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April 2022

Come see me at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2022

BOOTH B 30 FOUR NEW CATALOGUES TO BE ISSUED

What it is like (for me at least) to prepare for a book show i.e. the NY international antiquarian Book Fair … 3 days from now..

I could begin with a time line, But I won't. There is a spiderweb of Logistics to negotiate, which after 30 years of doing book fairs I still find no direct or orderly way to do. Yet I do have... Continue Reading →

Catalogue of 15th century books. Fascicule XXXIII

These 22 incunabula will be on display and offered for sale at the the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2022. 33fascicule-15th-ccompressed-smallpdfDownload qr-codeDownload

Early modern Cryptography. Gaspar Schott 1665.

554J Schott, C.  P. Gasparis Schotti e Societate Jesu Schola steganographica In Classes Octo Distributa, Quibus, praeter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur Artificia Nova, Queis quilibet, scribendo Epistolam qualibet de re, & quocunque idiomate, potest alteri absenti, eorundem Artificiorum conscio,... Continue Reading →

The history of the execrable Irish rebellion

Borlase, Edmund [compiler] (1620–1682) The history of the execrable Irish rebellion trac’d from many preceding acts, to the grand eruption the 23. of October, 1641. and thence pursued to the act of settlement.                                                                                                                                          London, England: Henry Brome, Robert Clavel, and... Continue Reading →

Two Literary Incunabula

Boethius and Ficino The Letters of Ficino 1497 The Letters of Marsilio Ficino represent an essential core of his thought and influence as a chief architect of the Platonic and Hermetic revival, the philosophical and revelatory center of the new... Continue Reading →

The Late Middle ages, witchcraft, plagues & social change.

“The Devil constantly roams the earth seeking someone to devour."  565J Bernardino de' Busti. (1440-1513) Rosarium sermonum predicabilium ad faciliorem predicantium com[̃ m]oditatem nouissime co[m]pĩ latum. in quo quicquid preclarum & utile in cu[n]ct̃ is sermonariis usq[ue] in hodiernu[̃ m] editis co[n]tinetur: Hic ingeniose enucleatum atq[ue]... Continue Reading →

FOURTY SIXTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS!

SO I hope that you can scroll down through this list and see \most/ of the 16th century books which I will be bringing to the New York Antiquarian Book show April 21th . fc2b0xxxivc2b034e280a216thc-1Download fc2b0xxxivc2b034e280a216thcDownload https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj9igj54dnuc7ir/F%C2%B0XXXIV%C2%B034%E2%80%A216THC.pdf?dl=0

Come see me at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2022

BOOTH B 30 FOUR NEW CATALOGUES TO BE ISSUED

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