incunabula

• The collections, ranging from 15th century continental incunabula, to 17th century English civil war tracts, plus key 18th and 19th century historical, literary, religious and geography sources, are a spectacular international research resource, befitting a European capital city library. —  Archivalia
• These truly remarkable collections include a notable collection of rare atlases; a good cross-section of 'incunabula' (i.e. early books printed in Europe pre-1501); an important collection of early printed Bibles; key English and European texts from the Protestant Reformation; a substantial collection of scarce political tracts from the Civil War; rare books on natural history, geography, and so on, and so on. —  Archivalia
• We're fortunate to know how those people with sedentary jobs in the middle ages coped, due to the survival of illustrations in incunabula (early printed books from before 1500), and the large number of drawings in the margins of illuminated manuscripts (inserted deliberately to assist memorisation). —  Simple Talk rss feed
• These are generally rare books, such as incunabula and the higher class English literature of the seventeenth century, and are to be found in the libraries of wealthy collectors who are also learned men. —  The Book-Hunter at Home
• Mr. Gordon Duff's great work on the English incunabula, 'Fifteenth Century Books,' was issued by the Bibliographical Society in 1917. —  The Book-Hunter at Home

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