Short List 17 December | Kibbey Rare Books

Tahiti discovered: News reaches Rome. Unrecorded.
Price$16,500.00
Virgin presents Colette of Corbie with dismembered baby on a platter. Rare.
Price$950.00
1707 Latin-German dictionary of surgical terms. No U.S. copies.
Price$1,850.00
Miniature painting on vellum of the ‘Black Madonna’ of Altötting.
ON HOLD
Why is the sea salty? Rare Neo-Latin poem, inspired by scientific debates.
Price$1,450.00
Nuns’ 18th-century composite amulet. Protects against plague & sorcery.
ON HOLD
Prayer against the plague in Hamburg. No U.S. copies.
Price$1,450.00
The Black King: Merian’s rare etching after Jacques Bellange.
Price$1,850.00
Defending the orthodoxy and authenticity of relics. 1 U.S. copy.
Price$1,350.00