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5" x 8." Concertina album, comprised of thirty-six leaves, each with a single or multiple paper-weaving patterns, most in blue and white, some with black added. Each pattern has a border of gilt beaded paper.
Album of Paper Weaving examples prepared for children's instruction. European, possibly Scandinavian, circa 1880.
[Paper Weaving].
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A collection of seven offprints, several containing sixteen papers, chronicling their work on protein structure, 1951-55.
Pauling, Linus.
Price: $15,000.00
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Etched frontispiece in each volume, numerous color plates throughout. Printed on India paper. Foreword by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London," signed A.F. London, dated 1911.
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testament & the Apocrypha. Translated Out of the Original Tongues in the Year of Our Lord MDCXI.
[ Bible in English ].
London: Ballantyne Press, [1910].
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Fifty-three illustrations by Blake printed in collotype at the Chiswick Press.
Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake.
Milton, John.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1926.
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With the final blank. Diagrams in text.
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision. The Second Edition.
Berkeley, George.
Dublin: Printed by Aaron Rhames, for Jeremy Pepyat 1709 [i.e., 1710].
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Engraved allegorical frontispiece. Woodcut vignette on title-page.
Der Kleine Print-Bybel, Waar in door verscheide af beeldingen een meenigte van Bybelsche spreuken verklaart warden…
[Hieroglyphic Bible.
Amsterdam: By Gerrit Bouman… 1731.
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Woodcut ornament on title-page, decorative headbands, tail-pieces and initial letters.
The Doctrine of Chances...
Moivre, Abraham de.
London: Printed for the author, 1738.
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Lettres à Son Altesse Royale le Duc regnant de Saxe-Coburg et Gotha sur la théorie des probabilités, appliquée aux science morales et politiques.
Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques.
Brussels: M. Haney, 1846.
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[7] pages, fourteen wood engravings, wood engraved vignette on colophon.
California Hills And Other Wood Engravings From the Original Blocks. Foreword by Arthur Millier.
Landacre, Paul.
Los Angeles: Bruce McAllister, 1931.
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[204] pp., densely written in dark brown ink, on faintly lined paper, with numerous carefully drawn illustrations of machinery used in spinning, carding and weaving, together with some weaving patterns. The text illustrations are sometimes heightened in colors, and a few small illustrations are pasted in. In addition, there are some nine onlays of sketches of machinery on india paper.
Cours de Filature. [-Cours de Tissage].
[Textiles.]
[n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1850].
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[10] chromolithographic plates on heavy card stock, printed in many colors and gold.
Illuminated Christian Year.
Lee, Jean.
[Philadelphia:] Duffield Ashmead, [n.d., ca. 1860s].
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Two hand-colored wood-engraved titles and fifty hand-colored wood-engraved plates, two uncolored plates. Decorative woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout.
Les fleurs animees. Par J.J. Grandville. Texte par Alph. Karr, Taxile Delord et le Cte. Foeulix. Nouvelle edition avec planches tres soigneusement retouches pour la gravure et le coloris par M. Maubert, peintre d'histoire naturelle attaché au Jardin
Grandville, J.J. [illustrator]. Delord, Taxile.
Paris; Garnier Freres, [n.d., 1867].
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Tipped in frontispiece by Ralph Pearson of Dard Hunter's mill, numerous tipped in plates, facsimile reproductions, and woodcuts in text. Dard Hunter's device printed in red and black on title-page.
Old Papermaking.
Hunter, Dard.
[Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press,] 1923.
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With thirty-five prints which include etching, block print, lino, photography, and digitally reproduced drawings. Printed letterpress in 18 pt. Bell, with a hand-cut metal title, on mould-made Somerset paper.
Myth: Myths of the Greeks selected from accounts by Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus, Ovid and others. With prints by Susan Allix.
Allix, Susan.
[London:] 2011.
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Twenty wood-engravings, inspired by a journey from Nepal and Tibet. The images are from the Kathmandu valley, trekking up the Kali Gandaki valley on the Annapurna region of Nepal, then traveling to Lhasa, Shigatse, and the countryside of Tibet. Printed in Monotype Bembo composed by Michael and Winifred Bixler, and printed on handmade Yamagampi paper.
Mountains & Religion. Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener
Wagener, Richard.
Petaluma: Moxolydian Editions, 2011.
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With seven pages of early manuscript notes at the end. Greek and roman letter, in an elegant layout, with the Greek text occupying the upper half of the page, with the Latin translation underneath, and a Greek commentary at the foot. Second part in double columns, in Latin, with references in Greek. Printer's device on first title, decorative woodcut initials and tail-pieces.
Tragoediae Septem.
Sophocles.
Geneva: Paul Estienne, 1603.
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With a scholarly introduction to the Stoic philosophers by the translator, an impressive list of subscribers, and an index and appendix of variant readings.
All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Translated from the Original Greek, by Elizabeth Carter. With an Introduction, and Notes, by the Translator
Epictetus.
London: Printed by S. Richardson, and Sold by A. Millar…John Rivington…and R. and J. Dodsley, 1758.
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With eight multi-colored linocuts and four full-page pochoir illustrations.
Circus: The Artist as Saltimbanque. Illustrations by Walter Bachinski.
[Shanty Bay Press].
[Shanty Bay, Ontario:] Shanty Bay Press, [2010].
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Text engraving on p. 181. Separate title-page for Book II. Dedication to William III.
Archaeologiae Philosophicae: sive doctrina antiqua de reum originibus. Libri duo.
[ Burnet, Thomas ].
London: Typis R.N. Impensis Gualt. Kettilby... 1692.
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Text in Greek and roman letter, title-page and a large part of the Greek text printed in red and black, printed shoulder notes. Engraved historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces.
Klementos pros Korinthious epistole prote = Clementis ad Corinthios epistola prior. : Ex laceris reliquijs vestustissimi exemplaris Bibliothecæ Regiæ, eruit, lacunas explevit, Latinè vertit, & notis brevioribus illustravit. / Patricivs Ivni
Clement I, Pope.
Oxford: Iohannes Lichfield Academiæ Typographus, 1663.
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Broadside. Matted and framed, to 23 1/2" x 32 1/2." The title "Color" in a multi-color design across the top of the page, twenty hand-painted color swatches in Windsor-Newton Designers Gouache by the Typography class at Scripps College, each color with accompanying handset text in various typefaces. Printed on Somerset Satin.
Color. [Broadside].
[ Scripps College Press ].
[Claremont, California:] Scripps College Press, 1987].
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The English text, and the Latin translation of Theodore Bathurst (c. 1587-1682) are on facing pages. Frontisportrait of Spenser engraved by Vertue, twelve engraved plates, one for each of the months, by Paul Fourdrinier. With Latin preface by John Ball, Latin life of Spenser, and English glossary.
Calendrium Pastorale Sive Aeglogae Duodecim/The Shepherd's Calendar, Containing Twelve Aeglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months…Entituled to the Noble and Virtuous Gentleman, most Worthy of all Titles, both of Learning and Chivalrie, Mater Phil
Spenser, Edmund.
London: Printed by Will. Bowyer, 1732.
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406 leaves, generally in quires of 8 leaves, likely small loss after fol. 169. Although the Early Modern foliation of the manuscript runs to 413, it contains several errors, including a jump from 329 to 340 without any leaves missed in between (so that there are no leaves numbered 330-339). With contemporary quire and leaf signatures. Ruled in a violet-brown ink. Single column. 22 lines.
[Illuminated manuscript on vellum].
[Bible in English--New Testament,
England, Midlands c. 1400-25 (some portions likely scribed at different times).
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Printed in Gothic Type with initials in blue, red and gold. Archival matting. Large embellished three-color broadside of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer, issued by the President as a Christmas gift in 1944 for a few of his close friends at a White House ceremony. Handsomely printed in Gothic type.
D-Day Prayer. From the White House—June 6, 1944.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Washington: [Government Printing Office:] Christmas, 1944.
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Woodcut frontispiece depicting the letters of the alphabet and animals whose names start with each one, woodcut title-page vignette, woodcut alphabets and vignettes in text. Our copy has two final unnumbered leaves with eight woodcuts of different animals, which is quite uncommon.
Der Grosse ABC-Buch. Enthaltend: Das ABC, Wurzelworter, und Wurzelworter mit Ihren Angehangten Ableitungssylven...weite Auflage.
[ Children's literature ]. Henkel, Ambrosius.
New-Market, Shenandoah County, Salomon Henkel and J.H. Lawton, 1820.
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