Box 3
Container
Contains 85 Results:
Leaf from the New Testament in English, 1600
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 30
Identifier: Item 30
Scope and Contents
From the New Testament in English, printed in Antwerp, 1600 by Daniel Verliet. The leaflet shown is from a second edition. The recto side of the leaf is marked as 717 and the verso side is marked as 718.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1600
Folder 31
File — Box: 3, Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
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 Justinian Code, 1602
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 31
Identifier: Item 31
Scope and Contents
A leaf from the "Justinian Code", Ex Officina Vignoniana in St. Gervais near Paris, 1602. The leaflet has two columns per page; each column is marked with a page number. The recto side has the columns marked as 81 and 82; the verso side has columns marked as 83 and 84.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1602
Folder 32
File — Box: 3, Folder: 32
Identifier: Folder 32
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 first King James Bible, 1612
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 32
Identifier: Item 32
Scope and Contents
From the first King James Bible in a popular edition. It was published and printed by Robert Barker, the King's printer in London, 1612.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1612
Folder 33
File — Box: 3, Folder: 33
Identifier: Folder 33
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 Book of European Travels, 1615
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 33
Identifier: Item 33
Scope and Contents
A leaf from the Book of European Travels, written by George Sandys in London in 1615. There are four to six different sizes and fonts of type used in this leaflet. This is one of the earlier illustrated travel books. The recto side of the page is marked 127; the verso side is marked as 128.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1615
Folder 34
File — Box: 3, Folder: 34
Identifier: Folder 34
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 Hebrew Pentateuch, 1617/1618
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 34
Identifier: Item 34
Scope and Contents
This leaf is from the "Hebrew Pentateuch". It was printed in four volumes by Pierre de la Roviere in Geneva, 1617-1618. On both sides the page is divided into two columns.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1617/1618
Folder 35
File — Box: 3, Folder: 35
Identifier: Folder 35
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