dinsdag 17 mei 2011

Zedelijke bedenkingen



Zedelijke bedenkingen en spreuken. - Middelburg: H.A. Abrahams, 1806. - X, 47 p.; 58x46 mm.

Marbled paper over boards. 64º in the way of a folio.


"Moral reflections and proverbs". This miniature book is made (typeset, printed and bound) by Hendrik Adriaan Abrahams as a proof of his ability to be member of the Middelburg guild of printers and booksellers. At that time he was an employee in the bookshop of his aunt. A widow who also had a printing house where Hendrik printed this miniature. Later on he became ow
ner of the bookshop and editor of a local newspaper. Making a miniature book as a specimen was - as far as I know - only the practice in Middelburg (Netherlands). In the preface he stated that the format was obligatory given by the commissioners of the guild but that he was free to make another one in a larger size. What he did; because there are some copies known of a book made by him (Geloofwaardige bewijzen dat de boekdrukkunst te Haarlem is uitgevonden. Middelburg; 1806) wherein this fact is mentioned

zaterdag 7 mei 2011

Károly Róbert




Károly Róbert / Gyula Kristó és Ferenc Makk. - Budapest: Pátria Nyomda, 1983. - 45x35 mm., 377 p., ill.

Green leather binding ; gilt on spine and back. Coloured enamel plaque on front. Coloured endpapers with coat of arms.
Numbered copy 257/500.

Károly Róbert (Charles Robert) (1288–1342) from the house of Anjou was also descended from the Hungarian Arpád dynasty. He
was born in Nap
les as son of Charles Martel. He became King of Hungary and Croatia in 1308. Political as well as economical he carried out important reforms, a.o. the introduction of new coins with a high alloy of gold.
Gyula Kristó and Ferenc Makk were at that time both historians in the Medieval and Early Modern Hungarian History departmen
t at the Attila Jószef
Universiti in Szeged.