Rare Books & Manuscripts Viewing List
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INCUNABULA AND EARLY PRINTED BOOK PAGES:
ARTS & CRAFTS/EARLY FINE PRESS PRINTING
CONTEMPORARY FINE PRESS BOOKS
ARTISTS' BOOKS
- 15, brown gothic text with gold letter
- 9, small page with very nice multicolor decorated initials w/ gold
- 17, large page, red and black text with gold initial A
- 2, 7th C. Indian illuminated page on handmade paper
INCUNABULA:
- B-655, A noble fragment, being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, 1454
- INCUN 1475 .D5, Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosphorum; Nicolas Jensen, Venice, 1475
INCUNABULA AND EARLY PRINTED BOOK PAGES:
- 17, Schedel, Hartmann, Nuremburg Chronicle; Anton Koberger, Nuremburg, 1493
- 21, Varagine, Jacobus, The Golden Legend; Wynken de Worde, Westminster, 1498
- 27, Lucretius Carus, Titus; Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1515 (1501?)
- 39, Vesalius, Andreas, Anatomy; Johannes Oporinus, Basle, 1555
- 61, Virgil, Opera; John Baskerville, Birmingham, 1757
- 64, Thomson, The Seasons; Giambattista Bodoni, Parma, 1794
- PAT-119, Fuchs, Leonhart, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes ..., Basil, 1542 Probably the first book that contains not only the names, but also the portraits of its illustrators.
- PAT-43, Fuchs, Leonhart, Plantarum effigies, 1549
- E-735, Descartes, Rene, Specimina Philosphia . . .; L. Elzevir, Amsterdam, 1644
ARTS & CRAFTS/EARLY FINE PRESS PRINTING
- B-737, Chaucer, Geoffrey, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1896
- PRBF-29 v.1 , Voragine, Jacobus, The Golden Legend, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1892
- PRB-499, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, Hand & soul, Kelmscott Press, 1895.
- D-2283, Ecclesiastes; The Roycrofters, (Elbert Hubbard), East Aurora, New York, 1896
- E-91, Synge, John M., Poems & Translations; Elizabeth Yeats, Cuala Press, Dublin, 1908
- E-2791, Shakespeare, Wm., Sonnets of Shakespeare; The Roycrofters, 1899 BIG initials.
- TBM WS-25:1, Shakespeare, Wm., Sonnets; Thomas Bird Mosher, Portland, ME, 1901 Quiet.
CONTEMPORARY FINE PRESS BOOKS
- C-2143, Shakespeare, Wm., Venus and Adonis; Pyracantha Press, Tempe, AZ, 1984
- B-214, Shakespeare, Wm., Antony and Cleopatra, Circle Press, London, 1979 Unbound “artist’s book.”
- C-1828, Conran, Anthony, Claim, Claim, Claim, Circle Press, London, 1969
- C-1984, Furnival, John, Blind date, with etchings and embossed prints by John Furnival; text by Thomas Meyer, Circle Press, Guildford, England, 1979
ARTISTS' BOOKS
- PXL-390, Szirtes, George, Mirrors, Circle Press, London, 2005
- AB-129, King, Ronald, Tabernacle: hole, horse & hell-box, Circle Press, 2001 Wooden box w/ drawers of type.
- E-4573 Walter Hamady, For The Hundredth Time “Gaebboerjabb Number (5) Five” 1981
- AB-83 John Risseeuw, Roadkill, 2001
- AB-116 Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, Ode to a Grand Staircase (For Four Hands), 2001
- ? Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, Glimpse
- SPEC E-7939 Claire Van Vliet, Greed, Vermont : Janus Press, 2013
- E-5692, Weston, Heather, Read (past, tense), London: Bookart, 2000 Hidden text.
- AB-123, Weston, Heather, A Diction, Bookery, London, 2004 Shaped page accordion.
- AB-92, Rios, Alberto, Inside Chance, Picnic Press, Phoenix, AZ, 2000 A rotating flexagon cube.
- A-234, Bukowski, Charles, Can’t win, Strong Silent Type Press, St. Paul, MN, 2009
- B-755, Corso, Gregory, BOMB, London: Kamikaze Press, 2008 First reprint of a 1958 beat poem.
- B-745 Ursula K. Le Guin, Direction of the Road, 2007
- SPEC D-5345 Bryant, Sarah, Biography, [Aurora, NY] : Big Jump Press, 2010.
- Sarah Bryant
- C-3546 Metal Type, [Vancouver, British Columbia] : HM, 2013.
- B-784 Martha Ronk, My Partial Tongue, Simi Valley, CA : Pie in the Sky Press, 2011.
- SPEC E-7937 Rodriguez, Jenna, Life in the Driver’s Seat, Chicago, 2011