New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original blue cloth; 175 pp., profusely illustrated. All 151 pages of the 15th century illuminated manuscript are reproduced in full-color with English translation printed alongside. The superb manuscript, created for a member of the Medici family of Florence was... More
(Bale, Switzerland: Editions Holbein, nd). Limited Edition Facsimile of the circa 1647 Paris edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio, 13 x 16.5 inches, pale blue boards, 61 leaves, full-page portrait engraving of the author, jacket. Edition of 500 regular copies and 50 on special paper, this one of the regular copies. OCLC... More
Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, (2006). First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, folio, pictorial boards, 287; 149 pp., full-color reproductions of the original circa-1450 manuscript throughout. Text in Danish and German (ms text is German) with English-language introduction at end of second volume. First publication of this medieval manuscript from the University of... More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. Decorative sewn wrappers, 10 x 6.5 inches, unpaginated; frontispiece with captioned tissue guard and [10] pp text followed by 13 full-page reproductions each with facing page of descriptive text on doubled leaves. Spine foot bumped, covers slightly faded, else near fine... More
NY: George Braziller, n.d. Hardcover. 208 pp., full-page color reproduction throughout, folio (15.75 x 12.25 inches), natural linen cloth over boards. Beautiful reproductions from the circa 1300 manuscript book that is one of the treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library. More
London: Scolar Press, 1976. First edition thus. Hardcover. unpaginated (about 200 pp), quarto, natural linen spine with title and spine ornament stamped in black, decorative boards. Facsimiles of 8 Crawhall chap-books, originally issued both separately and as a bound volume, uncolored, this volume reproduces in facsimile an 1883 edition of... More
London: Eugrammia Press, 1964. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1 volume facsimile and accompanying text volume with introduction and notes on Durer's wood engravings by Erwin Panofsky. Large folios (16.75 x 12 inches), collotype facsimile in black leatherette and gilt turquoise cloth, 15 full-page woodcuts with facing pages of black-letter text; 8-page... More
New York: Abaris Books, 1974. First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto red leatherette and vellum boards; [7], 344 pp. (313 pages of facsimile), slipcase. Crease to upper corner of front free endpaper, else fine in moderately worn slipcase. Reproduction of the printed book of hours of the Emperor Maximillian I with... More
Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. Both volumes quarto, vellum spines and gray boards, facsimile volume [40] pages printed in colors; commentary volume 64 pp, illustrated. Text in German, with 8-page English summary "The chiro-xylographic Antichrist and the Fifteen Signs" laid in loose. Small spot to spine of both... More
Konstanz, Bodensee: Jan Thorbecke, (1960). First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto, vellum spine and beige boards; [113] pp. Separate 4-page pamphlet "Eine Freiburger Bilderbibel" laid in. Small spot on front board, else fine in fine pictorial jacket. The Pierpont Morgan ms is reproduced in 2-color facsimile, the Freiburg ms is in... More
London: Facsimile Editions Publishers, [1989]. Loose_leaf. Individual double-sided leaf, 20.5 x 15.8 cm, "float mounted on acid free board set in a double mount with a gold infill and hand drawn fold key lines." Recto of leaf has 2 miniature paintings set in gold borders, a painted vignette in the... More
Koln: Taschen, 2003. Hardcover. folio, color pictorial cloth; 415 pp., profusely illustrated with color reproductions from medieval illuminated bibles. Beautifully presented study of medieval illuminated bibles with many fine reproductions from the collection of the Austrian National Library. More
Menston & London: Scolar Press, 1973. Second printing thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. 173; 155 pp.; both volumes profusely illustrated. Minor scuffing to covers, crease to rear free endpaper, else very good in price-clipped, moderately edgworn jacket. Facsimile reproductions of the 1727 first edition of the first volume and 1738 first edition of the second volume. More
[Leipzig: Otto Harrasowitz, 1940]. Facsimile. Folio, vellum spine and cream boards; [28] pp., 1 full-page illustration, text printed in black, red, and blue, with many decorative initial letters. Slight wear to covers, about fine. Diesen von Fust und Schöffer mit Typen Gutenbergs in drei Farben gedruckten Canon missae hat die... More
Koln: Taschen, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, folios; facsimile volume approx. 250 pages, pictorial cloth; companion volume, 88 pp., pictorial wrappers. More
Weiler im Allgau: Druckerei Holzer for Editions Medicina Rara, n.d. Facsimile of the 1495 edition. Hardcover. Quarto, black leather spine and blue paper over boards; [80] pp., illustrated. Rubbing and nick to spine, else very good, in lightly soiled slipcase. Facsimile of the 1495 Venice edition published by Joannem &... More
Dusseldorf: VDI Verlag, 1967. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, quarto, vellum spines and paper covered boards; facsimile volume 140 leaves reproduced in photo-lithographic facsimile, many in color; text volume 107 pp. Light wear to covers, but overall very good. Lacking slipcase. Facsimile of the 15th century manuscript of military and... More
Munich: Prestel, nd. Hardcover. folio, color pictorial cloth; 304 pp., 120 facsimile reproductions of the original illustrations (in slightly reduced format), many other illustrations in the text. No slipcase. Superb reproductions of 120 of the 1300 flower portraits by Matthias Schumtzer of the flowers in the Austrian Imperial Gardnens. Commissioned... More
Baden-Baden: Woldemar Klein Verlag, (1953). First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13.75 x 10 inches, 35 x 25 cm), grey cloth and boards with gilt titles; (16) pp. introduction, 18 full-page color facsimiles from medieval manuscripts, each with facing page of descriptive text. Sight fading to edges of boards, else fine in... More
n.p. n.p. no date (circa 1960). Loose_leaf. Irregular papyrus sheet 10 x 4-5 inches, printed with 24 lines of Hebrew characters, in plexiglass box frame with separate printed sheet with English translation. Facsimile of the circa 2nd century BCE papyrus fragment containing the Decalogue (Ten Commandments) in Hebrew. More
Paris: Editions Ozalid e Textes Cardinaux / Bibliotheque Nationale, 1990. Revised edition. Hardcover. folio, black cloth; 361pp., illustrated with 117 color plates, 21 text figures. Small stain to front fixed endpaper, else very good in pictorial jacket with fading to jacket spine, no previous owner markings. Reproductions of the illustrations... More
Paris: Philippe Lebaud / Edition du Felin, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13.25 x 9 inches, 34 x 23 cm), original green cloth; (329) pp., including the complete color facsimile of the Tacuinum Sanitatis in Medicina (about 200 pages), followed by a translation of the Latin text to French. Fine... More
Zurich: Bibliophile Druck, 1970. Facsimile. Hardcover. Quarto, gray decorative cloth boards; [15] pp., 93 leaves, colophon. Facsimile of the 1486 Conrad Dinckmut edition published at Ulm in 1486. Terence's comedy was written in 161 BCE. More
Koln: Taschen, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. Folio, pictorial boards, 494 pp., profusely illustrated with color reproductions from the originals at the university library at Tubingen. More
NY: Landmark Press, (1979). Facsimile edition. Hardcover. [4], [20] pp.; 286 fl, double page map at rear, profusely illustrated; folio (14 x 10 inches), dark green leatherette with inset black and gilt cover title, slipcase. A fine reproduction of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Text in German. More