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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 371
The cul-tured antiquarian should not shirk the slight extra expensewhich may be entailed by the somewhat richer contents of thecatalogue, for which a permanent value may be thus securedeven long after the stock has been disposed of. But in allcases let the fundamental principle be scrupulously… … O early as the seventeenth century the posses-sion of incunabula, that is, of works datingfrom the decades immediately following theinvention of the typographic art, was highlyvalued by all important libraries and amateurs.The fact is explained on the one hand by the comparativescarcity of such…
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