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Rare books - Fakes, forgeries

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R.A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston & George D. Painter, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1965, fol., publisher's red boards, dust jacket


Henri Bordier & Emile Mabille, Prince of Forgers [translation of Une fabrique de faux autographes, ou, Récit de l'affaire Vrain Lucas (Paris 1870) by Joseph Rosenblum],

New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 1998, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust jacket


Arthur Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books & Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery, 400 BC-AD 2000, London, Quaritch, 2014, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket


Earle Havens, ed., Fakes, Lies, and Forgeries: Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, 2015, fol., publisher's printed colored paper wrappers


Alfred Hiatt, The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth Century England, London, British Library, 2004, 4to., publisher's cloth, dust jacket


John Blacker, d. 1896

Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of a remarkable collection of books in magnificent modern bindings, formed by an amateur (recently deceased), London, 11 November 1897


Otto Kurz, Fakes: A Handbook for Collectors & Students, London, Faber & Faber, 1948, 4to., publisher's olive‐green cloth, dust jacket


Robin Myers & Michael Harris, ed., Fakes and frauds : varieties of deception in print & manuscript, Winchester & Detroit, St. Paul's Bibliographies / Omnigraphics, 1989, 8vo., publisher's printed boards


Patricia Pierce, The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William‐Henry Ireland, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2004, 8vo., publisher's black cloth boards, dust jacket


Christopher S. Wood, Forgery, replica, fiction : temporalities of German Renaissance art, Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 4to., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket


François de Callataÿ & Claude Sorgeloos, ed., Renier Chalon alias Fortsas: Un érudit malicieux au mitan du XIXe siècle (Monographies du Musée royal de Mariemont, 16), Musée royal de Mariemont, 2008, fol., publisher's printed paper wrappers


William Voelkle & Roger S. Wieck, The Spanish Forger, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, fol., publisher's paper wrappers, ex‐libris and pressure stamp of Saint John's University Library


The Spanish Forger: A Master of Deception, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaulkee, Wisconsin, 10 December 1987 - 28 February 1988


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