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7 volumes: 1. Printed Pages from European Literature. New York: Society of Foliophiles, [1925]. 19 (of 20) original leaves laid in including two from incunables. Loose leaves in printed folders identifying the leaves, in original labeled portfolio box. Box worn, else excellent. 2. Hall, Edwin. Sweynheym & Pannartz and The Origins of Printing in Italy, German Technology and Italian Humanism in Renaissance Rome. [McMinnville]: Bird & Bull Press for Phillip J. Pirages, 1991. Original 1/4 garnet goatskin over marbled boards housed in fall-down-back box with a special windowed compartment for the original leaf. Fine. Limited edition, #21 of 75 copies, with an original leaf from the Sweynheym and Pannartz edition of Nicolas of Lyra's Postilla super totam bibliam. 3. Bullen, Henry Lewis Nicolas Jenson, Printer of Venice.... San Francisco: John Henry Nash 1926. Folio. Original vellum over marbled boards. Some faint foxing, not affecting original leaf. Limited edition, #128 of 207 copies, with an original leaf from Plutarch's Vitae parallelae illustrium virorum printed by Jenson in 1478. 4. Shaffer, Ellen. The Garden of Health, an Account of Two Herbals: the Gart der Gesundheit and the Hortus Sanitatis. [San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 1957. Folio. Original tan cloth over boards, plain paper wrapper. Light wear to wrapper, else fine. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, with an original leaf from the Hortus Sanitatis, 1499. 5. Pattison, Mark. The Estiennes. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1949. Folio. Original gray cloth over boards, plain paper wrapper. Excellent. Limited edition, one of 390 copies, with 3 original leaves from 16th century printings by the Estienne family. 6. Olmsted, Duncan H. Bartolomeus Zanni, Printer at Venice 1486-1518 and at Portese 1489-90. Berkeley: Tamalpais Press, 1962. Original wraps. Excellent. Limited edition, #38 of 100 copies, from a total edition of 135, with an original leaf from Jacobus de Voragine's Legendario de Sancti, 1503. 7. [Simpson, Edmund.] A Leaf from Schachtafelender Gesuntheyt of 1533. Beaverton: The Blackwood Press, 1990. Original blue wraps. Fine. Edition of 72 copies with an original leaf.