Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [c1960]. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 312; fine in dust jacket. Bibliographical essays and descriptions on 21 ailments including auricular fibrillation, pernicious anemia, leukemia, diabetes, gout, and scurvy. More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, [1972]. Second edition, large 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 420; photographic frontispiece portrait; fine in original charcoal gray cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Detailed and authoritative entries. More
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1966. Edition limited to 1900 copies, this one of 400 in cloth, large 8vo, pp. 66, [34] (facsimiles); blue and gray cloth, gilt title direct on spine, gilt printer's mark on upper cover, touch of spotting to endpapers, near fine. From the library of..... More
New York: Morgan Library, 1966. Edition limited to 1950 copies, this 1/1500 in wrappers, large 8vo, 66 & [32]pp., a number of reproductions at the back including some in color. More
New York: Spiral Press, 1968. Edition limited to 1000 copies, large 8vo, pp. 38, [34]; 26 pages of facsimile pages, some in color; brown printed paper wrappers, fine. A catalog accompanying an exhibit at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels, May-June and the Meermanno-Westreenianum in the Hague, 1968. More
Saigon: Ministry of Culture, Education and Youth, 1972. First edition, 8vo, pp. 170, [2]; extremities toned; near fine in original light blue and white printed wrappers. More
Amsterdam: Meridian, 1968. Reprint edition (first published Strassburg, 1904), 8vo, pp. [4], 164, [1]; full-page facsimile title-pages throughout; fine in original light gray textured wrappers printed in black. More
City of Washington: Smithsonian Institute, 1901. Large 8vo, pp. iv, 534; original drab printed wrappers, shallow losses to edges, top and bottom of spine worn with minor losses not affecting text; interior fine, pages uncut. No. 1253 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. A thorough short-list catalogue including a list of..... More
London: Mansell, 1975. First edition, 4to, pp. xxvi, 360; fine in original cream cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Includes detailed collations and occasional annotations. Bookplate of Jacob Chernofsky. More
Paterson, NJ: Pageant Books, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 84; photographic frontis portrait after Halsman, 2 full-page illustrations in text, and 3 plates; near fine in original blue cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt on spine with negligible wear to extremities. More
Amsterdam & Rio de Janeiro: Colibris Editora, 1958. First edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp. xxi, [3], 427; [4], 448, [2]; very good copy in the dust-jackets. Illustrated throughout. Standard work. More
New York: The Guild of Book Workers, 1981. First edition; oblong 8vo; pp. 96; illustrated throughout; very good copy in slightly scuffed original paper wrappers. Laid in is a price list for selected items in the exhibition. More
Paris: Gustave Bossange, 1872. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iv], 158; one signature starting, pages slightly browned, else good in original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. The first of Bossange's literary annuals, designed for the English public. Ex-MHS. More
London: printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, 1906. First edition, 4to, pp. x, 212, [17] leaves of facsimiles, [1]; title-p. printed in red and black; issued as no. XIV in the Bibliographical Society's series, Illustrated Monographs; bound with: A Verard Fragment of the Roman de la Rose..... More
[Austin, TX: Humanities Research Center, c1971]. Edition limited to 1500 copies, tall, narrow 8vo, pp. 53, [3]; decorative title-page printed in black and orange, illustrations and ornaments throughout, some in printed in orange; a very good copy in original decorative tan paper-covered boards printed in black and orange. More
Mountrath, Ireland: The Dolmen Press; Los Angeles: H. Keith Burns, 1983. Deluxe edition, limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, 125 for distribution in Ireland, 125 for the U.S.; folio, pp. [8], 160; frontispiece portrait, 101 illustrations throughout; original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; in..... More
Firenze: Listino Prezzi e Ordinazioni, 1988. 8vo, pp. x, 151; original tan printed wrappers, fine. Errata leaf bound in back. No. 5 of the Quaderni dell'Istituto di Linguistica dell'Universita di Urbino. An annotated bibliography of Cædmon (fl. ca. 657-ca. 684), the earliest Northumbrian poet whose name is known, thanks to..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1969]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 345; fine in original brown cloth, near fine jacket. Part of the Patterns of Literary Criticism series. More
Detroit: Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 1981. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 249; fine in original beige cloth; review copy with slip laid in. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. Fourth revised, enlarged edition; 8vo, pp. xiv, 640; inscribed by the author; green boards in dustjacket; signs of shelf wear, edges and corners of dj chipped in and worn. More
Metuchen, NJ, & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1981. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 157; near fine in original black cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Review copy from the library of bibliophile/publisher Jacob L. Chernofsky, with review slip laid in and his penciled tick marks in margins..... More
Hartford: Trinity College, [1983]. No. 206 of unspecified limited edition; 8vo; pp. [2], 270; frontispiece plus 3 illustrations; fine copy in dust jacket. Prepared with the assistance of Ann Putnam and Alison Wondriska. More
Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, [1984]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 147, [1]; but for some very small, light areas of soiling on back cover, a fine copy in original light yellow cloth stamped and lettered in gilt and blue on front cover and spine. From the library..... More
[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]: [The Torch Press], 1932. Edition limited to 100 copies on hand-made paper, large 8vo, pp. xliv, [2], 391; etched frontispiece signed by the artist, Sidney L. Smith, engraved title-p., 20 plates, numerous facsimiles throughout; extremities very lightly soiled, else a fine copy in original red cloth, with..... More
Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1938. Royal 8vo, pp. vi, 421; facsimiles; original blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine, minor signs of shelf wear. Very good. More
