Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine: Bartholomaeus...
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1992. Limited first edition, no. 27 of 138 copies. The ca. 1495... Read More
Price: $1,000
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Bibliographica Aberdonensis: Being an Account of Books Relating to or Printed in the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine or written...
Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed for the Third Spalding Club, 1929. First edition.
Price: $300
![Decades du continentes Vitas Theologorum exterorum principum, qui Ecclesiam Christi Superiori seculo propagarunt et propugnarunt. [Bound with:] Vitae Germanorum medicorum qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, claverunt: congetae et ad annum usque MDCXX deductae. Melchior Adamus.](/pictures/thumb/223074.jpg?v=1534805130)
Biographical Dictionary of Reformation Minds
Decades du continentes Vitas Theologorum exterorum principum, qui Ecclesiam Christi Superiori seculo propagarunt et propugnarunt. [Bound with:] Vitae Germanorum medicorum...
Frankfurt: Nikolaus Hoffmann for Jonas Rosa; Johann Georg Geyder for the widow of Jonas Rosa, 1618; 1620. First editions. Biographical Dictionary of Reformation Minds. Melchior Adams (c. 1575-1622) was one of the most important biographers of the savants (mostly German, Swiss, and Dutch) of the 16th century, and his meticulously...
Price: $1,500
Vitae Germanorum Philosophorum qvi seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, philosophicis ac humanioribus literis clari floruerunt.
Frankfurt: Heirs of Jonas Rosa, 1663. Second edition (after the first edition of 1615). Essential biographies of Germanic thinkers and savants: theologians, philosophers, jurists, scientists, as well as artists, as well as printers (the very first entry is on Füst & Gutenberg). With useful indices (order of appearance, and alphabetical)...
Price: $1,250
The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings. With a Preface by Albert and an Essay by Priscilla Juvelis.
New York: Grolier Club & Piccolo Press, 2006. First edition. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press.
Price: $75
The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies.
Price: $250
ALS. "Rev and Dear Sir" Acknowledging receipt of Annals Vol. VIII Unitarian.
Philadelphia: April 20, 1865. Librarian at the Lenox Library from 1879-1888.
Price: $50
Alphabeta Indica, id est Granthamicum seu Samscrdamico-Malabaricum Indostanum sive Vanarense Nagaricum vulgare et Talinganicum.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1791. First edition. With a woodcut comparative table at pp. 8-17 of the four alphabets: Malabar, Sanskrit and a modified form, and Telugu.
Price: $1,000
Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum, cum Oratione dominicali, Salutatione angelica, Symbolo fidei, praeceptis decalogi & initio Evangelii S. Johannis.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1789.
Price: $1,000
Alphabetum Arabicum una cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo fidei.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797.
Price: $750
Alphabetum Barmanorum seu regni Avensis. Editio altera emendatior.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1787. Second, revised edition, following the 1776 first edition. Text rewritten, plate enlarged.
Price: $750
The First Burmese Type
Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae finitimarumque regionum. Editio altera emendatior.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1776. First edition. The First Burmese Type.
Price: $1,750
Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition.
Price: $1,500
![Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title]](/pictures/thumb/212767.jpg?v=1534804798)
Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title].
[Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, n.d., 1809]. The last in the series of elegant type specimens of exotic languages issued by the Propaganda Press from the 1770s onward. Uncommon.
Price: $750
Alphabetum Graecum cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, Symbolo Fidei, & Praeceptis Decalogi.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771.
Price: $750
First Type Specimen of Malayalam
Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1772. First edition. First Type Specimen of Malayalam. First type specimen of the Grantha or Malabar alphabet, now most frequently known as Malayalam.
Price: $1,250
Alphabetum Hebraicum Addito Samaritano et Rabbinico cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, & Symbolo Apostolico.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition.
Price: $900
Alphabetum Persicum, cum Oratione Dominicali et Salutatione Angelica.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1783.
Price: $900
Alphabetum Syro-Chaldaeum una cum Oratione Dominicali Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo Fidei.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. First edition. Type specimen printed on the eve of the Napoleonic conquest of Italy, during which "there was an order from the French government for the confiscation of exotic language punches and matrices from the Propaganda to supply the Imprimerie Nationale" (Coakley). Uncommon.
Price: $1,000
!["A Note on the Accompanying Original Leaf/Printed in 1487-1488 by Johann Amerbach." [drop title]. WITH: an original leaf from "Lectura super quinque libros Decretalium cum Repertorio Alphonsi de Montalbo" by Nicolaus Panormitanus. Johann Amerbach.](/pictures/thumb/245332.jpg?v=1534805910)
"A Note on the Accompanying Original Leaf/Printed in 1487-1488 by Johann Amerbach." [drop title]. WITH: an original leaf from "Lectura...
Johann Amerbach, 1487-88.
Price: $200
Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol...
Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits.....
Price: $1,500
The Snow Queen. A Tale of Seven Stories. Translated by Patricia L. Conroy and Sven H. Rossel. Postscript by Erik...
Herning, Denmark: Poul Kristensen, 1986. One of 26 copies (none for sale, signed by the artist.) Printed in linophoto Baskerville.
Price: $400
Rare and Early British Bibliography
Libri de Rebus Britannicis, scilicet, Anglicis, Scoticis et Hibernicis.
n.p. [Edinburgh? 1725?]. First edition. Rare and Early British Bibliography. Rare, anonymously published bibliography of approximately 350 works on British history. Attributed by the British Library to James Anderson, writer to the Signet and noted Scottish genealogist and antiquarian. Divided into fifteen sections, it lists works printed between 1480 (Caxton's...
Price: $1,250
Der Deutsche Peintre-Graveur oder die Deutschen Maler als Kupferstecher.
Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1872-78. Mixed set.
Price: $500
Roger Payne and His Art: A Short Account of His Life and Work as a Binder.
New York: printed at the De Vinne Press, 1892. One of 120 copies on Holland paper.
Price: $750