Allegro, John Marco.

THE SHAPIRA AFFAIR.

Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1965. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 125 pages. First American edition. Very light chipping to the scarce dust jacket. Else near fine. True story of the discovery of alleged scraps of parchment which were claimed to be part of the oldest copy of the Bible in the world. When originally discovered in the late 1880s, they were said by the experts to be forgeries and lead to Shapira's suicide. This is..... READ MORE about THE SHAPIRA AFFAIR

Price: $60.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136641

Bitterkraut, Johann.

WEHMUHTIGE KLAG-THRANEN DER LOBLICHEN HOCHST-BETRANGTEN ARTZNEY-KUNST.

Nuremberg: Michael and Johann Friderich, 1677 (but Lindau: Antiqua-Verlag, 1979). small thick 8vo. paper-covered boards. (xxxvi), 660, (42) pages. This facsimile of Bitterkraut's medical treatise includes an engraved frontispiece and dedication to Kaiser Leopold I. The book is prefaced by a table of contents and index of authors referenced in the text. The publishers have added an afterword which provides a biography of Bitterkraut and comments on the text. READ MORE about WEHMUHTIGE KLAG-THRANEN DER LOBLICHEN HOCHST-BETRANGTEN ARTZNEY-KUNST

Price: $70.00  other currencies  Order nr. 59328

(Dürer, Albrecht). Panofsky, Erwin.

DÜRER APOCALYPSE.

London: Eugrammia Press, 1964. folio. paper wrappers, quarter leather over cloth gilt boards, cloth slipcase. 8 pages, (32) pages. Facsimile edition, with commentary, limited to 535 numbered copies. Prospectus loosely inserted. Spine of commentary volume faded, else near fine condition. English and German text. Illustrated with 15 black & white woodcuts, also incl. separate pamphlet containing intro text and notes. Printed in collotype by L. van Leer & Co Ltd of Amsterdam, Holland on mould-made..... READ MORE about DÜRER APOCALYPSE

Price: $130.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137060

(Detective Fiction). Harriss, Will.

BAY PSALM BOOK MURDER.

New York: Walker and Co., (1983). 8vo. boards, dust jacket. (ii), 190 pages. Second printing. The University Librarian is murdered and Clifford Dunbar is asked by his daughter to help find the murderer. Why was the perfect copy of the Bay Psalm Book found in the murdered man's hand? Was this an almost perfect forgery? Near fine. READ MORE about BAY PSALM BOOK MURDER

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2465

Ehrsam, Theodore G.

MAJOR BYRON, THE INCREDIBLE CAREER OF A LITERARY FORGER.

New York: Charles S. Boesen, 1951. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 217 pages. First edition. Major Byron's incredible forgeries of Shelley, Byron, and Keats. Near fine in very good jacket. Exlibris with markings.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about MAJOR BYRON, THE INCREDIBLE CAREER OF A LITERARY FORGER

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2594

(Forgery). Gilreath, James (editor).

THE JUDGMENT OF EXPERTS, ESSAYS AND DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FORGING OF THE OATH OF A FREEMAN.

Worchester: American Antiquarian Society, 1991. 7.25 x 10.25 inches. cloth, dust jacket. x, 271 pages. First edition. Contains an anthology of documents and first-hand accounts by Justin Schiller, Marcus McCorison, Robert Mathiesen, and others who represent institutions and individuals that were involved in the story of Mark Hofmann's "Oath of a Freeman" forgery. Illustrated with facsimiles. READ MORE about THE JUDGMENT OF EXPERTS, ESSAYS AND DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FORGING OF THE OATH...

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 33764

(Forgery). Nickell, Joe.

PEN, INK, & EVIDENCE: A STUDY OF WRITING AND WRITING MATERIALS FOR THE PENMAN, COLLECTOR, AND DOCUMENT DETECTIVE.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 228 pages. First edition, third printing with corrections. An excellent study of writing and writing materials for the penman, collector, and document detective. The author traces the development of writing and writing materials from the ancient cuneiform tablet to today's historical documents. This work is essential for all calligraphers, archivists, literary historians and document examiners. Over one hundred illustrations. READ MORE about PEN, INK, & EVIDENCE: A STUDY OF WRITING AND WRITING MATERIALS FOR THE PENMAN, COLLECTOR, AND...

Price: $29.95  other currencies  Order nr. 71215

Foxon, D.F.

THOMAS J. WISE AND THE PRE-RESTORATION DRAMA.

London: The Bibliographical Society, 1959. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. Paperback. 50 pages. This text contains within the details of Thomas J. Wise's theft of a multitude of pages from various plays and dramas that were held at several prestigious libraries and museums across England. These locations include the British Museum, the Ashley Library and the Wrenn Library at Cambridge. Wise's theft of numerous pages from more than 80 different plays and dramas has totaled into..... READ MORE about THOMAS J. WISE AND THE PRE-RESTORATION DRAMA

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104185

Freeman, Arthur.

JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH FOSTERED A NATIONAL MYTH.

London, United Kingdom: Bernard Quaritch, 2015. 8vo. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Julia Alpinula is a legendary Swiss heroine, whose pathetic fate in AD 69 inspired popular historians, dramatists, artists, and poets including an infatuated Byron over a period of more than two hundred years. Her very existence, however, was based entirely on a funerary inscription first published in 1588 and ultimately shown to be a humanist forgery. Julia Alpinula is a fully documented account of..... READ MORE about JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH FOSTERED A NATIONAL...

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 127033

Havens, Earle [ed.].

FAKES, LIES, AND FORGERIES.

Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
Baltimore: The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, (2016). 9.2 x 11.625 inches. paperback. 140 pages. Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection. Second edition, revised, of this exhibition catalogue, undertaken after the initial print run of 500 copies of the first edition (2014) sold out by popular demand. This revised edition includes substantive changes in the front matter and initial chapter overview of the collection that have been informed..... READ MORE about FAKES, LIES, AND FORGERIES

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129201

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

LA BIBBIA DEI CROCIATI.

Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1998. folio. full stamped leather boards, acrylic slipcase. (92) leaves. Limited to 980 copies, of which this is one of 250 copies reserved for Salerno Editrice in Italian. Lacking the commentary volume. The bottom edge of the slipcase has been separated, but is present. Else in near fine condition. One of the masterpieces of French Gothic illumination, the Morgan Bible is an impressive reminder of the importance of biblical history for the..... READ MORE about LA BIBBIA DEI CROCIATI

Price: $5,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137063

(Ireland, William Henry). Pierce, Patricia.

THE GREAT SHAKESPEARE FRAUD: THE STRANGE, TRUE STORY OF WILLIAM-HENRY IRELAND.

London: Sutton Publishing Company, 2004. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 273 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Very entertaining true crime; a literary forgery like Thomas Chatterton. William Henry-Ireland forges Shakespeare items beginning with a deed and continuing with letters and poems and even a play Vortigern and Rowena. Fooling literary London Ireland even persuades Sheridan to stage Vortigern before the forgery is uncovered. Small selection of black and white plates. From the Thomas M...... READ MORE about THE GREAT SHAKESPEARE FRAUD: THE STRANGE, TRUE STORY OF WILLIAM-HENRY IRELAND

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136878

Landon, Richard; Marie E. Korey (editor).

A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON.

With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey
New Castle, DE and Toronto: Oak Knoll Press and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 440 pages. With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey. "It was at heart Landon's hard work and connections that turned the Fisher Library into the world-class rare book and manuscript collection that it is today... These essays are exactly what polite essays should be: full of recondite information attractively expressed, and somehow..... READ MORE about A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON

Price: $49.95  other currencies  Order nr. 122162