Mobilis Books

Putting rare & antiquarian books into hands, hearts, & collections.

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Rare, Antiquarian, & Otherwise Interesting Books

Collecting from across the New World and Old, Mobilis Books has journeyed on many fine adventures to bring you a collection of international books for interesting people. Here you will find a selection of 19th century illustrated literature; printings from hand press era; natural history, history of languages and of peoples; and, of course, spooky and evokative texts to help us dream of past days and lives.

Catalogue of Books

Manuscripts

Handwritten documents from the Middle Ages through the 19th century, these documents tell the many stories of the Long History of the Book.

Written on skin or paper, these documents bear witness to the hands that produced them and the hands through which they passed over their many centuries of carrying social importance.

Catalogue of Manuscripts

Facsimiles

High quality reproductions of medieval and early modern mansucripts and prints.

Catalogue of Facsimiles

Japanese Woodblock Prints

A fine selction of Japanese woodblock prints with a examples of prints from masters such as Utagawa Fusatane,  Kawase Hasui, Utagawa Hiroshige, Kawarazaki Shodo, Katsushika Hokusai, Jō (Hashimoto Yuzuru),  Utagawa Kunisada (Tokyuni III), Tsuchiya Kōitsu, Ishiwata Kōitsu, Kotozuka Eiichi, Kitagawa Utamaro, and Yoshida Hiroshi. 

Catalogue of Ukiyo-e Prints

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