for it (admistrative costs, bookbinder's invoice, calligrapher etc.). Le Petit had at least one son (Pierre, born in Mechelen 1769), this son, according to a letter added was also serving in the Austrian army and stationed in Venice in 1834. Due to the fact that the document is kept in this metal box it is beautifully preserved. In our opinion a collection of the original patent of nobility with the added letters illustrating the acquisition process is not only rare but also very interesting.
ANTWERP JESUIT DOMUS PROFESSA - [ ] Clara Maria Theresia vander VORST ( dedicatee ) - Jesuit Emblemata :
Reference : 51629
" Antwerpen, 1705, manuscript on vellum, manuscript title page + (14) nn pp with printed text + 11 full page emblematic paintings + (3)nn pp (music score with interlinear text of a song, on paper). Bound in contemporary red velvet with traces of white silk ties. Endpapers in brocade ( double headed eagle surrounded by animals ( dogs, cerfs, birds). Binding with some wear at extremities, interior stainless. Very finely preserved. The title page is written in red and black ink, with calligraphical ornamentations,. The emblematical gouaches are all painted within a different large roccoco frame and depict typical Jesuit allegorical emblemata. E.g. the opening gouache shows a formal garden with on the left a rising sun and on the right a classical building which bears the letters I.H.S. Bibliography: This manuscript with its printed text on vellum and the 11 paintings is mentioned in De Backer-Sommervogel. (Vol. I col. 458. Item 133). He lists under the same heading an ordinary copy printed on paper (without ills.) by Petrus Jacobs in 1705. Our manuscript contains also this year 1705 in Roman letter in the final wish on pp(24). So we can attribute the printed text to Petrus Jacobs, active in Antwerp around 1705 ( see Olthoff pp.50). We can until now not identify the author of the text, nor the artist of the paintings. The manuscript figures in the ''Corpus Librorum Emblematum. The Jesuit series Part One '' ( authors Peter Daly & G.R.Dimler) on pp. 7 where they mention an auction catalogue of 1869, Ghendt, J. De Meyer, lot 420. (see Blogie 174) On the fly leaf is mentioned an earlier auction (1854), library of Everaert de Geelhauts, also in Ghendt (Blogie 128). (Jesuit;emblemata;vellum;original;gouache;)."
Ullstein & Co. Non daté. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 191 pages. Texte en caractères gothiques. Annotations en page de garde et dans le texte (ouvrage de travail). Dédicace manuscrite (ou ex-libris) d'un membre des Habsbourg en frontispice.. . . . Classification Dewey : 430-Langues germaniques. Allemand
Die Fünfzig Bücher, Band 3. Mit einem biographischen Anhang. Classification Dewey : 430-Langues germaniques. Allemand
Dornach [et Mulhouse], Th. de Dillmont, s.d. (1894) fort vol. in-8, [4] ff. n. ch., 742 pp., [14] ff. n. ch., avec 1087 figures en noir dans le texte et 17 planches en chromolithographie hors texte, percaline verte, dos lisse et plat supérieur ornés de décors de feuillages noirs, tête dorée (reliure de l'éditeur).
La première édition est de 1886. Tout ce que chacun souhaite connaître sur la couture, la broderie, la tapisserie, le tricot, le crochet, le macramé, la dentelle, etc., sans oser le demander à sa mère (de toute façon singulièrement dépassée désormais sur ces matières). Le terme d'encyclopédie n'est pas un vain mot ici, et le succès fut tel que l'ouvrage ne cessa d'être réédité, jusque - horresco referens - en 2012. Il faut dire que Theresa de Dillmont (1846-1890) connaissait son affaire : admise dès 1864 à l’Académie de broderie de Vienne, elle ouvrit, ses études terminées, avec sa sœur Franziska, qui prit le nom de Fanny, un magasin de broderie et de passementerie et commença à y donner des cours. Et quand elle se rendit à Paris pour visiter l'Exposition universelle de 1878, elle fit la connaissance de l'industriel Jean Dollfus-Mieg. Ce dernier aperçut tout de suite l'importance des créations de broderie de son interlocutrice, et tout le potentiel qu'elle apporterait à son entreprise. Il réussit à la persuader en 1884 de venir s'installer à Dornach, un quartier de Mulhouse où était située l'entreprise DMC, afin d'y fonder une école de broderie. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT