The Boston book show begins in 3 days Friday ! I will be displaying about 100 books from my current stock. Today’s blog has no descriptions !

JUST pictures from books I will be bringing to the show

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Promotional graphic for the 47th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, featuring a globe, compass, quill, and open book on a dark blue background with geometric shapes and event details.

November 7-9, 2025

The Boston Book Fair is the annual fall gathering for book lovers and collectors, featuring the top selection of items available on the international literary market. Mark your calendars for the 47th annual gathering of U.S. and international dealers, sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

Hynes Convention Center 
900 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115
United States

Friday, November 7 | 4pm-8pm | $25 Saturday, November 8 | 12pm-7pm | FREE. Sunday, November 9 | 11am-4pm | FREE

This three-day event features fine and rare materials from around the globe, including manuscripts, modern first editions, children’s books, ephemera, maps and autographs, as well as antiquarian books on a vast array of topics.

FREE admission for students with current valid student ID. Children 12 and under are free.

FREE admission for librarians, curators, and related non-profit cultural institution workers who register in advance with a valid organizational email address (e.g. email@institution.edu or email@institution.org). Use code: LIBRARY47
An ornate black and white woodcut illustration depicting an anchor encircled by flowers and decorative elements, with the words 'ANCHOR SPES' above.
Cover pages of two historical texts: 'A Lamentation for the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel' and 'Some Worthy Proverbs' by Judith Zins-Penninck, showcasing early typography.
Close-up of a beautifully embossed leather cover featuring intricate floral and bird designs.
A collage of book catalog descriptions featuring 'The Theory of the Earth' by Thomas Burnet, with various handwritten notes and annotations.
An illustration depicting a figure in historical clothing standing by the water, gesturing towards the sea, with text in French below reading 'Comment ilz ilz signifi oient chose impossible a faire.'
Illustration of bears interacting with circular platforms in a natural setting, titled 'The Elector of Saxony his Bears Garden at Dresden in Minia'.
A leather-bound book titled 'Collected Poems' displayed on a wooden shelf.
An ancient text page featuring Latin script and a decorative red initial, discussing Saint Martin.
An interior page of a book featuring two ex-libris bookplates: one belonging to Graham Pollard and the other with an illustration of a knight and a coat of arms.
A vintage book with a cream cover featuring black and orange musical notation and text, displayed on a wooden surface.
Close-up of a manuscript page featuring ornate red and black lettering with Latin text.
An open medieval book displaying illuminated manuscript pages with colorful text and an intricate woodcut illustration of two figures, one holding a child.
An old book page with ornate lettering and faded text, possibly a title page, featuring Latin script.
Close-up of an illuminated manuscript page featuring ornate decorative elements, including a stylized animal head at the top left.
Engraving of Sir Francis Bacon, known as the Viscount St. Alban, wearing a formal attire and a broad collar, depicted in an ornate frame.
An illustration of a fantastical creature resembling a blend of a mammal and a rodent, with a fierce expression, exposed teeth, and a bushy tail.
An open historical book page featuring an illustration of a scholar sitting by a desk filled with various geometric instruments and books, alongside a printed index of topics on the right.

A close-up of a manuscript page featuring Latin text with annotations in red ink, including a hand-drawn illustration.
Close-up of an ornate, embossed book cover featuring intricate designs and figures, suggesting an antique book.
A vintage book with ornate leather binding, featuring intricate designs and metal clasps, resting on a wooden surface.
Cover page of 'A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence' from 1628, with an illustration of the Tower of Babel and text describing antiquities and the English nation.

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Seven books 1481-1701
909J Book of Hours, Use of Rome.
The inescapable natural world of Descartes.
Two Incunabula bound together. One Very Rare, printed at Vienne by Eberhard Frommolt.
Sammelband of 5 pre-reformation texts
Two translations of Virgil
Natural ? History & “The devil’s arse”
du Bartas His Deuine Weekes.
Eusebius: Ecclesiasticall Histories 1607
Manuscript of Vincent de Beauvais.
The Works of William Drummond 1711
Three beautiful contemporary bindings.
1521 Commentariorvm Caesaris Elenchvs  in a contemporary binding.
Paradin’s Les Devises héroïques with 217 emblems in a contemporary binding. 1567
Q. Horatius Flaccus, Opera 1481 with two ancient commentators.
Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea  and Anne Wharton Two Female Wits!
Cochlaeus against Luther 1525
Three English books we all know about … but maybe forgot about.
SUSO  Horologium aeternae sapientiae Köln 1501
SYLVA SYLVARUM, Francis BACON
453J Diogenes Lærtius; philosophorum vita
Pharmacopoeia Bateana: or, Bate’s dispensatory 1694
Walter Burley on Aristotle’s Ethics
Julian Pomerius; A Contemplative Life 1487
Experiments on Diverse Natural Things Francesco Redi 1685
Annotated copy of a 1497 Juvenal
A Reformation Rhetoric and Dialectic 1583
The last of the Huguenots In Boston 1732
466J Balthasar de Porta (fl. 1487- 1499)
“An Annotated Livy, Venice 1491: A Humanist’s Working Copy”
Pépin On the Destruction of Nineveh.
The Works of Sir William Davenant 1673
Philosophia Mentis et Sensuum (1698): Jesuit Aristotelianism and Empirical Philosophy
A Proto reformation sammelband of Gregory I
A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence.

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