Browse Items (45 total)

  • Collection: Rare Books and Special Materials

Hymns of Callimachus [original]

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Binding: fair to good ; full leather (brown) binding ; no detail on cover ; plain endpapers

Spine: fair to good ; 5 raised bands ; some gold tooling ; red and gold tooling in title area which reads: "HYMNS OF CALLIMACHUS" ; some rubbing ; head and…

London in the Age of Dickens [original]

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Good to very good / near fine to fine ; unbound ; the spines of sections 2-12 are numbered (to ensure proper ordering when being bound) ; some wear on first page (e.g. blue marks, bent corner)

Centers of Civilization Series

Table of…

Medieval Text, single sheet [original]

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Good condition ; some discolouration ; some tearing ; two holes ; marginalia ; rubrication

Miniature Leather-Covered Bible [original]

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Binding: good ; brown leather ; some rubbing ; bumped corners ; paste-down endpapers have handwriting

Spine: good to very good ; brown leather ; gilded title ("BIBLE") ; gold tooling (rubbed off) ; very light wear

Textblock: fair to good ; some…

Mrs. Trimmer's Spelling Book OR The Little Spelling Book for Young Children [original]

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Binding: good to very good ; bound in paper (marbled paper, perhaps over a more sturdy brown paper) ; the front cover seems to have become partially detached and then been reattached ; back cover is separating from spine (at head) ; front cover…

Mythologiae (Mythologies) [original]

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Binding: good ; white alum-tawed leather ; leather with embossed detail ; some discolouration ; front and back cover detail is clear ; FRONT: pressed with "PCWA," "1590," crest with "DES H:R[E]ME[.]KFLSERTVMWAPP[AV]" below, embellishments, "TEMP,"…

One-year Lease of Property [original]

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Binding: protected ; loosely sewn into protective paper folder housed between two sheets of Bristol board

Leaves: very good to near fine ; appears to be vellum ; one corner has some damage (tear) ; the terms of the lease are handwritten ;…

Oraison Funebre de Tres-Haut et Puissant Seigneur Messire Michel Le Tellier Chevalier [original]

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Binding: good to very good ; insert that reads "G. HUSER BINDING" ; deep red leather binding ; 5 raised bands on spine ; gold tooling on edges and inside covers ; "G. HUSER" in gilded print on inside front cover border detail ; marbled endpaper ;…

Palm Leaf Sandwich-type Manuscript [original]

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Binding: good ; wooden boards and leaves have two holes through which they would have been bound with string or cord

Protective case: wrapped in paper and kept in a case

Leaves: good ; palm leaves ; fragile (brittle) ; text on both sides ;…

Papyrus Sheet [original]

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Condition: very good to near fine ; some cracks ; fragile

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