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.
ALPHABETICAL TABLES Rightly Resolving Sundry Questions, Problems & Demands, &c.
by Coggeshall, Howard
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition Thus
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Bloomington, Indiana
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$125.00FREE 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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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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$5,749.00$5.00 shipping to USA
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Wislawa.
by [Hagner, Dirk] text by Wislawa Szymborska.
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- Used
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- Edition of 30
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- Hardcover
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Hoover, Alabama
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$465.00$14.35 shipping to USA
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Speaking in Faces: A Type Specimen Book
by [Virginia Center for the Book].
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- Used
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- Edition of 25
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Hoover, Alabama
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$1,200.00$14.35 shipping to USA
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THE BEGINNINGS OF PRINTING IN UTAH WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ISSUES OF THE UTAH PRESS 1849-1860 (IN SLIPCASE)
by McMurtrie, Douglas
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Fairfield, New Jersey
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$575.00$4.00 shipping to USA
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Pandosto: Or the Historie of Dorastus and Fawnia
by Robert Greene
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southampton, Hampshire
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$119.84$30.33 shipping to USA
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La cortigiana: poemetto romantico di C.R.R.
by Author not stated (initialed C.R.R.).
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- Used - Very Good
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Tuxedo Park, New York
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$600.00$5.00 shipping to USA
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GREAT IS PEACE - Gadol Hashalom - Perek Ha-Shalom from the Talmudic Tractate Derekh Eretz Zuta.
by Sperber, Daniel Editor & Zvi Narkiss, Illustrator
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- Used - Fine
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- Limited/Numbered
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Tel-Aviv, Israel
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$180.00$25.00 shipping to USA
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The Nymphs of Fiesole
by Giovanni Boccaccio
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- near fine
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- Hardcover
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Veldhoven, Netherlands
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$1,023.44$29.50 shipping to USA
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The Woman on the Dunes
by Anais Nin
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition
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Veldhoven, Netherlands
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$204.69$29.50 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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$2,423.92$20.00 shipping to USA
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Printing Poetry; A Workbook in Typographic Reification
by Burke, Clifford; Foreword by William Everson
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- Used - Fine
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- Limited First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana
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$350.00FREE 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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- Used - Very Good+
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Milan, Italy
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$3,231.90$25.00 shipping to USA
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The Cats of Copenhagen
by James Joyce
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- Hardcover
- first
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- New
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- First Edition; Numbered Issue, limited to 200 copies.
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- Hardcover
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Ballydehob, Cork
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$484.78$60.00 shipping to USA
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Doctor Faust: A Play. Based Upon Old German Puppet Versions
by Owens, Harry J.; Woodcuts by Fritz Kredel
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- near fine
- Hardcover
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Limited Edition
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington, Indiana
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$150.00FREE shipping to USA