Verona: [Officina Bodoni], 1971. Number 69 of 160 copies. First edition combining the original Italian of 1517 with... Read More about The Alphabet of Francesco Torniello da Novara (1517). Followed by a comparison with the Alphabet...
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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...
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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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New York: 1895. First edition, one of 122 on hand-made paper. `. Read More about The Old Booksellers of New York and Other Papers
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Cambridge: The University Press, 1954. First edition. Read More about Robert Estienne Royal Printer. An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus
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Paris: Georges Blaizot & Claude Guerin, Juin, 6,1972-18 Juin 1974. One of the greatest sales of the century. Read More about Bibliotheque Raphael Esmerian...in 5 Parts...Avant-propos de M. Jacques Guignard for Part I;Part...
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Paris: G. Desprez, [1780]. Scarce 18th century auction catalogue, including a small collection of "livres en velin." We locate only a single example in OCLC (Bibliotheque Nationale de France), with only a caption title, as this example. Read More about Notice D'une partie de Livres en Velin, & d'une très-belle Collection d'Estampes du plus...
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Paris: Alphonse Labitte, Libraire de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4, rue de Lille, 4, 8, Mai, 1882. 882 items, with separate Index and price list. Read More about Catalogue des Livres Précieux et des Manucrits avec Miniatures composant La Bibliothèques de...
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New York: J. Sabin & Sons, printers and compilers of the catalog, 1870. First edition. Read More about Catalogue of Mr. John A. Rice's Library. To Be Sold by Auction on Monday March 21st 1870 and Five...
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Hanover: Sumptibus Haeredum B. Nic. Foersteri et Filii, 1754. Read More about Clavis Diplomatica, Specimina Veterum Scripturarum Tradens, Alphabeta Nimirum Varia, Medii Aeui...
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New York: Barker Art Gallery 47 & 49 Liberty St, 1880s. Catalogues owned and annotated by E.F. Patchen of Patchen Bros. 51 New Street of NYC. Their firm was in mining One December,1883 catalogue has Georges Jules Victor Clairin's [misspelled Clarin in Barker catalogue](French, 1843-1919) painting Frou Frou which brought..... Read More about Collection of mostly Barker & Co., Auctioneers (13 catalogues, including Henry Prose Cooper...
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[London?]: [Smithers?], Ca. 1898. UNRECORDED PRINTING OF BEARDSLEY VIGNETTE. Evidently unrecorded. Lasner, in his Beardsley Checklist, mentions copies on plain paper, vellum, Japanese vellum, and white satin, but not chine collé, which this definitely is. Read More about “D'Albert (a vignette)”
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London: Constable & Co, 1930. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Second volume in the influential series, Bibliographia Studies in Book History and Book Structure 1750-1900, edited by Michael Sadleir. Read More about A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill
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