![CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT]: The Harper and Other Fables. By Aesop. Lawrence Aesop . Zimmerman,...](/pictures/thumb/3514.jpg?v=1622322783)
New York: Transcribed and Illustrated at Cooper Union, 1952. Small folio (261 x 167 mm). Calligraphic manuscript on paper. [2], 8 pp. Loosely inserted ink and watercolor drawing. Original hand-sewn blue wrappers; stitched to upper wrapper is a paper label lettered in manuscript: "The Harper and Other Fables." Old scribbles..... More
Washington DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001. Softcover. Quarto, 158 pages, illustrated in black and white. ¶ Through the underlinings, emendations, and other marginalia common to early modern readers, this title shows the variety of ways in which readers have related to books over the centuries. The use of books..... More
![UNPUBLISHED WATERCOLORS OF THE FRESCOS OF THE CASINO FELICE, ROME, NOW DESTROYED]. Pianta del...](/pictures/thumb/1574.jpg?v=1600272727)
1871. Hardcover. Oblong folio (350 x 450 mm). With 32 watercolors of high quality by Annibale Angelini delineated from the original frescos. Original red pebbled cloth (shaken), upper cover with the crowned monograph of Prince Camillo IX (Vittorio Emanuele) Massimo. In excellent unrestored state. Preserved in a protective case. An..... More
![A matching pair of strange Indian erotic paintings of exceptionally high quality]. Anonymous...](/pictures/thumb/3217.jpg?v=1600273982)
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
![MANUSCRIPT - UNPUBLISHED GERMAN PLAY]. Der Katzenkomodie, erster Theil, oder Lottchus Todt....](/pictures/thumb/2009.jpg?v=1553284583)
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 Highly curious and apparently unpublished German Romantic play concerning the "Death.....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
![MANUSCRIPT]. [JAPANESE FOLKTALE]. "Momotaro" (Cover title). "Nippon Mukashi-banashi" (caption...](/pictures/thumb/3585.jpg?v=1637016679)
S.l. (Britain?): 1920s (ca.). Slim 8vo. 43 unnumbered pages + one full-page drawing. Handmade notebook tied with string, covers of gilt sprinkled card-stock (some surface scratching and wear to extremities; some unobjectionable foxing and staining). Curious homemade manuscript of what appears to be an unpublished English translation of the beloved..... More
![MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY CATALOGUE 1831]. Bibliotheque de Fourqueux / Catalogue des livres de la...](/pictures/thumb/3540.jpg?v=1629065186)
Chateau de Fourqueux (Yvelines, France): 1831. Large folio (418 x 263 mm). Manuscript on paper. 1 f. (calligraphic title-page) + 1 f. (Avis) + 64 pp. catalogue entries written on ruled paper (the majority of the pages are completely full) + 8 blank pages (numbered 65-72) + 1 fol. ("Table..... 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
![39 LASHES: THE SENTENCE FOR A CONVICTED SLAVE IN LONG ISLAND IN 1811]. "The People vs. Gabe, a...](/pictures/thumb/3711.JPG?v=1648946040)
New Hempstead, Long Island, NY: 1811. Large folio (337 x 200 mm), stitched, folded once vertically and twice horizontally, presumably extracted from a larger volume (two leaves excised, both likely blank). 10 pp. on paper clearly watermarked "1808" / Britannia (not in Gravell-Miller), modern pagination in pencil. Altogether handwritten 9..... 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
![NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL MANUSCRIPT]. Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneously Around...](/pictures/thumb/877.jpg?v=1600272726)
Wilmington, N.C. 1874. Hardcover. Manuscript on paper, 58 unnumbered pages, written in an octavo ruled notebook, the MS occupying the first half, the second being blank. Contemporary American binding (sheepskin over boards), light wear to binding extremities, hinges cracked but firm, marbled edges. An attractive manuscript in very good antiquarian..... 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
![1592 GUATEMALA MANUSCRIPT - AUCTION OF QUICHE MAYA LANDS]. Testimonio del titulo venta......](/pictures/thumb/3476.jpg?v=1622608382)
Coatepeque (i.e. Guatemala): 1592. Folio (320 x 200 mm). 6 fols. + near contemporary wrappers, stitched, front wrapper with all pertinent information in cursive. Formerly folded four times, creating 16 small panels, two of the leaves have clean tears along horizontal folds from fore-edge to gutter margin, others with shorter..... More
![1691 CADIZ MANUSCRIPT]. Letter Dr. Francisco de Velasco to the Duke of Sessa, presenting Dr. Abel...](/pictures/thumb/3473.jpg?v=1622505571)
Cadiz: 1691. Single sheet, folded once. Pencil inscription at top with small black stamp, folded along vertical and horizontal crease, another later fold along spinal edge, small dirt stains along spine and foreedge. Visible watermark on 2f. Letter address on verso of 2f. This is a letter of recommendation /..... More
![The Coat and the Cup [unpublished play]. Typescript (mimeograph) with additions and corrections...](/pictures/thumb/905.jpg?v=1600272726)
Copyrighted by Mary U Glazener: 1966. Hardcover. 43 pages on 43 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11" paper, inserted in modern green folder (3-hole punched). UNPUBLISHED provincial play by the author of "The Cup of Wrath: The Story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Resistance to Hitler" (1992/3) which received some critical attention..... More
London: Printed by G. Woodfall, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. [iv], 188 pp. Original drab boards (a little worn, expertly rebacked). Edges uncut and partially unopened. Ex-libris stamps in blind from the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the Hartford Seminary). NB: in 1976 a collection of more than..... More
![ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK / WINE / LIQUEURS / MEDICINE, 1810-1846]. Henrietta Hartsell,...](/pictures/thumb/3656.jpg?v=1641845823)
Laleham (near London): 1810-1846. 4to. Manuscript compendium of recipes, written on Britannia paperstock dated "1804," altogether 182 handwritten pages, numbered 7-54, 56-88 (p. 55 skipped) followed by 99 unnumbered pages, the first 6 pages excised, the remainder blank save the final leaf which on the recto gives an index for..... More
![MANUSCRIPT]: "Address in Latin, on various academical occasions, by the President of Transylvania...](/pictures/thumb/3439.jpg?v=1616525762)
Lexington, KY and Philadelphia, PA: J. Kneass, 1819. Small square 4to. (190 x 165 mm). Notebook of a single quire of 24 leaves, folded and stitched in center to produce 48 pp., with 25 pp. of manuscript in cursive, the rest blank. Top edge of front cover and three subsequent..... More
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED]. ALS from Julia Ward Howe to "Mr. Duncan" (i.e. William Addison Duncan)...](/pictures/thumb/3599.jpg?v=1637016789)
Newport, RI: 1884. Four half-pages with mourning borders, each page filled with. A.L.S. from Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), American abolitionist and social reformer whose "Battle Hymn of the Republic" continues to be sung to the present day. The present letter contains excellent content relating to the death of her brother..... More
![COMPLETE SET]. Iter Italicum A Finding List of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Humanistic...](/pictures/thumb/3455.jpg?v=1618023182)
London / Leiden: Warburg Institute / Brill, 1963-1997. First Edition. Together 7 vols., large 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth bindings (vols. 1-2 with signs of gentle bibliographical consultation, bound in slightly lighter blue cloth as issued by the publisher; all other volumes preserved in fine condition). NOT ex-library! "Iter Italicum"..... More
![MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS]. Latin Manuscript Books Before 1600: A List of Printed...](/pictures/thumb/1818.jpg?v=1589733741)
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
![LITERARY ARCHIVE]. [SOCIAL REFORM]. Large archive of more than 1,000 pages of typescripts...](/pictures/thumb/3080.jpg?v=1591574771)
Together seven three-ring binder notebooks (binders worn, boards on vol. VI broken off) -- retained by us as out of "respect du fonds" -- containing approximately 876 typescript and manuscript pages. TOGETHER WITH: 29 file folders of articles, ideas, proposals, and miscellaneous publishing materials, consisting of approximate 300 typescript and..... More
![ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY MASSACRE, 1572]. Autograph Letter Signed, being a contemporary account the...](/pictures/thumb/3068.jpg?v=1590462303)
Steinhilben (near Reutlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg): 1572. Together 3 sheets. Ad 1: Folio (330 x 210 mm) penned by Ludwig III Duke of Wurttemberg. Recto: 25 lines including florished signature, verso blank; without watermark. Ad 2: (85 x 210), 4 lines, being a small document written on paper from the same stock..... More
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1975. Hardcover. Octavo, 177 number pages, original cloth, no dustjacket. Illustrated in black and white. ¶ An important discussion of notable examples of early manuscripts to early printed books, with very good illustrations. More
Austin, Texas: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 27 numbered pages, original cloth binding. No dustjacket. Woodcut illustrations. ¶ Bibliographical Monograph Series No. 7, a lecture given at the [Harry Ransom] Humanities Research Center on collection development specifically within the scope of manuscripts..... More
