Catalogus 37 London 2015
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Antiquariaat De Slegte
Catalogue 37
London International Antiquarian Book Fair
Old & rare – Fine printing - Avant garde & literature
Wapper 5 – B 2000 Antwerpen 0032/3/231.66.27 www.deslegte.be antwerpen.wapper@deslegte.be
Prices on inserted leaflet
* Occas. sl. foxed; first four lvs. (starting from title-p.) marginal
A pre-Braille printing in embossed type
repairs (1x repaired tear in middle); a few old annotations /
owner's entries/ stamp (on title-page and verso); bibliographical
1. Zangwijzen der Psalmen, bij de Hervormde Kerk in clipping mounted on first free endpaper. # Author (Milano, ca.
gebruik, ten dienste van blinden. [Amsterdam, Instituut 1510 – Napoli, ca. 1558) of many works and translations. Many
voor Blinden], 1817. 113 leaves. 4to. Half parchment, were published anonymous or pseudonymous. He is known as
contemp. Boards, 4 ribbons. Vignet on inner sleeve translator of Cicero and made the first Italian translation of
„Archief-exemplaar No 9370A J. Brandt & Zoon‟.
Utopia by Thomas More, published in Venice in 1548. Brunet
* Melodies of the psalms, III, p.813: "Ces melanges historiques sont curieux, et difficiles a
trouver."; STC British Museum p.377; G. Melzi, Dizionario di
rendered in capital letters,
printed in embossed type opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori Italiani (Milan, 1859),
for the use of pupils of the p.62 ("bizzarro scrittore"). Provenance: Library of Gerrit
Institute for the Blind at Komrij. Very rare.
Amsterdam being trained
as organist.
3. AGRICOLA, Georgius - Vom Berghwerck xii. B̈cher
Very early example of a darĩ alle Empter / Instrument / Bezeuge unnd alles z̈
disem handel geḧrig [...].
book printed for the blind.
I.e. the first to be printed Basel, Jeronymus
in the Netherlands after Froben & Niclausen
Bischoff, 1557. Folio in-
the idea of printing with
embossed type was 6 / [viii], 491, [xiii] pp.
developed up from 1886 In 19th century half
on by Valentin Häy calf with marbled
(1745-1822), founder of boards, a leather title
the world‟s first school for
ticket and gilt
the blind in Paris. He devised a printing system that could be decoration to the spine.
read with the fingertips. Häy used ordinary printing type, cast * Illustrated with 273
in reverse, pressing it against the back of the paper to create woodcuts in the text and
embossed Roman letters. The system was improved in 1816 by 2 woodcut plates, further
Häy‟s successor at the Paris school, Sebastien Guillí, who
decorated with a printer‟s
designed a more open design of the round-hand type. While mark to the title page and
Häy had used a copperplate press, Guillí used a common the final page, and
printing press with two people pulling on the bar to create the decorated initials. This
additional pressure needed to emboss paper. In 1824 Louis copy with cropped
Braille developed his braille system, using dots instead of raised margins, and scattered
letter types, in 1824. He published a book outlining his dot marginal annotations in
system in 1829. The first raised-print books in the United States
ink. Pages lxxviii & lxxix
appeared no sooner than in 1832. It makes „Zangwijzen der were stuck together (now
Psalmen’ one of the first examples of a book printed for the blind loose, damaging the page
worldwide. Very firm and clean copy. Very rare.
and illustration a little), a stain to the illustrations on page
xxxvi-xxxvii. A quite crisp and clean copy in very good
condition. The later spine faded.
OLD & RARE
# First German edition of Agricolás famous work on metallurgy
(original title: De re metallica libri xii [12 books on the nature of
2. [LANDO, Ortensio] - Sette libri de cathaloghi a varie metals], 1556). Georgius Agricola (=Georg Pawer, 1494-1555)
cose appartenenti, non solo antiche, ma anche moderne: was born in Glauchau. His interest in mining began during his
opera utile molto alla historia, et da cui prender si pù studies of medicine, physics and chemistry, but became poignant
materia di favellare d'ogni proposito che ci occorra. during his appointment as physician in Joachimsthal, a centre of
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari e fratelli, 1552 [1553]. In- mining and smelting works. Here, he decided to test theories on
metallurgy and mineralogy. Later he moved from Joachimsthal
16, 567, (1)p. Woodcut printer's vignette on title-page and
on last page, woodcut initials, later vellum with gilt letter to Chemnitz, the epicentre of the German mining industry,
piece, nice marbled edges.
where he could intensify and freely pursue his studies into the
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