Albert Durer Revived: or, a Book of Drawing...
London: for Thomas Glass, 1731. Later edition. A generously illustrated manual for the 17th- and18th-century print and map... Read More
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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. Read More
Price: $75
ALS. "Rev and Dear Sir" Acknowledging receipt of Annals Vol. VIII Unitarian.
Philadelphia: April 20, 1865. Librarian at the Lenox Library from 1879-1888. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Price: $1,000
Alphabetum Arabicum una cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo fidei.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Price: $1,750
Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More
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. Read More
Price: $750
Alphabetum Graecum cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, Symbolo Fidei, & Praeceptis Decalogi.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Price: $900
Alphabetum Persicum, cum Oratione Dominicali et Salutatione Angelica.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1783. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Price: $200
Robert Estienne Royal Printer. An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus.
Cambridge: The University Press, 1954. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Bibliotheque Raphael Esmerian...in 5 Parts...Avant-propos de M. Jacques Guignard for Part I;Part II,I Reliures de quelque Ateliers du XVIIe Siecles;...
Paris: Georges Blaizot & Claude Guerin, Juin, 6,1972-18 Juin 1974. One of the greatest sales of the century. Read More
Price: $750
Catalogue des Livres Précieux et des Manucrits avec Miniatures composant La Bibliothèques de M.E.M.B....
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
Price: $200
“Conditions of Sale” of property. Manuscript, 3pp., accomplished in pen.
England: 1803. Read More
Price: $250
Renouard's Copy
Specimen Historico-Criticum Romanarum Editionum Italicarum Saeculi XV.
Rome: ex Typographio Paleariniano, 1794. First edition. Renouard's Copy. Important early catalogue of incunabula printed at Rome by Audiffredi, "an able astronomer and mathematician...born at Saorgio, near Nice, in Provence, 1714; died, 1794." - Bigmore & Wyman. Read More
Price: $1,250
Catalogue of Mr. John A. Rice's Library. To Be Sold by Auction on Monday March 21st 1870 and Five Following...
New York: J. Sabin & Sons, printers and compilers of the catalog, 1870. First edition. Read More
Price: $350
Clavis Diplomatica, Specimina Veterum Scripturarum Tradens, Alphabeta Nimirum Varia, Medii Aeui Compendia Scribendi, Notariorum Veterum Signa Per Plura, Cet. Singula...
Hanover: Sumptibus Haeredum B. Nic. Foersteri et Filii, 1754. Read More
Price: $850
UNRECORDED PRINTING OF BEARDSLEY VIGNETTE
“D'Albert (a vignette)”.
[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
Price: $1,750