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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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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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