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Oxford, Clarendon, 1991. 8vo. In the original blue cloth publisher's binding with gilt title to spine. With the original dust jacket. Ownership signature to inside of front board. Internally clean. (10), 239 pp.

Oxford (Voltaire Foundation), 1997. 8vo. In the original blue cloth publisher's binding with gilt title to spine. With the original dust jacket. Ownership signature to inside of front board. Internally clean. VIII, 183 pp.

Flensburg, David Korte, 1736. 4to. In a bit later half calf binding with four raised bands with gilt lettering and blind stamped ornamentation to spine. A note in contemporary hand stating the present copy was given by the author to a certain Tychonius. Ex-libris (Jac. Chr. Lindberg) pasted on to verso of title-page. Wear to extremities, internally with light occassional marginal browning but generally nice and clean. (22), 746, (20) pp. Presentation-copy of the first edition of the Terpager's second historiographical and topographical description of Ribe - one of Denmark’s oldest towns, located in southern Jutland (Cimbria). It draws extensively on antique sources inscriptions, official charters and monuments. The present copy was given by Terpager to a certain Tychonis whom we have not been able to identify. The present copy have belonged to Jacob Christian Lindberg (1797–1857) - Danish priest, theologian, and politician born in Ribe as the son of the cathedral chaplain. Educated at Ribe Cathedral School and later the University of Copenhagen, he combined theological training with studies in numismatics and epigraphy. Closely allied with Grundtvig he became a sharp polemicist in the church struggles of the 1820–30s. He later translated the Bible into Danish (1837–53). Biblioteca Danica II:706.

Lisboa, Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1803. Folio-oblong (365 x 255 mm). In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremies, upper part of spine with loss of leather. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. With, primarily marginal, brownspotting throughout. Dampstain to inner margin and upper outer margin of last 10 ff. 32 ff. Rare first edition of the most celebrated Portuguese treatise on calligraphy. Joaquim José Ventura da Silva (1777–1849), regarded as one of Portugal's finest calligraphers and teachers of writing, composed this methodological guide to handwriting in which he combines a historical survey of scripts used in Portugal with practical instruction for teaching and learning penmanship.Ventura da Silva is reffered to by Innocencio (Diccionario Bibliographico) as "one of the best Portuguese Calligraphers". A second edition was published in 1819, a third in 1841, and a facsimile was published in Porto in 1899.