Zoe Abrams Rare Books
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[Embroidered Binding]. Eckartshausen, Hofrath von. Gott ist die reinste Liebe. Mein Gebeth und meine Betrachtung. Siebente verbesserte, und mit sehr schönen Kupfern vermehrte Auflage. Hildesheim: Jacob Sieger, 1799.
![[Embroidered Binding]. Eckartshausen, Hofrath von. Gott ist die reinste Liebe. Mein Gebeth und meine Betrachtung. Siebente verbesserte, und mit sehr schönen Kupfern vermehrte Auflage. Hildesheim: Jacob Sieger, 1799.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5304.jpg)
8vo. [8 including frontis.], 216 pp. Illustrated with five engraved plates including frontispiece, plus an engraved title-page vignette. Bound in white silk over boards, bordered with green and gold thread and sequins, the same materials sewn to frame the initials CJ, in silver thread, on front cover and 1827 on rear cover, pink silk endpapers,…
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[Textiles – Advertising]. “Obsequio de la Antigua ‘Casa Coll’ J. Ribot a sus Amigos y Clientes…” (Gift from the Old “Casa Coll” J. Ribot to Friends and Clients). Single cloth sheet (23.3 x 26 cm) with illustration and text in black on white ground (very slight dustsoiling to lower edge). Barcelona: [J. Ribot], 1929.
![[Textiles – Advertising]. “Obsequio de la Antigua ‘Casa Coll’ J. Ribot a sus Amigos y Clientes…” (Gift from the Old “Casa Coll” J. Ribot to Friends and Clients). Single cloth sheet (23.3 x 26 cm) with illustration and text in black on white ground (very slight dustsoiling to lower edge). Barcelona: [J. Ribot], 1929.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5244.jpg)
Mechanically woven cotton souvenir from a textile manufacturer exhibiting at the International Exposition Barcelona 1929 [May 20, 1929-January 15, 1930], featuring a reproduction by the house draftsman J. Perez (credited in the bottom left corner as “Teorico-Dibujante de la Casa”) of the painting Las hilanderas (The Spinners, 1655-1660) by Velázquez held in the Museo del…
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[Dufrenoy, Adélaïde]. “Note des ouvrages de Mme. Dufrenoy” [Autograph List of Works]. 4to (single sheet folded in two, 26.5 x 18 cm, deckled edges). 4 pp. (light creasing from former folds). S.l., s.d. [after 1816].
![[Dufrenoy, Adélaïde]. “Note des ouvrages de Mme. Dufrenoy” [Autograph List of Works]. 4to (single sheet folded in two, 26.5 x 18 cm, deckled edges). 4 pp. (light creasing from former folds). S.l., s.d. [after 1816].](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5253-768x1024-1.webp)
An inventory in the author’s hand (?) listing a selection of her own works, with titles, specifications (bindings, illustrations, coloring or not, formats, etc.), and corresponding prices. The manuscript is undated however the entry for Plaintes d’une jeune Israelite… includes the date 1816. A note on the final page, regarding La femme auteur in 12mo,…
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[Women’s Liberation Movement]. “THIS EXPLOITS WOMEN.”
![[Women’s Liberation Movement]. “THIS EXPLOITS WOMEN.”](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5258-rotated.jpg)
Two sheets with seven (of eight) rectangular stickers, each with the message printed in black in large, decorative letters, each sticker 20.5 x 7.8 cm with a black frame on a white background, [ca. 1970] (minor stains). A series of stickers for pasting over material offensive to women – one of the stickers missing, presumably…
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[Miniature almanac]. Le Petit Chansonnier 1841. Paris : Marcilly, s. d. [1841].
![[Miniature almanac]. Le Petit Chansonnier 1841. Paris : Marcilly, s. d. [1841].](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5240.jpg)
128mo (2.8 x 1.9 cm), 64 pp. including six full-page engraved plates. Bound in original green morocco gilt with filets framing a central stamp of an (upside-down?) flower on each cover, all edges gilt (very minor wear to binding). Charming miniature engraved almanac featuring six songs, each illustrated with a corresponding full-page engraving in remarkable…
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[Maria Theresa of Austria]. Fraganeschi, Ignazio-Maria. Descrizione de Solenni Funerali…di Ma- ria-Teresa Imperatrice…colla Orazione Funebre recitata dal Sig. Ab. D. Antonio Torregiani… Cremona: Lorenzo Manini, [1780].
![[Maria Theresa of Austria]. Fraganeschi, Ignazio-Maria. Descrizione de Solenni Funerali…di Ma- ria-Teresa Imperatrice…colla Orazione Funebre recitata dal Sig. Ab. D. Antonio Torregiani… Cremona: Lorenzo Manini, [1780].](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5275.jpg)
4to in 6s. 34, [2] pp., thick paper printed in decorative woodcut borders except final blank. Woodcut head- and tailpieces, footnotes. Bound in contemporary cat’s paw calf with gilt roll boarder and small fleuron at each inner corner, spine ruled in gilt, black endpapers and edges (extremities very lightly rubbed, small stain to front cover). …
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[COOKERY]. Everybody’s Confectionery Book; containing the whole art of making Cakes, Buns, Tarts, Biscuits, Pies, Custards, Cheesecakes, Gingerbread, Bride Cake, &c., &c. Also Jellies, Creams, Marmalades, Blanc-Mange, Trifles, Sugar Boiling, Spices, Preserves, Wines, &c., &c. London: William Nicholson & Sons, Ltd., [ca. 1875]
![[COOKERY]. Everybody’s Confectionery Book; containing the whole art of making Cakes, Buns, Tarts, Biscuits, Pies, Custards, Cheesecakes, Gingerbread, Bride Cake, &c., &c. Also Jellies, Creams, Marmalades, Blanc-Mange, Trifles, Sugar Boiling, Spices, Preserves, Wines, &c., &c. London: William Nicholson & Sons, Ltd., [ca. 1875]](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5270.jpg)
8vo. 128 pp. Bound in original publisher’s cream-colored boards with the extended title stamped in decorative black letters on front cover, and “Confectionery” stamped in black on spine (dustsoiled and rubbed, chipped at bottom of spine). Inscribed on front fly-leaf “Miss M. Roberston, Loch Croft, Henenmouth, by Miss Ian.” Pocket cookbook in charming original paper…
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[MIDWIFE’S MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK]. ZOLL, Elise. Auszüge von den Vorträgen des Herrn Professeur Aubenas in der Entbindungsanstalt in Strasbourg appartient à Elise Zoll femme Leibel [Excerpts from the Lectures of Professor Aubenas at the Maternity Hospital in Strasbourg belonging to Elise Zoll, Leibel’s wife]. Strasbourg, [1874].
![[MIDWIFE’S MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK]. ZOLL, Elise. Auszüge von den Vorträgen des Herrn Professeur Aubenas in der Entbindungsanstalt in Strasbourg appartient à Elise Zoll femme Leibel [Excerpts from the Lectures of Professor Aubenas at the Maternity Hospital in Strasbourg belonging to Elise Zoll, Leibel’s wife]. Strasbourg, [1874].](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5283.jpg)
Large 4to. [vi], 361 (r. 362), [22] pp. Disbound, with evidence of former binding (German printed paper waste, glue, and sewing all visible on spine; repairs to first and last leaf). “Cours Complet Éleve Sage-Femme – écris de 1874 – à Strasbourg,” written in pencil on front. An enormous, densely and neatly written record of…
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[NUNS]. De Ribera, B. Juan. Regla y Constituciones dadas á las Religiosas del Convento de S. Gregorio de la Ciudad de Valencia… Valencia: D. Benito Monfort, 1834. 8vo. [ii (blank)], XIII, [1], 281, [1]; [6] pp. (index).
![[NUNS]. De Ribera, B. Juan. Regla y Constituciones dadas á las Religiosas del Convento de S. Gregorio de la Ciudad de Valencia… Valencia: D. Benito Monfort, 1834. 8vo. [ii (blank)], XIII, [1], 281, [1]; [6] pp. (index).](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5261.jpg)
With six bars of music printed in red and black on two pages, and printedsidenotes throughout. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. first edition of rules for the nuns of San Gregorio, an Augustinian convent in Valencia, Spain, that was demolished in 1911 to make way for the Olympia Theater. Among the rules we find guidelines…
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[HURTAUT, Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas]. L’Art de Péter, Essai Théori-Physique et Méthodique… Suivi de l’Histoire de Pet-En-L’Air & de la Reine des Amazones, où l’on trouve l’origine des Vuidangeurs… Westphalie [Paris]: Florent-Q [Lejay], 1775. 12mo. Frontis., xii, 136 pp. [WITH]: [?DIDEROT, Denis]. L’Hymen Réformateur des Abus du Mariage, ou Le Code Conjugal. Dans L’Univers, 1766. xxi, [1], 50 pp. [WITH]: [NEEL, Louis-Balthazar]. Voyage de Paris a St. Cloud par Mer, Et Retour…par Terre. Quatriéme Édition; Revûe, corrigée & augmentée… Paris: De Poilly, 1754.
![[HURTAUT, Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas]. L’Art de Péter, Essai Théori-Physique et Méthodique… Suivi de l’Histoire de Pet-En-L’Air & de la Reine des Amazones, où l’on trouve l’origine des Vuidangeurs… Westphalie [Paris]: Florent-Q [Lejay], 1775. 12mo. Frontis., xii, 136 pp. [WITH]: [?DIDEROT, Denis]. L’Hymen Réformateur des Abus du Mariage, ou Le Code Conjugal. Dans L’Univers, 1766. xxi, [1], 50 pp. [WITH]: [NEEL, Louis-Balthazar]. Voyage de Paris a St. Cloud par Mer, Et Retour…par Terre. Quatriéme Édition; Revûe, corrigée & augmentée… Paris: De Poilly, 1754.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5264.jpg)
Large folding frontis. map, xxi, [3], 91, [1] pp. Three works bound together in contemporary blond calf ruled in gilt, spine gilt extra with title to red morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers, red edges (some light scratches, extremities rubbed). Ad I: Second edition of the infamous “Treatise of Winds,” i.e., essay on farting – an …