Box 3
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 26
File — Box: 3, Folder: 26
Identifier: Folder 26
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
Leaf from the Four Books of Husbandry, 1596
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 26
Identifier: Item 26
Scope and Contents
This leaf is from "The Four Books of Husbandry", translated by the Elizabethan poet Barnaby Googe, and collected by Conrad Heresbach. "Imprinted at London for Thomas Wight, dwelling in Paules Churyarde, at the great North doore of Paules, Anno Domini, 1596." The recto side of the leaflet is marked as page number 55; the verso side has no page number marked.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1596