USE OF ANGERS
by A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH FOUR VERY FINE MINIATURES
Western France (Angers?), ca. 1470. 122 x 88 mm. (4 3/4 x 3 1/2"). Single column, 15 lines in a neat bâtarde hand. 152 leaves (first and last three are ruled blank leaves; leaf count does not include the first blank endleaf erroneously included in the modern pencil foliation). COMPLETE. Contents: early ownership inscriptions (f. 2v), Calendar (f. 5r), Hours of the Virgin (f. 17r), Extract from the Gospel of John (f. 55v), Obsecro Te (f. 57r), Penitential Psalms... Read More
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TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
by A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, WITH A MINIATURE OF PENTECOST
France, ca. 1490. 144 x 99 mm. (5 5/8 x 3 3/4"). Single column, recto with 14 lines in a gothic book hand. Attractively matted and framed. Rubrics in red, two two-line initials, one painted pink on blue ground with flowers, the other painted blue and inhabited by a rampant lion on pink and gold ground, recto with a panel border featuring long-stemmed flowers and owls on a pink ground, verso WITH A HALF-PAGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURE DEPICTING PENTECOST,... Read More
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USE OF ROME
by A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH 14 LARGE AND 27 SMALL MINIATURES
Northern France, late 15th or early 16th century. 176 x 128 mm. (7 x 5"). Single column, 23 lines in a neat batârde hand. i (blank), 101, ii (blank) leaves. Lacking one leaf after f. 87 (possibly containing a miniature), otherwise complete. Contents: Calendar (f. 1r); Gospel Lessons (f. 7r); Passion according to John (f. 10v); Hours of the Virgin (f. 15v); Penitential Psalms and Litany (f. 45r); Office of the Dead (f. 54v); Hours of the Cross (f.... Read More
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USE OF PARIS
by A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN AND FRENCH, WITH A TOTAL OF 13 LARGE AND SMALL MINIATURES
Northern France (probably Paris), third quarter of 15th century. 130 x 100 mm. (5 1/8 x 3 7/8"). Single column, 15 lines in an elegant gothic book hand. 280 leaves. First four leaves misbound, lacking at least seven leaves, five of which probably contained miniatures. Contents: Devotion to the Passion (f. 1r); blank (f. 4); Calendar (f. 5r); Gospel Lessons (f. 17r); "Obsecro te" and "O intemerata" (f. 23r); blank (f. 23); Hours of the Virgin (lacking opening leaves... Read More
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TEXT FROM THE HOURS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
by A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN DUTCH, WITH A LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING PENTECOST
Netherlands, ca. 1470-80. 164 x 123 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 7/8"). Single column, 17 lines, in a gothic hand. Capitals touched with red, rubrics in red, one-line initials in red or blue, one two-line initial in blue, A VERY LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL (approximately 60 mm. square) DEPICTING PENTECOST, the initial painted blue with white tracery on a burnished gold ground, surrounded by A FULL BORDER decorated with colorful acanthus, large flowers, strawberries, insects (including a grasshopper, fly,... Read More
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THE YOUNG AMERICAN'S LIBRARY
by (CHILDREN'S BOOKS - AMERICANA)
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1844-53. 180 x 120 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 3/4"). 12 volumes.. Original publisher's brown cloth with decorative blind-stamped covers, spines with gilt lettering, scrolling, the image of a shrouded set of books, and an eagle holding various patriotic symbols. Each volume with frontispiece and chromolithograph pictorial title page heightened with gold, the set with a total of 84 plates depicting various historical scenes. Front pastedowns with the bookplate of the Westminster Fire Engine... Read More
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THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA. . . . CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA; WITH REMARKS ON THE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF THAT COLONY
by (AMERICANA - VIRGINIA, COLONIAL HISTORY OF). KEITH, WILLIAM
London: [Printed for] the Society for the Encouragement of Learning by S. Richardson, 1738. FIRST EDITION. 240 x 186 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/4"). 4 p.l., 187, [1] pp. Contemporary sprinkled calf, raised bands, red morocco label. With engraved device of the Society on title page and final page, engraved tailpiece, and TWO FOLDING MAPS. Church 930; Howes K-36; Sabin 37240; ESTC T115083. Front joint cracked (but the cover still firmly attached), thin half-inch chip to spine... Read More
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![THE TRIUMPHS OF THE REFORMED RELIGION IN AMERICA. THE LIFE OF THE RENOWNED JOHN ELIOT . . . A MEMORABLE EVANGELIST AMONG THE INDIANS OF NEW ENGLAND. [with]. A BROADSIDE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BOSTON BOOKSELLER RICHARD WILKINS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/438/968/1594968438.0.l.jpg)
THE TRIUMPHS OF THE REFORMED RELIGION IN AMERICA. THE LIFE OF THE RENOWNED JOHN ELIOT . . . A MEMORABLE EVANGELIST AMONG THE INDIANS OF NEW ENGLAND. [with]. A BROADSIDE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BOSTON BOOKSELLER RICHARD WILKINS
by (AMERICAN IMPRINTS, EARLY). (ELIOT, JOHN). MATHER, COTTON
Boston: Printed by Benjamin Harris, and John Allen, for Joseph Brunning at the corner of the Prison-lane, 1691. FIRST EDITION. 151 x 89 mm (5 7/8 x 3 1/2"). 4 p.l., 152 pp. [lacking the four leaves of quire S, containing pp. 129-36, good facsimiles of which accompany the volume]; A CONTEMPORANEOUS ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE BOOKSELLER WILKINS MOUNTED ONTO RECTO OF REAR FLYLEAF, PRESUMABLY AT THE TIME. Contemporary sprinkled sheep, flat spine. Housed in fine modern brown clamshell... Read More
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APERÇU DES ÉTATS-UNIS, AU COMMENCEMENT DU XIXe SIÈCLE, DEPUIS 1800 JUSQU'EN 1810, AVEC DES TABLES STATISTIQUES
by (AMERICANA). BEAUJOUR, FELIX DE
Paris: L. G. Michaud, [and] Delaunay, 1814. FIRST EDITION. 203 x128 mm. (8 x 5 1/4"). 274 pp. Excellent contemporary sheep-backed paper boards, flat spine attractively gilt in compartments featuring starburst ornaments, festoons, and fields of stars, red morocco label. Folding map (bound in upside-down) and 17 tables, all but one of them folding. Sabin 4172; Howes B-288. ◆Very slight rubbing to spine, half title a little soiled, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, VERY BRIGHT AND CLEAN, AND... Read More
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AMERICAN STATESMEN
by (AMERICAN STATESMEN). (BINDINGS - SETS). MORSE, JOHN T. Editor
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-17. Second Series. Limited Large Paper Edition. No. 148 OF 500 COPIES. 220 x 125 mm. (9 5/8 x 9 3/4"). Eight volumes.. HANDSOME DEEP BURGUNDY MOROCCO by the Riverside Press (ink stamp on versos of flyleaves), covers with double gilt-ruled panel with gilt flowers and swirling vines at each corner, raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments tooled in gilt and with gilt lettering, FULL MOSS-GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES framed in burgundy morocco, each... Read More
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A TRUE PICTURE OF EMIGRATION; OR FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA; BEING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES AND ULTIMATE SUCCESS OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY WHO EMIGRATED FROM BARWICK-IN-ELMET, NEAR LEEDS, IN THE YEAR 1831
by (AMERICANA - 19TH CENTURY ILLINOIS HOMESTEADING). [BURLEND, REBECCA]
London: G. Berger, [1848]. FIRST EDITION. 180 x 110 mm. (7 x 4 1/4"). [2]-62 pp., [6] blank leaves. The original printed paper wrappers bound in early 20th century green crushed half calf over marbled paper boards, monogrammed "F. O. L." in gilt on leather corner at lower right of upper board, raised bands, spine compartments gilt with floral sprig, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Engraved bookplate of Frank O. Lowden on front pastedown. Howes B-992; Sabin 97133. Spine... Read More
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THE AMERICAN MILITARY POCKET ATLAS
by (AMERICAN REVOLUTION). (ATLASES - AMERICAN). SAYER, ROBERT and JOHN BENNET
London: Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennet, 1776. First Collected Edition, Second Issue. 220 x 145 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 3/4"). 1 p.l., [v]-viii pp., [1] leaf, followed by maps. Contemporary marbled paper boards backed with calf, raised bands, spine gilt ruled, green morocco label. WITH SIX FOLDING MAPS (as called for), hand colored in outline. Armorial bookplate of "Henricus Liber Baro de Gudenus" on the front pastedown. Maps numbered along the reverse in a contemporary... Read More
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THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSETT. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED
by (AMERICANA - AARON BURR CONSPIRACY). SAFFORD, WILLIAM H.
Chillicothe, Ohio: Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850. FIRST EDITION. 197 x 120 mm. (7 3/4 x 4 3/4"). 239, [1] pp. Publisher's deep brown blind-stamped cloth, upper cover gilt-stamped with Blennerhassett's coat of arms, smooth spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece depicting Blennerhassett's mansion. Howes S-13; Sabin 74878. Head of spine slightly bumped, corners a little rubbed, minute loss to front joint, frontispiece lightly mottled, but all these imperfections trivial--A VERY FINE COPY, the cloth especially clean... Read More
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FIVE ODES OF ANACREON
by (BINDINGS - ALISON MARTIN). (TERN PRESS). ANACREON
[Market Drayton, England]: Tern Press, 1985. No. 9 OF 75 COPIES, signed by the artist. 260 x 270 mm. (10 1/4 x 10 1/2"). [6] leaves.Translated into English by Thomas Moore. DYNAMIC DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ALISON MARTIN, five wavy lines of inlaid morocco in yellow, orange, tan, beige, and brown emanating from a section near the mid-fore edge of the front cover and radiating out and around the smooth spine, three of the lines terminating on... Read More
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![[In Greek:] ANAKREONTOS TÊIOU MELÊ [then:] ANACREONTIS TEII ODARIA. [i.e., THE ODES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/412/112/457112412.4.l.jpg)
[In Greek:] ANAKREONTOS TÊIOU MELÊ [then:] ANACREONTIS TEII ODARIA. [i.e., THE ODES]
by (BODONI IMPRINT). ANACREON
Parmae: Ex Regio Typographeio, [1785]. ONE OF 50 COPIES ON FINE PAPER (of a total of 310 copies). 308 x 216 mm. (12 1/8 x 8 1/2"). 2 p.l., xciv, 100 pp., [1] leaf. VERY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY CRIMSON STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, spine beautifully gilt in compartments between green stylized pentaglyph and metope strips flanked by double raised bands, the plain-ruled compartments densely stippled with gold dots surrounding a small central medallion from which emanate a number of wavy vines... Read More
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![[Title in Greek, then:] ANACREONTIS TEIJ ODAE. [bound with] ANACREONTIS TEIJ ODAE LATINAE FACTAE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/973/770/1361770973.0.l.0.jpg)
[Title in Greek, then:] ANACREONTIS TEIJ ODAE. [bound with] ANACREONTIS TEIJ ODAE LATINAE FACTAE
by (ESTIENNE IMPRINT). ANACREON
Lutetiae [Paris]: Apud Henricum Stephanum, 1554; Paris: Apud Thomam Richardum, 1555. First work: EDITIO PRINCEPS; Second Work: First Complete Latin Translation. 198 x 135 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/4"). 4 p.l., 110 pp., [1] leaf (blank); 24 leaves. Two separately published works in one volume. First work: Translated and edited, with notes and commentary, by Henri Estienne. Second work: Translated by Helias Andreas [Élie André]. Fine retrospective reddish-brown goatskin in the style of the period, French fillet... Read More
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MUSEUM ANATOMICUM ACADAMIAE LUGDUNO-BATAVAE
by (ANATOMY - 18TH CENTURY, BIRTH DEFECTS). SANDIFORT, EDUARD. and GERARD SANDIFORT
Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden]: S. & J. Luchtmans, 1793, 1827, 1835. FIRST EDITION, A COMPLETE SET. 525 x 350 mm. (20 3/4 x 14"). Four volumes.. First two volumes in contemporary cat's paw calf, volumes III and IV in contemporary flamed calf, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with central fleuron, one red and one black morocco label. WITH 206 ENGRAVED ANATOMICAL PLATES, all with guards. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Harvard Medical School Library; library shelf markings in... Read More
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THESAURUS ANATOMICUS -- ANATOMISCH CABINET
by (ANATOMY - 18TH CENTURY, BIZARRE). RUYSCH, FREDERICK
Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, then Jansson-Waesberg, 1701-14; 1715-16. FIRST EDITIONS. 224 x 168 mm. (8 3/4 x 6 1/2"). 4 p.l., 62 pp., [1] leaf (errata); 2 p.l., 98 pp.; 2 p.l., 70 pp.; 1 p.l., 55 pp.; 1 p.l., 54 pp., 2 p.l., 30 pp., [1] leaf, 92 pp., [2] leaves, 44 pp., [4] leaves, 68 pp., [8] leaves, 72 pp., [1] leaf (errata), [12] leaves, 78 pp. 10 parts in one volume.. Contemporary stiff vellum, smooth spine... Read More
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A COMPENDIOUS TREATISE OF ANATOMY, ADAPTED TO THE ARTS OF DESIGNING, PAINTING, AND SCULPTURE: ON EIGHT FOLIO COPPER PLATES
by (ANATOMY - ILLUSTRATIONS). TINNEY, JOHN
London: Printed for Robert Sayer, ca. 1770. 380 x 242 mm. (15 x 9 1/2"). [4] leaves of text, followed by plates. Original gray paper wrappers. WITH EIGHT FINE ENGRAVED PLATES of the male body in various poses, three depicting the skeleton and five the musculature. Russell 816; Wellcome V, p. 273; ESTC N51161. See also Russell, "John Tinney's Compendium Anatomicum and its publishers." Wrapper a bit soiled and foxed, corners torn, with two snags (two-inch and half-inch)... Read More
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ANATOMIA CORPORUM HUMANORUM
by (ANATOMY - ILLUSTRATED IN 18TH CENTURY HOLLAND). COWPER, WILLIAM
Leyden: Johann Arnold Langerak, 1739. First Edition in Latin. 540 x 380 mm. (21 1/4 x 15"). [70] leaves of text.Translated by William Dundass. Original red quarter vellum over marbled boards, raised bands, UNTRIMMED EDGES. Engraved printer's device on title, large decorative initials and tailpieces, EXTRA ENGRAVED TITLE AND 114 STRIKING PLATES OF ANATOMICAL FIGURES (three folding). Wellcome II, 401; Heirs of Hippocrates 468; Choulant-Frank, pp. 252-3; Russell 213. ◆Vellum on spine rather worn, with three one-and-one-half-inch pieces... Read More
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WITH TEXT FROM MASSES FOR SAINTS' DAYS IN AUGUST
by AN EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A SACRAMENTARY IN LATIN, WITH A LARGE ROMANESQUE INITIAL
Germany, mid- to late 12th century. 290 x 217 mm. (11 3/8 x 8 1/2"). Single column, 21 lines in an attractive proto-gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, several one-line initials in red, five red initials measuring two to four lines long and with penwork embellishment, A LOVELY SEVEN-LINE WHITE-VINE INITIAL outlined in red and with a pale yellow wash along the edge, the lower half of the ground filled with green wash. Lower margins with notations in... Read More
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TEXT FROM COMMENTARY ON I KINGS (LINES 185-248)
by AN ENGLISH VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF, IN LATIN, FROM PETRUS RIGA'S "AURORA.
England, ca. 1375. 287 x 198 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 3/4). Single column, 32 lines in a small rounded English gothic hand, with rubrics in the margins. Rubrics in red, running title in red, paragraph marks in red or blue, two initials measuring two lines in height and colored blue with red penwork. See: P. E. Beichner, "Aurora, Petri Rigae Biblia Versificata, A Verse Commentary on the Bible." ◆Remnants of mounting tape in top margin of recto,... Read More
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I SHALL NOT BE MOVED
by ANGELOU, MAYA
New York: Random House, 1990. FIRST EDITION. 220 x 130 mm. (8 5/8 x 5 1/4"). x, 48 pp., [1] leaf. Publisher's purple paper boards, backed with navy blue buckram, cover and spine lettered in copper foil. In original dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title: "Pamela, Joy! Maya Angelou." Leaves faintly browned at edges because of paper stock, otherwise a fine copy in a fine jacket. This is a well-preserved, joyfully inscribed copy... Read More
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WITH A BORDER BEARING THE INSCRIPTION "VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN ETERNUM.
by AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM LEAF WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE DEPICTING THE HARROWING OF HELL, AFTER ALBRECHT DÜRER
Germany, ca. 1540. 183 x 133 mm. (7 1/8 x 5 1/4"). WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE DEPICTING THE HARROWING OF HELL, featuring a naked Adam and Eve on the left, and on the right Christ bending down to rescue John the Baptist, the figures framed by a stone archway supporting a hairy creature who aims the point of a spear directly at Adam and Eve, the miniature in a thin brown frame with gilt lines, surrounded on two... Read More
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TEXT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
by AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM CALENDAR LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, DEPICTING LABOR OF THE MONTH AND ZODIAC SIGN
Paris, ca. 1460. 195 x 143 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). Single column, 16 lines in a gothic book hand. Minor feast days in red and blue, major feasts in gold, numerous gold and painted line fillers, the five "A" initials and the "KL" highly decorative and painted pink and blue against a gold background, gold and pink bar surrounding the text on three sides, BOTH SIDES OF THE LEAF WITH EXTRAVAGANTLY DECORATIVE BOTANICAL FULL BORDERS with... Read More
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