Book production - Printing - Italy, 1495-1515 - Venice - Aldo Manuzio

Lot Comprises:

Christopher De Hamel, Joel Silver, John P. Chalmers, Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Thompson, Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered, Chicago, The Caxton Club, 2005, small fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Aldus Pius Manutius: With an essay by Theodore Low De Vinne together with a leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed in Venice in 1499, San Francisco, Grabborn Press, 1924, fol., no. 175 of 250 copies, publisher's half black cloth over brown boards gilt

Carey Bliss, Julius Firmicus Maternus and the Aldine edition of the Scriptores astronomici veteres: with an original leaf printed by Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1499, Los Angeles, Kenneth Karmiole, 1981, fol., leaf book, edition limited to 164 copies, publisher's cloth

Nicolas Barker, Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century with original leaves from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus' Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518, Sandy Hook, CT, 1985, fol., publisher's red cloth gilt, red cloth slip case

Sold as a group, not subject to return.