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COMMONPLACE BOOKS: A HISTORY OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Havens, Earle

   

- (New Haven, CT) : Yale University 2001
- 4to.
- stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket.
- 99 pages
- Order Nr. 99718
- Price: $ 17.50

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Exhibition catalogue portraying the collection of rare books and manuscripts that was displayed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from late July to September, 2001 The event was presented in two parts: (1) the meaning of "commonplace" and how it developed over the centuries and (2) how manuscripts were used in scholarly studies. Commonplace Books contains descriptions from titles such as the first modern history of commonplace books Polyhistor, literarius, philosophicus et practicus. Foreword by Stephen Parks.

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DREI KARTEN VON GERHARD MERCATOR; EUROPA-BRITISCHE INSELN...

Portfolio with three maps from Gerhard Mercator in 41 loose plates. Illustrates Europe in 15 leaves, the British Isles in 8 leaves and a world map in 18 leaves. Two pages of text in German. Bookplate from the Long Island Historical Society on the front paste-down. Portfolio is soiled with chipping and cracking to spine. Corners are worn. Map leaves are chipped and brittle, with loss of paper along the edges of the plates.




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