viaLibri

The viaLibri Virtual Showcase: Day 2

54 Exhibitors - Over 1200 Selected Items
Rare Books, Ephemera, Prints, Manuscripts,
Maps, Photographs and Original Art.

Our long-awaited Virtual Rare Book Showcase is underway. Bibliophiles from around the world are already taking part. You can also join them no matter where on the planet you may happen to be. There are no tickets or admission fees. There are no insiders and no one can stand ahead of you while waiting in a rainy queue. Crowded stands cannot obstruct you while you sit at your desk or in your arm chair with your favourite beverage close at hand.

When you participate in a viaLibri virtual showcase you will discover several new and useful book hunting tools that you have not encountered before. For example:

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Highlights from the Showcase…
DR. JEAN CHARCOT and Dr. Jacques Liouville
PARIS: Masson et Compagnie, 1913. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the half-title page by Dr. JACQUES LIOUVILLE to the famous Biologist and Mathematician D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON.
GAME - PROGNOSTICATION.
Sixteen engraved cards (92 x 124 mm), preserved in the original decorated moiree silk box, upper cover with elaborate illustration and gilt applique border, box a little dampstained and with some wear to extremities, cards printed within decorative border.
SHAHN, Ben
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1963. First Edition. First printing (trade issue). Inscribed on the title page: "For Sol [Libsohn]," signed, dated February 1964.
MOLIÈRE (known as) [POQUELIN Jean-Baptiste]
Partly first edition. An important edition, the first complete (Damascène Morgand), of which Brunet points out that it is ‘very difficult to find well-preserved copies’.
Blatty, William Peter
This is a PC copy of the numbered issue, limited to 250 numbered books and a small group of PC (publisher's) copies. This copy is signed on the colophon by William Friedkin, who wrote the introduction to this book and directed the horror film adaptation; Marc Potts, the illustrator; and the book's designer, Michael Russem. This PC copy was given by Paul Suntup to Russem as an acknowledgement of his work.
Juan José Martínez de Espinosa Tacón (1792-1875).
American manuscript for the first Spanish technical steam engine treatise, with technical drawings.
WOLFGANG MOZART
This early libretto of Mozart's Magic Flute was prepared for 1794 performances in Frankfurt and Leipzig.

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