Search Results: Titles starting with L from Michael Laird Rare Books LLC

France, Milan, Brescia, and Barcelona, 1750. Good. Together 6 vols., 4to., 8vo., and 12mo. Bindings vary (see below), some condition issues, for which SEE ALL 47 IMAGES ON OUR WEBSITE. TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF NOTARIAL MANUALS, INCLUDING ONE UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT, BEING AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS WHICH PRESENT MUCH SCHOLARLY INVESTIGATION. 1. Notarial Manual [unpublished manuscript] (France, ca. 1750) in a contemporary binding; 2. Formularium [...] instrumentorum (Milan, 1605) with impressive exlibris in manuscript dated 1613; 3. Formularium [...] instrumentorum (Milan, 1631) another edition by a different publisher; 4. Compilatio [...] ad Tabellionum (Brescia, 1621) in a contemporary binding; 5. Stylus capibreviandi (Barcelona, 1594), with a significant portion in Catalan; 6. In Notariorum excessus, errores [etc.] (Venice, 1550) NONE OF THESE are in the Robbins Collection at UC Berkeley or Yale Law Library. CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION: 1. Pratique de Notaire Manuscript… Read More

Venice: Damian Zenari, 1593. Hardcover. Very good. Large, thick folio. 3 volumes in one. COLLATION: Book I: a6 A-K8 L4. [12], 168 pp. Book II: Aa-Ss8 Tt6 (includes final blank). 294 pp. Book III: +10 Aaa-Ffff8 Gggg10. 851 pp. (page 497 misnumbered "597"; sig. Iii3 mis-signed "Kkk3" and Bbbb4 mis-signed "Aaaa4"). Index: a-k8. [160] pp. COMPLETE. Bound in near-contemporary vellum expertly rebacked with cream-colored calf, title-lettered direct on spine; title-page of Book I somewhat soiled and tipped onto quire guard stub at an early date (probably at the time of binding as it surrounds preliminary gathering "a" and is also visible on a6r). Verso of final blank a little soiled. Faint evidence of water-staining in Book III, not objectionable, otherwise the paper stock in this copy is clean and fresh. Unobtrusive blind stamps on final two leaves of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the Hartford Seminary). NB: in 1976 a collection of more than 200,000 books from the Hartford Seminary… Read More

Union, New York, 1892. Softcover. Good. Dates: 1892-1901. Plain brown leather portfolio. 52 printed receipts with manuscript entries and totals, recto only. Receipts: ca. 8.5" x 5.5" -- Portfolio: 32.5" x 8.5" unrolled; 4" x 8.5" rolled. Leather exterior worn and occasionally ink stained; all receipts folded in three, with varying degrees of toning and customer's name written in ink to the exposed panel of the verso; several receipts brittle/fragile at fold lines, some with splits and/or separations. Each receipt is preserved in a mylar sleeve, the entire portfolio housed in a fitted cloth case. ALMOST MEDIEVAL IN CONSTRUCTION AND CONCEPTION, THIS IS A RARE 19TH-CENTURY RELIC, BEING A LEATHER ACCOUNTING AND RECEIPT PORTFOLIO BELONGING TO A KNOWN DRY GOODS STORE ACTIVE IN UPSTATE NEW YORK. The present artifact, the only one of its kind that we've ever handled, or even seen, is a handmade receipt portfolio fashioned from a piece of plain leather, with a thin belt of leather extending down the center… Read More

Milan: various publishers, 1584. Very good. Three works in one volume, folio (300 x 200 mm). [Collations below]. Various blemishes and signs of age and use, some staining (persistent at the back). Bound in 17th- or 18th century pressed paper boards covered with a vellum manuscript leaf (see below), smooth spine (defective at head and tail), printed paper label (see below). Accompanied by a recent export license. Preserved in a cloth protective case. THE SPECTACULAR MANUSCRIPT "WASTE" IN THIS MILANESE LEGAL SAMMELBAND WAS LIKELY PRODUCED IN THE LATE 10TH- OR EARLY 11TH-CENTURY IN A NORTH ITALIAN SCRIPTORIUM. THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK IN THIS SAMMELBAND WAS ANNOTATED BY A KNOWN PAVIA NOTARY. The primary fragment covers the boards and is a double-column bifolium from a noted Missal (leaf c. 350 x 280 mm, 31-lines per page), decorated with a large foliate initial T in red and green, red rubrics, majuscules highlighted in red and 15 lines of music with cheironomic neumes in "campo aperto." The texts come… Read More

Paris: Hourdel, 1744. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes, octavo (170 x 90 mm). Decorative head- and tailpieces throughout. (4), 455; vii, 444; (2), 408 pp., collated and complete (pages iii-vi of Preface of Volume II bound in error at end of Volume III). Slight wear to head and tail of spines and corners, 4 very small scrapes to covers on Volume I, tiny crack at top of hinges on Volume III, a few small indentations to lower cover on Volume III, manuscript notes on second blank endpaper in Volume I, small pale water-stain and very small closed tear to second blank endpaper in Volume III, tiny red mark to page edges in Volume III, just showing in margin of 5 pages, occasional brown spot, otherwise pages clean and bright. Tiny red mark to page edges in Volume III, just showing in margin of 5 pages, otherwise pages clean and bright. Bound in contemporary French red morocco, triple gilt ruled border to covers, gilt decorated raised bands to spine, gilt decoration in compartments, all edges gilt over… Read More

Together seven three-ring binder notebooks (binders worn, boards on vol. VI broken off) -- retained by us as out of "respect du fonds" -- containing approximately 876 typescript and manuscript pages. TOGETHER WITH: 29 file folders of articles, ideas, proposals, and miscellaneous publishing materials, consisting of approximate 300 typescript and manuscript pages, housed in a new Hollinger box. TOGETHER WITH: two of Lasker's passports (1921 and 1926) and a large b/w studio portrait photograph (undated). An important discovery. This is the private, largely unpublished literary archive of the noted social reformer Bruno Lasker (1880-1965), containing well over a thousand pages of typed and hand-written manuscripts. These writings date from 1923 until the year of his death in 1965. Lasker's social work is well known, and concerned racial prejudice and justice, trafficking and human rights, immigration and immigrants' rights, poverty in America and economic inequality. The present literary archive is… Read More

London: Printed by Richard Hett, for the Company of Stationers, 1776. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (203 x 123 mm). 236, [4] pp. Collation: A-P8, COMPLETE. Contemporary Liverpool binding of full red morocco elaborately gilt; wide gilt border of urns and flowers surrounding a black inlay gilt with the name of the first owner: "William Pole Esqr. / Mayor 1778." Marbled pastedowns and endpapers, a.e.g. Trifle wear to binding extremities. Preserved in a dark brown cloth protective case. AN ELEGANT LIVERPOOL BINDING. While the workshop is still-unnamed, twenty examples are known to us, including two bindings that were bound for two different Liverpool Lord Mayors. ¶ 1. Psalms (London, 1778) -- bound for Robert Landor, Church Warden of St. Paul's Church, 1782 --> now Boston Athenaeum ¶ 2. Bible (Oxford, 1772 -- two volumes) -- bound for presentation to Liverpool Mayor John Brown dated 1772 (Lathrop Harper Cat. 239 item 101 --> Christie's London 25 June 1997, lot 154) ¶ 3. Bible (Cambridge, 1768) -- Earls… Read More

New York: Isaac Collins and Son, For John Murray, 1802. Tenth Edition, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged. Very good. 12mo in 6's. A-Z6, Aa-Bb6, COMPLETE. Two binder's leaves at front and back. Paginated: xi, [1], 280 pp. Bound in contemporary American tree sheep, single gilt roll along recessed bands and head and foot of spine, double gilt roll along edges of red spine label, blue speckled edges. Large bookbinder / bookseller advertisement affixed to front pastedown (see below). Minor foxing here and there as is true in all copies on account of the paper stock; some staining to the outer margins, binding extremities a little rubbed. This large American bookbinder / bookseller label measures 153 x 91 mm and is the largest we've seen. Five other copies of it are known, and unlike ours -- which remains completely in situ -- they were either removed from the books that originally contained them, or were preserved merely as trade-cards (see Census below). The label describes the broad array of goods that… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard College Library, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. Quarto, 190 pages, illustrated in black and white. Paperback. Waterstain along fore-edge throughout (the text and images are perfectly legible) as well as having some wear to covers. ¶ An important exhibition catalogue of illuminated manuscripts held by the Houghton Library and focusing on the period between 1350 and 1524. The exhibition represented the strongest period in the collection and surveyed the growth and development of artistry represented within.

Oxford: Phaidon, 1986. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Quarto, 96 pages, original cloth with slightly creased dustjacket, trifle wear at head of spine on jacket, ownership inscription inside front cover. ¶ The indispensable monograph on the subject, profusely illustrated in color and black and white.