Early Books & Manuscripts.
Publisher: B. Quaritch
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Early printed books -- Catalogs.; Rare books -- Catalogs.
Notes: February 2007
Table of contents: value: Manuscripts of Aristotle and S. Augustine; value: first edition of Erasmus' Adagia: the last copy in private hands?; value: Tirant lo Blanc: 'the best book in the world'?; value: first English Beowulf; value: Browne's Relgio Medici; value: first book from the Plantin Press; value: Milton's schoolmaster on spelling reform; value: motels for the Hapsburg Court: a complete set; value: a new Sarum Hours; value: Beckford's Petronius; value: The first printed Breviary, from the press of Nicolaus Jenson; value: Mandeville's Travels in Spanish; value: two years of concert programmes from 18th century London; value: Pico della Mirandola and Politian in the original vellum; value: the first biography of Ivan the Terrible; value: Piacenza en fete.