Journey Through Time

Print and Bindings from the 15th to the 21st Century

This auction we take you on a journey through the history of printing and the dissemination of knowledge. You will see examples from the late 15th Century until the 21st century. You will notice little has changed over this time. From the way we use headings, columns and different size fonts to split up information and the way we organise with indexes and point to page numbers. The internet borrows lots of these ideas. For example, as you scroll through our catalogue index page you will click on page or lot numbers and read the paragraphs. 

15th Century 
1475 Italian Incunable in Monastic Binding (Lot 25)
1505 Parisian printing Guy Marchant & Jehan Petit (Lot 32)
1522 Athanasius Patriarch of Alexandria - Period Binding (Lot 17)
1674 Very old English newspapers (Lot 47)
1690 Elsevier edition of Valerius Maximus (Lot 9)
1767 Vellum binding - Roman astronomer Manilius. (Lot 31)
1768 James Boswell Tour of Corsica (Lot 18)
1759 Treatise on childbirth & obstetric surgery (Lot 38)
1815 Parallel text of Homer in Greek and Latin. (Lot 7)
1815 Ancient Rites and Magic of Wales (Lot 40)
1971 Songs of Central Australia by Strehlow (Lot 4)
25.5b
32.1
17.1
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9.1
31.2
18.3
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