Box 1
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 15
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: Folder 15
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
Astronomical table
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 15
Scope and Contents
A leaf from "Tabulae Eclypsium", an astronomical book on eclipses by John Regiomontanus and George Purbach. It was printed in Vienna in 1514 by Johannes Winterburger.
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE