An Early Slavonic Psalter From Rus, Volume 1: Photoreproduction
Cambridge Harvard University Press 1979 4to (31 cm), X, 179 pp. Publusher's cloth and dust jacket. This volume contains a photoreproduction of the surviving parts of a manuscript written in Rus' ca. 1100 A.D. The main portion is in the library of the Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai, and a fragment is in the Leningrad Public Library. Any manuscript of this age is valuable for the information it provides about the language and culture of early Rus', but the significance of this combined codex is enhanced by the fact that it is the oldest representative of a special revision of the Psalter text which became standard in Rus' but not elsewhere in the world of the Orthodox Slavs. The volume also includes photoreproductions of portions of a mid-twelfth century Psalter from Rus' which is the second-oldest witness to this text.
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A Picture Book of Bookbindings. Part I: Before 1550. Part II: 1550-1800
London Victoria & Albert Museum 1927 2 volumes 12mo (18.5 cm), 4 pp, 20 plates; 4 pp, 20 plates. Printed wrappers (wrappers little frayed at extremities). The second part published in 1933.
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Book Handbook: An Illustrated Quarterly for Discriminating Book-Lovers. 1951. Volume 2 No 1
London The Dropmore Press Limited 1951 12mo (19 cm), 50 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly darkened at edges). For contents see the scan.
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Book History: Volume 1. Edited by Ezra Greenspan & Jonathan Rose
Pennsylvania State University Press 1998 8vo (23.5 cm), XI, 306 pp. Publisher's cloth. Annual publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Included essays "The Destruction of the Book" by ian Donaldson, "Geographical Information Systems: A New Research Method fro Book History" by Fiona A. Black and others, "Corporatism and consensus in the Late Eigteen-Century Book Trade" by Richard B. Sher, "Reading Lind Mania: Print Culture and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Audiences" by Sherry Lee Linkon.
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Book History: Volume 2. Edited by Ezra Greenspan & Jonathan Rose
Pennsylvania State University Press 1999 8vo (23.5 cm), VI, 268 pp. Publisher's cloth. Annual publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. In the second volume included essays "In Search of "The Word of the Other": Aboriginal Sign Systems and the History of the Book in Canada" by Germaine Warkentin, "Rural Reading in Northwest England: The Sedbergh Book Club, 1728-1928" by K. A. Manley, "the Boundaries of American Religious Publishing in the Early Twentieth Century" by Joan Shelley Rubin.
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Book Types from Clowes: A specimen book of type faces from Clowes, set, printed and bound at their works at Beccles
Beccles William Clowes and Sons 1965 4to (28 cm), XI, 458 pp. Publisher's cloth (little rubbed et extremities). From the foreword: "This type specimen book shows, on a suitable paper, every text face we hold that is in current use. Its content should prove self-explanatory, and, if we have not failed in our intent, of help in the production and design of books. Text sizes are shown as pages with conventional dimensions and margins. Each type face is preceded by a page of data."
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British Museum. Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts. Series I
London Trustees of the British Museum 1923 4to (25.5 cm), brochure 16 pp and 50 plates. Cloth-backed boards portfolio (light shelfwear). Third edition. The 50 collotype plates are reproductions from a selection made by Sir George Warner in 1906 of the illuminated manuscripts then exposed to public view in the Grenville Library. The series was designed to cover as wide a field in the history of illumination as possible.
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Cantica Canticorum. Reproduit en fac-similé sur l’exemplaire de la Bibliothèque nationale par Adam Pilinski
Paris Adam Pilinski et fils 1883 4to (32 cm), [4], 3 pp, 16 ff of facsimiles. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered front board (binding and front end-paper little stained). A facsimile reprint of a book-block preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Canticum canticorum blockbook illustrates the Christian allegory of divine love derived from the Old Testament book of the Song of Solomon or Song of Songs. Limited to 100 copies and few copies on special paper which imitates the original. This is a copy on special paper. Adam Piliński (1810-1887) was Polish engraver who in 1832 moved to Paris and was famous for his techniques of reproduction of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books. Among his patrons were Duke of Aumale, Ambroise Firmin Didot and Joseph Techener. An introduction to the facsimile was written by another Polish émigré Gustaw Pawlowski (1842-1913), who was at the time a personal librarian of Ambroise Firmin-Didot. Monuments de la xylographie series, VI. Trois cents chefs-d'oeuvre en fac-similé, no. 122.
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Catalogue of bindings by Jacob Krause and masters of his circle. Part 1 - 2
Moscow Pashkow dom 2015 2 volumes 8vo (21 cm), 656 pp; 511 pp. Laminated publisher's boards. In Russian. Described and illustrated 381 bindings (the first part) and 255 bindings (in the second part) by Jacob Krause, Caspar Meuser, Jabob Wiedlich, Urban Koeblitz from the collection of the Russian State Library.
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Catalogue of bindings by Jacob Krause and masters of his circle. Part 2
Moscow Pashkow dom 2017 8vo (21 cm), 511 pp, 24 ff of plates. Laminated publisher's boards. In Russian. Described and illustrated 255 bindings by Jacob Krause, Caspar Meuser, Jabob Wiedlich, Urban Koeblitz from collection of Russian State Library. The first part was published in 2015.
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Cimelio Tipografico Pittorico Offerto Agli Augustissimi Genitori del Re Di Roma. The "Cimelio" of Bodoni: The work and its printer in essays
Verona Stamperia Valdonega 1991 2 volumes folio (39 cm), [85] ff; 76 pp. Crimson morocco, spine and boards gilt, blue morocco gilt-lettered label, all edges gilt and matching crimson boards gilt, matching crimson slipcase (the label of the first volume little scratched, a small stain on the front of the slipcase). Limited to 400 copies, this is copy no. 197. The birth of the son of Napoleon and Marie Louise in 1811 provided the great italian typographer Giambattista Bodoni with the opportunity of producing one of his last masterpieces: "Cimelio Tipografico Pittorico Offerto Agli Augustissimi Genitori del Re Di Roma". The remarkable typographical enterprise printed as a gift in one copy contains 40 compositions in verse, printed in 40 different typefaces, and, alongside each of them, 40 miniatures specially commissioned and colored by the Parmesan artist Antonio Pasini. This edition, designed and realized by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, consist of two volumes: a facsimile, for which Bodoni's texts were printed in flat bed letterpress with the frames and miniatures printed in nine color offser, on specially made papers by Cartiere Magnani, Pescia. The second volume includes commentaries "Description and history of the unicum" by Corrado Mingardi, "Typography in England and France in the age of Giambattista Bodoni" by James Mosley, "The Cimelio and its library" by Bernard Chevalilier, "A Bodoni chronology" by Corrado Mingardi and Technical note on producing this beautiful facsimile by its designer a and printer Martino Mardersteig.
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De Belles Heures van Jean, duc de Berry. Inleiding en toelichting van Millard Meiss & Elizabeth H. Beatson
Uitgeveverij Het Spectrum Utrecht/Antwerpen 1970 8vo (24.5 cm), 268 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In cloth slip-case with pasted on reproduction. Dutch edition of a facsimile of the "Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry", an illuminated manuscript book of hours, commissioned around 1409 by the French prince John, Duke of Berry from the Limbourg brothers, the most gifted artists of their time. Along with the "Très Riches Heures", also made for Jean, the Belles Heures ranks among the great masterpieces of the Middle Ages.
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Dehemelvaart van Mohammed. Inleiding en toelichtingen van Marie-Rose Séguy
Uitgeveverij Het Spectrum Utrecht/Antwerpen 1977 4to (30 cm), 157 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In cloth slip-case with pasted on facsimile. A facsimile with commentaries of "The miraculous journey of the Prophet" from themanuscript Suppl. Turc, 190. Bibliothèque National, Paris.
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De libris compactis miscellanea. Edited by Georges Collin
Bruxelles Bibliotheca Wittockiana 1984 4to (31.5 cm), 437, [5] pp. Publisher's cloth. The first volume in 'Studia bibliotecae Wittockianae' series is a collection of 15 essays on the history of bookbinding, including “Un très ancienne reliure à claies de parchimin (Oxford, MS Bodley 807)” by Jean Vezin; “Neu entdeckte Lederschnitteinbände de 15. Jahrhunderts” by Friedrich-Adolf Schmidt-Künsemüller; “Medieval blind-stamped bindings associated with Durham Cathedral Priory” by A.I. Doyle; “Two early sixteenth-century binder's shops in Rome” by Anthony Hobson; “ Some bookbinders' price lists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries” by Mirjam Foot; “Pierre Vente et compagnie?” by Paul Culot; “Übersicht der ungarischen Einbandgeschichte” by Marianne Rozsondai.
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Designer Bookbinders 2
Designer Bookbinders 1972 Oblong 8vo (15.5 x 23 cm), [52] pp. Printed wrappers. Established in 1955 the Designer Bookbinders is the principal bookbinding society in Great Britain. The publication, which includes 38 illustrations of bindings by 24 binders, is an illustrated directory of fellows of the society.
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Designer Bookbinders 3: An Illustrated Directory of Fellows
Designer Bookbinders 1978 8vo (20.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers. Established in 1955 the Designer Bookbinders is the principal bookbinding society in Great Britain. The publication includes 52 illustrations of bindings by 21 binders.
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Designer Bookbinders Review no. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Designer Bookbinders 1977 5 volumes 8vo (21 cm), 24 pp each, printed wrappers. Five issues (from 14) of the review published by Designer Bookbinders, the principal bookbinding society in Great Britain. After issue 14 it was replaced by replaced by the "The New Bookbinder".
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Drukarnia Narodowa 1858-1958
Kraków Drukarnia Narodowa 1958 4to (29.5 cm), 152, [4] pp, 16 plates with mounted illustrations. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities). In Polish. A monograph published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Drukarnia Narodowa in Kraków.
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Early to Bed and Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy & Wise. A Variety of Enduring Delections from the Press of Benjamin Franklin
Westvaco 1971 8vo (24 cm), 106 pp. Publisher's cloth, slipcase. West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (Westvaco) Christmas book for the year 1971. Designed by Bradbury Thompson. From the foreword: "In the 84 years of his distinguished life Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) earned great fame as a printer, writer, editor and publisher, philosopher, inventor, scientist, public servant, politician and statesman. In this volume we have selected a range of Franklin's writings, drawing heavily on the proverbs and essays praising prudence, common sense, honesty and good health, which appeared in his 'Poor Richard's Almanac', published from 1732 to 1757. We have also included letters and essays written in the latter part of his life, which reveal the moral and mental depth of the man".
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English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Volume 11. Manuscripts and Their Makers in the English Renaissance. Edited by Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo
London The British Library 2002 8vo (23.5 cm), viii, 248 pp. Publishet's cloth and dust jucket. Since its inception in 1989, EMS has established itself as the foremost venue for the study of manuscript sources for British literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Aiming as much as ever to explore the possibilities of manuscript study in this period, Volume 11 includes significant contributions by some of the leading authorities in the field. Contents include: "Philip Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and that False Knave Alexander Dicsone" by Peter Beal; "A New Manuscript Fragment of Sidney's Old Arcadia" by Henry Woudhuysen; "The Cultural and Textual Importance of Folger ms V.a.89" by Arthur F. Marotti; "A Feather from the Black Swan's Wing: Hugh Holland's Owen Tudyr (1601)" by Katherine Duncan-Jones; "John Mott and The Newe Metamorphosis" by Hilton Kelliher; "The foule sheet and ye fayr: Henslowe, Daborne, Heywood and the Nature of Foul-Paper and Fair-Copy Dramatic Manuscripts" by Grace Ioppolo; "The Manuscript Sources for Constantijn Huygens' Translations of Four Poems by John Donne, 1630" by Richard Todd; "The Black Poet of Ashover, Leonard Wheatcroft" by Cedric C. Brown); "Renaissance Manuscript Anthologies" by Steven W. May); "Systemizing Sigla" by Harold Love.
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English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Volume 7. Edited by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths
London The British Library 1998 8vo (23.5 cm), [6], 304 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket. English Manuscript Studies is an annual periodical reflecting the growing level of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Contents of vol. 7: "Professional Scribes in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England", by Michael Gullick; "Where were the Latin Classics in Twelfth-Century England?", by Rodney Thomson; "Manuscripts of Ovid in England 1100-1500", by Kathryn L. McKinley; "The 'Lost' Essex House Masque (1621): A Manuscript Text Discovered", by Timothy Raylor; "Two Francis Quarleses: The Emblem Poet and the Suffolk Parson", by Karl Josef Holtgen; "Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions", by Julia Griffin; "The Letterbooks of Mary Evelyn", by Frances Harris; "A Northampton Poetic Miscellany of 1455-56", by Bradford Y. Fletcher and A. Leslie Harris; "Jesus College Oxford, MS 39: Signs of a Medieval Compiler at Work", by Edward Jones; "MS Digby 233 and the Patronage of John Trevisa's De tegimine principum", by Charles F. Briggs; "A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: 'Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears'", by Gillian Wright; "Manuscripts at Auction: January 1995 to December 1996", by H. R. Woudhuysen.
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Foreign Language Printing in London, 1500-1900. Edited by Barry Taylor
London The British Library 2002 8vo (24 cm), VIII, 273 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. For centuries London has boasted a rich variety of communities from all over Europe. 13 papers included in the book and written by British Library curators and other specialists in the history of the book, examine a long tradition of London printing in German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, Modern Greek, Russian, Polish and Hungarian.
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Getijdenboek voor Etienne Chevalier. Musée Condé, Chantilly
Het Spectrum 1971 4to (27.5 cm), 126 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt, cloth slip-case (slip-case little dusted),
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Het Book of Kells. 126 afbeeldingen in kleur en 75 illustraties in zwart-wit - Met een toelichting door Francoise Henry
Uitgeveverij Het Spectrum Utrecht/Antwerpen 1970 4to (34.5 cm), 229 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt front cover. In cloth slip-case with pasted on reproduction from the text. A facsimile edition of the Book of Kells with 126 full page color illustrations. Introduction and commentaries in Dutch.
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Heures de Turin: 45 feuillets à peintures provenant des Très belles Heures de Jean de France, duc de Berry
Torino Bottega d' Erasmo 1960 Folio (35.5 cm), XXX, 27 pp, 45 plates. Publisher's cloth. The second edition (the first 1904) of the facsimile of Turin Hours with the preface by Albert Chatelet.
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Introligatorzy i ich klienci. Bookbinders and their customers
Toruń Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika 2017 8vo (22.5 cm), 341 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. The second volume of the "Polish Bookbinding Studies" series contains 17 papers delivered at the 2nd Polish Bookbinding Conference in Toruń, 17-18 November 2016. Their content is centered around the main theme of the conference: "Bookbinders and their customers". Included "Pursuing Warmian bookbinding: Late-Gothic workshop ascribed to Lidzbark" by Ewa Chlebus, "Late-gothic bindings of Master of Small Tools in Ossolineum collection" by Dorotha Sidorowicz-Mulak, "Bookbinders of the elites" by Arkadiusz Wagner, and others. Introduction in Polish and English, the articles in Polish with extensive summaries in English.
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Katalog ruchnyh shriftov i nabornyh ukrashenij
Kharkov Prapor 1973 8vo (22 cm), 224 pp. Hardcover. In Russian. A catalogue of types and typographical decorative elements produced by Kharkov type factory.
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Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik III = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia III
Moscow Kniga 1960 4to (27 cm), 496 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little scratched and stained, end-papers toned). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik II = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia II
Moscow Kniga 1960 4to (27 cm), 432 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and stained, end-papers toned). In Russian with contents and abstracts in English. Included "Moscow bookprinting in the 17th century" by P. N. Kiselev; "Slavonic incunabula in the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library"by V. I. Lukyanenko; "From early history og bookprinting in Czechia" by Frantishek Gorak.
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Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik I = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia I
Moscow Kniga 1959 4to (27 cm), 324 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding rubbed and stained, end-papers toned). In Russian with contents and abstracts in English. Included studies "From the History of Russian Book Binding by S. A. Klepikov"; "The Mamonichis' printing shop in Vilno" by A. S. Zernova; "Forty years of Soviet book designing" by V. M. Lyakhov, "Soviet scientific series" by I. M. Kaufman.
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Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik IV = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia IV
Moscow Kniga 1961 4to (27 cm), 344 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and stained). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
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Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik IX = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia IX
Moscow Kniga 1964 4to (27 cm), 440 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and faded). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Near Fine
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik VIII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia VIII
Moscow Kniga 1963 4to (27 cm), 496 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and faded, end-papers toned, bookplate). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik VII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia VII
Moscow Kniga 1962 4to (27 cm), 424 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and stained). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik VI = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia VI
Moscow Kniga 1962 4to (27 cm), 408 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and stained, spine sunned, ownership signature on the front free end-paper). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik V = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia V
Moscow Kniga 1961 4to (27 cm), 428 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and stained). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XIII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XIII
Moscow Kniga 1966 4to (27 cm), 240 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and stained, title creased). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XII
Moscow Kniga 1966 4to (27 cm), 284 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XI = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XI
Moscow Kniga 1965 4to (27 cm), 336 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and stained, corners scuffed, paper slightly toned). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XIV = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XIV
Moscow Kniga 1967 4to (27 cm), 260 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XIX = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XIX
Moscow Kniga 1969 4to (27 cm), 248 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and faded). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Near Fine
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik X = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia X
Moscow Kniga 1965 4to (27 cm), 348 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and faded). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XVIII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XVIII
Moscow Kniga 1969 4to (27 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and faded, ownership signature on the front free end-paper). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XVII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XVII
Moscow Kniga 1968 4to (27 cm), 276 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed, corners scuffed, paper slightly toned). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XXIII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XXIII
Moscow Kniga 1972 4to (27 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and stained). In Russian with contents in English. Inscribed on the title page to Ukrainian historian Jaroslav D. Isajevych. For contents see scans.
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Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XXII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XXII
Moscow Kniga 1971 4to (27 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed, corners scuffed). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XXIX = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XXIX
Moscow Kniga 1974 4to (27 cm), 264 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Near Fine
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XXVII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XXVII
Moscow Kniga 1973 4to (27 cm), 232 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed, ownership signature on the front free end-paper). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XXVIII = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XXVIII
Moscow Kniga 1974 4to (27 cm), 240 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed and scuffed at extremities). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
Kniga. Issledovanija i materialy. Sbornik XXVI = The Book: Researches and Materials. Symposia XXVI
Moscow Kniga 1973 4to (27 cm), 240 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed). In Russian with contents in English. For contents see scans.
Hardcover Very Good
