Paris, France: Typographia Regia, 1729. miniature book (11.4 by 7.4 cm.). original leather, gilt stamping and five raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers. (iv), 86 pages. Text in Latin. A. Bernard, 91 and 171. Printed as a specimen of the press's new small sized type. Issued in 32mo, 24mo, 18mo, and 16mo. Corners of covers slightly rubbed and scuffed. Lacks frontispiece. READ MORE
Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 130877
Glasguae (Glasgow), Scotland: R. & A. Foulis, 1754. miniature book (7.8 by 5.0 cm.). original vellum boards, spine gilt-stamped with title and decorations, all edges gilt. (ii), 158 pages. Gaskell 274; Brunet IV, 660; Spielmann 413; Bondy 23-4. Text in Greek. Ex editione Oxoniensi. Between 1754 and 1758, Foulis published miniature versions, four volumes in three, of Pindar's Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, and Isthmia. This volume is the first. Gaskell notes that Volumes III and IV "normally bound up together." Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE
Price: $2,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 130875
London: Sotheby, Parke Bernet & Co. 1982. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 166 pages. Auction, June 22, 1982, mostly 15th century manuscripts, but includes some earlier items. 100 lots. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Listing of estimated bids laid in. Ink stamps on top corner of dust jacket. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 107983
