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Price: $150
London: Linotype & Machinery Ltd, 1929. One of 100 copies. Read More Item Details for A Distinguished Family of French Printers of the Sixteenth Century, Henri & Robert Estienne Add to Wish List
Item #52839
Price: $300
Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed for the Third Spalding Club, 1929. First edition. Read More Item Details for Bibliographica Aberdonensis: Being an Account of Books Relating to or Printed in the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine or written by Natives or Residents or by Officers Graduates or Alumni of the Universities of Aberdeen Add to Wish List
Item #217886
Price: $1,500
Frankfurt: Nikolaus Hoffmann for Jonas Rosa; Johann Georg Geyder for the widow of Jonas Rosa, 1618; 1620. First editions. 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 researched biographies are an essential..... Read More Item Details for 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 Add to Wish List
Item #223074
Price: $75
New York: Grolier Club & Piccolo Press, 2006. First edition. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press. Read More Item Details for The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings. With a Preface by Albert and an Essay by Priscilla Juvelis Add to Wish List
Item #302389
Price: $1,250
Mena, Arkansas: Commonwealth College [The Windsor Quarterly], Winter 1935. First edition. An offprint prepublication excerpt from Somebody in Boots (and was formerly later as Chapter 9), set in Nelson Algren's hobo years of the early 1930s. Though intended to be published in The Windsor Quarterly: Modern American Literature - Vol..... Read More Item Details for Thundermug by Nelson Algren [excerpted from The Windsor Quarterly; Vol II, No. 3. Winter 1935] Add to Wish List
Item #339769
Price: $250
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Read More Item Details for The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date.. Add to Wish List
Item #37028
Price: $50
Philadelphia: April 20, 1865. Librarian at the Lenox Library from 1879-1888. Read More Item Details for ALS. "Rev and Dear Sir" Acknowledging receipt of Annals Vol. VIII Unitarian Add to Wish List
Item #308918
Price: $1,000
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 Item Details for Alphabeta Indica, id est Granthamicum seu Samscrdamico-Malabaricum Indostanum sive Vanarense Nagaricum vulgare et Talinganicum Add to Wish List
Item #212796
Price: $1,000
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1789. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum, cum Oratione dominicali, Salutatione angelica, Symbolo fidei, praeceptis decalogi & initio Evangelii S. Johannis Add to Wish List
Item #212753
Price: $750
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Arabicum una cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo fidei Add to Wish List
Item #212754
Price: $1,500
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi Add to Wish List
Item #212766
Price: $750
[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 Item Details for Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title] Add to Wish List
Item #212767
Price: $750
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Graecum cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, Symbolo Fidei, & Praeceptis Decalogi Add to Wish List
Item #212768
Price: $1,250
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1772. First edition. First type specimen of the Grantha or Malabar alphabet, now most frequently known as Malayalam. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum Add to Wish List
Item #212798
Price: $900
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Hebraicum Addito Samaritano et Rabbinico cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, & Symbolo Apostolico Add to Wish List
Item #212795
Price: $900
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1783. Read More Item Details for Alphabetum Persicum, cum Oratione Dominicali et Salutatione Angelica Add to Wish List
Item #212800
Price: $1,000
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 Item Details for Alphabetum Syro-Chaldaeum una cum Oratione Dominicali Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo Fidei Add to Wish List
Item #212797
Price: $375
[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 Item Details for American Decorative Papermakers: The Work & Specimens of Twelve Craft Artists Add to Wish List
Item #323053
Price: $100
New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1927. Braislin (1865-1948) collected both ornithological books and American history. "The history collection was the stronger, with emphasis on accounts of Indian captivity and overland travel" (Dictionary of American Book Collectors). Read More Item Details for The important American library formed by Dr. William C. Braislin, Brooklyn, N.Y., sold by his order. Part one : A-K inclusive ... : to be sold by auction ... Monday and Tuesday afternoons and evenings March twenty-first, twenty-second [1927]... [BOUND WITH:] The important American library formed by Dr. William C. Braislin, Brooklyn, N.Y., sold by his order. Part two : L-Z inclusive ... : to be sold by auction ... Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday afternoons, April fourth, fifth, sixth Add to Wish List
Item #239228
Price: $1,250
n.p. [Edinburgh? 1725?]. First edition. 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 Chronicle of England and Higden's..... Read More Item Details for Libri de Rebus Britannicis, scilicet, Anglicis, Scoticis et Hibernicis Add to Wish List
Item #223076
Price: $500
Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1872-78. Mixed set. Read More Item Details for Der Deutsche Peintre-Graveur oder die Deutschen Maler als Kupferstecher Add to Wish List
Item #243568
Price: $500
Leipzig: Verlag von Alexander Danz, 1872-78. Mixed set. Read More Item Details for Der Deutsche Peintre-Graveur oder die Deuttschen Maler als Kupferstecher Add to Wish List
Item #20634
Price: $400
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 Item Details for In Memoriam William Loring Andrews MDCCCXXXVII-MCMXX Add to Wish List
Item #323541
Price: $350
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 Item Details for Bibliopegy in The United states and Kindred Subjects Add to Wish List
Item #323537
Price: $300
New York: 1895. First edition, one of 122 on hand-made paper. `. Read More Item Details for The Old Booksellers of New York and Other Papers Add to Wish List
Item #323543