Aligarh: Muslim University, 1957. First edition in book form of this translation, first published in Medieval India Quarterly, 8vo, pp. [6], 199, [1]; publisher's full red buckram; gutter split with a few early leaves weak, first ten pages with underlining, good, in fragmented and torn dust jacket. From the library..... More
London, Toronto, Wellington, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., [c. 1957]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 392; original full black cloth; light foxing and scratching to fore-edge, endpapers toned, very good in near fine dust jacket. More
New York: The Presbyterian Department of Missionary Education, [ca. 1913]. Likely a church book club edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 309, [1]; portrait frontispiece, 15 plates, text illustrations, color folding map and folding chart; publisher's navy cloth; a touch of staining to boards, text clean and sound, near fine. More
London et al. The China Inland Mission, 1930. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 97, [3]; portrait frontispiece and 5 plates; original full blue cloth; gift inscription on front free endpaper; fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. George Edwin King (1887-1927) was born in China to a missionary family, and..... More
Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia Bartholomaei Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 38.5 cm), 2 parts in 1; pp. [4], 291. [1]; 195, [13]; text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns in the first part; woodcut ornaments; gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1; joints cracked, cords holding; otherwise..... More
Shanghai: The Central Printing Co., [1937]. 8vo, pp. [4], 182, [4]; original printed paper wrappers; corners bumped, owner's inscription on title page of Kuang Chang Chih, three pages heavily annotated, the rest unmarked, very good. Includes a list of homophones, and terms with definitions organized by subjects, like aviation, disease..... More
Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia Bartholomaei Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 38.5 cm), pp. [16], 212; text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; series title page De Byzantinae Historiae Scriptoribus printed in red and black with engraved vignette, second engraved vignette title page (Excerpta de Legationibus), engraved headpiece, woodcut initials and ornaments;..... More
Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia Bartholomaei Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 38.8 cm), pp. [36], 291, [1], [34]; text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; engraved vignette title page, woodcut ornaments and decoration, later full speckled calf, gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1; upper joint rubbed, otherwise..... More
[Antwerp? or Louvain? printer of the 'Mensa philosophica', before 7 April, 1487]. 4to, (leaf 19.8 cm), [131] (of 152) leaves; collating: a-t⁸ (-a8 -b8 -m1 -t1 -t8 blank); capital spaces, 31 lines; occasional contemporary annotations; several gatherings loose, moderate dampstaining throughout; minor worming and the occasional ink splash; contemporary full..... More
Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia Bartholomaei Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 38.6 cm), pp. [24], 411, [7]; 124, [36]; text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; engraved vignette title page, woodcut initials and ornaments; numerous tables through the first portion of the text; later full speckled calf, gilt decorated spine in 7..... More
Amstelaedami: apud R. & J. Wetstenios & Gul. Smith, 1731. First edition, large folio (leaf 40.4), pp. [36], 34, 728, 48, 123, [1]; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns; engraved vignette title page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, engraved headpiece, 2 engraved folding maps, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces..... More
Lvtetiae Parisiorvm: ex Officina Nivelliana. Sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, via Iacobaea, sub Ciconiis, 1617. First collected edition of the works of Alcuin; folio (leaf 34.5 cm), pp. [48], 1896 columns, [22]; text in double column; woodcut portrait on verso of half-title, title page printed in red and black, printer's woodcut device..... More
Lugduni [i.e., Lyon]: sumptibus autoris; vaeneunt apud T. Amaulry, 1685. First edition, folio (leaf 37.7 cm), pp. [8], 376, [4]; title page printed in red and black, engraved vignette laid down on title (as issued), nearly 60 engravings and woodcuts in the text, some quite large, numerous Greek and Latin..... More
Amstelaedami: apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1738. First edition, large folio (leaf 41.0 cm), pp. [20], 865, [1]; engraved vignette title page printed in red and black, text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1;..... More
[Stockholm, Wisconsin & Saint Paul, Minnesota]: Midnight Paper Sales, 2021. Edition limited to "100 possible copies" (in fact, only 88 were made, each numbered and signed by Schanilec), oblong 4to, being a series of 7 unbound oblong, frenchfold bifolia, each 9" x 12", 2 of them folding color wood engravings..... More
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Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia B. Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 39 cm), pp. [8], 165, [9]; the Chronicle of Constantine Manasses, in 6733 political verses, carries Byzantine history down the ascension to the throne of Alexius Comnenus, in 1081; bound with: Nicetas Akominatos. [Title in Greek] = Nicetæ Acominati Choniatæ magni logothetæ..... More
Lugduni: Johannem de Vingle, 1497. 8vo (leaf 19.5 cm), 192 unnumbered leaves, including the final blank (but apparently supplied); collating: [a]⁸ b-z⁸, [zeta]⁸; woodcut initials, woodcut: "Karolus dei gratia francorum rex" on leaf a2r; woodcut printer's mark on [zeta7r]; gothic type; text surrounded with commentary printed in 2 columns of..... More
Parisiis: typis Petri Le Petit, regii typographi, viâ Iacobaeâ, sub signo crucis aureae, 1673. Folio (leaf 38 cm), pp. [32], 569, 580-585, [17], 208, [8] woodcut initials and ornaments, Greek and Latin text in parallel columns in the first part; Henrici Valesii Annotationes in Historiam ecclesiam Theodoriti" (and further Annotationes)..... More
[Basel, Switzerland: Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim [also ascribed to Johannes Amerbach], 1492]. 8vo, (leaf 20.0 cm), [58] leaves (complete), including the final blank; collating: a-e⁸ f-h⁶; floriated woodcut initial on a2r, capital spaces with guide letters; minor worming; bound into early 20th-century blue paper wrappers. Early ownership signatures at top..... More
Amsterdam: ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1706. 2 volumes, large folio (leaf 39 cm), pp. [4], 48, 683, [1]; [2], 687-1388, [16], 178, [10]; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns; engraved title page, engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved double-page numismatic plate, printed title in red and black, woodcut and factotum initials; contemporary..... More
[Rome: Stephan Plannck, 1492]. 8vo, (leaf 20.8 cm), 4 leaves (complete), unsigned and unnumbered; floriated woodcut initial; 4 early underlines in ink; bound into recent calf-backed marbled boards, black paper label lettered in gilt on upper cover. "One of two undated editions printed at Rome, presumably just after the Florentine..... More
Francofurti: apud Jeremiam Schrey & Heinrici Joh. Meyeri Haeredes, 1691. Folio (leaf 36.5 cm), pp. [44], 1200, [40]; Greek and Latin text in parallel columns, engraved vignette title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials and ornaments; text considerably toned, as usual; all else good and sound in contemporary..... More
Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia B. Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 39.0 cm), pp. [20], 242, [10]; [12], 139, 136, [12], 22; text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; engraved vignette title page, woodcut ornaments and decoration, 3 engraved plates, 29 full-p. numismatic engravings, 14 half-page numismatic engravings (and several smaller), 19..... More
Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia B. Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 38.8 cm), pp. [10], 7-377, [1]; [2], 2, 113-116, 7-134, [26]; text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; engraved vignette title page, woodcut ornaments and decoration; later full speckled calf, gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1;..... More
Venetiis: ex typogrgraphia B. Javarina, 1729. Folio (leaf 39.0 cm), pp. [24], 724, 76, [36]; engraved vignette title page, text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; woodcut ornaments and decoration; later full speckled calf, gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1; joints cracked, cords holding;..... More
