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Itinerarium Benjaminis.
This is a very small format volume, front board measures 95 millimeter high and 50 mm wide, uniform ...
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Scherzi poetici e pittorici.
61 scherzi plus 40 plates, partly printed on lightly tinted paper, xii 181p, 224p small marbled ...
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£880.00
The Chester Beatty Library: A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts. Eight Volumes Complete Set.
eight large volume in burgundy cloth, many plates threoughout, bindings are tight and clean, there ...
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£600.00
Trésor de Livres Rares et Précieux ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique. First Edition.
eight very large volumes bound in plain black cloth with period title label to spine, 1950ies (?) ...
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Bewick Memento: Catalogue with Purchasers' Names and Prices Realised of the Scarce and Curious Collection of Books, Silver Plate, Prints, Pictures, Wood Blocks, Copper Plates, and Bewick Relics, etc., Sold by Auction at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1884.
large format hardback, half cloth with decorative title label to front, iv 13p, iv 40p, two ...
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A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch, his Young Body-Guard and the Valiant Merchant Kalashnikov. With Decorations by Paul Nash. Translated by John Cournos.
24p v large format, full morocco binding designed by Paul Nash, black and white inlays and blind ...
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Crawhall’s Chap-Book Chaplets.
242p large format original hardback with illustrated boards, spine with slanted lettering, 8 parts ...
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£360.00
Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions. Oriental Series.
One very very large and very heavy volume (8 kilos), 50cm tall, bound half morocco, black boards, ...
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£360.00
Park: A Fantastic Story.
128p paper-covered grey boards, red cloth spine lettered gilt (still bright), engraved ...
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Twenty-Five Poems.
Peacock green silk with Bloomfield's gilt swan motif to front board, very well preserved and ...
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Miniatura Fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440 - 1525: Un Primo Censimento. Volume 1: Le Immagini, Gli Autori, I Destinari. Volume 2: Illustrazioni.
xv 600p 699 plates, two very large and very heavy paperback volumes, brown paperback with ...
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Voltaire: Juifs. A cura di Ulisse Jacomuzzi. Con un Saggio di Sergio Minerbi.
83p large format paperback, grey card cover, printed Stamperia Valdonega in Baskerville type ...
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£240.00
A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood. Seventh Printing.
x 528p in a full calf binding which has seen spine hinges repaired approx 1920ies, inner hinges ...
£240.00
£240.00
Bewick Memento: Catalogue with Purchasers' Names and Prices Realised of the Scarce and Curious Collection of Books, Silver Plate, Prints, Pictures, Wood Blocks, Copper Plates, and Bewick Relics, etc., Sold by Auction at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1884.
large format hardback, original full grey cloth with lettering to spine, iv 13p, iv 40p, ...
£240.00
£240.00
Nordisk Exlibris Tidsskrift. Number 169 - 210.
this is a collection of 26 issues of this journal, many issued as double numbers, many contain ...
£240.00
£240.00
Olde Ffrendes wyth Newe Faces. Adorn'd with Sutable Sculptures.
approx 240p colour illustrated throughout, printed on variously tinted paper, paper covered boards ...
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£216.00
Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Polwarth Formerly Preserved in Mertoun House, Berwickshire. Ed. Henry Paton. (Historical Manuscripts Commission).
5 volumes bound in cloth, one volume with dustjacket, a very good copy from a Cambridge college ...
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Rules how to Compose. A Facsimile edition of a manuscript from the library of the Earl of Bridgewater (circa 1600) now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, with an introduction by Manfred Bukofzer.
large formant paperback, folio size, 20p in two columns, partly un-cut, plus 40 leaves facsimile of ...
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£180.00
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Volumen Primum - Quintum. Plus many later issues.
5 "volumen" bound in one blue cloth volume, approx 600p, folding plates in the back, library ...
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£166.00
Wolffgang Fugger's Handwriting Manual Entitled A Practical and Well-Grounded Formulary for Divers Fair Hands. Compiled by Wolffgang Fugger, Citizen of Nuremburg, 1553.
oblong hardback, paper covered boards with gilt design to front, spine a hint dull only, book in ...
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£160.00
Die datierten Handschriften der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek von 1451 - 1500. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Tafeln.
248p 420p two very large hardback volumes, white dustjackets present, a clean and tight set without ...
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£160.00
Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale. TOME 3.
viii 529p folio sized hardback, faint green paper covered boards, corners rubbed and dented, spine ...
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£140.00
Griechische Papyrusurkunden der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.
x 268p plus 14 plates, large format, plain cloth binding, hardback, bookplate, excellent clean copy ...
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£140.00
Griechische Urkunden der Papyrussammlung zu Leipzig.
xii 380p plus 2 plates, one folding, large format, plain cloth binding, hardback, bookplate, ...
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Zenon Papyri. Business Papers of the Third Century BC Dealing with Palestine and Egypt.
x 177p large format, black cloth fresh, binding tight and firm, plates, very clean copy, Rouse ...
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Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, to the End of the Reign of Henry VII. Three Volumes in Four Parts Complete.
four volumes rebound in plain burgundy library cloth dated 1970ies, library bookplate, a tight and ...
£124.00
Scripting the Mind: Automatic Writing in France, 1857 - 1930. PhD Dissertation Cambridge.
ix 159p large format hardback, green cloth with gilt lettering and university arms to front, tight ...
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£120.00
A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood. Seventh Printing.
x 528p in a defective full calf binding which has seen a crude attempt at repairing the binding, ...
£120.00
£120.00
Catálogo de los Impresos del Siglo XVI de la Biblioteca Pública del Estado en Toledo. Volumen VI: PA - SN.
555p large format hardback, green cloth bright, elaborate gilt décor to front fresh, as new, never ...
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£120.00
Corpus Codicum Norvegicorum Medii Aevi. Quarto Serie, Vol 2: Legendarisk Olavssaga.
large folio volume, half morocco binding with red spine, red morocco medallion with gilt arms inset ...
£120.00
£120.00
Die datierten Handschriften der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek von 1501 - 1600. Teil 1: Text. Teil 2: Tafeln.
257p 484p two very large paperback volumes, white dustjackets present, a clean and tight set ...
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£120.00
'E laike epigrafe sten 'Ellada.
400p large format, cloth binding firm, dustjacket repaired with black cloth spine, colour plates ...
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Human Passion Delineated. An Exploration of the Work of Tim Bobbin.
37p hardback with private white paper jacket, illustrated throughout, limited edition of 120 ...
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£120.00
Istorija Srpske Cirilice: Paleografsko-filoloski Prilozi.
533p large format hardback, dustjacket present with small flaws, illustrated throughout with ...
£120.00
£120.00
J B Tolkien, Music Seller, Birmingham.
this is a bookseller label, 40 x 23 mm, printin in blue, reading "J B Tolkien, Music Seller, ...
£120.00
£120.00
Le Mont Athos et l'Empire Byzantin. Trésors de la Sainte Montagne.
318p large black hardback, excellent condition, very well preserved copy, lavishly illustrated in ...
£120.00
£120.00
Manuel d'Épigraphie Akkadienne. Third Edition.
326p large hardback, white cloth with grey spine, good condition, light wear commensurate with age, ...
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£120.00
Manuscrits Enluminés de Dijon.
xv 388p large format hardback, taller than A4, black illustrated dustjacket present, colour ...
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Pour une Histoire du Livre Manuscrit au Moyen-Âge.
361p purple paperback, large format, inscribed by both editiors, card cover with faint creases, ...
£120.00
£120.00
The Bible of the Poor Biblia Pauperum: A Facsimile and Edition of the British Library Blockbook C.9 D.2.
ix 190p large format hardback, burgundy cloth with gilt décor to front, contains facsimile ...
£120.00
£120.00
The Burdett Coutts Library. Catalogue of the Valuable Library the Property of the late Baroness Burdett Coutts.
110p green paperback catalogue, card cover aged and fingered, colour plate and facsimiles, very ...
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£120.00
The Makings of the Medieval Hebrew Book: Studies in Palaeography and Codicology.
283p large format hardback, laminated boards with colour illustrations, excellent fresh copy, first ...
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The Passion of our Lord.
[59]p original light blue cloth, rubbed to edges and small tear to spine, woodcut to title of each ...
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American Journalism. A History of Newspapers in the United States through 250 years: 1690 - 1940. Volume I.
ix 407p hardback, dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, like new condition, minimal wear, ...
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£100.00
Grenfell Press: Collection of Prospectus and Announcements and Catalogue.
Collected in large somewhat soiled oversized Grenfell envelope a collection of press samples/ ...
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£100.00
Olde Tayles Newlye Relayted: Enryched with all ye Ancyene Embellyshmentes.
approx 460p, pagination varies, large format hardback, green cloth with black and red lettering and ...
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£98.00
Les Éditions françaises de Jane Austen 1815 - 2007. L'apport de l'historie éditoriale à la compréhension de la réception de l'auteur en France.
573p tan paper-covered boards, excellent condition, as new, still shrinkwrapped, French language
£98.00
£98.00
Subject Index of Modern Books aquired 1946 - 1950, Vols 1 - 4.
complete in 4 volumes, 1869p large format red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, firm binding, clean ...
£98.00
£96.00
Vindolanda: The Latin Writing Tablets.
very large format, light blue cardcover with illustration, excellent copy, traces of shelfmark, no ...
£96.00
£88.00
A Collection of Book Catalogues of Russian Books from the Firm Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague.
issued between 1966 and 1977 in a standard format in light blue paper cover, of which we have 36 ...
£88.00