Holbrook T. Mitchell Collection, Early Books and Illuminated Manuscripts

Four volumes in Italian: 1.-2. LETI, GREGORIO. Vita di Don Pietro Giron, Duca D'Ossuna, Vicere di Napoli, E di Sicilia, sotto il Regno di Filipp...

Five Volumes: A COLLECTION OF THE MOST REMARKABLE TRIALS OF PERSONS FOR HIGH-TREASON, MURDER, RAPES, HERESY, BIGAMY, BURGLARY; AND OTHER CRIMES AND MI

Three 16th century volumes: 1. ENNIUS. Poetae Cum Primis Censendi, Annalium, Libb. XIIX, Quae apud various Auctores superant, Fragmenta: conlecta, com

QU'RAN . A Persian Qu'ran, c. 19th century. In Arabic, illuminated on paper. 18mo (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.). Brown embossed morocco, the central ...

[BOOK OF HOURS.] Manuscript, Illuminated Book of Hours, c. 15th-16th Century, in Latin. 12mo (7 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.). Full brown blindstamped moro

WATSON, FREDERIC. A New and Complete Geographical Dictionary. Containing a full and accurate Description of the several Parts of the Known World, as d

Two large folio volumes: MONTFAUCON, M. DE.  A Collection of Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities in France, in Upwards of Three Hundred large

VIRGIL. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Ex Editione Petri Burmanni. 2 Vols. in one. Folio (15 x 10 in.). Glasgow: Andre

MAXIMUS  , VALERIUS.  Nuper Editus. Index Copiosissimus rerum omnium, & personarum, de quibus in his libris agit

CATULLUS, TIBULLUS, PROPERTIUS. [Edited by Aldus Manutius and Girolamo Avancio]. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1515. 16mo (6 11/16 x 4 3/16 in.). F

ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA. Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septum Libros. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1521. 16mo (6 11/16 x 4 in.). Full r

CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. M. T. Ciceronis Epistolarum ad Atticus, ad Brutum, ad Quintum Fratrem, Libri XX Nuper Exacta Reco Gniti Cura. Venice:

QUINTILIANI, M. F. Institutionum Oratoriarum libri XII diligentius recogniti. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1522 (on title page)/15

JUSTINI. Trogi Pompei Externae Historiae in Compendium AB IV Stino Re-Dactae. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1522. 16mo (6 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.).

GELLIUS. Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum Li-Bri Unevi-Ginti. Venice: Aldi and Soceri, 1515. 16mo (6 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.). Full vellum, four raised bands, gi

OPUSCULA MYTHOLOGICA PHYSICA ET ETHICA. GRAECE ET LATINE. Seriem eorum sistit pagina Praesationem proxime sequens. Th. Gale S. Amsterdam: Henricum Wet

TENTZELII, W. E. Saxonia Numismatica Lineae Ernestinae. German and Latin. Dresden: Joh. Riedeln, 1705. 8vo (8 x 7 in.). Full vellum, gilt-stamped titl

WILLIS, THOMAE. Cerebri Anatome: Cui Accessit Nervorum Descriptio et Usus. Studio Thomae Willis, Ex Aede Christi Oxon. M. D. & in ista Celeberir...

CHARDIN, JOHN, SIR. The Travels of Sir John Chardin Into Persia and the East Indies, The First Volume, Containing the Author's Voyage from Paris...

1. RICAUT, PAUL. The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing the Maxims of the Turkish Polity, the most Material Points of the

FUNCK-BRENTANO, FRANTZ. La Regence 1715-1723. Paris: Goupil & Cie; Manzi, Joyant & Cie, 1909. No. 17 of a Limi

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF E

THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATIONS OF THE SACRAMENTS. AND OTHER PARTS OF DIVINE SERVICE FOR THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Ed

Three 17th century volumes: 1. SCALIGERI, IOSEPHI. Epistolae omnes quae reperiri potuernunt, nune primum collectae ac editae. Leiden: Bonavent

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.] A vellum manuscript leaf depicting a scene from the Book of Hours. Possibly late 15th/early 16th century. The miniature

GUTENBERG AND THE CATHOLICON OF 1460. A Bibliographic Essay by Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Together with an Original Leaf of the Catholicon. N

[EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS FRAGMENTS.] 11 papyrus fragments, likely all from a single leaf, lettered/drawn in black. At least two sets of three fragments appea

[INDIAN MINIATURES.] Three Indian miniature paintings, matted and framed to match. One measures 9 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (site), and depicts a procession wit

[EARLY PRINTING.] A rubricated leaf identified as being "from a Royal Copy of the First Hand Bible, Basel, 1491." Two columns of Gothic sc...

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.] A vellum leaf from a 14th-century breviary. Latin text, written in a large Gothic hand. Early notations on the side, ar

[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.] A single leaf of small illuminated Latin text in two columns, both sides of leaf. There are two initial

[QU'RAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF.] Manuscript leaf on paper, having Arabic black script in blocked borders, with larger script in three ...

[FRENCH DECREE.] Arrest du Conseil D'Estat du Roy, qui decharge du Droit de Controlle les Quittances qui seront donnes au Tresor Royal pour rais...

[NUREMBERG CHRONICLE.] A single illustrated leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel. The visible side (the leaf is currently shrink-wra

[ILLUMINATED CHOIR BOOK LEAVES.] Eight illuminated vellum leaves from large choir books. Sizes range from approximately 19 1/2 x 30 in. to 32