(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
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. 269 pp., octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title and ornaments, slipcase. Profusely illustrated. A lavishly illustrated study of this Italian15th-century illuminated book of hours - called the greatest of the museum's Italian renaissance manuscripts. This is the volume... More
Bergamo: Istituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche Editore, 1904. First edition thus. Hardcover. 112 pp. text with 15 monochrome illustrations, followed by the facsimile reproduced in collotype on 12 plates (2-sided); quarto, maroon cloth with cover title and ornament in gilt and blind. "The Song of Virtue and Sciences." Extensive study and... More
Portland, OR: Collegium Graphicum, (1972). First edition thus. Paperback. [297] pp., illustrated; octavo, decorative wrappers, slipcase. Facsimile reproduction of the 1564 Venice edition of this detailed manual of applied geometry "The Way of Measuring" 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
London: Nonesuch Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. xii, (163) pp. + [120] pp. facsimile; octavo, blue cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. The entries in the Note-Book date from about 1793 to 1818 and include poems and fragments, memoranda, musings, drawings, sketches, etc. Following Blake's death in 1827 the... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1926. First edition thus. Hardcover. ix, [11] tipped in letters printed in colotype facsimile, most double page, two-sides, each with letterpress caption sheet; small quarto, grey cloth and marbled boards, printed paper title slip on front board. Thomas Butts was a friend and patron... More
Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1970. First edition thus. Large quarto, red cloth, about 550 pp. Complete facsimile reprint of the 1509 edition. STC No. 3545. From the publisher's series The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile. Number 229. 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
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
Basle: Henning Oppermann, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vos, brown laid paper over boards, paper spine labels, slipcase. Vol. 1 (facsimile): [88] leaves reproduced in color facsimile, colophon; Vol. 2: xv, 87 pp., illustrated. Handsome facsimile of the unique copy, illustrated by Holbein, of Erasmus' timeless satire on tyranny... 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
Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 412 pp., small octavo, original mustard-brown cloth, slipcase. Profusely illustrated. The "Model Book of Calligraphy" written in 1561-61 by Georg Bocskay for Emperor Ferdinand Hapsburg I and illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel 30 years later was acquired by the Getty Museum... More
Ithica: Cornell University Press, (1987). First edition. Hardcover. (x), 178 pp., 21 illustrations in the text, 40 facsimile pages; quarto, original brown cloth, jacket. Facsimile of a circa 1460 woodcut Biblia Pauperum together with a detailed analysis of this complicated medieval book. As explained on the front jacket flap, "The... More
![GRACE AFTER MEALS and Other Bededictions (sic, i.e. Benedictions) : Facsimile of Cod. Hebr. XXXII in the Royal Library, Copenhagen. Introduction by Iris Fishof. [Cover title of "Introduction" volume: SEDER BIRKAT HAMAZON (Cod. Hebr. XXXII)]. Iris Fishof.](/pictures/thumb/22120.jpg?v=1510957840)
Copenhagen: (Forlaget Old Manuscripts), 1983. Third edition. 2 volumes, 16mo (12 x 8. cm); introduction volume cream printed wrappers, 58 pp., illustrated; facsimile volume blindstamped red morocco, all edges gilt, [40] pp. printed in colors. Slipcase. Publisher's foreword recounts the publication of the first facsimile edition in 1969 of this... 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