Books on Book History
Click here to compile your own catalogue by any combination of subject terms.
£24.00
La Morphologie Humaine et la Direction des Écritures.
50p offprint, large format, fainrt green card cover, "un cordial homage" one plate corrected ...
£24.00
£36.00
Collection of 12 Offprints.
approx ten offprints, topics include medieval libraries, library catalogues, study of medieval MS, ...
£36.00
£18.00
The Shephardi Box Binding.
20p offprint, with 8 pages of illustrations in the back, well preserved offprint
£18.00
£24.00
Les Pierres Précieuses et leurs Prix au XVe Siècle en Italie d'après un Manuscrit Hébreu.
20p offprint, with 12 pages of facsimile plates in the back, author inscription, well preserved, ...
£24.00
£26.00
Catalogue of Incunabula in the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana.
xii 80p tall hardback, black cloth with gilt rider design to front, frontispiece, a fresh and clean ...
£26.00
£40.00
The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach.
hardback, dustjacket, shrinkwrapped, new
£40.00
£36.00
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Catalogo sommario dei manoscritti del Fondo Rossi. Sezione Corsiniana.
xlviii 239p plus 14 plates in the back, frontispiece, well preserved copy, largely un-cut, without ...
£36.00
£68.00
Les Heures de Nuremberg.
122p large format, excellent fresh and clean copy, black illustrated dustjacket present, many ...
£68.00
£24.00
Die Benediktregel in Bayern.
80p slim paperback, plates in the back, some in colour, excellent fresh copy, clean and without ...
£24.00
£16.00
Fro Script to Book. A Symposium.
172p paperback with yellow illustrated cover, a fresh and clean copy, very good indeed, includes ...
£16.00
£16.00
The Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection. A Check-List of the Books from the Press of Aldo Pio Manuzio.
viii 27p stapled booklet, with illustrations, excellent
£16.00
£20.00
Vinland's Saga Recalled.
this is a 28 page essay in a single issue of the Yale University library Gazette, well preserved, ...
£20.00
£36.00
The Fifteenth Century Book. The Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators.
195p black cloth firm and tight, a clean copy of the first edition, without name or stamps, very ...
£36.00
£24.00
The Oldest Manuscripts in New Zealand.
xvi 218p original blue cloth firm, light markings from a library, colour frontispiece, very good
£24.00
£16.00
Duke Humfrey and English Humanism in the Fifteenth Century: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
77p grey paperback, many illustrations in the back, very good
£16.00
£68.00
Paläographie 1981: Colloquium des Comité International de Paléographie, München, 15 - 18 September 1981. Referate.
x 270p hardback with white dustjacket (a little worn) 38 plates in the back, colour frontispiece, ...
£68.00
£18.00
Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters.
359p blue paperback, first edition, author inscription, very good indeed
£18.00
£14.00
Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts: A Glossary.
108p hardback, very fresh dustjacket, illustrated throughout, very good vopy of the first edition
£14.00
£15.00
Checklist of Editions of Greek Papyri and Ostraca. (Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists)
36p bright orange card cover, single issue of the Bulletin, very good, inserted some book reviews ...
£15.00
£28.00
Frühe Schrift und Techniken der Wirtschaftsverwaltung im alten Vorderen Orient. Informationsspeicherung und -verarbeitung vor 5000 Jahren.
222p large format paperback, excellent illustrations throughout, related pamphlet inserted, very ...
£28.00
£120.00
Manuscrits Enluminés de Dijon.
xv 388p large format hardback, taller than A4, black illustrated dustjacket present, colour ...
£120.00
£48.00
Records of the Papal Right of Spoil, 1316 - 1412.
vii 254p large format paperback, larger than A4, green paper cover, reproduced from typescript, a ...
£48.00
£26.00
Leonardo da Vinci: Studies for a Nativity and the "Mona Lisa Cartoon," with Drawings after Leonardo from the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana. Exhibition in Honour of Elmer Belt, MD on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Catalogue.
50p oversized paperback, brown card cover, illustrations, excellent copy, "printed by Saul & ...
£26.00
£12.00
Manufacture and Market in Parisian Book Illumination around 1300.
24p offprint, many plates, "with best wishes", two-page letter by the author inserted
£12.00
£14.00
Lichtbildarchiv älterer Originalurkunden bis 1250: Geschichte, Bestände, Benutzung. Stand 1985.
24p slim pamphlet, stapled, red card cover, conference program inserted, very good copy
£14.00
£30.00
Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy.
xxv 264p plys 64 b/w plates, large format paperback, illustrated cover, many plates, very well ...
£30.00
£46.00
Tibetan Calligraphy Copybook Exercise Set (?)
this is a somewhat worn box containing 13 sample plates with Tibetan script, printed in black and ...
£46.00
£12.00
Four Soviet Scholars: T A Bykova + A D Lyublinskaya, M P Alekseev + E Laucevicius: Portraits and a few References.
14p stapled booklet with portraits, bibliography, Butler sonnet (Not on sad Stygian shore…) in ...
£12.00
£32.00
Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in Honour of G P Gooch.
hardback with fresh dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, very little used, if at all, free front ...
£32.00
£36.00
Higashiajia to koraiban daizokyo: shuki tokubetsuten kanren kokusai shinpojiumu: bukkyo daigaku kaigaku hyakushunen kikaku. East Asia and the Koryo Canon.
76p oversized paperback, colour illustrated cover, illustrations in the text, as new
£36.00
£14.00
William Andrews Clark, Jr. His Cultural Legacy. Papers read at a Clark Library Seminar, 7 November 1981.
52p brown wrapper, frontispiece, very good copy, as new
£14.00
£12.00
Homage to Yeats 1865 - 1965.
77p green wrapper, very good, excellent copy, clean and tight
£12.00
£20.00
Some Aspects of Seventeenth Century English Printing with Special Reference to Joseph Moxon.
32p wrapper with green lettering, illustrations, very good, excellent copy
£20.00
£48.00
Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities.
xi 254p hardback, dustjacket, as new, excellent copy, never used, without flaws
£48.00
£12.00
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime.
x 258p blue paperback very fresh, hardly used, very good, later impression
£12.00
£16.00
Forgers and Critics. Creativity and Cuplicity in Western Scholarship.
x 157p hardback with fresh red dustjacket, as new, with illustrations, never used, excellent copy, ...
£16.00
£120.00
Istorija Srpske Cirilice: Paleografsko-filoloski Prilozi.
533p large format hardback, dustjacket present with small flaws, illustrated throughout with ...
£120.00
Bartolomeo Pagello's Panegyric of Pietro Mocenigo: A Unique Recension.
56p large format paperback, brown card cover, colour illustrations of MS throughout, facsimiles ...
£26.00
£10.00
BAPLA Directory.
60p stapled booklet, very good condition, b&w cover, some light wear to corners
£10.00
£8.00
Word Processing and Publishing: Some Guidelines for Authors.
20p stapled pamphlet, blue card cover, very good condition
£8.00
£6.00
The Book Collector. Vol 13, No 3 (1964).
143p numerous advertisements, paperback, binding and pages good condition
£6.00
£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
£120.00
Human Passion Delineated. An Exploration of the Work of Tim Bobbin.
37p hardback with private white paper jacket, illustrated throughout, limited edition of 120 ...
£120.00
£12.00
Catalogue No 15: Illustrated Books. Autumn 1982.
approx 40p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript, 711 titles listed, with index, a ...
£12.00
£12.00
Catalogue No 12: Illustrated Books. Spring 1981.
approx 50p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript, with Bargain Basement, 682 titles ...
£12.00
£12.00
Catalogue No 13: Illustrated Books. Autumn 1981.
approx 60p stapled booklet, some illustrations, from typescript, 466 titles listed, with index, ...
£12.00
£20.00
John Baskerville: Printer and Designer.
This is the issue for July 1952 of the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, cover a little ...
£20.00
£36.00
Arab Paper (1887). Translated by Don Baker and Suzy Dittmar.
98p spiral bound paperback, grey cover, excellent fresh copy, some notes inserted
£36.00