Livre de Job mis en vers français.
by Bible. Book of Job. Latin and French.
Manuscript on paper, bound., [19th century?]. Good. Octavo (18 cm); [1], 78 leaves, paginated in manuscript. Latin and French text on facing pages. Bound in waste vellum manuscript in French, no longer easily legible. Pages thumbed and toned at edges. Interlinear corrections in text, as well as tipped in overleavers with corrected text. All we know of this manuscript book derives from examination of the physical evidence. The text does not correspond to any known French verse translation... Read More
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Das Hohelied von Salomo
by Bible. Canticum canticorum; Hermann Alfred Sigg (Illustrator).
Zurich: Arta, 1968. #70 of 200 copies signed by the artist.. Very Good. 34 cm; 70, [10] pages (last five blank). Text of the Song of Songs in German. Illustrated throughout with original lithographs by Sigg printed from stone by Emil Mathieu. Printed on hand-made paper (by Richard de Bas, watermarked "Arta"). Pages loose in portfolio as issued, and preserved in laid paper chemise. Remains of original slipcase present but non-functional. Else fine.... Read More
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Genesis:
by Bible. Genesis. Hoffmann, Felix, illustrator.
Frankfurt am Main: Ars librorum Gotthard de Beauclair, 1965. #338 of 475 copies, signed by the artist.. 41 cm; [13] leaves, including nine full-page color woodcuts by Felix Hoffmann printed from original blocks. Bound in pictorial boards in cloth-bound slipcase. About fine.
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Facsimile leaf of Gutenberg Bible.
by Bible. Latin. Facsimile leaf.
[Mainz]: The Gutenberg Museum, 1967. 1 leaf, 42 lines in two columns, decorated initial D with vine scroll. End of "Song of Songs," beginning of "Book of Wisdom." Mounted in black paper. Facsimile of original in the Gutenberg Museum of Mainz, printed for sale at the German Pavilion at Expo '67, the world's fair held at Montreal that year.
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Decorated leaf from a Book of Hours
by Bible. Psalms. Latin.
ca. 1550. One vellum leaf, 125 x 180 mm, with text within 80 x 95 mm guidelines. Text in manuscript recto and verso including eight capitals decorated in gold leaf and colors, and six spacers also decorated in blue, red, and gold leaf. Chapter incipit in red.
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Lega Culture:
by Biebuyck, Daniel.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 26 cm; xxiii, 268 pages. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 110 half-tone figures. Original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket. Fine but for some slight fraying at edges of dust jacket. On the Lega people of the Congo. Uncommon and desirable.
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Dal Muratori al Cesarotti, tomo IV : Critici e storici della poesia e delle arti nel secondo Settecento.
by Bigi, Emilio, ed.
Milan and Naples: Riccardo Ricciardi, 1960. Very Good. 23 cm; xxii, 1180 pages. Cloth in dust jacket, preserved in publisher's pasteboard slipcase. Silk signet. Dampstains on dust jacket spine; typewritten list of represented authors pasted to spine. Pencil marks on dust jacket. Text unblemished. Anthology of later 18th century Italian literary criticism, with selections from Cesarotti, Tiraboschi, Signorelli, Napione and others. Number 44 in the Ricciardi "Storia e testi"... Read More
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History of Ancient Pottery.
by Birch, Samuel.
London: John Murray, 1858. First edition. Good. 2 volumes octavo (24 cm); xii, [2], 415; xii, [2], 437, [2] ads; color lithograph frontispieces, wood engraved figures on title pages, and frequently in text, and 10 lithograph plates (9 colored). In original gilt-stamped maroon cloth by Edmonds and Remnant, a bit mottled. Old cello-tape removal marks on pastedowns, evidence of erstwhile mylar jackets. Owner's blindstamp on title pages. Ownership inscription on front blank. Lower... Read More
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The history of the college library.
by Birley, Robert; The Eton College Collections.
Eton: For the Provost and Fellows, 1970. Original edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 81 pages. Blue printed wraps. Discolored along spine edge. Else fine.
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Introduzione alla volgar poesia.
by Bisso, Giambatista (1712-1787).
Venice: Presso G. Orlandeli, 1791. 4. ed. molto migliorata, ed accresciuta dall'autore, spezialmente d'un nuovo libro della poesia teatrale antica e moderna.. Contemporary vellum over boards. Very Good. 19cm; xvi, 271 pages. Woodcut ornaments. Few spots. An eighteenth-century "ars poetica" for Italian writers, including detailed analyses of prosody, rhyme, tropes, and even a prophetic chapter on "dialogism." This edition was expanded to include a discourse on dramatic poetry. Appended is a dictionary of iconology and... Read More
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Luxor & its temples.
by Blackman, Aylward M.
London: A. and C. Black, 1923. First edition. Very Good. 21 cm; xi, 200 pages, and XXIV full-page sepia-tinted lithograph plates by Benton Fletcher. Fifty wood-engraved illustrations in-text (including map), some of them full-page. Bound in original cloth. Lacks dust jacket. Owner's inscription on front blank. Very good condition.
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The temple of Dendur.
by Blackman, Aylward M.
Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1911. First edition. Very Good. 36 cm; 109 pages, color lithograph frontispiece and 120 plates including photogravures, figures and plans. Bound in recent blue cloth over sturdy boards.
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Blackwell's Centenary Antiquarian Catalogue.
by Blackwell, Basil .
Oxford: Blackwell's, 1979. Inscribed.. Very Good. 24 cm; 135 pages, illustrated. 236 entries. Inscribed in ink on half title, dated 23 August 1979. Typed letter of thanks to bibliographer Janet Jurist, dated 29 July 1979, laid in, with gift card "With the compliments of Basil Blackwell..." FInal two leaves dog-eared at lower corner.
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The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, ... Bacqueville de la Potherie, ... Morrell Marston, ... and Thomas Forsyth.
by Blair, Emma H., ed. and trans.
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1911-12. First edition. Fair. 2 volumes. 23 cm; 372; 412 pages, including illustrations. Lacks folding map frontispiece in volume 1, supplied in facsimile. Rebound in red buckram. Light but pervasive damp mark through first 50 pages of volume 1. Remains of old library blindstamp on title pages and on one text page, with archival tissue paper repairs. Lower margin excised from prelimary leaf (table of contents) in... Read More
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Early British Travellers in French Canada.
by Blanar, Michael.
Montreal: Faculty of Letters, University of Montreal, 1960. Cloth. Very Good. 28cm. Carbon copy of unpublished Ph.D. thesis, typed on University of Montreal stock, illustrated with original photographs and photostats. Inscribed by the author, with ALs laid in. Endorsed in ink by appropriate faculty members. The dissertation is a valuable source on the early exploration of North America. The author went on to the English faculty at Loyola College, devoting his career to pedagogy in place of research.... Read More
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Dance of Death.
by Blocker, Mare.
Ames Lake: M Kimberly Press, 1991. Signed, limited, first edition.
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De politiekapel van Suriname / The police band of Suriname.
by Blockland, Sara.
Amsterdam: Van Zoetendaal, 2010. First edition. Hard cover. As New. 30 cm; about [135] pages, chiefly color photo illustrations with captions in Dutch and English. Introductory remarks (by André Loor) in Dutch and English. Bound in cushioned faux leather, stamped in silver. From the introduction: The police band in Suriname cannot pride itself on being the oldest band in Suriname, nor even that it is very old, but it can take pride in having... Read More
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L'Oeuvre de Léon Blum: Réparations et désarmement, Les problèmes de la paix, La Montée des fascismes, 1928-1934.
by Blum, Léon (1872-1950).
Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1972. Good. 23 cm; 709 pages, and frontispiece portrait. Bound in original wraps, printed in red and black. Upper wrap detached but present. Perforation stamp on lower wrap. Unopened. Contents in fine condition. The volume of Leon's Blum's works covering the rise of fascism in Europe.
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Nimfale fiesolano [sic],
by Boccaccio, Giovanni.
Londra [but Paris]: Gian Claudio Molini, 1778. Very Good. iv, 160 pages, and engraved title page (after Marillier). In mottled calf, rebacked in the twentieth century with original spine. Gilt triple fillets on both boards; remains of gilt decoration on spine. Gilt turn-ins, endleaves marbled in spirals. Gilt edges. Nice edition. Gamba, 227 Boccaccio wrote this pastoral tale in the mid 1340s, just as he began work on the Decameron (where... Read More
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L'elegia di Madonna Fiammetta,
by Boccaccio, Giovanni ; Vincenzo Pernicone, ed.
Bari: Laterza, 1939. Very Good. 22 cm; 262 pages. Original brown printed wraps. Unopened. Old bookplate on verso of upper wrap; owner's blindstamp on series title page. Pencil notation on upper wrap. Shelf mark applied to spine. Slight tear at upper joint; some slight shelf wear. Published in the Scrittori d'Italia series.
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Atti della solenne coronazione fatta in campidoglio della insigne poetessa Dna. Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez Pistojese tra gli Arcadi Corilla Olimpica.
by [Bodoni, Giambattista]; Maria Maddalena Morelli (in Arcadia Corilla Olimpica, 1727-1800).
Parma: nella Stamperia Reale, 1779. Original edition. Very Good. Quarto (23cm); [4], xii, 296 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece, headpieces and ornaments by Domenico Cagnoni. Text within typographic borders. In old marbled paste-paper titled in manuscript on spine. Edges stained red and blue to match covers. Bookplate of the distinguished publisher Mario Spagnol (d. 1999) and the author Elena Spagnol (d. 2020), A bright, fresh, lovely copy! Reference: Brooks,... Read More
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Orlando innamorato
by Boiardo, Matteo Maria; Francesco Berni.
Venice: Gli eredi di Lucantonio Giunta, 1541. First edition thus. Fine. Quarto (25 cm); 262 leaves. Title page in red and black. Text in italic type in two columns. In 19th-century polished white vellum, border in gilt with small "chain-link" tool. Spine elaborately gold-tooled in scallop pattern, with blue-dyed title compartment and year. Sky-blue pastepaper endleaves. Lengthy bibliographical note in manuscript on front blank. THIS COPY UNIQUELY SOPHISTICATED, possibly at the... Read More
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Saggio di rime ....
by Bombardini, Giuseppe (1781-1867); Bartolommeo Gamba, ed.
Venice: Nella tipografia Picotti, 1810. Only edition. Very Good. Octavo (24 cm); [2], 61, [1] pages. Bound in woodblock-printed polychrome wraps, with the poet's name written in ink along the spine. Only slight abrasions at the head, else about fine. The notable bibliographer Bartolommeo Gamba curated this collection of poems by his neighbor in the town of Bassano del Grappa, Giuseppe Bombardini. Bombardini's day job was in local government, rising finally to the... Read More
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La caccia dell' arcobugio ...
by Bonfadini, Vita.
Bologna and Bassano: Giovanni Antonio Remondini, [1672]. Good. 12mo (15 cm); 96 pages, signed A-D\12. Four full woodcut illustrations, two woodcut tail-pieces. Date from dedication letter. In contemporary vellum over boards, worn, with small cross-shaped laceration on upper board and small abrasion on spine. Utility paper stock has toned, and first and last leaves are not without stains. References: Michel, II, p. 274, #5; Carnelos, "I libri da risma," #56a; "Remondini:... Read More
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Karnak. Ruins de la salle hypostyle, vue de l'intérieur
by Bonfils, Felix.
After 1867. Acceptable. Silver albumen photograph on paper. 275 x 215 mm. Signed and titled in plate. Toned to sepia. Edges a bit chipped in places. Crease across lower right portion of image. Number 149 in the photographer's "Souvenirs d'Orient" series. Felix Bonfils (1831-1885) was an active and prolific pioneer of photography in the Middle East, yet details of his life and work remain obscure. "All we know of Bonfils", said... Read More
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