![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Catalogue of the John Boyd Thatcher Collection of Incunabula. Frederick W....](/pictures/thumb/2208.jpg?v=1592541966)
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915. First Edition. 4to (260 x 195 mm). Frontispiece portrait of the collector, 329 pp. Text with some foxing. Bound in original quarter morocco (head of spine chipped), top edge gilt. NOT EX-LIBRARY. Catalogue of incunabula from the John Boyd Thatcher collection, deposited with..... More
Allendale, MI: Grand Valley State University, 2010. First Edition. 8vo. 134 pp., with many illustrations in b/w and color. Original printed wrappers. Edition limited to 100 copies. Noteworthy collection of 50 incunables, acquired over a period of just 8 years, each volume carefully selected on account of research potential. The..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Early Dutch, German, and English Printers' Marks. Jean Philibert Berjeau](/pictures/thumb/2218.jpg?v=1592542345)
London: E. Rascol, 1866. First Edition. Large 8vo (260 x 165 mm). Contemporary Roxburghe binding, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine and binding extemities somewhat worn, 3 cm. crack at top of front cover). Inside back cover an early bookseller's label of the firm of [William] Downing, The Chaucer's Head..... More
![REVELATIONS]. A COLLECTION OF SEVEN ORIGINAL LEAVES from the 1611 "King James" Bible...](/pictures/thumb/2796.JPG?v=1567816212)
London: Robert Barker, 1611. First Edition. Folio. 7 leaves: Z3, Z5, Z6, Aa1, Aa2, Aa3, Aa4. Contents: 3 John 1:7-14, Epistles of Jude (complete book); Revelations Chapter 2:21 through Chapter 18:12. Margins frayed, soiling, old repairs, portions of texts defective (SEE IMAGES). With faults, and priced accordingly. Highly interesting, nearly..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Catalogue des Incunables [a.k.a. CIBN, together 5 volumes. Tome I - Fasc....](/pictures/thumb/3146.jpg?v=1594663932)
Paris: Bibliotheque nationale de France, 1981-1985 and 1992. First Edition. 5 vols., 4to. Original wrappers (spines of Fasc. "H-L" and "M-O" a little faded with unimportant wear along joints). "Additions et Corrections" 16 ff. (ca. 250 entries), stapled as issued. WITH: 2 ff. half-title and title-page for Tome II, loose..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Inkunabeln der Bodmeriana: Katalog. Helene Buchler-Mattmann, Martin...](/pictures/thumb/3112.jpg?v=1593809828)
Cologny-Geneve (Switzerland): Fondation Martin Bodmer, 1976. First Edition. 8vo. 239, [1] pp. With 38 reproductions in the text. Original yellow glazed boards. This, the third catalogue issued by the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, is a tour-de-force of some of the finest incunables ever assembled by a private individual, Martin Bodmer (1899-1971). The..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. The Origin of Printing in Europe. Pierce Butler](/pictures/thumb/3099.jpg?v=1593809822)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. Third impression. 8vo. xv, 155 pp. With frontispiece reproduction of the "Speculum Humanae Savationis" and several other plates illustrating the text. Original black cloth. NOT ex-library, NO markings or signatures, NOT a reprint. Trifle bit of foxing on fore-edge disqualifies this copy from being..... More
![Liber d[e] quadruplici vita[;] theologia Asclepii ...[;] Sixti ... Enchiridion[;] Isocratis Ad...](/pictures/thumb/2554.jpg?v=1553284800)
Lyon: Jannot Deschamps for Etienne Gueynard and Jacques Huguetan, 1507 ("Pridie Kal. Augusti" = 31 July). First Edition. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to. Collation: a6 b-k8 l6 A-G8 = 140 ff., COMPLETE. Persistent dampstain (not egregious) along 2" of top edge of text-block. Title-page in red and black with..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Aldus Manutius: A Legacy More Lasting than Bronze. G. Scott Clemons, H....](/pictures/thumb/2211.jpg?v=1592585222)
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
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE / SWEDEN]. Sveriges Bibliografi intill År 1600 (3 vols.) - TOGETHER WITH:...](/pictures/thumb/3091.jpg?v=1592585117)
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
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Handlist of a Collection of Incunabula Illustrating the Progress and...](/pictures/thumb/2209.jpg?v=1592541969)
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
![Della cirugia [...] libri sette: ne' quali si contiene la theorica et la vera prattica. Giovanni...](/pictures/thumb/2600.jpg?v=1553284821)
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1574. First Edition in Italian. Folio. [18] ff., 296 pp. Collation: *8 **6 ***4 A-Z6 AA10, COMPLETE. Ziletti's device on title, 5 large woodcuts showing operations (2 on the battlefield), numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments and heads with incisions, occasional staining or soiling; title with outer..... More
Paris: Apud Sebastianum Niuellium, 1577. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio: 3 volumes in one. 4 ff., 332 pp; 6 ff., 390 pp; 228 pp. BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CALF, richly blind-tooled, evidence of two pair of ties (binding worn, spine defective; damp staining to lower margins throughout). Provenance: early blind-stamps..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of...](/pictures/thumb/2215.jpg?v=1592542028)
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
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Lists of Fifteenth Century Books in Edinburgh Libraries. Edinburgh...](/pictures/thumb/3131.jpg?v=1594246203)
Edinburgh: [Printed for the EBS by George Waterston & Sons], 1913. First Edition. 4to. [8], 107 pp. Printed on fine, thick paper watermarked: "The Post Horn Vellum" / [within a shield: a post horn]. Original cloth, title gilt on upper cover, corners bumped, some minor soiling, front and back endpapers..... More
Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm Badensis, 1518. Hardcover. Small 4to. 30 ff. Collation: aa - ff4, gg6, COMPLETE. Woodcut title page with columns and cherubs. Bound in 19th-century pale glazed boards, expertly rebacked. MARY MAGDALEN AND THE "QUARREL OF THE MAGDALENS." -- Lefevre d'Etables' "De Maria Magdalena et triduo Christi disceptatio" (1517)..... More
Austin: [Harry Ransom] Humanities Research Center, 1967. First Edition. Tall narrow 8vo. 71 pp., illustrated throughout. Original grey boards printed in black and red (lacking dust-jacket, corners a little bumped; ownership signature on verso of front endleaf; spine a little palm-soiled). With descriptions of 120 Bibles in the collection of..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE / ALDINE / ALDUS MANUTIUS]. Im Zeichen von Anker und Delphin. Die...](/pictures/thumb/2213.jpg?v=1592585106)
Leipzig: Faber & Faber, 2005. Large 4to (305 x 230 mm). 239, [1] pp. With 140 color illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, original printed dustjacket. Catalogue of 1,448 items. With "Zur Geschichte der Sammlung" (Karla Faust); "Die Buchenbande" (Andreas Wittenberg); Widerspruchlichkeiten (Holger Nickel); Zeittafel..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Fifteenth Century Books in the Library of Congress, A Check List....](/pictures/thumb/2207.jpg?v=1592541964)
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. First Edition. Large 8vo (260 x 175 mm). 82 pp. Original grey paper wrappers (trifle soiled; inside front wrapper with evidence of paper clip; but overall very good). With the printed card of Lessing J. Rosenwald loosely inserted. Rosenwald's donation to the Library..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Fifteenth Century Books in the Library of Congress, A Check List....](/pictures/thumb/3090.jpg?v=1592542352)
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. First Edition. Large 8vo (260 x 175 mm). 82 pp. Original grey paper wrappers (trifle soiled; overall very good). From the famed library of B.H. Breslauer (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, Third Portion, 28 June 2005, lot 1300) with his circled accession number in pencil..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. The Permanence of Johann Gutenberg. Frederick R. Goff](/pictures/thumb/3142.jpg?v=1594522451)
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. A very useful and very readable account of the evidence -- and lack thereof -- supporting the..... More
Amsterdam: L. Elzevir, 1648. Hardcover. Small 4to, 2 works in 1 vol. [34], 800 (i.e. 808) pp.: 3 parts in 1. [8], 110, 115, 88 pp. Small library stamp on first title-page repeated in blank margin. Woodcut printer's device on both title-pages and 1 engraved double-portrait in the first volume;..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Inkunabeln. Mit 35 Abbildungen von Druckermarken, Einbanden, Holzschnitten...](/pictures/thumb/3144.jpg?v=1594663926)
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, March 1928. Small 4to. iv, 103, [4] pp. With 35 illustrations in text. 192 incunables described, plus index. Original wrappers (front cover splitting, spine worn and partially defective, covers slightly soiled). Who today could even conceive of procuring 192 incunables and offering them in a single..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Johann Gutenberg and His Bible: A Historical Study. Janet Ing](/pictures/thumb/3098.jpg?v=1593375424)
New York: The Typophiles, 1988. Small 8vo. 155 pp. including index and bibliography. Designed by Abe Lerner. Original publisher's cloth, original dust-wrapper. This is the indispensable introduction to the tangled and mythic history of the most important book ever printed. As per the publisher's statement, this book "provides, for the..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE - GREECE]. Catalogue of incunabula of the National Library of Greece....](/pictures/thumb/3133.jpg?v=1594246208)
Athens: 1983. First Edition. Large 8vo. [15], 84, [4] pp. With 33 illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers (slightly separating from textblock inside front joint, but perfectly sound). An attractive copy. ¶ Scarce, well illustrated catalogue, published under the auspices of the Centre for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research..... More
