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Box 4

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

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