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Written in textura quadrata and textura semiquadrata scripts in red and black ink with red and blue initials.
With this is bound: Summa chiromantia.
Bound in 19th-cent. calf.
In a full red goatskin tray case, 16 cm.

The typographical magnum opus of William Morris and a landmark of Western printing, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (commonly and hereafter referred to as the Kelmscott Chaucer) is remarkable due to its opulence, craftsmanship, typography, and rarity.…

Edited by William Thynne; the first attempt to provide the collected works of Chaucer in 1 volume. Includes the genuine works as well as a large number of spuria; for contents of this edition, see E.P. Hammond, Chaucer a bibliographical manual, p.…

Fragment of a 1505 printing of the life of St. Katherine

19th century transcription and translation of a 15th century manuscript

A 15th century verse narrative of the life of St. Katherine

a 19th century printed transcription of a 15th century manuscript

Late 15th century collection of saints' tales

Folktales of Ireland compiled and written by Patrick Kennedy.

A later edition of Leonard Digges's 1556 "Tectonicon," a guide to surveying and measurement with figures and mathematical tables.