Typography
Many people are fascinated by the history of typography, and there is a large selection of rare, antique, and hard-to-find typography books available in the Biblio Rare Book Room. Some of the books featured here focus on the history of typography as a whole, and others focus on the typographies of specific cultures and traditions. The history of typography is vast and diverse, as each society developed their own blend of typography and type design. Long before Gutenberg's printing press, people were developing stamps and clay impressions of commonly used characters to more quickly print and publish books.
Typography goes far beyond the eternal debate of "serif vs. sans serif", and many of our booksellers have rare and special books dedicated to the science and art behind typography. If you love the written word, it would be only appropriate to feature some of these books in your antique book collection.
The History of Monmouthshire; Illustrated and Ornamented by Views of its Principal Landscapes, Ruins, and Residences;
by WILLIAMS David 1738-1816
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- very good
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Llandudno, Conwy
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NZ$6,177.58NZ$30.00 shipping to USA
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A survey of the cities of London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities. Written at first in the year MDXCVIII. By John Stow, citizen and native of London. Since reprinted and augmented by A.M. H.D. and other. Now lastly, corrected, improved, and very much enlarged: and the survey and history brought down from the year 1633, (being near fourscore years since it was last printed) to the present time; by John Strype, M.A. a native also of the said city. Illustrated with exact maps of the city and suburbs, and of all the wards; and likewise of the out-parishes of London and Westminster: together with many other fair draughts of the more eminent and publick edifices and monuments. In six books. To which is prefixed, the life of the author, writ by the editor. At the end is added, an appendiz of certain tracts, discourses and remarks, concerning the state of the city of London. Together with a perambulation, or circuit-walk four or five miles rou
by STOW, John (1525?-1605)
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- Used - Fine
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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NZ$12,947.72NZ$5.00 shipping to USA
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[Color Plate] Select Views of London. With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of its Public Buildings
by PAPWORTH, J[ohn]. B[uonarotti]., 1775-1847
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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NZ$8,217.96NZ$5.00 shipping to USA
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Depression Dog / Chapter Four & Chapter Ten from the as yet unpublished novel, The Bitter Half: with original illustration by Jim lee, Henrik Drescher, Peter Sis & David Mclimans (in order of appearance)
by [Perishable Press] Toby Olson.
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- Used
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- Edition of 107
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- Hardcover
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Hoover, Alabama
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NZ$4,223.00NZ$14.35 shipping to USA
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[Bodoni] Songe de Poliphile, Vol I - II
by COLONNA, Francesco
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- Used - Very Good
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Kraków, Poland
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NZ$3,972.90NZ$65.00 shipping to USA
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Apparently with no surprise.
by [Hagner, Dirk] Emily Dickinson.
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- Used
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- Edition of 8
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Hoover, Alabama
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NZ$5,405.44NZ$14.35 shipping to USA
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Opera omnia nunc primum cum codd. Vaticanis collata praefatione, variantibus lectionibus, notis rerum verborumque indice locupletissimo aucta et illustrata.: 2 parts bound in two volumes
by Prudentius, Aurelius
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- Used
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- First edition.
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Tuebingen, Germany
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NZ$4,110.75NZ$20.00 shipping to USA
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Lepidoptera.
by Hagner, Dirk].
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- Used
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- Edition of 6
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Hoover, Alabama
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NZ$7,770.32NZ$14.35 shipping to USA
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Pro Neo-Caesare Eustachii Cartoli Sistrum.
by Cartoli, Eustachio
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Tuebingen, Germany
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NZ$8,221.50NZ$20.00 shipping to USA
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Epreuve du premier alphabet droit et penché, ornée de quadres et de cartouches.
by Luce, (Louis).
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Tuebingen, Germany
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NZ$6,942.60NZ$20.00 shipping to USA
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The Mask of Evil.
by Hagner, Dirk].
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- Used
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- Edition of 10
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- Hardcover
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Hoover, Alabama
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NZ$4,729.76NZ$14.35 shipping to USA
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[Italian private press] Eleven poems: (please contact us for a detailed description of the small collection)
by Merini Alda (Milano, 1931 – Milano, 2009)
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- Paperback
- first
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Paperback
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Milan, Italy
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NZ$5,481.00NZ$25.00 shipping to USA
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[A magnificent copy of an «Édition magnifique» (Brunet) by Bodoni] Fables […] tome premier [- second]
by La Fontaine Jean de (Château-Thierry, 1621 – Parigi, 1695)
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Milan, Italy
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NZ$18,270.00NZ$25.00 shipping to USA
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Finn's Hotel
by Joyce, James
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- New
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- First Edition; Deluxe Issue; one of ten copies numbered I-X.
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- Hardcover
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Ballydehob, Cork
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NZ$6,029.10NZ$60.00 shipping to USA
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Trattato della Sanctissima Charità: Printed 'at the instance’ of the Dominican tertiary nuns of the Monastery of Santa Caterina del Paradiso in Siena: the Essling's copy
by Dominici Giovanni (al secolo Banchini o Baccini Giovanni, Firenze, 1356 o 1357 – Buda, 1419)
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- first
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- Used - Very Good+
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Milan, Italy
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NZ$17,904.60NZ$25.00 shipping to USA