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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Co. Printed at the Shakespeare Press, 1814-15; 1822; 1823. Large paper copies, one... Read More about Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth...
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Stamford, Ct: Overbrook Press, [1963]. One of 150 copies. Designed by Margaret Evans. Read More about The Overbrook Press Bibliography 1934-1959. Compiled by Herbert Cahoon. Foreword by Frank Altschul
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Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1947. First American edition, one of 50 on India paper of a worldwide edition of 510 copies. Read More about Luminario, or the third chapter of the Liber Elementorum Litterarum: On the Construction of Roman...
Price: $400
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[New York: Canson et Montgolfier, September, 1925]. Number 90 of 500 copies prepared for the Friends of Canson et Montgolfier. COMPLETE. Read More about Book of Paper Specimens Manufactured by Canson et Montgolfier
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New York: Published by Dempsey & Carroll, The Art Stationers. Union Square (South-West Corner.), 1890. Read More about Out of the Ashes (Dempsey & Carroll
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Philadelphia: Davis & Harvey 1112 Walnut Street, 1904. Read More about The Unique Collection of Engraved portraits of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Gilbert...
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Paris: Librairie L.(eopold) Cartaret 5, Rue Drout. 1946-1948. Read More about Le Trésor du Bibliophile. Livres Illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945 et Souvenirs d'un demi-siècle...
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North Hills, Pa: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. One of 500 copies. Read More about A Pair on Printing. Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing. William Caslon and the first...
Price: $175
New York: W. A. Colman, No. 205 Broadway, December 1837. A 48-page alphabetical listing of books available from his store, without prices. The collection includes agriculture, classical, drawing, sciences and history and some general literature, also some color plate books. Accompanied by a "Confidential Circular Letter" from J. W. Hamilton..... Read More about A Catalogue of New, Curious & Rare Books, most of which are recently imported... offered for...
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Boston: C.F. Libbie, 1901. ALL THREE PARTS. with Parts 2 & 3. Read More about Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the late Frederick W. French, of Boston, member of...
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[Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1785]. First edition. Rare Milestone of Malagasy. Early and important text in tracing the evolution of the Malagasy language, which is the westernmost branch of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family: in other words, it is related to Tagalog, Malay, Maori, and..... Read More about Catéchisme abrégé en la langue de Madagascar, pour instruire sommairement ces peuples, les...
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Cambridge: printed for W. Thurlbourn, over-against the Senate-House, 1735. First edition. "Against the popular notion at the time that William Caxton had been preceded by a printer at Oxford, Middleton published A Dissertation Concerning the Origin of Printing in England (1734–5), which argued vigorously that Caxton had introduced the printing..... Read More about A Dissertation Concerning the Origin of Printing in England. Shewing, that it was first...
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Cambridge: at the University Press, 1964. Facsimile Edition. One of the rarest Caxtons (one of 4 known copies), the copy herein reproduced had been bought by H.P.Kraus in 1960 and traded to Cambridge for another Caxton. Read More about Vocabulary in French and English. A Facsimile of Caxton's Edition c. 1480. With Introduction by...
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London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly; and William Laing, Edinburgh, 1794. First Edition. A life of scholar, printer, librarian, and "Scotland's formost Latinist" (ODNB) Thomas Ruddiman. His RUDIMENTS was the standard 18th-century Latin grammar and while keeper to the Advocates' library he acquired an "unrivalled collection of early Scottish books"..... Read More about The Life of Thomas Ruddiman, A.M. The Keeper, for Almost Fifty Years, of the Library Belonging to...
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Bruxelles, [Mons]: Librairie Scientifique et Littéraire, 1849. No. 10 of 27 on papier de Hollande reserved for members of La Société des Bibliophiles Belges, this copy for Dr. Victor Francois of Louvain, signed on the limitation page by President Renier Chalon and Secretary Camille Wins. Read More about Album et Oeuvres Poétiques de Marguerite d'Autriche, Gouvernante des Pays-Bas, Publiés en...
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Mons: Hoyois-Derely, 1837. First edition, no. 1 of 27, "Exemplaire de M. A. Kreglinger, à Anvers," with limitation page signed by President Renier Chalon and Secretary Charles Delecourt. French translation of the Visions of the Knight Tondal, no. 5 in a series for the Société des Bibliophiles de Mons. Signed..... Read More about Vision de Tondalus; Récit Mystique du Douzième Siècle, Mis en Français pour la Première Fois...
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Bruxelles: 6 Juin 1868. "J'étais souscripteur à votre excellent Bibliophile illustré qui, malheureusement, ne parait plus …" Reknowned bibliophilic prankster and perpetrator of the Fortsas Sale hoax, Renier Chalon writes to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré, asking for a missing number needed to complete his run of the periodical. "Vous..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("R Chalon"), to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré...
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Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1898. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Thomas Hutchinson Esqr, with all good wishes from C.E. Chambers, Edinburgh. January, 1899." With an ALS laid-in from Chambers to Hutchinson. Chambers’ collection consited mostly of Romantic and Victorian literature, including a large run of Dickens first editions..... Read More about A Catalogue of Some of the Rarer Books, also Manuscripts, in the Collection of C.E.S. Chambers,...
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London: Constable & Co, 1930. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Third volume in the influential series, Bibliographia Studies in Book History and Book Structure 1750-1900, edited by Michael Sadleir. Read More about Cancels
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New York: Knickerbocker Auction Rooms Eight West 28th Street, March 19, 20 &21,[1900]. lots 1001-1488 are books. Read More about Catalogue of a Most Superb Collection of Extremely Rare and Elaborate Furniture...formed by the...
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[San Francisco]: [Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy] for The Book Club of California, 1963. First edition, one of 450 copies. Read More about The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer. An Account of the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works From the...
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London: Holland Press, [1954]. Second edition. Read More about Bibliotheca Chemica. A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharaceutics. Foreword by...
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London: Derek Verschoyle Academic and Bibliographical Publications Ltd, 1954. Reprint of 1906 Edition. Read More about Bibliotheca Chemica. A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharaceutics. Foreword by...
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Paris: Académie Des Bibliophiles, 1868. First edition, #227 of 300 copies sur papier vergé de Hollande. Read More about Catalogue d'un Marchand Libraire de XVe Siècle tenant boutique à Tours...avec notes explicatives
Price: $175
New York: New York Public Library, 1927. First edition. The Rosenbach Exhibition. The pamphlet issued for the exhibition of Dr. Rosenbach's collection at the New York Public Library. Read More about Early American Children's Books 1682-1840. The Private Collection of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach
Price: $125
[Venice: Molinari], 1850. First edition. Scarce bibliography of the works of the Venetian historian and antiquarian Cicogna (1789-1868). OCLC locates only 2 copies in the US. the attribution comes from NUC (via OCLC). Read More about Di alcuni scritti pubblicati da Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna Veneziano dall'anno MDCCCVIII al MDCCCL
Price: $350