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19804to., with a fine coloured frontispiece, 90 fine coloured facsimiles (the great majority full-page) in the text and decorative endpapers; original printed boards framed in gilt, a near fine copy. The world-famous Da Vinci manuscript is reproduced page by page, with the facsimiles on the versos and corresponding descriptions, summaries and catalogue notes (supported as appropriate by smaller facsimiles) on the facing rectos. The MS was purchased by Bill Gates for the sum of GBP2.2 million.
19354to. First Edition, with 5 plates; maroon buckram, gilt back, a very good copy.
1921Roy. 8vo., ALL PUBLISHED; navy buckram, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
1945Roy. 8vo. First Edition, with 44 half-tone plates from photographs; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy.
19554to. with coloured plates small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; ivory cloth patterned in green backstrip lettered in green a very good clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
1819Large folio, First Edition, some moderate age-staining, a handful of leaves expertly remargined; strongly bound in early twentieth-century terracotta buckram, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small, neat stamp on title verso. The Lansdowne MSS are a significant named collection forming part of the holdings of the British Library. They include State papers and correspondence of Lord Burghley, Papers of Sir Julius Caesar, Papers of Dr. White Kennett (his manuscripts passed to James West and so to Lansdowne), historical papers from the 15th-18th centuries, William Petyt's parliamentary papers and papers of legal interest, and topographical and heraldic collections of great importance. The MSS were purchased by the british Museum at Sotheby's auction in 1807. The catalogue comprises: Part I: The Burghley Papers; Part II: the remaining papers (each part having its own separate index), together with a transcript of the Commons Address, the Royal Commission with Caley's Order and a detailed contectural Preface by Henry Ellis. A REMARKABLY FRESH, CRISP COPY OF AN INVALUABLE AND EXTREMELY SCARCE WORK.
1912Roy, 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with many fine full-page facsimiles in collotype throughout, mounted section titles, interleaved with blanks, free endpapers browned, some light spotting to title and interleaves (not facsimiles), neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, ivory buckram back with printed paper label, uncut, a very good, bright copy. Splendid facsimiles of the two versions in the BM: the complete Scott-printed copy (Huth 32) and (2) the fragment of an edition printed by Pynson (C21. c17). John Alexander (Dept. of MSS), in comparing this facsimile with the original copies, reports that 'it is admirably reproduced, especially in the case of the Pynson fragment which is practically faultless'. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
19598 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured reproductions throughout; cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper (save The York Psalter), one or two wrappers lightly frayed at edges.. The set comprises: The Great Lambeth Bible (ed. Dodwell), 1959; The Parisian Miniaturist Honore (ed. Millar), 1959; The Rohan Book of Hours (ed. Porcher), 1959; The Benedictional of St. Ethelwold (ed. Wormald), 1959; The Vienna Genesis (ed. Wellesz), 1960; A Fifteenth Century Italian Plutarch (ed. Mitchell), 1961; The Douce Apocalypse (ed. Hassall), 1961; The York Psalter (ed. Boase), 1962. Two further volumes - The Book of Durrow (ed. Bruce-Mitford) and The Book of Kells (ed. Henry) were projected but never published in this series.
1954Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, numerous illustrations (a number facsimiles) in the text and pictorial endpapers; handsomely bound in dark red full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Includes extended and illustrated Appendix by the author, and select bibliography.
19588vo., First Edition [Unillustrated Issue]; original printed wrappers, covers lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. The calaogue lists 50 lots.
19682 parts in 2 vols., 4to., ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with portrait and coloured frontispieces, and numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs throughout (several in colour and HEIGHTENED IN GOLD) and facsimiles in the text; original green boards printed in black, a near fine set. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. Part I: Thirty-Seven Manuscripts of the 9th to 16th Century; Part II: Thirty-Eight Manuscripts of the 8th to 17th Century. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1842Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved title-vignette, parallel texts in Old English and English in double column; full burgundy crushed morocco, back with raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt (slightly dulled but wholly legible), gilt doublures, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE EXETER BOOK IN ENGLISH. Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, familiarly known as the 'Exeter Book', is one of the four major Anglo-Saxon literature codices and the largest known collection of Old English literature still in existence. It comprises an anthology of poetry including 'The Seafarer', 'The Wanderer', 'The Phoenix', 'Guthlac', 'Widsith' and others, together with the famous Riddles. This is the first printing of the Old English text, with Thorpe providing the first English translation. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
19168vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. [Dustwrapper not shown in image.]
19748vo., First Edition thus, with many fine full-page reproductions throughout; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
1983Fascicolo in 8°, da p. 232 a p. 235 con una illustrazione n.t. Bross. edit. Etichetta di biblioteca sul dorso e sul contropiatto ant.
1972In-8° pp. 112 con due foto n.t. Bross. edit. con abrasione al dorso. Intonso.
Mm 170x230 Cartella contenente 1 opuscolo spillato di 8 pp. e 29 schede relative a: I tre procedimenti originali della stampa, I tre procedimenti meccanizzati, Le scritture, La decorazione, La tipografia. In perfetto stato. Senza data, anni cinquanta.
1997Mm 220x300 Volume di pp. 145 con 180 tavole in bianco e nero fuori testo, legatura in tela, sovraccoperta editoriale con piccolo strappo. Opera in buone condizioni.
1980Mm 175x250 Brossura editoriale di pp. 130, intonso. Piccola abrasione al piatto anteriore. Opera in buone condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY
1982Mm 180x260 Brossura editoriale di pp. 122 con 10 tavole fuori testo. Opera in buone condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY.
1978Mm 170x240 Collana " Sussidi Eruditi ". Brossura originale, xviii-437(4) pp. Indice degli incipit e delle cose notevoli in chiusura. Volume in ottime condizioni con le pagine ancora intonse, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
2010Mm 170x240 Collana "Studi e testi di papirologia, 12". Brossura originale con bandelle, v-290 pagine con xvi tavole in nero non comprese nel testo. Copia in condizioni di nuovo, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
2005Mm 170x240 Collana "Segni di civiltà"- Quaderni della Soprintendenza archivistica per l'Umbria - n.19. Due brossure editoriali in cofanetto illustrato a colori. 1, L'archivio storico comunale preunitario e del convento della Madonna delle Lacrime di Trevi, 1277-1862, Inventari a cura di Adalgiso Liberati e Laura Pennoni, 488 pagine; 2, L'archivio Storico Comunale Postunitario Di Trevi 1860-1965, inventari a cura di Elisabetta Bucci e Luisa Forsoni, 446 pagine. Esemplare in perfette condizioni, come nuovo (solo due piccoli strappi all'astuccio). SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
1984Mm 240x290 Volume nella sua brossura originale a stampa, dorso allentato ma restaurato, margini della copertina con piccole lacune ai margini, x-554 pagine con l'interno in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
1964Mm 170x250 "Opera a cura del Centro italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo" - Volume nella sua brossura originale, paginazione da 461+indici a pagina 945 con alcune tavole in nero fuori testo. Copia in ottime condizioni; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
