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

New York: The Grolier Club, 2015. First Edition. Large 4to (285 x 210 mm). 351, [1] pp. Title-page printed in red and black, frontispiece portrait of Aldus Manutius. 141 works described, each with one or more accompanying illustrations in color. Original green cloth (trifle shelf-wear), Aldine dolphin and anchor on..... More

Uppsala: Svenska Litteratursällskapet, 1927-1946. 3 vols., large 8vo. 1 f., 37, 383 pp., 38 plates, 5 folding reproductions (fig. 13, 22, 27, 47, 83, two of them in red and black) unpaged, 87 reproductions, numbered 1-92, many full-page and some in red and black, in the text, plus 5 supplementary..... More

London: Privately Printed and Not For Circulation, 1898. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). viii, 64 pp. Softcover, original paper wrappers (chipped and worn, spine defective), detached from textblock. Rare, privately printed catalogue of a collection of 499 Continental incunables formed by Walter A. Copinger. The catalogue is..... More

Bethesda, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Library of Medicine; U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1967 and 1971. First Edition. Together 2 vols. 4to (265 x 205 mm). Ad 1: xi, 698 pp. Ad 2: v, 51 pp. Original decorated gray cloth with black embossed roundel and black..... More

London and New York: Verso, 2010. Softcover. Octavo, 378 pages. ¶ Highly important study on the advent of moveable type and its subsequent impact on Western culture. Originally written in French, the present work was translated into English by David Gerard, and edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton. More

Austin, TX: [Harry Ransom] Humanities Research Center, 1974. First Edition, Second Impression, limited to 250 copies. 8vo. 29 pp. Title-page printed in black and orange. Original burnt-orange colored boards, original clear protective wrapper. NOT ex-library! A very useful and very readable account of the evidence -- and lack thereof --..... More

Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Sons, 1883. First Edition. Large 8vo (265 x 175 mm). iv, 654 pp. 1 f., 2 color lithographs, 49 figures in text. Polished brown half calf, marbled sides, red morocco lettering piece with gilt lettering, top edges gilt, all original wrappers bound in. Front joint..... More

New York: Fordham University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Octavo, 284 pages, original cloth, no dust jacket. Water damage to case, text unaffected. ¶ An important bibliography of printed and manuscript catalogues of pre-1600 Latin manuscripts in European libraries -- from A-Z (i.e from Aachen, Germany to Zwolle, Holland). Still essential. More

Paris: Leon Techener, 1877. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. [4], 83 pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers, edges untrimmed (some a little frayed). Copy no. 74 of 100 numbered copies, being one of the first celebrations of 17th-century French illustrated books, published when the craze for 18th-century French illustrated books was at its..... More

Paris: Ch. Bosse, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Small 4to. xvi, 235, [3] pp. Bound in original wrappers, as issued. Preserved in a protective cloth case. The essential resource for the study of provenance of medical books, still unsurpassed. Ours is one of only 50 on fine Velin paper, rare thus..... More

Lyon: Bibliotheque de la Ville de Lyon, 1967. First Edition. 4to. [4], iii, 106, [2] ff., printed on rectos only. Original wrappers (a little worn). NOT ex-library! Scarce Supplement to Pellechet's great "Catalogue des Incunables des Bibliotheques publiques de Lyon" published in 1893, which only comprised entries 1-634 (sic!), a...... More

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 144 pages, original cloth with dustjacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. ¶ An excellent survey of English literature, written for beginning and veteran book collectors. Quayle provides direction for the collector on what to seek, how..... More