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With five engraved plates (the variant plate of Thétis in vol. I); titles printed in red and black.

Emile, ou de l’Education...
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
The Hague: Jean Neaulme [i.e. Paris, Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne], 1762.
Price: $9,500.00
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Hand-set in Bembo and printed on 200 gsm Arches Cover. Title-page with photogravure vignette and pochoir lettering in red. Fifteen photogravures by Jon Goodman from drawings by Walter Bachinski, one to illustrate each of the fifteen selections from Ovid's work. Pochoir initial letters in red on a gray background, by Walter Bachinski.

Stories from the Metamorphoses. Illustrations by Walter Bachinski. [
[ Shanty Bay Press ]. Ovid.
[Shanty Bay, Ontario:] Shanty Bay Press, 2013.
Price: $3,500.00
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Engraved frontispiece and hand-colored vignette in each volume, numerous text illustrations.

History of the Horn-Book. Illustrated. In two volumes.
Tuer, Andrew.
London: Published by The Leadenhall Press…New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896.
Price: $1,250.00
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Complete with the two engraved titles and fourteen engraved plates.

The Bible in Miniuture [sic]…
[Bible in English].
London: E[lizabeth] Newbery 1780.
Price: $1,750.00
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Illustrated by Walter Crane with twelve full-page illustrations. Decorative borders on every page.

The Shepheard's Calendar, Twelve Aeglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman Most Worthy of All Titled Both of Learning & Chivaley Maister Philip Sidney.
[Bindings. Chivers, Cedric]. Spenser, Edmund.
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898.
Price: $2,500.00
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Printed in black and red in Ptolemy type with chapter summaries in the margins printed in Blado Italic type. Decorative initial letters and opening lines of each of the eight books designed by Graily Hewitt.

[History of the Peloponnesian War]. Translated into English by Benjamin Jowett.
Thucydides.
Chelsea: Printed at the Ashendene Press, 1930.
Price: $4,500.00
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The Knife-Grinder's Budget of Pictures & Poetry, for Boys and Girls
[Children's Books].
London: Printed for T. and J. Allman 1829.
Price: $750.00
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[130] pp., with a separate title-page for pp. [110] and following, which is printed: The Paper Maker. An Account of a Unique Publication, with a Selective Index. With nineteen pages of illustrations and samples from each of the lesser-known mills, including a papyrus sample from Hassan Ragab at the Papyrus Institute in Cairo. The other mills discussed include the Twinrocker Press in San Francisco, Papeterie Saint-Gilles in Quebec, and Richard de Bas in France. Printed on handmade paper, with the title of the book in the watermark.

The Paper Maker: A Survey of Lesser-Known Hand Paper Mills in Europe and North America.
[ Bird & Bull Press ]. Morris, Henry.
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1974.
Price: $1,500.00
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An Apology for the Discourse of Humane Reason. Written by Ma. Clifford, Esq.; Being a Reply to Plain Dealing. With the Author's Epitaph and Character.
Warren, Albertus.
London: Printed for Walter Davis in Amen Corner, 1680.
Price: $2,000.00
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Album of Paper Weaving examples prepared for children's instruction. European, possibly Scandinavian, circa 1880.
[Paper Weaving].
Price: $750.00
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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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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.
Price: $3,000.00
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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].
Price: $2,500.00
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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].
Price: $1,500.00
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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.
Price: $8,500.00
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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].
Price: $600.00
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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).
Price: $2,000,000.00
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Cosmogonie Intime / An Intimate Cosmogony. Poems by Yves Peyré. English translation by Elizabeth R. Jackson. Drawings by Ray Rice. Bookwork by Felicia Rice.
Peyre, Yves.
[Santa Cruz, California:] Moving Parts Press, 2005.
Price: $4,800.00
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