Incunabula

(1512) A di. Nouembrio". Illustrated with 98 amazing smallwoodcuts and with a full-paged woodcut of Dante 1. wandering in the "selva oscura", 2. beset by the lion, leopard and wolf, and 3. led by Vergil.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

Maker: Antonio Zatta (1750 – 1804). Short Title: Southeastern Coast of Africa. (Q – Z) p. 429.

Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known to Germans as Schedel's World Chronicle, published in 1493 in Nuremberg. Originales Inkunabel Einzelblatt mit altkolorierten Holzschnitten aus Schedel's Weltchronik - deutsche Ausgabe, gedruckt bei Koberger, Nürnberg 1493 A.D.

Petrarca (1304-1374) was born in Arezzo Italy and studied law, writing and Latin literature, sharing this passion with his friend Giovanni Boccaccio. In search for old Latin classics and manuscripts, he traveled through France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known to Germans as Schedel's World Chronicle, published in 1493 in Nuremberg. Originales Inkunabel Einzelblatt mit altkolorierten Holzschnitten aus Schedel's Weltchronik - deutsche Ausgabe, gedruckt bei Koberger, Nürnberg 1493 A.D.

Zweispaltig, gotische Type. Mit insgesamt 6 Holzschnitt - Initialen - eine davon größer und schwarzgrundig. In den Bildern die Vorder - und Rückseiten der jeweiligen Blätter nacheinander. Blattgröße ca. 28 x 43 cm.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

Doppelblattgröße ca. 215 mm x 310 mm. Schöner Druck auf Bütten. Sehr guter Zustand, etw. eselsohrig, altersgemäß minim. Im weißen Rand mit Bleistift bezeichnet. Rubriziert, Druck in Rot / Schwarz.

Maker: Antonio Zatta (1750 – 1804). Though culturally intact, by 1781 Poland had gone through two partitions. When this map was issued most of the territory depicted here was under Russian suzerainty.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

His first commission was by the ornithologist Herman Schlegel at the Leiden Museum. Date: 1877. A Great Gift For Any Manuscript Collector. Condition: Very good to Excellent. Size of Print: 312 x 235 mm.

Together, they published this superb work on orchids, Iconographie des Orchidees, in two parts. Ref: Great Flower Books (1890) p160.

Maker: Antonio Zatta (1750 – 1804). DescriptioA colored outlined copper engraved map of The Ukraine and Poland. Short Title: The Ukraine and Poland. (Q – Z) p. 429.

Maker: Antonio Zatta (1750 – 1804). Covers the boundries by the course of the Volga River from north of Romanow to the area south of Saratow. (Q – Z) p. 429. Short Title: Russia & Surrounding Regions.

Martini conceived the idea of publishing the first large-scale encyclopedia of shells illustrated with hand-colored plates. His ambition was to describe and portray every kind of shell known, an ambition which was impossible to fulfil.

And consists of 47-lines of gothic type printed double column in German with ten five-line staves in black. The versoverso 47-lines of gothic type printed double column in German with eight five-line staves in black.

Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known to Germans as Schedel's World Chronicle, published in 1493 in Nuremberg. Originales Inkunabel Einzelblatt mit altkolorierten Holzschnitten aus Schedel's Weltchronik - deutsche Ausgabe, gedruckt bei Koberger, Nürnberg 1493 A.D.

Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known to Germans as Schedel's World Chronicle, published in 1493 in Nuremberg. 2 Originale Inkunabel Blätter mit altkolorierten Holzschnitten aus Schedel's Weltchronik - deutsche Ausgabe, gedruckt bei Koberger, Nürnberg 1493 A.D.

The habitat is mountain forest at altitudes in excess of four thousand feet. The first work appeared in 1831 and the last in 1888, seven years after Gould's death. Though Gould sketched the outline designs of every plate, many of the finished drawings, transfers to Lithographic stone & hand coloring were her work.

It was printed in Venice in 1591.

Estate sale find, antique double sided antiphonal vellum sheet music leaf. Great graphics, displays nicely.

[A leaf from a Graduale Romanum, Ilbenstadt, Germany, 1725 - 1726] for a choir in a fine hand, title and leaves in red and black with six staves to a full page. Decorative borders, Decorative Head pieces and large initials scattered throughout.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

A leaf from an Ottoman Koran, probably Levant, dated AH 1098/ AD 1686, copied by ‘Umad bin Habib’, on paper (158 x 106 mm.). There are thirteen lines to the page written in Naskhi script in black ink, diacritics and vowel points in black, red dots between verses, catchwords in wide margin, sura headings are in red.

Theverso fifteen lines of black naskhi script. Condition of this leaf is Fine [F].

It was printed on June 20, 1492 in Venice by Philippus Pincius. (GW 35396, Goff P-969, Proctor 5293, BMC V 493) This leaf contains minor staining. A Great Gift For Any Manuscript Collector.

Size: 8” x 12.5”.

This is a leaf of incunabula from the, Repertorium Morale by Petrus Berchorius (ca. 1290-1362) also known as Pierre Bercheure, Pierre Berchoire and Pierre Bersuire who was a French Benedictine translator, encyclopaedist, and author.

Kilian Fischer printed it in the German city of Freiburg in 1494. There are two, 2-line versal letters in red and blue as well as minor rubricating throughout the text. (Hain 2068, Proctor 3214, Goff A-1246, GW 2890).

Maker: Antonio Zatta (1750 – 1804). Short Title: Loango Congo Angola Benguela. Full Title: La Guinea Orientale che contiene li Regni di Loango Congo Angola e Benguela. (Q – Z) p. 429.

A very large leaf in Black Letter (Gothic) type from a Latin Vulgate Bible published in Cologne in 1480 by the printer, Nicolaus Gotz or Goetz. This is just twenty-five years after Gutenberg's first Bible of 1455!

[A leaf from a Graduale Romanum, Ilbenstadt, Germany, 1725 - 1726] for a choir in a fine hand, title and leaves in red and black with six staves to a full page. Decorative borders, Decorative Head pieces and large initials scattered throughout.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

A leaf from a large Missale Romanum (305x215mm), dated 1566, and printed by Giovanni Varisco in Venice. There are two columns of printed Gothic text in back ink with forty-one lines of text per column.

This is a leaf of early printing from a First Edition Biblia Sacra, printed by the prolific Thomam Guarinum at Basil in 1578. in totality and contains 64-lines of Roman Type printed double column in Latin.

A leaf from an Ottoman Koran, probably Levant, dated AH 1098/ AD 1686, copied by ‘Umad bin Habib’, on paper (158 x 106 mm.). There are thirteen lines to the page written in Naskhi script in black ink, diacritics and vowel points in black, red dots between verses, catchwords in wide margin, sura headings are in red.

This is an incunabula leaf from the "Summa Angelica de Casibus Conscientiae" written by Angelus de Clavasio. Georgius Arrivabenus printed it on June 4 1492 at Venice from a first edition printed in 1476 and it underwent 31 editions into the 16th century.

Biblia cum summarioru(m) apparatu pleno qaudrupliciq(ue) repertorio insignita.The subject is the second and third epistles of John and Jude. It was printed at Lyon, by Jacques Mareschal for Simon Vincent in 1519.

Published in Nuremberg in 493 by Koberger.". Text in Latin, printed in large Gothic rotunda type, illustrated with six woodcut (front and back of page) of clerics. Pre-owned, pretty good condition, age spots/browning on page, two small pieces of old scotch tape at top where collector taped this to a matte.

Here is an early edition of the "Vulgate" Bible published by the Catholic Church as part of the Counter-Reformation.