Quincy, MA: 1813 (Dec. 24). Manuscript. 20 pp. 165 x 200 mm. Stitched as issued. At some point folded to pocket size and thus retains large fold down middle of pages, small chips and tears along edges, some age-toning, a few pages very browned. An ownership inscription on the front..... More

France, Belgium, England: April 12 - Dec 19, 1915. Oblong 8vo. Small "Walker's Service Notebook" (154 x 94 mm), lined, 26 pages filled with neat entries in pencil and pen (final page of diary loose), the remaining portion of the notebook (i.e. about 2/3) blank. Original limp cloth covers, worn..... More

India: 18th or 19th century (?). Three matted paintings (matte size: 323 x 266; leaf size: 215 x 145 mm; visible image: 170 x 115 mm), hinged to clear Plexiglas so that the manuscript texts on the versos are perfectly legible. Leaves with some soiling, edges slightly frayed along inner..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 358 x 260 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 475 x 327 mm). Minor staining to the paper, but the painting is in..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 354 x 164 mm), mounted on card, matted (matte size: 460 x 278 mm). Each painting has a scratch to the surface area (SEE IMAGES), overall in very good condition..... More

n.d. (19th or 20th century). Two illuminations on thin India paper some vertical creasing, professionally matted and framed. Ad 1 (priapus): 300 x 250 mm (frame size), 198 x 140 mm (visible), 147 x 93 mm (size of illumination). Ad 2 (she-devil): 306 x 231 mm (frame size), 205 x...... More

1835. First Edition. Softcover. Small 4to. Manuscript on paper. [2], 53 pp. Complete. Stitched (plain paper wrappers torn and frayed along spine, with loss), edges untrimmed. Minor blemishes to the text but unsophisticated. Preserved in a protective cloth case. Highly curious and apparently unpublished German Romantic play concerning the "Death..... More

Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Softcover. Octavo, 275 pages, illustrated in black and white. Ownership mark inside front cover. ¶ In his dedicated investigation into the early history of the book, Carlson provides insight in changing technology during the transition from fifteenth to sixteenth century and its..... More

Charterhouse School: 1871. Hardcover. Dates: 1871-1877 and 1910. Small 4to. 37 ff., mostly with newspaper clippings neatly pasted in on both sides + 4 ff. in manuscript ("Summary of Scores" from 1871-1877 and 1910). Several leaves excised; it is possible that the present album had been re-purposed. On a few..... More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Houghton Library, 1992. Softcover. Quarto, 200 pages, illustrated in black and white. ¶ Essential collection of brief essays from a group of international scholars, illustrating the evidentiary usefulness of manuscripts as well as their complexities. Early and recent manuscripts from the collections of the Houghton Library illuminate..... More

Madrid: 1727-1728. Manuscript on paper. Folio. 38 ff. (tears and wear along fore-edges, smaller tears along top and bottom of leaves, persistant waterstains, fol. 1 damaged with loss). Top portion of final leaf excised, but the text is continuous (see below). Recent sympathetic wrappers. With faults, and priced correctly. EXCELLENT..... More

New York: Richards Rosen Press (published version), 1960s (and 1964). First Edition. MANUSCRIPT: Somewhat worn notebook of black cloth (210 x 130 mm), title scratched onto the front cover. With typewritten "introduction" and 11 original pastel illustrations, each with typewritten captions, the remainder blank. ADDED: published version: 8vo. [96] pp...... More

Italy: 1325 (ca.). Manuscript on vellum, large folio (450 x 345 mm), main text 42-lines, extensive glosses, written in black (faded and almost completely illegible). Extracted from a bookbinding, very worn. SPECIMINA PALEOGRAPHICA, AN EXCELLENT MANUSCRIPT LEAF FOR TEACHING. OUR MANUSCRIPT IS PARTIALLY UNFINISHED, THUS PROVIDING VALUABLE EVIDENCE OF MANUSCRIPT..... More