New York: [Spiral Press for] Pierpont Morgan Library, n.d. (1968?). 12mo. 6 pp. with double-page reproduction of calligraphic text concerning printers' marks. Stapled as issued in thick wrappers, printed in black and brick-red. Fred Adams's brief history of the sixteen printers' marks that were incorporated in the North, South, East..... More
![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
![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
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Census of Fifteenth Century Books Owned in America. Bibliographical...](/pictures/thumb/2214.jpg?v=1592585110)
New York: New York Public Library, 1919. First Edition. 4to (265 x 190 mm). xxiv, 245 pp. Contemporary buckram (soiled; spine label chipped and defective), original blue printed wrappers bound in. One of 100 copies on fine Old Stratford paper. This, the famed "First Census," records Incunabula not only in..... 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]. Catalogue des Incunables [de la Bibliotheque nationale de France] (a.k.a....](/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]. A Catalogue of Books printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian...](/pictures/thumb/3223.jpg?v=1600997105)
Oxford: University Press, 2005. First Edition. COMPLETE SET of all 6 vols., comprising more than 2,965 pages (sic!) printed in two- and three-columes. Original publisher's blue cloth (some scuffing to cloth covers), ISBN stickers on lower right corner of back covers. Vertical creasing on half title of volume III, occasional..... 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]. 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. NOT ex-library! 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..... 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
![MEDICINE / POST-INCUNABLE]. Liber d[e] quadruplici vita / theologia Asclepii / Sixti /...](/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
Leipzig: Schriftenverteilung für die Gesellschaft durch R. Haupt, 1907. Atlas folio, loose as issued. Title-page printed in red and black (small ink mark) + 30 full-page plates. Excellent condition. Vol. 1, Fascicle 1, containing the first 30 plates from one of the great facsimiles of specimen pages of incunabula. Of..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE / SWEDEN]. Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Bibliothek in Stockholm. Teil 1,...](/pictures/thumb/2220.jpg?v=1604094062)
Stockholm: 1914-1916. First Edition. Together 3 vols. 8vo. and folio. 32, 330; [4], 4, 104, [8] pp. + 6 plates. One full-page plate in Teil 1 (Taf. VIII) and 15 illustrations in Teil 2 (Heft 1). Atlas: [6], 88 pp. (150 facsimiles). Original printed wrappers. Paper spines somewhat soiled, that..... 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]. Index librorum saeculo XVmo impressorum quorum exempla possidet...](/pictures/thumb/3159.jpg?v=1595430187)
Copenhagen ["Hafniae"]: Libraria Gyldendal, 1889-1898 (i.e. 1901). First Edition. 8vo. [6], 470 pp. Later neat blue buckram, red morocco lettering piece, top edges gilt, original wrappers bound in (short tear at top of front wrapper). NOT ex-library! Special edition, limited to 100 copies (sic) with a preface by H.O. Lange..... 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
![CLASSIC OF 16TH CENTURY SURGICAL ILLUSTRATION]. Della cirugia [...] libri sette: ne' quali si...](/pictures/thumb/2600.jpg?v=1600272741)
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
![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
![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
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). NOT ex-library! With descriptions of 120 Bibles in the..... 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
![EARLY PRINTING REFERENCE / SPAIN]. Catalogo Descriptivo de los Impresos en Espanol, del Siglo...](/pictures/thumb/3096.jpg?v=1593375072)
Buenos Aires: Secrit, 1991. 8vo. [10], 54 pp. [5], pp. Original blue stiff wrappers. Extremely detailed catalogue of a small selection of important 16th-century Spanish books in the colleciton of Jorge M. Furt (1902-1971), an Argentine humanist and author. The extent of the cataloguing is attested by the 3-page collation..... 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. NOT ex-library! A very useful and very readable account of the evidence -- and lack thereof --..... More
