Study Incunabula, First Edition (12 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardback, original cloth. 26 x 17cm. xviii, [2], 483pp. Slight wear to extremities, some soiling to exterior top-edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Clear plastic jacket, chipped. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931. Very Good+ condition in a chipped, clear plastic dust jacket. NOT a library discard. Hinges are perfect. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Contains a wealth of data on both incunabula and early Americana. Gives info on incunable identification, collation, and reference material. Americana chapters cover: Maritime Discovery; Colonial Growth; the Revolution; and Early Printing in America. Reference sections take up the remaining 300 pages. They define terminology, help identify early bindings, cross reference bibliographical terms in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Latin contractions and abbreviations are explained. Variations on the names of 15th Century printing locations are identified. Nearly 200 pages are used to describe and annotate bibliographies of Incunabula and Americana. Sheehy AA268: "An indispensable reference work and guide for the collector or librarian. Important both for the text and for the extensive annotated bibliographies." Old map illustrated endpapers. Index. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original red cloth. This binding variant is stamped in bright silver on the spine and front cover [some are stamped in gold]. 7.25" wide by 10.25" tall. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ condition/Clear plastic jacket, chipped. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xx, 485pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

First edition, first printing. 483pp. Speckling to top edge (remainder spray?), spots of sunning to spine tips, else fine. Full red cloth, stamped in silver.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good. Frayed at spine ends and corners. Slightly yellowed at edges and spine. Cracked front hinge. Top edge gilt.

Octavo. Cloth. A little spotting near bottom edge. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Martino printing, Limited 150. Mansfield, Connecticut: Maurizio Martino Publisher, 1994. BRAND NEW in perfect condition (just removed from the publisher's shrinkwrap so we could write this description). NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Reprint of the 1923 original. No date (but 1994, first Martino printing). Limited to 150 copies. This bibliography consists of a 36 page introduction and a catalogue with detailed descriptions for 217 medical books published before 1481. Bound in the original pale yellow cloth, stamped in black on the spine. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. First Martino printing, Limited 150. Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. xi, 140pp. + 16 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: in publisher's shrinkwrap. First Martino printing, Limited 150. Mansfield, Connecticut: Maurizio Martino Publisher, 1994. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Reprint of the 1923 original. No date (but 1994, first Martino printing). Limited to 150 copies. This bibliography consists of a 36 page introduction and a catalogue with detailed descriptions for 217 medical books published before 1481. Bound in the original pale yellow cloth, stamped in black on the spine. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. First Martino printing, Limited 150. Hardcover. New/in publisher's shrinkwrap. xi, 140pp. + 16 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. Red buckram with gold stamping on cover and spine. t.e.g., A handsome book in very good condition. copies of orginal reviews from the New York Times and the Saturday Review of Literature laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Covers shelfworn and tanned . Endpapers covered with clippings and annotations of its current price.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. xviii, 240 pages. With a Foreword by Alfred W. Pollard. First edition thus, limited to 350 numbered copies (Asaf 99). Lacking the dust jacket, else a near fine copy. A very important book on the study of incunabula. Printed at The Harbor Press.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xi, 140pp + 16pp bw plates, indexes. Or brown papered boards with light cloth spine (quarter cloth). Minor rounding of corners, minor wear to base of spine, minor rubbing/scratches to boards. Offset toning to endpapers, light even toning to page edges. Several small unobtrusive stamps of the Sandeman Public Library. Originally a Presidential Address in 1914 and published as an extract this is the first complete edition in book form. Covers 214 of the earliest printed medical books. Very scarce in its original state. Size: 4to.

STILLWELL, Margaret Bingham. Incunabula and Americana: 1450-1800. A Key to Bibliographical Study. Original decorated cloth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931. First edition. A fine copy.