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[LEAF BOOKS] -- DE VINNE, Theodore Low. Aldus Pius Manutius. With an essay by Theodore Low de Vinne together with a leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed at Venice in 1499. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, 1924. 4o. With an original leaf from Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili bound-in; numerous woodcut reproductions. Original cloth-backed boards, with cover label containing Aldine device (some rubbing to cloth and covers, a few minor scratches). Provenance: Edwin Osgood Grover (bookplate); John Hadmar Sticht (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies. Chalmers, Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered 22.
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BULLEN, Henry L. The Nuremberg Chronicle: or, The Book of Chronicles from the Beginning of the World, the most Famous of German Picture Books of the Fifteenth Century, printed in the Free City of Nuremberg in Fourteen Hundred & Ninety-three... San Francisco: John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California, 1930. 2o. With an original leaf from the first Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle bound in; numerous facsimiles and reproductions of woodcuts. Publisher's cloth-backed marbled boards (spine worn, leather spine label perished, board edges bumped). LIMTED EDITION, one of 280 copies containing one leaf, of an edition of 300. Chalmers, Disbound and Dispersed: the Leaf Book Considered 48.
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MUSCATINE, Charles. The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer. An account of the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works From the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times. San Francisco: the Book Club of California, 1963. 2o. With an original leaf from the undated edition of Chaucer's Works (ca 1551) bound in; illustrated with facsimiles and reproductions. Publisher's gilt-decorated cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 copies. Chalmers, Disbound and Confused: the Leaf Book Considered 128.
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[LEAF]. HIERONYMUS. Epistola. [Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis de Valentia, 1497]. A single leaf in Italian, double column, roman letter. With two attractive six-line white vine initials and with two small woodcuts. Goff H-178; BMC VI, 614. (4)
[With:]
BULLEN, Henry L. The Nuremberg Chronicle: or, The Book of Chronicles from the Beginning of the World, the most Famous of German Picture Books of the Fifteenth Century, printed in the Free City of Nuremberg in Fourteen Hundred & Ninety-three... San Francisco: John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California, 1930. 2o. With an original leaf from the first Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle bound in; numerous facsimiles and reproductions of woodcuts. Publisher's cloth-backed marbled boards (spine worn, leather spine label perished, board edges bumped). LIMTED EDITION, one of 280 copies containing one leaf, of an edition of 300. Chalmers, Disbound and Dispersed: the Leaf Book Considered 48.
[With:]
MUSCATINE, Charles. The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer. An account of the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works From the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times. San Francisco: the Book Club of California, 1963. 2o. With an original leaf from the undated edition of Chaucer's Works (ca 1551) bound in; illustrated with facsimiles and reproductions. Publisher's gilt-decorated cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 copies. Chalmers, Disbound and Confused: the Leaf Book Considered 128.
[With:]
[LEAF]. HIERONYMUS. Epistola. [Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis de Valentia, 1497]. A single leaf in Italian, double column, roman letter. With two attractive six-line white vine initials and with two small woodcuts. Goff H-178; BMC VI, 614. (4)