Sixteenth-Century Printing Types of the Low Countries. With a Foreword by Harry Carter.
This pioneer work is an annotated catalogue, illustrated with specimens of the types made during the sixteenth century in the area now covered by the Netherlands and Belgium. The influence of the sixteenth-century typecutters was considerable; in fact, many of their type faces, described in this boo... More info
Prayers in Code. Books of Hours from Renaissance France.
During the late Middle Ages, books of hours became common tools of private devotion and sought-after status symbols. Carried by fashionable ladies in church and collected by affluent bibliophiles, these books, often richly illuminated, differed greatly in style and ornament but were rather predictab... More info
Japanese Cloisonné Enamels. The Stephen W. Fisher Collection.
The final decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth saw the production of Japan’s most exquisite cloisonné enamels. Their manufacture was stimulated by international demand kindled at expositions in Europe and America and driven by artists’ interest in creating works t... More info
Koeman`s Atlantes Neerlandici (set)
A bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands from 1570 up to the 20th century, in eight volumes, each describing a coherent group of atlases and supplied with indexes. The work is fully illustrated with the title-pages and maps. This ed... More info
Codex Nundinarius Germaniae literatae bisecularis. Mess-Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels von dem Erscheine...
With: Codex Nundinarius Germaniae literatae continuatus. Der Mess-Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels Fortsetzung, die Jahre 1766 bis einschliesslich 1846 umfassend. (Halle, 1850-1877). A detailed Bibliography of the "term catalogues" issued on occasion of the annual German book fairs in Frankfurt ... More info
Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica. An annotated catalogue of printed books on alchemy, chemistry and cognate su...
Facsimile edition to which is added: Catalogue 62, H.P. KRAUS, The Duveen Collection of Alchemy & Chemistry, supplementing the Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica. The Duveen Collection of Balneology. More info
Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbi historia 1724. Facsimile of the first edition and of the first French tran...
Introduction and two facsimiles. More info