Box 4
Container
Contains 71 Results:
Folder 1
File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
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 a miniature Elzevir, 1626
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 1, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
This leaf is from a miniature Elzevir; the popular volume on France in the "Republic Series". It was printed in Leyden, 1626. The recto side of the page is marked 179 and the verso side is marked 180.
Dates:
1626
Folder 2
File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
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 Vulgate Edition of the Bible, 1628
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 2
Scope and Contents
From the Vulgate Edition of the Bible, printed at the Platin Press in 1628 in Antwerp. The recto side of the page is marked 23 and the verso side is marked as 24.
Dates:
1628
Folder 3
File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
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 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1632
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: Item 3
Scope and Contents
From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, printed by John Lichfeld at Oxford in 1632. Lichfeld was considered "printer to the famous University". The early editions went under the nom de plum "Democritus junior", because his inspiration was from a similar thesis of the Greek Philososher. The first edition was issued in 1621. The recto side of the page is marked as 553, and the verso side is marked as 554.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1632
Folder 4
File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
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 Herball of John Gerard, 1633
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents
A leaf from the Herball of John Gerard, a comprehensive medico-botanical treatise. Gerard was an English herbalist and surgeon who was born in the Sixteenth century. The first edition of this work was brought out in 1597. It was partly original, partly a compendium; the edition from which this leaf was taken was brought out in London, 1633 by Thomas Johnson. Some of the illustrations are original, although most were from the Icones Stirpium, issued at Frankfort in 1590 by Jacobus...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1633
Folder 5
File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
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 a Display of Heraldrie by John Guillim, 1638
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Identifier: Item 5
Scope and Contents
From a Display of Heraldrie by John Guillim, printed at London by Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, in 1638. This work includes descriptions of the terms used in Heraldry, Hawking and Hunting; as well as the author's definitions of coat of arms. The recto side of the page is marked as 355; the verso side is marked as 356.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1638