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... rare volume which they can never hope to possess in the original . Sometimes , however , a reprint is palmed off on the unwary , though never wilfully by anyone , dealer or otherwise , who has a character to lose . We have shortly ...
... rare volume which they can never hope to possess in the original . Sometimes , however , a reprint is palmed off on the unwary , though never wilfully by anyone , dealer or otherwise , who has a character to lose . We have shortly ...
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... rare that it is in the last degree improbable that the amateur will ever possess a specimen , but foreign - printed books are often D met with , and the opportunity of consulting a colophon THE COLOPHON AND TITLE PAGE-THE BIBLIOGRAPHERS ...
... rare that it is in the last degree improbable that the amateur will ever possess a specimen , but foreign - printed books are often D met with , and the opportunity of consulting a colophon THE COLOPHON AND TITLE PAGE-THE BIBLIOGRAPHERS ...
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... Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics , " 2 vols . , 1827. Second - hand value about £ 1 . For Collectors of Works on Occult Philosophy.- Scribner's " Bibliotheca Diabolica , " New York , 1874 , 4to . Rare , but ...
... Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics , " 2 vols . , 1827. Second - hand value about £ 1 . For Collectors of Works on Occult Philosophy.- Scribner's " Bibliotheca Diabolica , " New York , 1874 , 4to . Rare , but ...
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... in italics , a form of type modelled after the neat handwriting of Petrarch , and which of course is familiar to everyone who opens a book . Many works from the Aldine Press are extremely rare and -OLD PRINTERS AND OLD PRESSES.
... in italics , a form of type modelled after the neat handwriting of Petrarch , and which of course is familiar to everyone who opens a book . Many works from the Aldine Press are extremely rare and -OLD PRINTERS AND OLD PRESSES.
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... rare and still command high prices , but as a rule they have fallen in value from 30 to 50 per cent . in recent years , sharing the fate of all classical works , which - exceptions apart - have been abandoned by col- lectors in favour ...
... rare and still command high prices , but as a rule they have fallen in value from 30 to 50 per cent . in recent years , sharing the fate of all classical works , which - exceptions apart - have been abandoned by col- lectors in favour ...
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