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Leaf from Anatome Corporis Humani, 1586

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 24
Identifier: Item 24
Scope and Contents

A leaf from "Anatome Corporis Humani", by Joanne Valverdo (Juan de Hamusco Valverde). It is a translation into Italian from the original in Spanish. This volume first appeared in 1560 in Rome and Venice; the translation into Italian was made under Valverdo's direction. This edition is from the Giunta Press, and was published at Venice in 1586. The recto side of the leaflet is marked as page 43 and the verso side is marked as page 44.

Dates: created: 1586
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 24

Folder 25

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 25
Identifier: Folder 25
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3

Leaf from a German translation of Livy, 1596

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 25
Identifier: Item 25
Scope and Contents

From a German translation of Livy, printed by Theodoius Rihel in 1596 at Strassburg. The illustrator Rihel's Livy was an artist named Tobias Stimmer. The recto side of the leaflet is marked as 315 and the verso side is marked as 316.

Dates: created: 1596
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 25

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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3

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: created: 1596
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 26

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