Landon, Richard.

LITERARY FORGERIES AND MYSTIFICATIONS: AN EXHIBITION.

(Toronto, Canada): Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 79+(1) pages. Produced to celebrate and honour the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Pre-Conference held in Toronto 17 to 20 June 2003, on the theme "TRUE/FALSE: Facsimiles, Fakes, Forgeries, and Issues of Authenticity in Special Collections" the exhibition covers various aspects of literary forgery (and one 'real' forgery) from Richard Bentley and the Epistles of Phalaris to the inventions of..... READ MORE about LITERARY FORGERIES AND MYSTIFICATIONS: AN EXHIBITION

Price: $16.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126999

Lebwald, Adam.

DAMOGRAPHIA ODER GEMSEN-BESCHREIBUNG.

Salkburg: Jon. Baptist Mayr, 1730 (but Munichen: G.Franz'schen Buchdruckerei, 1933). 8vo. paper-covered boards. (x), 55+(1) pages. Limited numbered edition (unspecified quantity) facsimile reprint of the 1730 original. Printed as the 13th years volume for the Alpiner Bucherfreunde in 1933, this book teaches theories of medicine and philosophy popular in the eighteenth century. With a frontispiece and some illustration. All in German. Covers faded. READ MORE about DAMOGRAPHIA ODER GEMSEN-BESCHREIBUNG

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 59200

(Mexico). Medina, Jose Toribio.

LA IMPRENTA EN LA PUEBLA DE LOS ANGELES.

Amsterdame: N. Israel, 1964. small 4to. cloth. (vi),lii,823,(3) pages. "First facsimile editions" of bibliographies of imprints in the State of Puebla de los Angeles (now Puebla). The first, by J.T. Medina (1852-1930) first appeared in 1908, for which edition see Besterman 5158. The second, by Teixidor (not in Besterman), was first published in 1961. Medina contains 1,928 numbered entries (not counting subentries) for 1640-1821; the Teixidor "additions," based on the collection of Florencio Gavito, run..... READ MORE about LA IMPRENTA EN LA PUEBLA DE LOS ANGELES

Price: $70.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136051

Moes, Robert J.

THE ZAMORANO PRESS AND THE BOTICA, CALIFORNIA'S FIRST MEDICAL BOOK.

Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1988. small 4to. dark brown cloth spine with lighter woven cloth-covered boards on which is printed a reproduction of the Ramage Press. 23, (3) pages. Limited to 300 copies. A history of the first medical book printed in California, the Botica General De Los Remedios Esperimentados. This book was printed by California's first printer, Agustín Vicente Zamorano on a Ramage wooden press imported from Boston in 1834. With a woodcut..... READ MORE about THE ZAMORANO PRESS AND THE BOTICA, CALIFORNIA'S FIRST MEDICAL BOOK

Price: $17.50  other currencies  Order nr. 62379

(National Library of Medicine).

THE. FIRST CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE SURGEON GENERAL'S: OFFICE WASHINGTON, 1840.

Washington, D.C. (U.S. Government Printing Office), 1961. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Facsimile copy of the original manuscript published to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the National Library of Medicine. Slight soiling to the wrappers. READ MORE about THE. FIRST CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE SURGEON GENERAL'S: OFFICE WASHINGTON, 1840

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 105157

Schedel, Hartmann.

THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, A FACSIMILE OF HARTMANN SCHEDEL'S BUCH DER CHRONIKEN PRINTED BY ANTON KOBERGER IN 1493.

New York: Landmark Press, (1979). folio. fabricoid, spine and cover labels, slipcase. 286 leaves plus index. A facsimile edition of this well known incunabula. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, A FACSIMILE OF HARTMANN SCHEDEL'S BUCH DER CHRONIKEN PRINTED BY ANTON...

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 37331

(Shakespeare, William). Evans, G. Blakemore (editor).

SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Vol. VI. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK ALLEY OTHELLO and Part ii TEXT OF THE SMOCK ALLEY OTHELLO.

2 volumes bound in 1.
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1980. 4to. quarter cloth, paper cover and spine labels. (iv),36; (1) page followed by a 23 page facsimile. 2 volumes bound in 1. From the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, and collations. READ MORE about SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Vol. VI. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK...

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 53840

Stower, Caleb.

THE PRINTER'S GRAMMAR; OR, INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF PRINTING CONTAINING A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ART, WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRACTICE OF PRINTING, FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS.

London: Gregg Press, 1965. 8vo. cloth. xviii, 530, (48) pages. Reprint of the 1808 first edition. (See Bigmore & Wyman II, 403). With an appendix showing specimens of printing type. READ MORE about THE PRINTER'S GRAMMAR; OR, INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF PRINTING CONTAINING A CONCISE HISTORY OF...

Price: $37.50  other currencies  Order nr. 17154

(Type Specimens). MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan.

SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES BORDERS, CUTS, RULES &c.

Philadelphia: MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan, (1997). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 54 pages. A very scarce reprint of part of the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan catalogue issued July 1869. A near fine copy. Includes typefaces offered by the company, corners, borders, other ornaments and musical scores. Publisher's preface to this printing by David Peat notes that the MacKellar firm was a descendant of Binny and Ronaldson, the first successful typefounder in the United States, established..... READ MORE about SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES BORDERS, CUTS, RULES &c

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109559

Wise, Thomas J.

ASHLEY LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS COLLECTED BY THOMAS J. WISE.

Eleven volumes.
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1971. 8vo. small 8vo., cloth. variously paginated. Eleven volumes. Reprint of the first edition which was limited to only 250 sets (Todd 420b). Each volume has an introduction by a famous person in the book world. Profusely illustrated and with full bibliographical descriptions of some of the scarcest books of English literature. Unfortunately included in this collection were the forgeries that Wise had printed himself and elevated to the level..... READ MORE about ASHLEY LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS COLLECTED BY THOMAS...

Price: $550.00  other currencies  Order nr. 17674

(Wise, Thomas J.). Haslam, G.E. (editor).

WISE AFTER THE EVENT A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS RELATING TO THOMAS JAMES WISE DISPLAYED IN AN EXHIBITION IN MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, SEPTEMBER 1964.

Manchester: Libraries Committee, 1964. square 8vo. paper wrappers. xii, 86 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Contains a two page foreword by John Carter. The majority of the material came from Maurice Pariser's collection. READ MORE about WISE AFTER THE EVENT A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS RELATING TO THOMAS...

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2708

(Wise, Thomas J.). Ratchford, Fannie E. (editor).

LETTERS OF THOMAS J. WISE TO JOHN HENRY WRENN A FURTHER INQUIRY INTO THE GUILT OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FORGERS.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 591, xvi pages. First edition. Ratchford's book proved beyond doubt the guilt of Thomas J. Wise as a literary forger and implicated the distinguished men of letters, H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse and thus becomes a necessary supplement to Carter and Pollard's An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. Jacket chipped with pieces missing along edges and is price clipped..... READ MORE about LETTERS OF THOMAS J. WISE TO JOHN HENRY WRENN A FURTHER INQUIRY INTO THE GUILT OF CERTAIN...

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 32496

(Wise, Thomas J.). Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

A ROUNDEL OF RETREAT.

Printed from the Unpublished Original Manuscript in the Library of John S. Mayfield.
London: Charles Ottley, Landon, & Co., 1950. 4to. cream paper wrappers, stapled, upper wrapper lettered in black. [6]+[2] (colophon with Ashley Library device, verso blank). Printed from the Unpublished Original Manuscript in the Library of John S. Mayfield. Edition strictly limited to about Thirty Copies, printed for Thomas J. Wise. A fine copy. *A hoax, produced in imitation of the so-called 'Gullible Papers' - one of which was also a Swinburne pastiche. This purports to..... READ MORE about A ROUNDEL OF RETREAT

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136974