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Johannes Gutenberg introduced the Western world to moveable type in 1450, but not all 15th Century books were produced using this new technology. These pages are reseved for manuscripts bound in the 15th Century using traditional means.

COMPLETE HAND-RUBRICATED INCUNABULA IN ORIGINAL BLINDSTAMPED WOODEN BINDING: Dialogorum libri quattuor by Pope Gregory I

Basel: Basel: Impressi ac diligentissime correcti per Michael Furter, 1496. Full leather. Very Good. Quarto, printed by Michael Furter, Basel, 1496, with dated closing colophon. COLLATION: 58 leaves complete; signatures a8, b-f8, h8, i6. TEXT: double ...

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Canzoniere et Trionfi by Francesco Petrarca

[Sant'Orso]: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 1474. Second edition of this version; the seventh edition in total.Petrarch's poetry in Italian, the Canzoniere and the Trionfi count among the most celebrated and influential works in western literature. In the...

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€75,000.00

HAND RUBRICATED TEXT IN GOTHIC OAK BINDING BY ARTHUR GREEN: Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum homo: et de his que sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendum seipsum et Deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam Deo quam proximo. by De Sabunde, Raymundus (Raimundus Sabundus, Raymond of Sebonde or Ramon Sibiuda, Catalan scholar, c.1385-1436)

Strasbourg: Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris, 1501. Half leather. Fine. Folio, printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach, 7 February 1501; 161 unnumbered leaves. BINDING: new Gothic hand-sewn oak binding by Arthur Green of Malvern; tawed...

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Incipit passio sancti Meynrhadi martyris et heremite

Edited by Sebastian Brant. Basel: Michael Furter, XII. kal. octobris (= 20 September) 1496. First Latin edition.The legend of a Swiss saint and the foundation of Einsiedeln Abbey. This small incunable contains the account of the life of St. Meinrad of Ein...

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Spiegel der waren Rhetoric by Friedrich Riederer

Freiburg im Breisgau: Friedrich Riederer, 11 December 1493. – First edition. The first complete rhetoric in German. Friedrich Ried(e)rer's (c. 1450-c. 1510) work has to be esteemed as a landmark in the domain of rhetoric. Comprising ars rhetorica, ars d...

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[Summa de virtutibus] [On the Virtues ; The Summation of Virtues] [Quintæ Partis Principalis, Tractatus de Beatitudinibus] by Peraldus, Guilelmus ca. 1190-1271 [var. Guillermus Parisiensis, Guilielmus, Guilelmus, Guillaume Perrault, Guilelmus, Willelmi de Peraldo, Wilhelm Peraldus, Guilelmus de Petra Alda, Guillaume de Peyraud] ; Michael Wenßler [Wenssler], fl. 1472-1497

[Basle, Switzerland : Michael Wenßler (Wenssler), 1475], 1475. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 169 Folio leaves ; 31 cm. ; 2° ; bound in quarter suede with three raised bands, hand-written titles on spine ; an incuna...

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Fasciculus Te[m]por[um] Omnes Antiquorum Cronicas Complecte[n]s by Rolewinck, Werner Rolewinck 1425-1502

[Strassburg: Johann Pruss, not before 1490.], 1490. Bound in a half vellum over raised bands. Rubricated throughout. 17 different wood cuts.. Goff R276 ; Hain-C. 6916; GW M38725; Schreiber, Manuel, 5119; Polain (B) 3362. Beautiful and rare illustrated in...

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PRECORDIALISSIMI ac imp[re] ciabiles de adve[n]tu d[omi]ni Sermones co[m]pleti a Revere[n]do patre D. Joan[n]e Cleree ordinis p[re] dicatoru[m] g[e]neral. magistro artiu[m] ac sacre pagle doctore Parrhissie aureo quide[m] ordle editi atque declamati ad dei honorem animarumque salute[m] nu[n]c primum in lucem emissi felicite incipiunt by Clérée, Jean Clérée (1450-1507) Du Chastel, Jean. ; (Editor)

Paris: Jacobeo, sub signo Pellicani ab Engleberto Marnefio, 1522. Second edition. Signatures: a-g8, h6(h5-6 both blank, half of h5 missing and lacking h6) LXII f. Bound in original vellum limp binding with hand lettering on spine "Cleree sermones/aVe...

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Lucensium Oratio Luculentissima Pont. Maximo Alexandro Sexto per Nicolaum Tygrinu[m] Lucensem Vtriusq]ue] Iuris by Tygrinus or Nicolaus Tegrinus or Tegrini

Rome: [Andreas Freitag],15 October 1492, 1492. Later black roan & gray boards, spine letters gilt.Binding slightly worn, first leaf lightly soiled. Ex-libris Walter Goldwater. Oration such as this are usually rare and short this one is both it is a tribu...

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SOLINUS DE MEMORALIBUS MUNDI. by SOLINUS, Caius Julius.:

Venetiis, anno Domini. M. CCCC. LXXXXVIII. die. X. Marci. (1498).. INCUNABULA 1498. Ex library copy, 1 ink stamp only to title page, TEXT IN LATIN. 8vo, approximately 1195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5½ inches, 46 unnumbered leaves, 92 pages, signatures: a-e8, f6....

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