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THE BOOK: ITS PRINTERS, ILLUSTRATORS, AND BINDERS, FROM GUTENBERG TO THE PRESENT TIME.
Bouchot, Henri
With a Treatise on the Art of Collecting and Describing Early Printed Books, and a Latin- English and English-Latin Topographical Index of the Earliest Printing Places. Edited by H. Grevel.

- New York : Scribner and Welford 1890 - small 4to. - original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. - xv, 383 pages. - Order Nr. 116289 - Price: $ 45.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 36.00]

Extensively revised edition containing 65 new illustrations thus making a total of 172. Ugly tape repair to spine to keep partially defective spine covering attached. New endpapers. Former owner has mounted appropriate images to some of the blank pages.

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OPERA MEDICINALIA. PRINTED IN MEXICO, 1570. WITH A BIOGRA... by Bravo, Francisco Limited to 250 numbered copies. The first volume contains the text by Guerra in English. The second is a facsimile reprint of the first medical book to be published in the New World taken from the only known complete copy. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company.