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INCUNABULA
GALLERY
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incunabula - "early
printed books; early works recorded in permanent form (or semipermanent
form)"
incunabula - "swaddling
clothes / infancy, birthplace / source, origin."
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Reliure
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Bible III
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Grolieresque
Landscape Annual $380
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Tooled &
inlaid in example of 15th century motif.
FRENCH
GROLIERESQUE
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Gravely
tooled in blind with some gold accent create 16th century motif on this
restored family bible.
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Evocative of the
Entrelac style preferred by Jean Grolier, the first great modern book
collector.
FRENCH
GROLIERESQUE
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Bible II
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Harvey
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Nobility Patent
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Elaborately
cross-hatched gold tools & lines in 15th century motif. |
Multiple lines as
borders, gold tooling on covers in 17th century motif.
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Save Venice
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Variola
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Regimen
Sanitate
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"A
Survay of
the Signorie of Venice" by James Howell. 1651. An original
interpretation adhering to venetian designs and motifs of the
period.
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"Variola
Vaccinae" 1550
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Ornately
gold and blind tooled, elaborate borders,highly decorated spine in 15th
century motif.
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History of the Holy Warres
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The Human Gravid Uterus
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Josephus
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Featuring the arms of Cardinal Mancini who it is
rumored introduced Louis XIVth to his frist girlfriend.
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"The
Human Gravid Uterus" Blue polished calf tooled in gold and blind.With
an appropiate box-like design on the cover.
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Stamped
in blind with antique corner hardware.
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History of Venice
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The Compleat Angler
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The
Adventures of Ian Bruce Eichner
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Featuring
the lion of Saint Mark. |
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Myrrour of the Worlde
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Ralegh's Historie of the
World
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The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer
1532
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| This folding box contains a rare,
1527, 3rd Edition of "Myrrour of the Worlde",
translated by William Caxton. First printed in 1482, it is the first
science book printed in English, as well as the first illustrated book
printed in English. |
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An extremely popular 17th century
history of the World, reprinted many times. It was written by Sir
Walter while he was in the tower, awaiting execution.
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The
extremely rare first collected edition of Chaucer's works. There are
only a few extant copies anyplace in the world. This one has been bound
in an antique brown calf with a blind tooled diamond shaped motif on
the cover and intricate blind tooling on the spine with a red spine
label. |
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The Historie of Guicciarden
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Cooper's
Chronicles
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Chaucer's Workes 1550
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| History of Italy by the secretary to the
Medicis, featuring the Medici family crest. |
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The Chronicle,
by Thomas Cooper, a second edition from 1565. It is a delightful tome
that perpetuates the myth that America was first discovered by
Amerigo Vespuci, and thereafter by Columbus, and that the printing
press was invented by Johanne Fust. |
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An
undated edition believed to be printed c.1550. Possibly a third or
fourth edition of the collected works (some dispute among the experts
in this regard) It too is extremely rare. featuring a blind tooled
perimeter line with a black calf diamond shaped inlay on the cover and
a handsomely blind-tooled spine. |
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