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Box 2

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Contains 2 Results:

Folder 38

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 38
Identifier: Folder 38
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 Biblia Picturis Illustrata, 1540

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 38
Identifier: Item 38
Scope and Contents

A leaf from "Biblia Picturis Illustrata"; one of the many popular editions of the Bible from the Sixteenth Century. It was printed by Peirre Regnault at Paris in 1540. Some of the woodcuts are by Iohannes Frank and have his initials; others have the initials of the publisher.

Dates: 1540