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The Book of Kells

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Facsimile volume in presentation box, " ... a faithful recreation of the original manuscript, MS58, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin."

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The Book of Nature

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By John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Tr. from the Dutch and Latin original edition, by Thomas Flloyd. Revised and improved by notes from Reaumur and others, by John Hill, M.D.

The Book of Psalms, from the Authorized King James Version

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"The third, in this Twenty-ninth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... The edition has been planned in the fashion of a small illuminated Oriental book by Valenti Angelo ... the illustrations ... look like 'Persian…

The Book of the Rhymers' Club

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Reprint of the 1892 and 1894 editions published by E. Mathews, London.

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The Brescia Dante

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No. 69 of a limited ed. of 250 copies

The Canterbury Tales

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Original leaf from the first edition. Pages 293/4 containing 1203/58 of "Wyves tale of Bath".

The Canterbury Tales

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"The first, in this Seventeenth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club... The illustrations are portraits of the pilgrims, done as brilliantly-colored miniatures... The type used is Walbaum. The type pages are decorated with…

The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Printed on grey paper with an arrangement of rules and floriated initials in color; quarter bound in white buckram with beige paper over boards; the front cover of each volume is illustrated with a reproduction of Chaucer's arms.