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Paris: Gruel and Engleman, 1887-1905. First edition, limited numbered edition of Vélin de Rives, vol I: no. 856... Read More about Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de L'Amateur de Reliures
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Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed for the Third Spalding Club, 1929. First edition. Read More about Bibliographica Aberdonensis: Being an Account of Books Relating to or Printed in the Shires of...
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New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969. First edition, one of 1350 copies. Read More about Bookbinding by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. An Exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library
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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..... Read More about Decades du continentes Vitas Theologorum exterorum principum, qui Ecclesiam Christi Superiori...
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New York: Grolier Club & Piccolo Press, 2006. First edition. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press. Read More about The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings. With a Preface by Albert and an...
Price: $75
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Read More about The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date
Price: $250
Philadelphia: April 20, 1865. Librarian at the Lenox Library from 1879-1888. Read More about ALS. "Rev and Dear Sir" Acknowledging receipt of Annals Vol. VIII Unitarian
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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. Read More about Alphabeta Indica, id est Granthamicum seu Samscrdamico-Malabaricum Indostanum sive Vanarense...
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1789. Read More about Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum, cum Oratione dominicali, Salutatione angelica,...
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. Read More about Alphabetum Arabicum una cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo fidei
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1787. Second, revised edition, following the 1776 first edition. Text rewritten, plate enlarged. Read More about Alphabetum Barmanorum seu regni Avensis. Editio altera emendatior
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More about Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi
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[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. Read More about Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. Read More about Alphabetum Graecum cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, Symbolo Fidei, & Praeceptis...
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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. Read More about Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More about Alphabetum Hebraicum Addito Samaritano et Rabbinico cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione...
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Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1783. Read More about Alphabetum Persicum, cum Oratione Dominicali et Salutatione Angelica
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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)..... Read More about Alphabetum Syro-Chaldaeum una cum Oratione Dominicali Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo Fidei
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[Mattapoiset, MA]: Busyhaus Publications, 1983. One of 200 hardbound copies. Essays and specimens by Don Guyot, Faith Harrison, Iris Nevins, Kay Radcliffe, Sage Reynolds & Colman Rutkin, Donna Seim, Peggy Skycraft, Pamela Smith, Jim & Pamela Talin and Christopher Weimann. One thousand two hundred copies printed by Naiman Press, with..... Read More about American Decorative Papermakers: The Work & Specimens of Twelve Craft Artists
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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..... Read More about Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society,...
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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..... Read More about Libri de Rebus Britannicis, scilicet, Anglicis, Scoticis et Hibernicis
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Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1872-78. Mixed set. Read More about Der Deutsche Peintre-Graveur oder die Deutschen Maler als Kupferstecher
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913. First edition. Read More about Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
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New York: Privately Printed, 1921. Of this book Fifty Copies have been printed on handmade paper for Private Distribution. With the mourning card of Mrs. William Loring Andrews, laid in. Read More about In Memoriam William Loring Andrews MDCCCXXXVII-MCMXX
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New York: The Continental Insurance Company, 1906. Fitrst edition, printed on japan vellum paperr by the Gilliss Press. Read More about The Continental Insurance Company of New York 1853-1905. A Historical Sketch
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1902. First edition, one of 141 copies on Van Gelder paper. One of the most important books on bookbinding in the United states, in which Andrews employed a process of half-tone reproduction for the facsimile plates never before done with any success; that of..... Read More about Bibliopegy in The United states and Kindred Subjects
Price: $350