Berlin: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein. First Edition. Softcover. Minor pencil notations. 196 pp including index. 562 items. Illustrated throughout. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ Scholarly, scarce German catalogue describing hundreds of rare Baroque books including works by Martin Opitz, Johann Rist, and many more. Wonderful black and white illustrations..... More

Milan: Bredford Libri Rari, Francesco Radaeli, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Pencil notation on cover, very minor wear to cover. 40 Items thoroughly described. Illustrated. Price list inserted. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ Scholarly, scarce edition of Italian catalogue containing descriptions of many 15th and 16th century manuscripts and..... More

Norwalk, CT: Burndy Library, 1955. First Edition. Softcover. Large 4to. 96 pp., 200 items described, with numerous illustrations throughout the text. Original printed wrappers. Faint darkening along top edges of wrappers, but an excellent copy: square, tight, and unmarked. *NOT* ex-library! PRESENTATION COPY of the original edition of "Heralds of..... More

Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksells, 1936. First Edition. 8vo. Color frontispiece portrait of Ignatius Meurer (1589-1672), 16, 48 pp., 62 plates (9 folding). Original boards, gilt vellum spine (slightly palm soiled, corners bumped). A celebration of early Swedish books, issued on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the introduction of..... More

London: Roxburghe Club, 1998. First Edition. Large 4to. 22 pp., photocopy of the title-page of the Roxburghe publication loosely inserted. Original green wrappers (faintly creased on lower wrapper; ink inscription on p. 1). Bernard Breslauer's perceptive analysis of the masterpiece of Florentine woodcut books, Frezzi's "Quadriregio" (The Four Realms) of..... More

Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / Bavarian State Library, 2010. First Edition. Folio. 215 pp., with numerous reproductions of illuminations in color throughout. Bound in original publisher's wrappers, illustrated in color. VAST EXHIBITION CATALOGUE OF THE 1545-1549 "SECRET BOOK OF HONOR" WHICH DEPICTS THE FUGGER FAMILY IN ILLUMINATED PORTRAITS. The catalogue presents..... More

Milan: Ulrich Hoepli, 1934. First Edition. Large 4to. xxvii, 324 pp., with numerous b/w illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers (spine chipped at head and tail, corners bumped, some scuffing or soiling to wrappers). Internally excellent. *NOT* ex-library! Edition limited to 300 copies. In this finely printed catalogue there..... More

Rio de Janeiro: [Editorial Imperio, Lisbon, for]: Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura, 1956. First Edition. 4to. 1 f. (blank), [5], 9-377, [8] pp. With 9 plates. Original publisher's stiff wrappers printed in black and red, edges uncut (spine darkened and with one small stain; some minor soiling to covers). NOT..... More

Cleveland / London: Case Western Reserve University, 1971. 8vo. Paginated 7-20. Original printed wrappers. NOT ex-library! Describes the history of the fabulous Gennadeion Library at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Of the 70 incunables in the Gennadius Library, thirty-nine are Greek, an impressive number considering that fewer..... More

Palermo: Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, 1978. First Edition. Large 8vo. 263, [4] pp. Original wrappers, edges almost entirely uncut. Illustrated with 18 full-page photographic plates of high quality. NOT ex-library! Scarce catalogue of fifteenth century books in the Municipal Library of Palermo, a formidable collection of 1,038..... More

Gutersloh, Germany: Gutersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. 308 pp. pp. Original cloth (a trifle dusty). NOT ex-library! The definitive, critical biography of Johannes Zwick (ca. 1496-1542) who with his brother Konrad, and Ambrosius and Thomas Blarer, implemented the Reformation in Constance and "deputized" other brothers in other..... More

Munich: Robert Wolfle, 1985. First Edition. 4to. 213, [3] pp. With numerous illustrations in b/w and color. Original wrappers (a little worn). WITH: Price-list (2 ff.) annotated in ink, back wrapper in pencil. NOT ex-library! While technically a "bookseller's catalogue," the level of scholarship in this volume rivals or exceeds..... More

Strasbourg: P.H. Heitz, 1960. First Edition. 8vo. [4], 107, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers, edges uncut. NOT ex-library! Compiled by the unsurpassed authority on early printing and humanism in Strasbourg and Alsace-Lorraine. For obvious reasons, the present work is indispensable for all students and scholars of Alsatian humanism. ¶ The..... More