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Alphabets through the Ages.
Denver: The A.B. Hirschfield Press, Inc. 1950. 0. Soft cover. Square quarto. No pagination. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1858
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 35.25 | £UK 29.75 | JP¥ 5725]
Les Ecritures Financières et Italiennes-Bastardes dans leur Naturel. Ouvrage composé de quantité d'exemplaires ...des Alphabets et Pièces d'Ecritures.
Basel: Les Editions Holbein, n.d. [c. 1945]. 0. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 63, [1]ff. One of 500 copies on ordinary paper from a total edition of 550 copies. Original paper boards. Label on upper cover. Corners bumped. Illustrated with 63 calligraphic plates. Facsimile reprint of the Paris, Pierre Drevet edition of 1647. An excellent slightly-enlarged facsimile reprint of one of the most important seventeenth century writing-books, with a descriptive blurb by Jan Tschichold. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1859
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 131.5 | £UK 110.75 | JP¥ 21470]
Ars Erotica. Die Erotische Buchillustration im Frankreich des 18 Jahrhunderts.
No place: Harenberg, 1983. 0. Hardcover. Folio. 3 volumes. In cloth bindings. Dustwrappers. With reproductions of erotic 18th-century French books. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 179
USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 219.25 | £UK 184.75 | JP¥ 35783]
Catalogue: Books about Books, Illustrated Books
Keywords: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, FRENCH LITERATURE, ILLUSTRATIONS
Old Prints and Engravings.
New York: Tudor Publishing Co. 1948. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 281 pages. Blue cloth. Dustwrapper, slightly chipped and missing a piece on top of spine. With 79 illustrations. Reprint of the first American edition. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 505
USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.75 | £UK 20.75 | JP¥ 4008]
Keywords: about Books
A Renaissance Alphabet. Il Perfetto Scrittore, Parte Seconda.
Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. 0. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. xxii, [6]pp. Original cloth binding. With the dustwrapper. Illustrated with 26 plates. Fine facsimile of a 16th century writing book. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1861
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 | £UK 11.25 | JP¥ 2147]
The Bibliographical Decameron: or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography.
London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare Press, 1817. 0. Hardcover. Tall octavo. Three volumes. I: [vi], vi, [ii], ccxxv, [i], 410, [2] pages; II: [iv], 535, [3] pages; III: [iv], 544, [4] pages. With half-title to each volume present. Quarter black calf over black cloth. Title label. Illustrated as follows: I: 16 plates facing pages xiii, xcii, cxii, cxii, cxiii, cxiv, cxv, cxxxviii, cxlii (not found in all copies, since it was not ready at publication & absent here), clxxi, clxxix, clxxx, cxcix, ccxi, ccxvi, 204-205 (double-page), textual engravings & woodcuts, and 15 prints on india paper at pages xiv, xcii, ci, cxxviii, cxlvii, cli, cliv, clxi, clxvii, clxxi, clxxii, clxxxii, ccii (etching in sepia), 44, & 340; II: 6 plates facing pages 27 (double-page), 108, 157, 175, 458, & 466, textual engravings & woodcuts, and 11 prints on india paper at pages 157, 172, 380, 395, 401,403, 417 (red pared calf with gold letterpress), 466 (two prints), 490 (etching in sepia), & 518; III: 16 plates facing pages 51, 199, 206, 249, 263, 281, 293, 302, 327, 344, 351, 368, 435, 440, 475, & 477, textual engravings & woodcuts, and 10 prints on india paper at pages 51, 177, 194 (sepia), 284, 361, 362, 364, 445, 456, & 466. Jackson 40; Bigmore & Wyman I, pp. 169-170; Lowndes II, p. 640; Windle & Pippin A28. Ex-library copy, with the library's perforated stamp on each title-page. Some browning. A very good copy. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1616
USD 900.00 [Appr.: EURO 789 | £UK 664.5 | JP¥ 128820]
Keywords: DIBDIN, Bibliography
La Scrittura.
Milano: Il Saggiatore, 1962. 0. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. No pagination. First Italian edition. Original printed boards. Illustrated extensively, some in color. Translated from the French L'Écriture of 1962. An illustrated history of writing. The author begins by looking at Egyptian hieroglyphics, moves to the ancient near east and into western Europe. This is number 8 in the Serie Storia. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1864
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.75 | £UK 26 | JP¥ 5010]
Contes de Fromaget. Le Cousin de Mahomet. Avec une Notice bio-bibliographique par Octave Uzanne.
Paris: A. Quantin, 1882. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 283 pages. Limited to a small number of copies. In early twentieth-century half cloth over marbled boards, original wrappers retained. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, vignette illustrations and head-pieces. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1090
USD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 79 | £UK 66.5 | JP¥ 12882]
Silagraphy. A New System of Short-Hand. Invented by William Hudson Hurst. Arranged for Self Instruction and Colleges.
Chicago & London: W.H. Hurst Company & A.C. Field, 1910. 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. 108, [iv]pp. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1868
USD 190.00 [Appr.: EURO 166.75 | £UK 140.25 | JP¥ 27195]
Alphabet: International Annual of Letterforms, Volume One, 1964.
London: James Moran Limited for the Kynoch Press, 1964. 0. Hardcover. Folio. 164pp. Title-page on folding sheet; printed in different typefaces. List of typefaces on p. 3. Only one volume published. Original cloth. With the dustwrapper. Illustrated with five folded leaves of plates and textual ones. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1869
USD 68.00 [Appr.: EURO 59.75 | £UK 50.25 | JP¥ 9733]
Formal Penmanship and Other Papers.
New York: Pentalic Corporation, 1977. 0. Soft cover. Small quarto. 156 pages. Original decorated stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated in the text and with plates. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1100
USD 32.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 4580]
Manuscript and Inscription Letters for schools and classes and for the use of Craftsmen ...with 5 plates by A.E.R. Gill.
London: John Hogg, 1909. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Sixteen plates loose in the portfolio. Blue portfolio. Ties present. Illustrated with sixteen calligraphic plates, five by Eric Gill. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1870
USD 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 832.75 | £UK 701.25 | JP¥ 135976]
Fantastic Alphabets: 24 Original Alphabets.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1976. 0. Soft cover. Large quarto. 72 pages. Original decorated stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. Very Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1098
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1718]
Alphabets & Ornaments.
Cleveland: World Publishing Co. 1952. 0. Hardcover. Small folio. 256 pages. First edition. Red cloth. Dustwrapper, some chips and nicks, a small piece missing on top of upper cover. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 472
USD 44.00 [Appr.: EURO 38.75 | £UK 32.5 | JP¥ 6298]
Catalogue: Books about Books, Illustrated Books
Keywords: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, CALLIGRAPHY
Catalogue 60. History, Literature, Sciences, Scholarship Before 1700.
Beverly Hills, California: Harry A Levinson, [1980]. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. Two volumes. Part I (A-D): 90pp.; Part II (E-L): 91-198pp. Decorated stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2195
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 16 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 2576]
Catalogue: Books about Books, Illustrated Books