Some of the highlights of our past sales include:

- The first official edition of the Ratio Studiorum (1598), the book that laid the foundation for all Jesuit education

- A previously unknown 7 line letter signed by Napoleon dismissing his mistress Mme. de Vaudey from his palace at St. Cloud

- The first French edition of King Henry VIII's Assertio septem sacramentorum (1523)

- A very rare Polar Projection map from Guillaume Postel published in A Concent of Scripture (1590)

- The Estelle Doheny copy of the gorgeous manuscript: Dala'il al-Khayrat (c. 1800)

- Lectura accuratissima (1504), by author Maurice O'Fihely, the first Irishman ever in to appear in print

- Padri del Concilio Primo Ecumenico Vaticano (1870), a unique photoalbum of the First Vatican Council

- La totale et vraie description de tous les passaiges, lieux et destroictz (1518), the first book to describe the passes of the Alps

- Aldine Press Letters of St. Catherine of Siena (Venice: 1500) - the first ever appearance of the Italic Type in print

- Deluxe Edition of Salvador Dali's Divine Comedy with an extra suite of plates

We are proud to count among our former clients some of the most prestigious libraries around the world, including:

- The British Library

- The National Library of Scotland

- Bavarian State Library 

- Bodleian Library at Oxford

- Cambridge University Libraries

- Harvard University's Houghton Library

- The Folger Shakespeare Library

- The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of Toronto

- Hesburgh Library of the University of Notre Dame

and many, many more. To all our past clients, thank you for choosing Zinos Books!