Rare Books & Manuscripts Viewing List

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Fall 2023 Viewing List

1. PAT-119, Fuchs, Leonhart, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes ..., Basil, 1542 
2. PAT-43, Fuchs, Leonhart, Plantarum effigies, 1549
3. B-737, Chaucer, Geoffrey, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1896
4. C-2143, Shakespeare, Wm., Venus and Adonis; Pyracantha Press, Tempe, AZ, 198
5. E-4573   Walter Hamady, For The Hundredth Time “Gaebboerjabb Number (5) Five” 1981
6. C-1705, Abbott, Edwin, Flatland; Arion Press, San Francisco, 1980, 2-sided accordion, AL covers
7. AB-116,  Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, Ode to a Grand Staircase (For Four Hands), 2001
8. N7433.4.C436 V54 2006, Julie Chen, View, Flying Fish Press,
9. SPEC E-7939,  Claire Van Vliet, Greed, Vermont : Janus Press, 2013
10. AB-92, Rios, Alberto, Inside Chance, Picnic Press, Phoenix, AZ, 2000   
11. PR9639.3.L6 O76, Loney, Alan, Orpheus the Stutterer: Poetics of Silence, Colorado Springs, CO: Press at Colorado College, 2013
12. SPEC D-5345,  Bryant, Sarah, Biography, [Aurora, NY] : Big Jump Press, 2010.
13. (in reading room), Sarah Bryant, Point of View, Big Jump Press, 2013
14. B-784 Martha Ronk, Rebecca Chamlee, My Partial Tongue, Simi Valley, CA : Pie in the Sky Press, 2011.
15. N7433.4.C415 W47, Rebecca Chamlee, Where Stucco Meets Chaparral, 2014
16. N7433.4.C53 T68 2009, Macy Chadwick, The Topography of Home, In Cahoots Press, 2009
17. SPEC E-7937 Rodriguez, Jenna, Life in the Driver’s Seat, Chicago, 2011
18. N7433.4.L4334 F54, Lee, Maria, 50 Shades of Pink, Tucson, AZ 2016
19. SPEC B-115 Drucker, Johanna, Against Fiction, Druckwerk, Oakland
20. PR9639.3.L6 N69, Inge Bruggeman, No where to go, 2009
    
    

MANUSCRIPT PAGES:

• 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