Browse Items (45 total)

  • Collection: Rare Books and Special Materials

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Omnia (All works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus) [original]

Binding: good ; dark red leather with gold tooling ; wear on edges and hinges ; bumped corners ; gold tooling on inside of covers bordering endpapers ; endpapers are blue fabric ; ribbon bookmark ; miniature

Spine: good to very good ; red leather…

The History of the Desertion [original]

Binding: good to very good ; leather bound (brown) ; a small hole in back cover (board visible) ; some cracking ; rubbed edges ; some visible wear ; embossed border and designs on front and back cover ; end papers contain print (seem to be discards…

Histoire du Bas-Empire w/ Hidden Compartment [original]

Binding: poor ; leather binding ; front cover removed

Spine: fair ; 5 raised bands ; gold tool and design in compartments ; in one compartment it reads: "HISTOIRE DU BAS-EMPIRE" ; in another it reads: "TOM XVI" a great deal of…

Gutenberg Bible [facsimile ; 3 volumes]

Binding: near fine ; cream/off-white cloth ; some minor discolouration ; evidence of very light rubbing on some corners

Spine: near fine ; fabric ; gilt and black detail on all ; some very faint rubbing on sides evident only in areas with…

Discernimento de'Spiriti [original]

Binding: fair ; front hinge cracked ; appears to be a three-quarter being with decorative paper (floral patter) ; bumped corners ; fairly worn, overall, especially on edges

Spine: poor to fair ; leather ; 6 compartments, 5 with pressed symbol, the…

Defensa de la Declaracion del Clero de Francia de 1682 [original]

Binding: good ; limp vellum binding ; laced at spine ; slightly worn ; binding on bottom left corner of inside front cover seems to be lifting, and endpaper has been lifted by the vellum

Spine: good ; faint hand-lettered text seems to read…

Dante's Divina Comedia [original]

Binding: fair to good ; fully bound in paper ; some wear, especially at corners and bottom front board slightly bent in at top ; markings that appear to be red ink are visible on the back board ; plain endpapers

Spine: good ; features hand-printed…

Cuneiform Clay Tablet [facsimile]

Protected: in a lidded (very worn) cardboard box ; embedded in a soft material that looks like cotton on top of a synthetic material

Sticker on box reads: Oriental Institute Museum

Publishing note: writing on front and back and on parts of one…

The Conspiracy or the Change of Government [original]

Play: 22 cm ; Solander case: 23 cm ; Protective board: 22 cm

Binding: protective sleeve and folded board

Textblock: good to very good ; at least 2 pages may gave had repair work done ; some discolouration ; one crack on final page ; some…

Conference D'Antitvs, Panvrge, et Gveridon [original]

Binding: very good ; navy blue leather ; marbled endpapers ; gold tooling around inside edges of binding and before the leather meets the marbled endpapers ; gilded foreedges ; slip enclosed reads: "THIBARON-ECHAUBARD BINDING"

Spine: good ; 5…