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New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. First edition. 26 cm; 1 preliminary leaf, 5-11, [1] pages illustrations, 22 plates on 11 leaves. Bound in original illuistrated wraps. Wraps a bit discolored toward the edges, which are somewhat frayed, with some watermarks toward the bottom edge. Contents unblemished. The original printing is now rare.

Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1890. First edition. Very Good. 20 cm; 213 pages and folding table. Original printed wraps. Inscribed by the author on upper wrap to Fausto Lusinio, the scholar of Oriental languages at the University of Florence who edited the Hebrew and Arabic texts of Averroes. Classic study of Francesco Redi's text, with an appendix of Redi's unpublished poetry.

Paterson and New York: Pageant Books, 1961. Facsimile edition, limited to 1000 copies, of which this is #79.. Fine. 2 volumes folio (48 cm in slipcase). Facsimile printed on rag paper produced for this edition; all pages lithographed, and illuminated pages printed "by sheet-fed gravure." Bound by hand in sturdy full morocco, stamped with Gutenberg's initials on upper boards, titled in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endleaves. Protected in original clamshell boxes. Some tenderness to inner hinges of boxes, else about fine. Extra shipping charges will apply at cost. Colophon: "The first Gutenberg facsimile ever printed in the United States and only the second in the world. The reproduction derives from the Insel Verlag edition [1913-14] which was based on the copy in the Koniglichen Bibliothek in Berlin and the copy in the Standischen Landesbibliothek in Fulda, considered by authorities to be the most beautifully illuminated of the 47 copies known to exist ... Limited to 1000 numbered… Read More

San Francisco: Robert A. Reid, 1915. Very Good. 24 x 32 cm; [31] leaves of plates, all color illustrations from photographs with facing text. Title page printed in red and black with tinted floral background. Text within floral borders. Bound in original laced wraps with mounted color illustration from a photograph of the exhibition grounds. Covers a bit uneven, torn along part of the upper joint and chipped along edges, but internally the album is fine.

London: Methuen & Co., 1946. First British edition. Good. 19 cm; 103 pages. Original purple cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Owner's name on front blank. Dust jacket a little chipped at spine ends and sunned along spine. A well read copy, still in better-than-good condition in original dress.

Paris: Jose Corti, 1976. Wraps. Very Good. 120 p. unopened.