A Catalogue of the Library of the Late...
Austin (Texas): The University of Texas, 1920. Printed by E. T. Heron & Co., London. First edition, one... Read More
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Medieval Illuminations, from the Library of Burgundy to the Department of Manuscripts of the Royal Library of Belgium. Foreword by...
Brussels: 1958. First edition. Read More
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The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
[New York]: Deluxe Editions: Illustrated Editions [Printed by J. J. Little & Ives Company], [co. 1932]. Read More
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Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses Thereon from the Bibliographical Decameron of...
London: The Imprint, [1913]. First edition. This reprint of an extract from the Bibliographical Decameron appeard a few pages at a time as a separately paginated supplement to the typographical periodical "The Imprint," a title page being include in the first number. The work was left unfinished when The Imprint... Read More
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Catalogue des Livres Précieux, Manuscrits et Imprimés faisant partie de la Bibliothèque de...Précédé d'une Introduction par M. Paulin Paris...
Paris: Vente à L'Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, 1878-1884. With prices realized and an Index. Read More
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![[Tractatus de prescriptionibus.] [Running title:] Tractatus prescriptionum. 35 leaf fragment. Dinus Mugellanus.](/pictures/thumb/306281.jpg?v=1534807683)
[Tractatus de prescriptionibus.] [Running title:] Tractatus prescriptionum. 35 leaf fragment.
With the symbolic bookplate of Afrikaans poet and pioneering ethologist Eugène Marais. The bookplate measures 4-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches, and was designed by James J. Guthrie (his monogram at lower left); printed: London, 1897. The motto, Dit of Dood, translates as “This or Death” ; in The Dark Stream. The..... Read More
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The Estelle Doheny Collection.
Christie's, 1987-1990. Compiled by Paul Needham and Felix de Marex Oyens. With “European and American Paintings, Prints, Furniture and Works of Art” (in wraps). Lacking the index volume. Read More
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The Estelle Doheny Collection.
Christie's, 1987-1990. Compiled by Paul Needham and Felix de Marex Oyens. Six volumes and index; plus “European and American Paintings, Prints, Furniture and Works of Art” (in wraps). Read More
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Catalogue of the Private Library of Samuel Gardner Drake to be sold at the Salesroom of Leonard & Co., 50...
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 34 School Street, 1876. Priced. Read More
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"… You mention a copy of Sister Carrie 1st Edition at $10.00 …"
Autograph Letter Signed ("Theodore Dreiser"), to Philadelphia bookseller Jeremiah F. Cullen.
Los Angeles: December 20, 1914. "… You mention a copy of Sister Carrie 1st Edition at $10.00 …" Dreiser writes a Philadelphia bookseller to request a copy of the first edition of his most important novel, Sister Carrie (1900). "Dear Sir: A letter dated Nov. and addressed to me at... Read More
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The Library of Madame du Barry
Catalogue des Livres de Madame du Barry avec les Prix a Versailles, 1771.
Paris: Auguste Fontaine, Libraire, 1874. Number 79 of 100 copies. The Library of Madame du Barry. Printed from one of the 2 original Manuscripts now in the Arsenal Library. Mistress of Louis XV, the Comtesse Du Barry wished to rival her predecessor's library, Madame de Pompadour and had an unknown... Read More
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Sporting and colored plate books, the library of the late William C. Dulles of Philadelphia, Pa. and Goshen, N.Y....
New York: Anderson Auction Company, 1912. Mr West's interleaved notes on some pages refer heavily to what Mr L.C. Harper in 1919 told him about the sale including "this sale was a perfectly good fake, that many of the books catalogued did not come from Dulle's (sic) collection...I attended one... Read More
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The Doors of Perception. Essays in Book Typography.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition. One of 325 copies signed by the author, designed by Carol J. Blinn, and printed by Daniel Keleher. The Paper is Frankfurt Cream, the type is monotype Perpetua. Read More
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Religio Bibliopol. The Religion of a Bookseller. After the Manner of the Religio Medici, ! by the Late Ingenious and...
London: Printed for C. Corbett, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, n.d. [ca. 1740?]. Later edition of the work first published in 1691, and frequently reprinted since. 'some pages have ornaments used by Henry Woodfall and another printer. Woodfall died in 1747 but the work does not look 1750-ish. Possibly... Read More
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Versuch einer Dürer Bibliographie.
Strassburg: J. H. Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1903. Read More
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The History of Susanna. From the Apocrypha of the Hebrew Bible according to the King James Version. Handwritten by W.A....
New York: Archway Press, 1947. First Edition. Read More
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Form Letters: Illustrator to Author.
Mt. Vernon NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First Edition, No. 238 of 250 copies, signed by the author. An engaging set of letters to an author from one who has been commissioned to illustrate his book, and a classic argument in favor of book illustrations. Read More
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The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England during the early Fourteenth Century.
New York: New York Public Library, 1940. One of only 400 numbered copies. A fabulous study of 8 English illuminated manuscripts of the early 14th century. The importance of these manuscripts rests in the evidence they provide of the "transition from the theocracy of the Gothic Middle Ages toward the... Read More
Price: $475
Heirs of Hippocrates.
Iowa City, Iowa: Published for the Univ. of Iowa Libraries by the University of Iowa Press, 1990. Third Edition. Read More
Price: $400
![Morias enkomion [Greek] Stultitiae laus ... cum commentariis Ger. Listrii, & figuris Jo.Holbenii. E codice academiae Basiliensis. Accedunt ... vita Erasmi ... vita Holbenii ... et epistolae Erasmi. Desiderius Erasmus.](/pictures/thumb/244187.jpg?v=1534805864)
Holbein's Illustrations to Praise of Folly
Morias enkomion [Greek] Stultitiae laus ... cum commentariis Ger. Listrii, & figuris Jo.Holbenii. E codice academiae Basiliensis. Accedunt ... vita...
Basle: Genathianis, 1676. First edition with Holbein's illustrations. Holbein's Illustrations to Praise of Folly. A series of illustrated satirical treates on Catholic dogma, this book was released in English as "In Praise of Folly" and enjoyed a long life during the Protestant Reformation in several languages. Read More
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Alphabetum Veterum Etruscorum et Nonnulla Eorumdem Monumenta.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More
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Catalogue of the Library of the Late Alexander Farnum, Esq., of Providence, Rhode Island.
New York: George A. Leavitt & Co., Auctioneer, June, 1884. With 8 page Supplement of Prices realized laid in. Read More
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2 TLS. To E. F. Edgett literary editor of the Boston Evening Transcript.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. Read More
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The Art of Engraving with the Various Modes of Operation.
London: Ackermann, 1841. First edition. Comprehensive review of illustration techniques, including an early chapter on “photogenic drawing” covering the three pioneering methods of photography. Read More
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EDWARD FITZGERALD AND WILLIAM BLAKE FROM CHARLES ELIOT NORTON
Illustrated Catalogue of American and English Men of Letters : Autograph Presentation copies and Holograph Manuscripts by famous writers, Emerson...
New York: The American Art Association, Managers, 1923. EDWARD FITZGERALD AND WILLIAM BLAKE FROM CHARLES ELIOT NORTON. With a First and various edition of the Omar. Fitzgerald and Norton were close friend, many books are inscribed. Read More
Price: $75