Paris: Librairie Paul Jammes. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Minor wear, minor pencil notation, 1814 items, illustrated. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. Scholarly, French catalogue with b&w illustrations and descriptions of many rare items. More
Vaduz: Buchantiquariat Interlibrum. Softcover. Some pencil notations on a few pages. Normal wear. 300 items. Illustrated. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ Scholarly catalogue with b&w illustrations throughout. Catalogue contains hundreds of descriptions in English of many fine rare books including: Tiberius Cavallo's "Aeronautics", The first international dictionary of..... More
![Catalogue 164]. Illustrated catalogue of early printed and other rare books. Greek and Latin...](/pictures/thumb/743.jpg?v=1599426097)
London: E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd., n.d. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Oblong 8vo. 171 pp. including index of printers and publishers, 200 items completely described, illustrated throughout. Original wrappers (worn along front joint). A remarkable antiquarian bookseller catalogue of great scholarship and connoisseurship, containing descriptions of 200 rare and interesting books..... More
Ultrecht: Forum Antiquarian Booksellers, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Very light pencil notation on front cover, 133 pp., 468 items. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. Scholarly catalogue containing descriptions in Dutch and English of hundreds of rare items including: a first edition of "Vogages from Montreal" by Alexander Mackenzie, a...... More
Cambridge: Roger Gaskell Warboys, 2001. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Very minor wear to back cover, otherwise in perfect condition. 87 items, illustrated. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. Scholarly, scarce catalogue containing descriptions of many rare items such as the complete works of Saint-Gery de Magnas, a first edition anatomy book..... More
Koln: Jurgen Dinter. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Minor pencil notation, minor wear to cover, 136 pp., 140 items. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ Scholarly, well-presented catalogue with descriptions of rare philosophical works. Philosophers include Desiderius Erasmus, Aristotle, Petrus de Aquila (Duns Scotus), and many more. Well illustrated with Black..... More
Amsterdam: B. V. Boekhandel En Antiquariaat B. M. Israel. First Edition. Softcover. Minor wear, small pencil notation, 96 pp including index, 240 items, illustrated. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. Scholarly, scarce catalogue featuring autographs, prints and rare works on subjects such as Navigation, Light Houses, Steam Engines, and more..... More
Paris: Librarie Laurent Coulet. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Minor pencil notations, 100 items, illustrated. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ Scholarly, scarce French catalogue with wonderful black and white illustrations on almost every page. The catalogue contains descriptions of many rare works including volumes by Jean Benjamin de Laborde, Pierre..... More
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
Dusseldorf: Axel Bender Antiquariat GmbH, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Cover creased, minor pencil notations. 68 pp., 100 items, illustrated throughout. Price list loosely inserted as issued. ¶ Scarce, very scholarly catalogue containing descriptions of rare works by Goethe and others. Excellent black and white illustrations on almost every page. 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
Paris: Pierre Beres, 1990. Softcover. 260 items thoroughly described. Illustrations throughout, some in color. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ A scholarly French catalogue of rare volumes, beautifully presented. Includes: works by Gustave Flaubert, Henri Murger, Arthur Rimbaud, and many more. 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
Dublin: Eason & Son, 1976. First Edition. 8vo. [24] pp., illustrated in b/w and color. Original wrappers, stapled as issued: covers with color reproductions of bindings, inside wrappers are b/w illustrations and text. Slight shelf wear, but a neat copy. *NOT* ex-library! The slight size of this book does not..... More
![Det Svenska Boktryckets Utveckling 1483-1850 [Exhibition Catalogue]. Royal Library Stockholm,...](/pictures/thumb/3177.jpg?v=1595793380)
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
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Catalogo degli Incunabuli della Biblioteca Ugo da Como di Lonato....](/pictures/thumb/3176.jpg?v=1595793376)
Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1953. First Edition. Small 4to. 172, [4] pp. With 15 full-page plates, including frontispiece portrait of Ugo da Como. Original printed wrappers (slightly dust-soiled), uncut and unopened. Catalogue of the incunabula in one of the most important private libraries in Northern Italy, a "Citadel 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
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. A Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the Harvard...](/pictures/thumb/3173.jpg?v=1595793372)
Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1991. First Edition. Large 8vo. xxv, [1], 617 pp. With 16 b/w plates. Original cloth. Excellent condition, *NOT* ex-library. The essential Volume I for Walsh's great five-volume catalogue of incunabula at Harvard: "Books printed in Germany, German-Speaking Switzerland and Austria-Hungary." From Thomas Izbicki's..... 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
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Incunables. Thomas-Scheler - Stephane Clavreuil, Librairie / Bookseller,...](/pictures/thumb/3170.jpg?v=1595793365)
Paris: Librairie Thomas-Scheler, 1994 (Avril). First Edition. Folio. 50 items described and illustrated. Original wrappers. Price-list loosely inserted as issued. An extraordinary catalogue of 50 incunables which includes many great rarities, i.a. the first edition of Homer in Greek (Florence, 1488 -- Doheny copy). The price-list has been annotated by..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE - ITALY]. Catalogo della libreria di Giuseppe Martini. Compilato dal...](/pictures/thumb/3168.jpg?v=1595793362)
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
New York: The Grolier Club, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 23 x 15 cm. 84 pp. with color and b/w illustrations. This important Grolier Club exhibition catalogue remains the definitive bio-bibliographical assessment of the life and work of Ray Safford. Although now little-known, in his day one Safford was of..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Catalogo de incunabulos da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro....](/pictures/thumb/3166.jpg?v=1595430255)
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
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE - PORTUGAL]. Catalogo de incunabulos. Maria Valentina, compilers C A. Sul...](/pictures/thumb/3165.jpg?v=1595430252)
Lisboa / Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. 442 pp. + errata tipped in at end. With 16 plates of which two are printed in color. Original publisher's leatherette binding. NOT ex-library! Impressive catalogue of 1,359 incunabula preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional, which includes not only a copy of..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE - GREEK]. "Incunabula in the Gennadius Library" (reprinted from Medievalia...](/pictures/thumb/3163.jpg?v=1595430248)
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
