Results for: index

Sort By: Title | Author | Price Ascending | Price Descending

Index Generalis rerum ac verborum in commentarios super quinque libros Decretalium. [(Binding) (Rospigliosi binding) [Fagnani, Prospero].] Rome: sons of Jacobus Feius Andreas for Joannes Casonus, 1661. 1 part only, of 8. Folio (349 x 225mm). Vignette arms of Pope Alexander VII on title. Contemporary Roman olive morocco gilt by Gregorio Andreoli for Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), tooled to a post-fanfare design incorporating azured lozenges derived from the Rospigliosi arms and fan corner ornaments, shaped compartments with a semé of tiny stars or flames, backstrip with central flower tool and arabesques, gilt edges. Slight wear at extremities, backstrip lightly faded and with minor repair at head, a few wormholes at tail, and slight wear... $12,750.00

The Complete Works. Autograph Centerary Edition With a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a General Index. [Emerson, Ralph Waldo.] Cambridge, MA, Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903-04. 12 vols, 8vo. Original half green morocco, backstrips faded to brown as usual. A very good set as issued, Limited to 600 sets, with a leaf of manuscript in the hand of Emerson inserted at the front of volume 1. The manuscript, written in brown ink on both sides of the sheet, is from “The Natural History of Intellect” (here in vol. 12) and varies quite considerably from the published version. ... $4,500.00

Index Librorum ab Inventa Typographia ad Annum 1500; chronologice dispositum cum Notis Historiam Typographico-litterariam illustrantibus. [Laire, François Xavier.] Sens: apud viduam et filium P. H. Tarbé, 1791. 3 parts in 2 vols., 8vo, (2), viii, 475; iv, 464 pp. Early half calf, marbled boards, rebacked to style. A very good copy. First edition of this catalogue of the collection of the Cardinal de Brienne, offering the collection en bloc for six months and then piecemeal thereafter. The collection was broken up and sold in 1371 lots in Paris in 1792. In addition to the very strong holdings of incunabula, block books and 56 text and illuminated manuscripts are also described. This important record of a major collection of... $1,250.00

The Prophetic Writings of William Blake. Edited with a General Introduction, glossarial Index of Symbols, Commentary, and Appendices... [Blake, William. Sloss, D.J. and J.P.R. Wallis, editors.] Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1964. 2 vols., 8vo, xvi, 648 [649]; xxii, 361 pp. Frontispieces, one double-page, and 10 plates. Original dark blue cloth, dust-jackets, fine. Lithographic reprint of the 1924 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 309 C: “The fresh transcriptions and bibliographical notes are of value, as is the 'Index of Symbols'...” ... $150.00

A Dictionary of Painters from the Revival of the Art to the Present Period. A New Edition, with Considerable Additions, an Appendix, and an Index by Henry Fuseli, R.A [Pilkington, Matthew] London, J. Walker; Wilkie and Robinson [et al.], 1810. 4to, xxiv, 678 pp. Old calf scuffed and worn, but a perfectly serviceable copy good for reading. Second edition to be revised by Fuseli, following the 1805 edition. “Pilkington’s dictionary was originally published in 1770. Fuseli’s ‘Advertisement’ states that in this 1810 edition he added ‘considerably more than 300 names and characters of artists,’ mostly of the Spanish school” (Boston Book Co.). Blake did not rate a mention until the 1840 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2401, noting that Blake did not appear in any earlier editions. ... $100.00

A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. With a new Index by Morris Eaves. [Damon, S. Foster] Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1979. 8vo, xii, 532 pp. Printed orange wrappers. Creasing to backstrip. Some annotations in ink on a small number of pp. Very good. First edition with the Eaves index. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 447 issue E. ... $20.00