Summer Store Sale
Until July 8th all items are 20% off, with select books and manuscripts at 30%-50% off.
Simply use the codes SUMMER2025, NEWSHELF30, and STORAGE50 at checkout.
Newest Arrivals
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A Monumental and Beautiful Abbasid Qur’an, Circa 1175-1200, Iraq. Substantial 27 Leaf Section of a 12th Century Arabic Illuminated Manuscript on Fine Paper, Likely Used for Leading Prayers
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- $32,000.00
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- $32,000.00
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Breviary, Circa 1350, Italy. Latin Manuscript on Parchment, With 15th Century Illumination, Including a Historiated Initial of Christ
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- $16,000.00
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- $16,000.00
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The First [And Seconde] Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testamente, 1548-1549. Married Set of the of the Rare First English Printing of Erasmus’s Paraphrases to the New Testament, With Annotations
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- $17,000.00
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- $17,000.00
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The First [& Second] Volume of the Ecclesiasticall History Contayning the Actes and Monumentes of Thinges Passed in Every Kinges Time, in this Realme, 1576. The Third Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs, Vividly Illustrated Author: John Foxe
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- $11,500.00
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- $11,500.00
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Opera [Bucolica and Georgica, with argumenta (comm. Servius and Landinus); Aeneis, with argumenta (comm. Servius, Donatus and Landinus)]. Maphaeus Vegius: Liber XIII Aeneidos. Additional texts, 1491. Scarce and Rubricated Works of Virgil
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- Sold Out/On Hold
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- $6,000.00
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Incipit Ordo Missalis Secundum Consuetudinem Romane Ecclesie, 1502. Extraordinarily Rare and Scarce Illustrated Missal with Several Large Historiated Woodcut Initials, Recorded as a Lost Edition on USTC, and one of Fradin’s Earliest Solo Printings
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- $6,000.00
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Pericles, and The London Prodigal, Two Plays Extracted from the Fourth Folio of Shakespeare, 1685. Beautifully Bound in Half Tooled Morocco Leather and Cloth
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- $3,000.00
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- $3,000.00
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The Chronicle of Fabian whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories, newly perused, 1559. Two Volumes
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- $4,000.00
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- $4,000.00
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Katholisches Andachtsbuch Für die Gebildeten unter dem weiblichen Geschlecht, 1826. In an Embroidered Mosaic Binding
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- $1,100.00
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Mammotrectus super Bibliam, 1478. Nicely Rubricated, Early Biblical Dictionary, Second Venetian Edition
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- $5,700.00
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- $5,700.00
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Pontificale Secundum Ritum Sacrosancte Romane Ecclesie, 1542. Scarce Pontifical with Original Calf Panels, Beautifully Illustrated with Numerous Woodcuts
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- $2,600.00
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De Trinitate, 1494. Beautifully Rubricated Edition of Augustine’s Discussions on the Trinity
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- $5,500.00
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- $5,500.00
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A Male Saint. Historiated Initial of the Letter V, Circa 1320-1350, Likely Northern Italy. Illuminated Manuscript Cutting from a Large Antiphonary
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- $2,650.00
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A Suite of Ten Folios with Large Miniatures from an Early Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, Likely Safavid Iran. Circa 1600-1650. Persian Illuminated Manuscripts on Paper
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- $9,500.00
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- $9,500.00
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The Booke of Common Prayer; Bound With; The Psalter or Psalmes of David; Bound With; The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into Englishe Meter, 1577/1580. Extremely Rare Book of Common Prayer, With Only Three Copies Recorded. Dense Annotations
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- $7,000.00
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The Booke of Common Prayer; Bound With; The Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid; Bound With; The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into Englishe Meter, 1566/1567. Exceptionally Rare Collection of Early Prayer Books, Only Four Recorded Copies. Annotated
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- $8,000.00
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The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, maid be King James the First, and his successours Kinges of Scotland; Bound With; De Verborum Significatione, 1597. First Edition on Scottish Law and Legal Terms
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- $1,450.00
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Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happenyng in the Church, with an Uniuersall History of the Same, 1583. The Scarce Fourth Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs
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- $9,500.00
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Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Universall History of the Same, 1596-97. The Fifth Edition of Foxe’s Great Book of Martyrs
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- $13,250.00
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"Let us inquire, therefore, into the origin and tendency of the Bibliomania"
~ Thomas Dibdin
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That Guy With The Books buys and sells early printed books, manuscripts, and art predominantly from the 13th to 19th century, with focuses on theology, history, literature, and more.
We are constantly updating our stock with regularly issued catalogs and updates, and are always more than happy to help you in finding the book you're looking for, from one book enthusiast to another