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Books about Books1. AB BOOKMAN’S YEARBOOK, 1949–1990. Newark, NJ: Antiquarian Bookman, 1956–2000, 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. $ 150.00Set of 33 issues (in 52 volumes) of this important annual. Many issues have two volumes. Each issue contains articles dealing with bookselling and lists of books available from various booksellers and publishers. [103895]

2. (Albright, Ivan) Croydon, Michael. IVAN ALBRIGHT. New York: Abbeville Press, (1978), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 308 pages. $ 225.00First edition. Full of illustrations including many in color. Presentation from Albright on title page. Minor chipping of jacket. Some soiling of title page. Small stamp of art museum at bottom of title page. [102979]

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3. (Alembic Press) Bolton, Claire. AWA GAMI, JAPANESE HANDMADE PA­PERS FROM FUJI MILLS, TOKUSHIMA. Oxford: The Alembic Press, 1991, 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. 59 pages. $ 150.00Limited to 320 copies. This book gives a history of papermaking at the Fuji Paper Mill and the Fujimori family, who for seven generations have been making fine Japanese paper on the island of Shikoku. Machine set in Spectrum and printed on handmade Japanese paper. Bound in Japanese style with a specially dyed cover paper. Contains 22 paper specimens. Illustrated by Yasusuke Nyuko. [35528]

4. Andrews, William Loring. JEAN GROLIER DE SERVIER VISCOUNT d’AGUISY, SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE. New York: The DeVinne Press, 1892, 8vo., original gilt­decorated blue cloth. 68 pages with 14 beautiful colored plates. $ 600.00First edition, limited to 140 copies printed on hand-made paper and ten on Japan. With a number of well executed plates showing famous Grolier bindings, some of which are in color. Minor cover rubbing. Two inch tear in front free endpaper along gutter. [20307]

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5. Andrews, William Loring. BIBLIOPEGY IN THE UNITED STATES AND KINDRED SUBJECTS. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1902, 8vo., paper­covered boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. xx, 129 pages. $ 475.00First edition, limited to 177 copies. (Mejer 643; Appleton p.77; Brenni no.1216). Printed by the Gilliss Press. One of the most important books written on the subject of American binding. Contains 30 plates of bindings including some in color. Andrews, in his introduction, calls attention to the two methods used to reproduce color in the plates; three color illustrations were printed from relief plates; the other color plates were produced by applying the color directly to the plate. The half-tone reproductions were made directly from the books themselves, a method which Andrews’ notes is the first successful attempt to apply this method in a book. Includes designs and engravings by Sidney L. Smith. Bookplate. Ownership inscription in pencil. [44838]

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6. Andrews, William Loring. GOSSIP ABOUT BOOK COLLECTING. Two volumes. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1900, 8vo., stiff paper wrappers, outer stiff paper wrapper with designs on spine, top edges gilt. (x),98; viii,102 pages. $ 550.00First edition, limited to 157 copies of which this is one of the 116 printed on Holland paper for subscribers. (Duschnes 40; Webber 20) With 5 plates in the first volume and 7 plates in the second volume; five of which are in color. Beautifully printed by the Gilliss Press. Because of Andrews’ interest in bookbinding, many of the articles in the book are on bookbinding and bookbinders. Andrews was a founder of of the Grolier Club and founder and president of the Society of Iconophiles. His collection was sold to a dealer shortly before his death. Andrews has hand-written a quote about books on the free endpaper above his signature and he has added “Written for Mrs. N.N. Hooper, Feb 2nd 1903.” With Hooper’s bookplate. Outer stiff paper wrappers are soiled and rubbed on spine. Jacket flaps have age darkened endpaper (as usual). Very scarce. [77]

7. Austin, A. C. PRACTICAL HALF­TONE AND TRI­COLOR ENGRAVING. Buffalo, NY: The Professional Photographer Publishing Co., 1898, 8vo., cloth. 158, (2) pages, 20 plates and 2 charts. $ 150.00The introduction states “This work is intended to be taken seriously, as one of instruction in practical half-tone and tri-color reproduction by such methods as are used in my everyday practice.” Extremely well-illustrated with plates in both color and black-and-white, as well as line drawings in the text. The two colour charts are found in the rear pocket. Light wear. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [98135]

8. Baddeley, John F. RUSSIA, MONGOLIA, CHINA. Being some Record of the Relations between them from the beginning of the XVIIth Century to the Death of the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich A.D. 1602–1676. Rendered mainly in the form of the Narratives dictated or written by the Envoys sent by the Russian Tsars, or their Voevodas in Siberia to the Kalmuk and Mongol Khans & Princes; and to the Emperors of China. With Introductions, Historical and Geographical Also a Series of Maps showing the progress of Geographical Knowledge in regard to Northern Asia During the XVIth, XVIIth, & early XVIIIth Centuries. The Texts taken more especially from Manuscripts in the Moscow Foreign Office Archives. Two volumes. New York: Burt Franklin, n.d., small folio, cloth. 15,ccclxv,(ii); xii,445,(2) pages. $ 650.00With black-and-white plates as the frontispieces. Text is in English, although the final section of Volume I is comprised entirely of Russian texts. Contains a bibliography and index, as well as some maps. With sections on Russian historical and geographical knowledge, the aforementioned Russian texts, and in Volume II, the letters and records of the Russian ambassadors to Mongolia and China. Minor rubbing at corners, with a small tear at head of spine of Volume I. Page edges soiled in some areas. [103929]

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9. Barreswil, MM. et Davanne. CHIMIE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE, CONTENANT LES ÉLÉMENTS DE CHIMIE EXPLIQUÉS PAR DES EXAMPLES EMPRUNTÉS A LA PHOTOGRAPHIE:. Les Procédés de Photographie sur Glace (Collodion Humide, sec ou Albuniné), sur Papiers, sur Plaques; La Maniére de Préparer soi­Même, d’Essayer, D’Employer tous les Béacties et d’Uniliser les Résidus, etc.;. Paris: Gauthier­Villars, Imprimeur­Libraire, 1864, thick 8vo., modern marbled paper­covered boards, paper spine label. xx, 580 pages. $ 350.00Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrations in the text. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Occasional spotting along edge and with a spot in the text showing in the last few leaves. Corner of title page clipped off (not affecting text). [98149]

10. (Baskin, Leonard) Francis, Robert. THE PUMPKIN MAN. N.P.: Paul W. Carman, 1986, broadside (27.5 x 12.5 inches) in wooden frame behind specially treated UV protected Plexi­glass. $ 175.00Limited to 150 numbered copies of which this is one of 100 on Magnani paper. A large broadside of a poem by Robert Francis illustrated with an original woodcut portrait of the poet by Leonard Baskin. The Woodcut was commissioned for this piece. Printed by Wild Carrot Letterpress to honor the poet on his 85th birthday in 1986. Nicely framed. [102817]

11. Beazley, C. Raymond. THE DAWN OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY. New York: Peter Smith, 1949, 8vo., cloth. (xvi), 538; (xix), 651; (xvi), 638 pages. $ 175.00Volume one is a reprint of the 1897 edition, it covers such topics as early pilgrimages from Justinian to Mohammed, commercial and missionary travel and geographical theory, A.D. 300–900. Volume two is a reprint of the 1901 edition, it covers the central Middle Ages, exploration, travel and sciences, A.D. 900–1260. Volume three is a reprint of the 1906 edition, including mission and pilgrim travelers, maritime exploration and geographical theory, A.D.1260–1420. All three volumes have black-and-white illustrations of the principal maps of the times, appendices and indexes. The three volumes have minor wear, soiling, and staining to the covers, page edges and spines [103942]

12. (Beethoven, Ludwig van) Beethoven, Ludwig van. SINFONIE. (Leipzig: Fr. Ristner & C. F. W. Siegel, 1924, folio, cloth, top edge gilt. not paginated. $ 250.00Written in German. A collection of facsimiles of Beethoven’s sheet music, with nearly 400 facsimiles. Corners and spine ends rubbed, with some cloth missing on upper left half of spine and some near the top 2 1/2 inches of rear joint. Soiling and marking on covers. Other extremities slightly worn. Crack on bottom of front hinge and small tear on bottom of front endpaper. With a bookplate on the front pastedown. [103015]

13. BEMROSE & SONS LIMITED. PRINTERS. Derby and London: Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., n.d. (20th century), 4to., folder with flaps in which the demonstration plates are loosely inserted. $ 250.00Folder of material given out by this renowned English printing company to demonstrate the various facets of their business. Loosely inserted is a card on which is printed “With the compliments of Mesrs. Bemrose & Sons Ltd.” This is followed by various sizes of specimen sheets demonstrating different processes. Included are printing on parchment, raised impressions, embossed impressions, color printing, collotype, colored collotype, photo-chromotype, granotype, block printing, color block printing, etc. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Wear along edges of folder. [102972]

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14. BIBLIOGRAPHICA, PAPERS ON BOOKS THEIR HISTORY AND ART. Twelve parts complete bound in three volumes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895–1897, thick 4to., contemporary quarter leather with brown cloth, top edges gilt, with original paper wrappers bound­in. $ 750.00Limited to 850 copies. See S-K 1722 and others for contributions to this periodical. A complete set of one of the most important periodicals devoted to books. Printed on handmade paper and profusely illustrated with some in chromolithography. (Ulrich & Kup p.16). An examination of a sampling of articles in the first volume show that many of the most noted authorities wrote for this periodical; such names as W.Y. Fletcher, Charles Elton, Andrew Lang, Octave Uzanne, R. Proctor, S.T. Prideaux, E. Gordon Duff, Falconer Madan, Paul Kristeller, Laurence Housman and William Morris. Includes many articles on bookbinding by Fletcher and Davenport. A wealth of information for the bibliophile. Covers rubbed with minor spotting but a well-preserved set. Bookplate. [443]

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15. (Bibliography) LETTRES D’UN BIBLIOGRAPHE. DEUXIÈME SÉRIE. ORNÉES DE FAC­SIMILE. Versailles: Imprimerie de E. Aubert, 1873, tall 8vo., contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, top edge marbled. xv, 133 pages. $ 250.00The first series was issued in 1868. Preface followed by 15 articles on bibliography: William Caxton a-t-il imprimé le De Proprietatibus rerum? Témoinage de Wynkyn de Worde; De l’édition du De Remediis utriusque fortunae, de Pétraque, imprimeé par H. Eggestein. Ellse est la première, car elle est d’après un manuscrit; A quelle école Nicolas Jenson a-t-il appris l’imprimerie? Deuz notes à ce sujet, l’une donnée par de Boze et l’autre conservée à la Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, dans l’armoire de fer, etc. Covers rubbed with wear along edges. Light foxing. [102520]

16. (Bird & Bull Press) Baronio, Giuseppe. ON GRAFTING IN ANIMALS (DEGLI INNESTI ANIMALI). Translated by Joan Bond Sax. Boston: The Boston Medical Library, 1985, tall 8vo., quarter green morocco with decorated paper­covered boards, leather spine label. 87, (5) pages. $ 150.00Limited to 325 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press (Taylor B-32). With an Historical Introduction by Robert M. Goldwyn. The first edition of 1804 was the first book on skin transplant. [103778]

17. (Bird & Bull Press) Durfort, Claire De. OURIKA. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977, 4to., quarter leather over paste paper­covered boards. 65 pages. $ 200.00Limited to 500 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press on Green’s Hayle paper, with the paste paper made by Morris and the binding executed by Gray Parrot. (Taylor B6). Translated into English with an introduction and epilogue by John Fowles who has signed all copies. A thoughtful story about a black woman, adopted and raised as a lady in French society and then left on her own without funds. [33038]

18. (Bird & Bull Press) Kamph, Jamie. A COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO BOOKBINDING. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1982, 8vo., cloth­backed boards. 40, (4) pages. $ 275.00S-K 1622. Limited to 250 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. A binder’s comments on what to look for in quality binding; written for the collector. [5882]

19. (Bird & Bull Press) Simpson, Henry I. AN EMIGRANT’S GUIDE TO THE GOLD MINES. Haverford: Headframe Publishing Co., 1978, 8vo., leather spine, marbled paper­covered boards. 81 pages, foldout map. $ 150.00Limited to 250 numbered copies. (Taylor B11). A reprint of this early example of Gold Rush literature with a Prologue and Epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra explaining the significance and true value of this early guide book. Designed and printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press and printed on Bird & Bull paper. Bound by E.G. Parrot. Bookplate on front pastedown and on free endpaper. [102447]

20. Bland, David. HISTORY OF BOOK ILLUSTRATION, THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT AND THE PRINTED BOOK. London: Faber and Faber, (1958), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 448 pages. $ 190.00First edition. With over 400 illustrations of which twenty are in color. Besides the historical development of the art of book illustration, Bland discusses the impact of modern methods. Jacket chipped. [64691]

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21. (Bocquet, Edward) JUNIUS. STAT NOMINIS UMBRA. ILLUSTRATED BY MR. EDWARD BOCQUET. London: Gale, Curtis, & Fenner, 1813, small 4to., full red calf, gilt spine in six panels with raised bands, gilt decorative border and blind stamped border on front and back overs, gilt inner dentelles, two large gilt fans on front and back covers, all edges gilt. (xxiv), 364 pages. $ 350.00Printed by L.M. Dowall and containing twelve full-page plates executed by Bocquet for this book. The plates show William Draper, Duke of Grafton, Marquis of Rockingham, Blackstone, George III, Lord North, Lord Bute, Mr. Tooke, Lord Chatham, Mr. Wilkes, Lord Mansfield and Lord Camden. Recased with original spine laid down on newer leather. Scuffed in places. Bookplate. [102747]

22. (Bookbinding) Adam, Paul. PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING . Translated from the German by Thos. E. Maw. London: Scott, Greenwood & Co., 1903, 8vo., cloth. viii, 184, 32 pages. $ 150.00First edition in English. (Mejer 1580; Brenni no.70). Excellent book on bookbinding; covers sewing, forwarding, boarding, making the cover, hand finishing, etc. Bookplate and name in ink on free endpaper. Ownership inscription in pencil. Scarce title. [14310]

23. (Bookbinding) Andrews, William L. and William Matthews. A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. WITH A DESCRIPTION OF PROMINENT STYLES BY WILLIAM MATTHEWS. N.P.: William L. Andrews and William Matthews, 1895, 12mo., original stiff paper wrappers. 45 pages. $ 350.00(S-K 1820; Mejer 181; Brenni 315). This is one of the 50 copies printed on Japan paper. Five illustrations of bindings. Chip out of spine covering. Small stain along bottom edge. Ownership inscription in pencil. Scarce title. [102653]

24. (Bookbinding) Battershall, Fletcher. BOOKBINDING FOR BIBLIOPHILES, BEING NOTES ON SOME TECHNICAL FEATURES OF THE WELL BOUND BOOK FOR THE AID OF CONNOISSEURS, TOGETHER WITH A SKETCH OF GOLD TOOLING, ANCIENT AND MODERN. Greenwich: The Literary Collector Press, 1905, 8vo., original paper­covered boards, original paper spine and cover labels. (xii), 132 pages. $ 175.00First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. (Mejer no.1607). Divided into two sections; forwarding and finishing with detailed discussion of each of the parts making up the art of bookbinding. Covers soiled with piece of spine covering lacking at bottom of spine. Spine label partially chipped away. [11888]

25. (Bookbinding) Bosquet, Em. LA RELIURE, ETUDES D’UN PRATICIEN SUR L’HISTOIRE ET LA TECHNOLOGIE DE L’ART DU RELIEUR­DOREUR. Avec une Lettre­Preface de M. Leon Gruel. Paris: Imprimerie Générale Lahure, 1894, tall 8vo., later cloth with original front paper wrapper bound­in (which is worn with pieces missing), paper spine label. (iv), ii, 188, (2) pages. $ 150.00First edition. (Mejer no.23; not in Brenni). Contains 24 plates. Name “Roland Baughman” stamped on front of cover. Ownership inscription in pencil. [102752]

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26. (Bookbinding) Brunet, Gustave. RÉLIURE ANCIENNE ET MODÈRNE, RÉCUEIL DE 116 PLANCHES. Paris: Paul Daffis, 1878, folio, contemporary half calf, five raised bands, top edge gilt, with original front wrapper bound­in at end. viii, 8 pages followed by 116 full­page plates. $ 650.00First edition. (Mejer no.27; Brenni no.282). A collection of 116 photo engravings of the finest examples of French bookbinding produced from the 16th to 19th centuries. Compiled by one of France’s most renowned bibliophiles, the reproductions portray works executed with lavish attention to detail by master bookbinders such as Padeloup, Clovis and Nicolas Eve, le Gascon, and Nicolas Derome. In addition, these works of art belonged to notables such as Jean Grolier, Francois Ier, Diane de Poitiers, Louis XIII, Mazarin, and Cosimo de Medicis, to name a few, and so their value rendered them inaccessible to the scrutiny of most bibliophiles. Therefore, through the precisely reproduced plates in this album, Brunet intended to give bibliophiles the opportunity to acquire a deeper knowledge of the details and artistry of the original bindings and also to appreciate the progress of the art through the centuries. In red, brown, or black-and-white, the plates are from the Bibliophile Français (1808– 1873). Keyed to the plates is a descriptive table, of which thirty-one more important and distinctive works receive enhanced descriptions. Foreword, introduction and table handsomely printed with wide margins. Booklabel of Miss Ann Ingersoll Meigs who has signed and dated (December 1883) this copy on the half-title. Covers show wear around edges and tips with part of leather chipped away at the bottom of the spine. Has been skillyfull rebacked with original leather spine laid down on newer matching leather. Free endpaper partially detached. Ownership inscription in pencil [14388]

27. (Bookbinding) Clarkson, Christopher. LIMP VELLUM BINDING. N.P.: n.p., n.d., 4to., limp plastic wrappers. (iii), 178 printed on one side only. $ 250.00Produced in typescript. “Aided in part by The Council on Library Resources., Washington, D.C.” An expanded version of the private press version which came out in 1982 in 200 copies. The flood of Florence in 1966 prompted Clarkson to analyze limp vellum bindings of the early sixteenth century after many thousand of books had been damaged. He found the vellum bindings survived in a better state in comparison to the others and he developed a tentative set of criteria for establishing standards in rare book conservation. It is illustrated with line drawings of examples of the binding process and it lists the basic terminology for limp and semi-limp vellum bindings. 33 illustrations. We can not find that this was ever published. Ownership inscription in pencil. [102698]

28. (Bookbinding) DANISH EIGHTEEN CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730–1780. With an Introduction by Sofus Larsen and Anker Kyster, Med et Resume par Dansk. 102 Plates. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard Publishers, 1930, 4to., cloth­backed marbled paper­covered boards, paper spine label, dust jacket. 53 pages followed by the plates. $ 400.00First edition. (Brenni no.482). Reproductions of well over 100 bindings with many in full color. Some rubbing along extremities. Text in English with summary in Danish. Jacket chipped with small pieces missing. Ownership inscription in pencil. Unusual to find in jacket. [71416]

29. (Bookbinding) Dreis, Hazel. THE HAND BOUND BOOK. Drawings by Edwin Manheim and Ruth Williams. Photography by Josephine Banks. N.P.: n.p., n.d., 4to., manuscript holder with heavy fabric covered boards. (iii), 180 leaves followed by 3 leaves containing handwritten notes on photographs. $ 250.00Unpublished typescript of this book about bookbinding by the bookbinder, Hazel Dreis. Hazel Dreis was born before the turn of the century and studied bookbinding in Paris and in England with Roger de Coverley. She was a Master of the (English) Bookbinder’s Guild and a member of the (American)

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Guild of Bookworkers. She was on the binding staff of the Library of Congress and the Folger Library and worked with a number of private presses (Grabhorn, Anderson Ward Ritchie). She died in 1963. This book is dedicated to de Coverley. Corrections throughout in ink. [102966]

30. (Bookbinding) Foot, Mirjam M. THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT, A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS. VOLUME II. Volume II, A Catalogue of North­European Bindings. London: The British Library, (1983), small 4to., cloth with leather spine label. 368 pages. $ 200.00First edition. (S-K 1241). Covers bindings made in the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria and Denmark. There are 368 entries with excellent bibliographical notes on each binding and the binders who executed them. Each entry has an accompanying illustration, many occupying a full-page. An excellent reference work, finely printed by The Stinehour Press. Prospectus loosely inserted. [2542]

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31. (Bookbinding) Foot, Mirjam M. THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT, A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS. Volume I. London: The British Library, (1978), 4to., quarter red leather over cloth. 352 pages. $ 175.00First edition. Covers bindings made in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Italy. Highlights of the Gift collection are described in much bibliographical detail followed by long notes on both the binding and the binder. Contains thirty-six full-page illustrations. A tantalizing introduction to this fabulous collection. Spotted along outer edges of covers. [72045]

32. (Bookbinding) Gauffecourt, Jean­Vincent Capronnier De. TRAITE DE LA RELIEURE DES LIVRES. A Bilingual Treatise on Bookbinding Translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau. With an Introduction by John P. Chalmers. Edited by Elaine B. Smyth. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987, tall 8vo., quarter cloth over boards, paper spine label. 130, (4) pages. $ 145.00Limited to 300 copies printed letterpress on Frankfurt White mouldmade paper. A reprint of the very scarce first edition of this French bookbinding manual, printed by its author in 1763. Translated into English and with a long introduction giving background information on the author and the manual. Well printed by W. Thomas Taylor. [20856]

33. (Bookbinding) Goldschmidt, E.Ph. GOTHIC & RENAISSANCE BOOK­BINDINGS EXEMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED FROM THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION. Two volumes. Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf and Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1967, 4to., cloth. (x),370; viii pages followed by 110 full page plates. $ 475.00S-K 2766. Reprint of 1928 first edition. Limited to 600 sets. With over 200 illustrations in collotype and in color. The most definitive work done on bindings executed in the period 1400 to 1600. Minor fading of covers. [39529]

34. (Bookbinding) Greenhill, Elizabeth. ELIZABETH GREENHILL, BOOK­BINDER, A CATALOGUE RAISONNE. Frenich: K.D. Duval, 1986, 4to., cloth, glassine wrapper. 111 pages. $ 135.00First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Has an autobiographical chapter by Greenhill, articles on Greenhill by Harthan, Harrop and Foot on Greenhill’s bindings in the British Museum. Well illustrated with most bindings shown in full color. [16384]

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35. (Bookbinding) Hannett, John. BIBLIOPEGIA; OR, THE ART OF BOOK­BINDING, IN ALL ITS BRANCHES ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1865, 12mo., original cloth. Frontispiece; (ii), iv, 410, (2) pages. $ 300.00Sixth edition, the best edition. (S-K 7270 for first edition; Mejer no.194; Brenni no.38). With a total of 23 plates. The first part of the book deals in the history of the subject and the second part is a practical manual. A practical guide to the art of bookbinding with chapters on forwarding, sewing, backing, etc. and practical formulas for the making of dyes, marbled paper, instruction in the use of tools, and any other facts necessary for the binding of a book. Lacks the leaves that contains pages 5–8. Ownership inscription in pencil. [102672]

36. (Bookbinding) Helwig, Hellmuth. DAS DEUTSCHE BUCHBINDER­HANDWERK, HANDWERKS­UND KULTURGESCHICHTE. Two volumes. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1962, 1965, 8vo., cloth, dust jackets. xx,351+(1); xxiii,428 pages. $ 225.00S-K 7781. First editions. “A monumental social history of the German bookbinding trade.” Over 50 illustrations in the text. [37365]

37. (Bookbinding) Hertzberg, Ernst. FORTY­FOUR YEARS AS A BOOKBINDER. Chicago: Ernst Hertzberg and Sons (Monastery Hill Bindery), 1933, 8vo., three­quarter morocco. 64, (2) pages. $ 135.00First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies. (Not in Brenni). Six plates, four of which show bindings executed by this firm. This copy is numbered but not signed. Scarce book which makes us wonder if the limitation is correct. Covers rubbed along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil [3403]

38. (Bookbinding) THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525–1950 A.D., AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART. Baltimore: Walter Art Gallery, 1957, 4to., cloth. xi, 275 pages. $ 175.00First edition, limited to 3000 copies. 56 pages of plates. A valuable reference book on the subject of binding. [71267]

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39. (Bookbinding) Hobson, G.D. MAIOLI, CANEVARI AND OTHERS. London: Ernest Benn, 1926, 4to., publishers full brown pigskin, top edge gilt. xvi, 178 pages of text with 64 full page plates. $ 1,500.00First edition, this being one of 25 numbered deluxe copies. The deluxe copies were specially bound and printed on hand made paper. With six of the plates in color. An historical account of plaquette bindings, Architectural bindings, and studies of the binders Maiolus, Failareto, Canevari, and Farnese. Ownership inscription in pencil. [71168]

40. (Bookbinding) Hobson, G.D. LES RELIURES À LA FANFARE, LE PRO­BLÈME DE L’S FERMÉ. Amsterdam: Gérard Th. van Heusden, 1970, 4to., cloth. (xx), 152, (ii), 17 pages. $ 175.00(S-K 3704). Second edition, limited to 600 copies. Actually a reprint of the 1935 edition with an additional supplement by Hobson at the end. (Brenni no.570). With illustrations in the text and 37 full page plates, a number of which are in full color. The best history and pictorial representation of this intricately stamped pattern of binding. The book is beautifully produced by the Chiswick Press.

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Hobson was one of the greatest authorities on the general field of bookbinding that lived during the early 20th century. His pioneering work on Romanesque period binding, English gold-tooled bindings of the 17th and 18th centuries and France of the 16th century and his work on panel stamps of English bindings of the 16th century gained him an international reputation. Hobson was part owner of Sotheby’s, the auction house. Foxed along inner margins. Bumped at head of spine. [37539]

41. (Bookbinding) ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF BOOKBINDING MATERIALS, AND SPECIMENS OF BRASS TYPES AND HANDLE LETTERS, MANUFACTURED BY H.W. CASLON & CO., LETTER FOUNDERS, 82 & 83, CHISWELL STREET, LONDON. London: H.W. Caslon & Co., n.d. (circa 1901), small 4to., maroon cloth, title within a decorative border on front cover, all edges stained red. 70 pages. $ 650.00Includes borders, ornaments, bookbinding equipment, gold-blocking, marbling, presses, tools, etc. Faint spot at top of front cover. Ownership inscription in pencil. [101386]

42. (Bookbinding) Kersten, Paul. DER EXAKTE BUCHEINBAND, DER GUTE HALBRFRANZBAND DER KÜNSTLERISCHE, GANZLEDERBAND, DIE HANDVERGOLDUNG, DER EINBAND MIT ECHTEN BÜNDE, DER PERGAMENTBAND. Halle: Wilhelm Knapp, 1929, 8vo., later half leather with decorated paper covered boards. iv, 162 pages followed by 24 full­page plates of binding ornaments and illustrations of bindings.. $ 165.00Fifth edition, revised and enlarged (Mejer no.1874; Brenni 233). Contains 138 text illustrations, 24 plates and 32 paper specimens; the paper specimens are lacking from this copy. Covers soiled. [102694]

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43. (Bookbinding) Kyriss, Ernst. VERZIERTE GOTISCHE EINBANDE IM ALTEN DEUTSCHEN SPRACHGEBIET. Four volumes, complete. Stuttgart: Max Hettler, 1951, 1954, 1956. 1958, tall 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. 160; 185; 137; 157 pages. $ 850.00First edition. (Brenni no.698, Schmidt-Künsemüller no. 259). The best study of decorated Gothic bookbindings in the libraries of German speaking countries. The three later volumes have 364 plates in which a binding is reproduced on one side of the page and enlarged reproductions of specific tools are shown on the other side of the page. Important reference work. Some chipping and age yellowing of covers. [102759]

44. (Bookbinding) Londenberg, Kurt. IGNATZ WIEMELER, WERKVER­ZEICHNIS. Hamburg: Maximilian­Gesellschaft, 1990, 4to., cloth, cardboard slipcase. 295 pages. $ 250.00Describes over 250 books bound by this renowned bookbinder. Well-illustrated throughout. In German, with introduction by Monroe Wheeler in German and in English. [61967]

45. (Bookbinding) Maggs 1075. BOOKBINDING IN THE BRITISH ISLES, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Two volumes. London: Maggs Bros., 1987, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. 533 pages. $ 225.00Catalogue 1075 issued by this firm. Detailed descriptions of 382 bindings with plates throughout (many in color). [38666]

46. (Bookbinding) Mairet, F. (NOTICE SUR LA LITHOGRAPHIE, SUIVIE D’UN) ESSAI SUR LA RELIURE ET LE BLANCHIMENT DES LIVRES ET GRAVURES. (Chatillon­sur­Seine): n.p., 1824, 8vo., later cloth. pp.68–228. $ 1,000.00Mairet’s Essai sur la Reliure was the major portion of Notice sur la Lithographie. The lithographic portion occupied the first 67 pages and had 5 plates (lacking in this copy). The essay on bookbinding is very early for the subject (SK-7284; Pollard 52). It was added to this second edition of the lithography title and was first printed here. Our copy is excised from this book. A handwritten note states that a previous owner bought it from L.W. Bondy, a London bookseller. Bigmore & Wyman considered the book rare when they printed thier bibliography of printing. According to Pollard “Mairet was born in 1786; he became a binder and paper dealer in Dijon until 1821 when he set up as a paper manufacturere in Fontenoy near Montbard . . .” Bookplate and ownership inscription in pencil.[102967]

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47. (Bookbinding) A MASTER’S BIBLIOPHILE BINDINGS, TINI MIURA, 1980–1990. Tokyo: Kyoiku Shoseki Ltd., (1990), folio, cloth, slipcase, color mailing box. 199 pages. $ 150.00First edition (Japanese version). About 300 color plates depicting 177 mostly full leather bindings designed and made by Mrs. Miura, an additional 24 designed by her, various posters for exhibitions, and several groups of photographs showing her and her assistants performing various binding operations in her Tokyo workshop. Miura’s bindings are generally in a modern “French” or artistic style, often reminiscent of Art Nouveau or Deco. The binding illustrations mostly show full covers and backings, but occasionally include endpapers, dust jackets, or other features. Several bindings are actually multi-volume sets, and some include slipcases. Entries provide bibliographic descriptions of work bound, specifics of binding (material, construction, size), and briefly characterize the design. With biographical sketch, chronology of the activities of the artist 1980–1991, index, and afterword by Mrs. Miura. Most of the text is in Japanese with English sub-titles. Signed by Miura on title page. With handwritten notes loosely inserted. [62412]

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48. (Bookbinding) McDonnell, Joseph and Patrick Healy. GOLD­TOOLED BOOKBINDINGS COMMISSIONED BY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Ireland: Irish Georgian Society, (1987), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 340 pages. $ 140.00First edition. Volume 1 of Studies in the History of Irish Bookbinding. A fascinating study of Trinity College’s influence on the production of fine bookbinding during the eighteenth century. This work discusses the development of the New Library, the Printing House, the relationship between the College and the Dublin book trade, and the Binders they used and their styles. There is also an illustrated catalogue of 102 bindings and reproductions of over 500 binders tools. Of interest to the practicing binder and the historian alike. [26133]

49. (Bookbinding) Needham, Paul. TWELVE CENTURIES OF BOOKBINDINGS 400–1600. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. xxvii, 338 pages. $ 200.00(S-K 1091). First edition. One hundred bindings described with one hundred illustrations, seven in color. (Brenni no.12). A beautiful book. Some cover soiling. [18864]

50. (Bookbinding) Nixon, Howard M. and Mirjam M. Foot. THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, 8vo., cloth. xviii, 124 pages followed by 128 plates in black and white and some plates in color in text. $ 150.00First edition. This book is based on Howard Nixon’s Lyell Lectures presented in 1979 with expansion by Mirjam Foot. The text covers binding from its beginnings in England up to the 20th century work of Edgar Mansfield. Ownership inscription in pencil. [36994]

51. (Bookbinding) Oldham, H. Basil. ENGLISH BLIND­STAMPED BINDINGS. Cambridge: University Press, 1952, folio, cloth,. 73 pages followed by 61 plates. $ 225.00First edition, limited to 750 copies. (Brenni no.825). One of the Sandars Lectures for 1949. An excellent reference book. Covers faded. Bookplate. Ownership inscription in pencil. [31151]

52. (Bookbinding) Peignot, Gabriel. ESSAI HISTORIQUE ET ARCHÉOLOGIQUE SUR LA RELIURE DES LIVRES, ET SUR L’ÉTAT DE LA LIBRAIRE CHEZ LES ANCIENS. Dijon and Paris: Victor Lagier and Jules Renouard, 1834, 8vo., later quarter leather, marbled paper­covered boards, 84 pages. $ 250.00First edition, limited to 200 copies. (Mejer no.506; not in Brenni). Discussion of early binding in Rome followed by comments on binding up through the ages. Two plates. Paper covering along edges of covers partially rubbed off. Old bookseller’s descriptions pasted on first blank and at bottom of title page. Ownership inscription in pencil. [14650]

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53. (Bookbinding) Prediger, Christoph Ernst. DER IN ALLER HEUT ZU TAG UBLICHEN ARBEIT WOHL ANWEISENDEACCURATE BUCHBINDER UND FULLERALMACHER. Four Volumes (Complete). Together with ANTHOLOGIE UBER DAS LEVEN UND WIRKEN VON CHRISTOPH ERNST PREDIGER, BUCHBINDER IN ANSPACH 1701–1768. (Zurich: Inigo von Oppersdorff Verlag, 1976, 1978, 12mo., pastepaper covered boards, slipcase. Vol. 1 (1741) 250 pages, 18 plates; Vol. 2 (1749) 301 pages, 11 plates; Vol. 3 (1751) 266 pages, 18 plates; Vol. 4 (1753) 270 pages, 18 plates; 107 pages. $ 500.00Facsimile reprint of Prediger’s four volume bookbinding manual that was originally published in 1741–1753 and precedes the first English bookbinding manual by over 50 years. Pollard and Potter (Early Bookbinding Manuals No. 22) note: “Vol. I is an exhaustive manual of bookbinding and box-making, with tables showing the cost of materials, the time taken over the various processes and the cost of different styles of binding. The other three volumes deal with more specialized work such as the binding of school books, and there is inevitably a good deal of repetition. Vol. III has an appendix on apprenticeship regulations”. The facsimile reprint was issued in unbound sheets and included a fifth volume entitled Anthologie uber das Leben und Wirken von Christoph Ernst Prediger, Buchbinder in Anspach 1701–1768 by Adolf Rhein, Albert Haemmerle and Henz Petersen (1978, 107 pages, 11 illustrations). This set has been bound in pastepaper and inserted in a cloth slipcase. An important bookbinding manual, the original edition of which is extremely hard to find. German text. [102707]

54. (Bookbinding) Sadleir, Michael. THE EVOLUTION OF PUBLISHERS’ BINDING STYLES, 1770–1900. London: Constable & Co., 1930, 8vo., parchment backed marbled paper­covered boards. x, 96 pages. $ 300.00First edition. Limited to 500 copies. (S-K 7056, Brenni no.412). One of the volumes in the Bibliographia Series edited by Sadleir; certainly one of the most important books in the series. Discusses the evolution of the paper wrapper into boards, paper labels, cloth, ink-blocking on cloth and other ornamentation. Minor cover rubbing. Ownership inscription in pencil. [3154]

55. (Bookbinding) Smith, Philip. NEW DIRECTIONS IN BOOKBINDING. N.P.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1974), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages. $ 225.00First U.S. edition. (Brenni no.443). With many illustrations of modern bindings, binding techniques and photos of binding shops. Some of the binding plates are in full color. Corner bumped. Ownership inscription in pencil. [8099]

56. (Bookbinding) Szirmai, J.A. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BOOKBINDING. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1998, tall 8vo., cloth. xvi, 352 pages. $ 200.00Reprint of the 1999 first edition. A total of ten chapters on single-quire Coptic codices, multi-quire Coptic codices, Late Coptic codices, the Ethiopian codex, the Islamic codex, Byzantine codices, Carolingian bindings, Romanesque bindings, Gothic bindings and limp bindings. Includes a bibliography and an index. Illustrated throughout. [54941]

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57. (Bookbinding) Tidcombe, Marianne. THE BOOKBINDINGS OF T.J. COBDEN­SANDERSON A STUDY OF HIS WORK, 1884–1893, BASED ON HIS TIME BOOK. With a foreword by John Dreyfus. London: The British Library, 1984, 4to., cloth, slipcase. xii, 407 pages. $ 250.00First edition. An excellent analytical study of this founder of modern bookbinding. This work is based on Cobden-Sanderson’s Time Book, in which he recorded the volumes he bound between 1884 and 1893. However it has been greatly expanded and updated to include full bibliographical descriptions of all known bindings. There is also a biographical introduction and interesting chapters on the features of Cobden-Sanderson’s bindings and his notes on bookbinding. The appendices contain drawings, designs, a list of Cobden-Sanderson’s tools, and major exhibitions of his bindings. A very important and magnificently produced book. Illustrated with 200 black-and-white photographs and a colored frontispiece. Signed and dated by the author on the half-title. With the bookplate of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. [1310]

58. (Bookbinding) THE WHOLE ART OF BOOKBINDING, THE WHOLE PROCESS OF MARBLING PAPER. Reprinted from the original editions, with a foreword by Bernard Middleton and twelve specimens of marbled paper and notes by Richard J. Wolfe. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987, 8vo., cloth­backed boards. x, 89, (3) pages. $ 200.00See S-K 7258 for the 1811 first edition of the first title. Limited to 500 copies. Reprints of these two very scarce early 19th century English manuals enhanced by a Middleton introduction and actual marbled paper specimens tipped-in. Ownership inscription in pencil. [17686]

59. (Bookbinding) Wick, Peter A. THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL AND THE BINDING AS ART. Bibliographical Descriptions by Peter A. Wick . . . Introduction by Eleanor M. Garvey . . . Photographs by Mark Sexton. With THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL AND THE BINDING AS ART II. Two volumes. New York: John F. Fleming and Boston: Priscilla Juvelis, (1983), (1985), small 4to., cloth and second volume in stiff paper wrappers. 219 bindings described in the first volume and 57 described in the second. $ 175.00Limited to 850 and 500 copies respectively. Filled with full color tipped-in plates of modern bindings. [36833]

60. (Bookbinding) Wolfe, Richard J. GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING MANUAL, REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE WITH TRANSLATION, INTRODUCTION AND NOTES. Boston: Richard J. Wolfe, 1991, 8vo., decorated paper over cloth backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages. $ 150.00Limited to 250 signed copies, 200 for sale. Text is a facsimile of original German text with translation on facing page. Gives information on gilding of leather; paper; silk; velvet and fore edge, marbling on edges and of calf and sheepskin, and dyeing of calf and sheepskin. Tipped in are 8 samples of some of the processes explained in the book. Marbled paper samples and cover paper were made by Mr. Wolfe who also executed the binding. [34250]

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61. (Bookselling) Muir, Percy. THE LONDON BOOKSHOP BEING PART ONE OF A PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOK TRADE . . . With Prefatory Reminiscence by Percy Muir. With THE LONDON BOOKSHOP, BEING PART TWO. By Richard Brown & Stanley Brett. Two volumes. N.P.: Private Libraries Assoc., 1971,1977, oblong 8vo., cloth. 95; 75 pages. $ 165.00Limited to 1500 and 2000 copies respectively. Some cover rubbing. [839]

62. Bouchot, Henri. THE BOOK: ITS PRINTERS, ILLUSTRATORS, AND BINDERS, FROM GUTENBERG TO THE PRESENT TIME. With a Treatise on the Art of Collecting and Describing Early Printed Books, and a Latin­ English and English­Latin Topographical Index of the Earliest Printing Places. Edited by H. Grevel. London: H. Grevel, 1890, small 4to., original full vellum stamped in gilt. xv, 383 pages. $ 325.00One of 100 numbered large paper copies printed on better paper and bound thus. Extensively revised edition containing 65 new illustrations making a total of 172. Parchment covers rubbed and spotted in places. Ownership inscription in pencil. [102753]

63. (Bourne, George) THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS; OR, BEAUTIES OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, FOR 1805. Baltimore: Geo. Dobbin & Murphy, 1806, 12mo., original quarter cloth, paper­covered boards, paper spine label. 300 pages. $ 200.00(Shaw & Shoemaker 10020). A collection of humorous articles from various newspapers in order to “preserve the quintessence of the newspaper in a durable form” (from the preface). Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed. Covers rubbed with some spotting. [102611]

64. (Bowyer, William) Nichols, John. BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY ANECDOTES OF WILLIAM BOWYER, PRINTER, F.S.A. AND OF MANY OF HIS LEARNED FRIENDS, CONTAINING AN INCIDENTAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS AND ADVANCEMENT OF LITERATURE IN THIS KINGDOM. London: Printed by and for the Author, 1782, 4to., contemporary full calf, five raised bands, all edges stained red. viii, 666 pages. $ 300.00First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II,74). Collection of anecdotes pertaining to the life and times of Bowyer, regarded as one of England’s most learned 18th-century printers. Printed by Nichols, his partner and successor. Nichols was also an antiquarian who published many articles on topics relating to history, and this often-plagiarized volume is an important anecdotal record of its time, with many accounts of contemporary authors, printers and typefounders. Page 535 lists all printing-houses “in and about the Cities of London and Westminster,” and includes printers’ names, the newspapers they printed, and their location. Errors in page numbers: 513–520 omitted. Bookplate of Thomas Cary (by Callender). This copy lacks the frontispiece portrait of Bowyer. Hinges cracked but not broken. [102627]

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65. Boxer, C.R. FIDALGOS IN THE FAR EAST 1550–1770, FACT AND FANCY IN THE HISTORY OF MACAO. The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1948, 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. xii, 297 pages. $ 250.00A history of key episodes and periods connected with the story of the colony of Macao. An important contribution to the history of the Portuguese in Asia, covering the sixteenth and seventeenth certuries. Contains appendices and an index. With sixteen black-and-white illustrations. Creasing and small tears at edges of dust jacket, spine and extremities sunned, some foxing on pages. Some leaves and flowers pressed in this book. [103934]

66. Brewington, M.V. and Dorothy Brewington. KENDALL WHALING MUSEUM PAINTINGS. With KENDALL WHALING MUSEUM PRINTS. Two volumes. Sharon, MA: Kendall Whaling Museum, 1965, 4to., cloth. (xiii),137; (x),198 pages. $ 225.00The first volume is a catalog of paintings drawings and other pictorial materials in the Kendall Museum by Dutch, British, Japanese, American and other artists on the subject of whaling. With 162 black-and-white and color illustrations, frontispiece and an index. The second volume describes the print collection, the largest collection on the subject of whaling assembled in North America, This volume contains 580 black-and-white illustrations, five color plates and frontispiece with an addenda, indexes of titles, book, artists, engravers and publishers. [103986]

67. Briquet, Charles M. FILIGRANES, DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE DES MARQUES DU PAPIER. Four volumes. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1966, thick small 4to., cloth. xxiv,234; (vi),235–426; (viii),427–620; (viii),621–836 pages with each volume containing hundreds of pages of watermarks. $ 275.00Reprint of the second edition of 1923. Over 16000 watermarks are described in the text and via illustration. Still an essential reference tool in the study of paper history. Some insect damage to cloth on the volumes especially volume III. [24574]

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68. THE BRITISH LITHOGRAPHER. Four Volumes bound in Two. London: Raithby, Lawrence & Co, Ltd., 1891–1895, tall 8vo., 20th century cloth. variously paginated. $ 2,000.00A complete run of four volumes bound in two of the bi-monthly periodical. The British Lithographer was absorbed by British Printer in the autumn of 1895. (Book and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals 1800–1942, pg.84; Bridson & Wakeman for many citations). Every issue is full of helpful articles and an amazing number of illustrations—many, if not most, in color. These magazines were meant for the working lithographer and, as such, have articles like ‘Transfer of a Photo from Chromate Paper to Zinc’, ‘Practical Collotype Printing’, and ‘An American School of Lithography’. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Ex-library set with markings, including a small oval stamp fortunately placed on the back of the plates. [97827]

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69. (Calligraphy) Osley, A.S. LUMINARIO, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ITALIAN WRITING­BOOKS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. Nieuwkoop: Miland Publishers, 1972, small folio, cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 173+(1) pages. $ 235.00Limited to 800 copies. History followed by check list of the first editions of the different writing manuals. Filled with illustrations and reproductions. Review copy sent to Frederic Melcher at Publisher’s Weekly. Includes prospectus, letter to Melcher from De Graaf, Melcher bookplate and other material. [31999]

70. (Calligraphy) Simons, Anna. GESCHICHTE DER SCHRIFT. Berlin­Leipzig: Heingtze & Blanckertz, n.d., folio, stiff paper wrappers. 4 leaves of calligraphy followed by a leaf of text. $ 225.00Large format booklet in which the noted calligrapher, Anna Simons, has recreated a chronological picture of the changes in handwriting through time using her own calligraphy. Covers soiled. Detached at spine. [102969]

71. (Capricorn Press) Everson, William (Brother Antoninus). WHO IS SHE THAT LOOKETH FORTH AS THE MORNING. Santa Barbara, CA: Capricorn Press, 1972, 4to., dark green boards with spine title in gold, and design on front cover in gold, acetate jacket. 19+(1) pages. $ 175.00Printed in an edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed and numbered by Brother Antoninus. Designed and printed in two colors by Noel Young, title page illustration by Graham Mackintosh in two shades of green and yellow. Hand-bound by Earle Gray. Tear in acetate jacket. [48090]

72. Carter, John (editor). NEW PATHS IN BOOK COLLECTING ESSAYS BY VARIOUS HANDS. London: Constable & Co., (1934), 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. vi, 294 pages. $ 200.00First edition. Landmark book edited by Carter. Includes essays by Carter, Winterich, Muir, Oldman, Sadleir, Balston, Randall and Pollard. Inscription on half-title “John Carter, Feb. 9, 1934.” Chipping at head of spine of jacket. Spine of jacket slightly faded as in spine of book. Unusual to find inscribed by the author and in jacket. [1599]

73. Carter, John. TASTE AND TECHNIQUE IN BOOK COLLECTING, A STUDY OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1948, 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 203 pages. $ 200.00First U.S. edition. Two main sections; the evolution of book collecting and the method of book collecting. A classic book in the field. A wonderful association item as this copy once belonged to Allen T. Hazen and has his name and “Review copy, July 1948” written in ink on the free endpaper. Loosely inserted is a copy of the review he wrote for the Library Quarterly, a mimeograph of a letter he sent to Carter enclosing a copy of the review, and a lengthy two page T.L.s. from Carter responding to the review (mostly favorably). Also present is the review slip from the publisher and an errata slip sent by the author. Hazen has hand-corrected the various places in the text based on this errata sheet. Jacket worn and tape repaired. [39473]

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74. Carter, Thomas Francis. INVENTION OF PRINTING IN CHINA AND ITS SPREAD WESTWARD. New York: Columbia University Press, (1931), 8vo., cloth. xxviii, 282, (2) pages with 40 illustrations and charts. $ 165.00Revised edition with an introduction by Douglas McMurtrie on Carter. A very important book in the study of the history of printing. Well preserved copy. [89158]

75. (Cartier, Jacques) Baxter, James Phinney. A MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER, SIEUR DE LIMOILOU, HIS VOYAGES TO THE ST. LAWERENCE. A Bibliography and a Facsimile of the Manuscript of 1534 with Annotations, Etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906, 8vo., cloth, paper spine label, top edge gilt. (ix), 464 pages. $ 325.00Limited edition of three hundred copies on deckle-edge paper. A history of the voyages of Jacques Cartier, his exploration of the St. Lawrence and Canada. With and black-and-white illustrations, a facsimile manuscript of Cartier’s first voyage, list of collateral documents, genealogy of Cartier’s family, bibliography, itinerary of Cartier’s voyages and analytical index. The front fore-edge and tail of pagination are untrimmed, with minor bumping and rubbing to the bottom corners and spine ends. [103979]

76. (Caxton, William) Duff, E. Gordon. WILLIAM CAXTON. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1905, tall 4to., cloth­backed boards, paper spine label. 118 pages. $ 450.00First edition, limited to 255 copies. 148 copies of this printing contained a pocket in the back with an original Caxton leaf. This copy has the pocket but not the leaf (xerox inserted). (Appleton p.24). With 25 full page plates. A biography of the this famous English printer with separate chapters on his early life, his press at Bruges, the early Westminster Press and a bibliography of his work. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Paper spine label heavily rubbed. Ownership inscription in pencil. [35515]

77. (Caxton, William) VOCABULARY IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH, A FACSIMILE OF CAXTON’S EDITION C.14 80. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY J.C.T. OATES AND L.C. HARMER. Cambridge: University Press, 1964, tall 4to., quarter red morocco over red cloth, top edge gilt. xxvi, 49 pages. $ 200.00The library obtained this copy in 1960, one of four known copies of this early Caxton title. Spine rubbed at bottom. [33207]

78. Chatterton, Thomas. POEMS, SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AT BRISTOL, BY THOMAS ROWLEY AND OTHERS, IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY; THE GREATEST PART NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC COPIES, WITH AN ENGRAVED SPECIMEN OF ONE OF THE MSS.. To Which are Added, a Preface, an Introductory Account of the Several Pieces, and a Glossary. London: T. Payne and Son, 1777, 8vo., modern quarter calf, five raised bands, red leather spine label with contemporary marbled paper covered boards. xxvii, 307 pages. $ 350.00First edition, second state with the leaf, C4 a cancel. (Rothschild 589; Ashley Library Catalogue Volume 10, p.75 where Wise reproduces the title page facing page 75). Chatterton was born in Bristol in 1752 and died by suicide in his 17th year. Considered to be insane, he nevertheless created a series of forged poems attributed to Thomas Rowley that he claimed to have found in the muniment room of Saint Mary Redcliffe. The poems were so well executed that a great controversy arose in English literary circles as to their authenticity. This book exposes the literary fraud but, by no means, stopped the controversy. Marbled paper covers rubbed with wear at tips. Rare. [1381]

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79. (Chatterton, Thomas) Warton, Thomas. AN ENQUIRY INTO THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS ROWLEY. IN WHICH THE ARGUMENTS OF THE DEAN OF EXETER, AND MR. BRYANT, ARE EXAMINED. London: J. Dodsley, 1782, 12mo., later half leather, paper­covered boards. 125 pages. $ 750.00First edition, with page 122 misnumbered 121 (Lowndes p. 2140, Watson vol. 2, p. 691, ESTC System No. 006232153). Thomas Chatterton was responsible for inventing not only Thomas Rowley, but also a slew of other fictional characters with whom Rowley interacted. Chatterton then created forged works of poetry which he attributed to Rowley, and when the truth was discovered, killed himself at the age of 17. Boards soiled, leather rubbed, with leather missing at spine ends. Rear hinge/joint weak, front hinge/joint connected only by thread binding. Title page carefully mounted on thicker paper. Some foxing and light soiling on pages, especially on front and rear pages. On pages 1, 41, 42, 51, 52, and 62, there are notes in the margins written in a black or brown ink, with minor underlining in the same ink on pages 51, 52, and 89. A very rare book. [102603]

80. Chatto, William A. THE HISTORY AND ART OF WOOD ENGRAVING WITH SPECIMENS OF THE ART, ANCIENT AND MODERN, SELECTED FROM “THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.”. London: Office of the Illustrated London News, 1848, folio, original cloth covers with modern cloth spine and tips and with a modern paper spine label. (iv), 28 pages. $ 450.00First separate edition (Bridson & Wakeman C155—“First published in the Illustrated London News between 20th April & 6th July, 1844”) Published in 4 parts. Contains 55 illustrations on 46 plates. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Foxed and water-stained at edges; several marginal tears repaired. Scarce book. [98448]

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81. Chavnnes­Mazel, Claudine A. and Margaret M. Smith (editors). MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS OF THE LATIN CLASSICS: PRODUCTION AND USE. (Los Altos Hills, CA): Anderson­Lovelace, 1996, 4to, cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 256 pages. $ 350.00A detailed study with twelve essays concerning the production of the Latin classics, covering the methods of illustration, use and collection in the middle ages. It offers detailed accounts of the work of individuals, the Carolingian scholars Dungal and Lupas of Ferrieres and the Florentine scribes among others. The preface is by Leighton D. Reynolds. The volume concludes with an illustrated survey of the manuscripts of Cicero in the Liden University Library. Contains an index of manuscripts and a general index, and several black-and-white and color illustrations throughout. Creasing and small tear at head of spine of dust jacket, minor water damage on upper-third of dust jacket and front board. [103940]

82. Chiappelli, Fredi (editor). FIRST IMAGES OF AMERICA, THE IMPACT OF THE NEW WORLD ON THE OLD. Two volumes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976, 4to., cloth, slipcase, paper cover label on slipcase. (xxii),515; (xviii),438 pages. $ 300.00This two volume set is the record of an international congress held at UCLA in 1975 which was devoted to the impact of the new world on the old. With more than fifty scholarly essays covering such diverse topics as discovery, myth and literature, conflict, arts, books, language, geography, science and trade. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white and color illustrations. With an index of dates, names and subjects. Errata slip laid-in. Slipcase rubbed and bumped at extremities, with rubbing and some cracks all over paper slipcase label. Minor wear on books. [103983]

83. (Children’s Books) Sarg, Tony. TONY SARG’S MAGIC MOVIE BOOK. N.P.: n.p., n.d., small 4to., heavy pictorial paper covered boards. 8 leaves of which five are double folded and contain the spinning wheels. $ 200.00Tucked into a pocket in the front cover are the two required “Magic Lenses” which consist of cardboard glasses with rotating red and blue clear plastic eye-holes. These allow the viewer to see the color drawings in the book and creates the illusion of movement. Five of the pages contain a built-in spinning wheel of images that rotates to reveal motion. Wear along hinges. . [103134]

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84. Clerc, L.­P. LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DES COULEURS. AVEC UNE PRÉFACE DE M. GABRIEL LIPPMANN. Paris: Gauthier­Villars; Masson & Cie, (1898), small 8vo., modern marbled paper wrappers, paper spine label. 190, (xvi), xvi pages. $ 215.00First edition (Roosens & Luc Salu 2218). Part of the series entitled “Encyclopédie scientifique des aide-mémoire.” 18 text illustrations. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [98568]

85. Cole, John. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE TOUR FROM SCARBOROUGH TO THE LIBRARY OF A PHILOBIBLIST, IN IT’S NEIGHBORHOOD. Scarborough: John Cole et al., 1824, 8vo., original paper­covered boards, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut, preserved in a modern cloth box. (ii), iv, 92+(1) pages. $ 1,950.00First edition, limited to 100 copies. Signed by the author on the verso of the dedication page. Dedicated to Francis Wrangham (1769–1842) who assembled a library which contained over 14000 volumes and was accomplished at finding obscure and interesting titles. John Cole was a bookseller from Scarborough on whom Wrangham had great influence. This book gives a description of 100 selected titles in Wrangham’s library, the notes being mainly drawn from Wrangham’s private catalogue, then in MS., but destined to be printed two years later. (Michael Sadleir’s Archdeacon Francis Wrangham 1769–1842. Oxford Bibl. Soc., 1937). From the library of John William Clay with his bookplate. Original paper wrappers worn along edges and hinges. Paper spine label mostly rubbed away. Unusual to find in original condition. [102508]

86. Collingbridge, George. THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA. A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the priority of Discovery in Australasis by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the “Endeav­our,” in the year 1770. Sydney: Hayes Brothers, 1895, 4to., original cloth. xv, 376 pages. $ 475.00First edition. With illustrations, charts, maps, diagrams, copious notes, references, geographical index and an index of names. Rubbed along edges. [103871]

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87. Cronenberg, Wilhelm. THE HALF­TONE ON THE AMERICAN BASIS FROM THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF WILHELM CRONENBERG . . . TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM GAMBLE. Bradford and London: Percy Lund & Co., 1896, small 8vo., original red cloth decorated in black and gilt. 164, (24) pages. $ 150.00First English edition. (Bridson & Wakeman E188). Chapters on photo-engraving in America and the technical process of making a half-tone. The last part of the book consists of plates containing illustrations produced by this method. Cronenberg was the proprietor and conductor of the Practical Institute for Photography and Mechanical Reproduction at Schloss Gronenbach, Bavarian-Algan and based the first chapter on his visit to the U.S. Library. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Spine slightly faded. Stain along bottom of the pages in the back. [38085]

88. Cummings, E.E. SANTA CLAUS: A MORALITY BY E. E. CUMMINGS. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946, small 4to., red and black cloth with lettering in gilt. (x), 18 pages. $ 300.00First Edition (1946) limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. Fading along top edge of back cover. [102835]

89. Davenport, Cyril. MEZZOTINTS. London: Methuen and Co., 1904, small 4to., full vellum with top edge gilt. xlv, 208 pages. $ 350.00First edition, one of 50 bound thus and printed on Japanese paper. Notes on techniques on creating mezzotints, and a wealth of information on the engravers who are noted for this art form. Illustrated with plates, many of which are portraits of well known figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that are examples of the work of the artists mentioned. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Some cover soiling. [75555]

90. Davidson, Ellis A. PRACTICAL MANUAL OF HOUSE­PAINTING, GRAINING, MARBLING AND SIGN­WRITING. London: Crosby,Lockwood and Co., 1880, small 8vo., original cloth. xxii, 394, 16, 32 pages. $ 150.00Third edition, revised. This book contains information on house-painting with oil or distemper, sign-writing, elementary drawing and perspective, and decorative art. Much attention is given to pigments and various types of sizings, and the painting of murals is discussed. Seven chapters on lettering are included. How to reproduce several types of wood and marble is explained in detail, with nine color plates illustrating faux-wood and -marble effects. With colored frontispiece and 8 other color plates showing imitations of wood grains and marble. Covers worn along edges and hinges. Ownership inscription in pencil. [102716]

91. De Bure, Guillame­Francois Le Jeune. APPEL AUX SAVANS ET AUX GENS DE LETTRES, AU SUJET DE LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE INSTRUCTIVE. (Paris): n.p., 1763, 12mo., self paper wrappers, stitched (removed). 17 pages. $ 250.00De Bure’s landmark BIBLIOGRAPHIE INSTRUCTIVE: OU TRAITE DE LA CONNOISSANCE DES LIVRES RARE came out in 1763 and is considered the first French handbook written for collectors. This pamphlet contains De Bure’s response to criticism of his work by R.P. Mercier. With a few notes in pencil in the margin. [102873]

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92. DENT MEMORIAL LECTURES. London: Dent, 1932–1939, small 8vo., decorated paper­covered boards, dust jackets. approx. 40–60 pages each. $ 195.00The complete set of nine volumes, comprising: [1] BLACKWELL, Basil. The World of Books; [2] SADLEIR, Michael. Authors & Publishers; [3] JOHNSON, John. The Printer: his customers and his men; [4] CLAPPERTON, R. H. Paper and its relationship to Books; [5] LEIGHTON, Douglas. Bookbinding: a survey and a prospect; [6] DE LA MARE, Richard. A Publisher on Book Production; [7] GOSSOP, R. P. Book Illustration . . . ; [8] RAYMOND, Harold. Publsihing & Bookselling . . . ; [9] SWINNERTON, F. The Reviewing and Criticism of Books. All in dust jacket. Some tape repair of jackets. Series number written in ink at top of spine. [82621]

93. DeWald, Ernest T. THE STUTTGART PSALTER, BIBLIO FOLIO 23, WUERTTEMBERGISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK, STUTTGART. Princeton, NJ: Department of Art and Archaelogy of Princeton University, 1930, small 4to., paper bound book with paper cover label accompanied by facsimiles (some in color), all inserted in drop­down box with paper cover label. (viii), 132 pages for text volume; 165 pages of facsimiles. $ 350.00Includes a facsimile of the Psalter, a collation of the manuscript and a description of the illuminations in the text. Some tape repair to folding box. [102871]

94. Dewalt, Bryan. TECHNOLOGY AND CANADIAN PRINTING: A HISTORY FROM LEAD TYPE TO LASERS. Ottawa: National Museum of Science and Technology, 1995, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. 162 pages. $ 175.00First edition. Well illustrated history beginning with 1751 to the present. Wear along spine. [43058]

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95. (Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Lesné. LETTRE D’UN RELIEUR FRANCAIS A UN BIBLIOGRAPHE ANGLAIS. Paris: L’Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1822, 8vo., contemporary leather backed­marbled paper covered boards. 28 pages. $ 325.00(Windle & Pippin D10; Jackson no.53). Dibdin’s Tour in France and Germany upset a number of Frenchmen with its inaccuracies. His book was translated into French with the inclusion of a profuse number of footnotes attacking the text. Lesne, the well known French bookbinder, added his comments to the fray with this scarce booklet. Leather spine worn and chipped away in places. Foxed. [53482]

96. Dougall, J. CABINENT OF THE ARTS: BEING A NEW AND UNIVERSAL DRAWING BOOK FORMING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF DRAWING, PAINTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, ETCHING, ENGRAVING, PERSPECTIVE, PROJECTION & SURVEYING . . . London: R. Ackermann, n.d. (1821), 4to., new cloth spine with paper spine label with original paper covered boards. Frontispiece; engraved title page, iii, (v), 384 pages. $ 650.00Second edition with additions. This is the text volume only and does not include the plate volume with 130 engravings. Bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Wear along edges of covers. Inner hinges reinforced with archival paper repair. [102974]

97. Drouin, F. LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DES COULEURS. Paris: Charles Medel, 1896, large 12mo., modern cloth, paper spine label, original wrappers bound­in. (iv), 115, (9) pages. $ 250.00Illustrated with 18 figures in the text. Includes a section on chromoscopes. Original wrappers soiled and worn at the edges. Cloth binding has just a hint of wear. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [98437]

98. Duchochois, P.C. PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION PROCESSES: A PRACTICAL TREATISE OF THE PHOTO­IMPRESSIONS WITHOUT SILVER SALTS FOR THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHERS, ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, DRAUGHTSMEN, AND WOOD AND METAL ENGRAVERS. Containing all the Processes Employed to Reproduce Plans, Designs, Engravings, Clichés on Paper, Wood, Glass and Metal Plates, and a Complete Description of the Uranotype, Aniline, Platinotype and Improved Carbon Process, etc, etc, etc. New York: Scovill & Adams Company, 1891, 8vo., original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. (xii), 121, 17 pages. $ 250.00First edition (See Bridson & Wakeman E363 for a London printing of 1892). With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. The cover indicates that this was part of the “Scovill’s Photographic Series.” Small stamp indicates that this was a Library of Congress duplicate and was the copy filed for copyright. [97798]

99. Eder, J. M. MODERN DRY PLATES; OR, EMULSION PHOTOGRAPHY. The American edition, edited by H. Baden Pritchard. New York,: E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., 1881, 8vo., original publisher’s pictorial cloth. [i], viii, 138, [34] pages. $ 300.00From the Library of The Photographic Society of Philadelphia, with their bookplate and embossed ownership stamps. Some penciled annotations in the text. The initial and the final 32 pages are advertisements for photographic supplies and services. Boards worn, front cover lightly damp spotted. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [98532]

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100. Everson, William. RIVER­ROOT, A SYZGY FOR THE BICENTENNIAL OF THESE STATES. Berkely: Oyez Press, 1976, 4to., quarter leather with decorated paper­covered boards. 50, (3) pages. $ 225.00Printed in an edition limited to 250 numbered and signed copies. A collection of poems by William Everson. Illustrations are by Patrick Kennedy and the design is by Thomas Whitridge. Includes an afterword by the author. [57921]

101. Fagan, Louis. COLLECTORS’ MARKS. London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Press, 1883, small 8vo., original full vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece; (viii), 128 pages followed by plates and an 8 page index. $ 150.00First edition. 668 marks made by collectors to indicate their ownership of books are reproduced. Biographical information about the collector, if known, is given. Covers soiled with some foxing. [19404]

102. Ferret, L’Abbé J. LA PHOTOGRAVURE SANS PHOTOGRAPHIE. Paris: Gauthier­Villars, 1894, large 12mo., modern marbled paper wrappers, original wrappers bound­in. viii,48,4 pages. $ 225.00Part of the Bibliothèque Photographique. Text in French. Original wrappers, some soiling, with a little paper loss, pages at each end have a bit more wear than the rest of the book, a few pages are smudged. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [98536]

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103. Fielding, T.H. THE ART OF ENGRAVING WITH THE VARIOUS MODES OF OPERATION UNDER THE FOLLOWING DIVISIONS: ETCHING, SOFT­GROUND ETCHING, LINE ENGRAVING, CHALK AND STIPPLE, AQUATINT, MEZZOTINT, LITHOGRAPHY, WOOD ENGRAVING, MEDALLIC EN­GRAVING, ELECTROGRAPHY, AND PHOTOGRAPHY. Illustrated with Specimens of the different Styles of Engraving. London: Ackermann & Co., 1841, 8vo., original cloth stamped in blind and gilt. (vii+i), 109, (3) pages, with a 14 page catalogue from Ackermann bound in. $ 450.00First edition. (Bridson & Wakeman A28; ATF 909). A book “of great importance, as it describes, very completely and satisfactorily, the different processes of print making . . . as then known” (Lewis: Descriptive Bibliography . . . Relating to the Art and History of Engraving (1912–1913), p.121). Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (1781–1851) was a fairly well-known painter and engraver, and also wrote on art and engraving. This work was later reprinted as an appendix in Maberly, The Private Collector . . . (1880). The section on photography (paper or plate) is an early practical treatment of the subject in a handbook, and gives three ways of making photographs. The ten plates illustrate tools, or prints made by various methods, sometimes in various states. There are several text illustrations. Appended is a two-page list of “modern engravings arranged according to the engravers.” Signed on the free endpaper “Adolphus William Ackermann, 1859.” With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. The plates and their facing guards are all waterstained though the text is not. [97871]

104. Fisch, A. NOUVEAUX PROCÉDÉS DE REPRODUCTIONS IN­DUSTRIELLES AVEC OU SANS TEINTES MODÉLÉES AU MOYEN DES SELS D’ARGENT, DE PLATINE, D’URANE, DE CUIVRE, DE DESSINS, DE PLANS, GRAVURES, PORTRAITS, VUES, MONUMENTS, PAYSAGES, ETC. A L’USAGE DES INGÉNIEURS, CHEFS D’ATELIERS, DESSINATEURS, ARTISTES ET AMATEURS PHOTOGRAPHES, DES ÉCOLES PRO FESSIONELLES ET DES ÉCOLES DE DESSIN, ETC. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Sciences; J. Michelet, 1887, small 8vo., modern marbled paper­covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. 140, (4) pages. $ 225.00First edition (Roosens & Luc Salu 10429). Part of the series entitled “Encyclopédie photographique.” With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. [98566]

105. Ford, Worthington Chauncey. THE BOSTON BOOK MARKET, 1679–1700. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1917, 8vo., cloth­backed boards. xii, 198 pages. $ 175.00First edition, limited to only 151 copies. Discussion of the primary Boston bookdealers and publishers, bookbinding, products of the press, etc. With many collotype plates and 13 reproductions of 17th century American booklists. From the training library of the Lakeside Press of Chicago with their bookplate and a pocket removed from the back pastedown. Cloth worn through along front hinge in three places. [100314]

106. (Forlani, Paolo) Woodward, David. THE MAPS AND PRINTS OF PAOLO FORLANI. The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography Occasional Publication No. 4. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1990, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. (xiii), 21 plates, 60 pages. $ 200.00This volume is a descriptive bibliography of the map maker Paolo Forlani, who was active in sixteenth century Italy. It includes 144 items with 21 black-and-white illustrations, a list of references, an index of persons named and geographical index. Minor soiling on covers with some dents on covers and wear and small closed tears all over spine. [103988]

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107. Fortier, G. LA PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIE: SON ORIGINE, SES PROCÉDÉS, SES APPLICATIONS. Paris: Gauthier­Villars, 1876, 8vo., quarter calf, five raised bands, marbled paper­covered boards, marbled endpapers. 73+(1) pages and three plates. $ 150.00First edition (Roosens & Luc Salu 8288 who only call for 2 plates though the list of plates calls for 3 and 3 are present in this copy). This is an interesting manual that also gives a short history of the process. Text in French. Two of the plates are black-and-white, but the other one is an example of chromolithography, showing a floral arrangement in two sizes and many colors. All are tipped-in. Foot of spine lettered “E B”. Some foxing throughout. A bit of wear at the edges. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [97838]

108. (France) HISTOIRE DES BIBLIOTHEQUES FRANCAISES, . 4 volumes. Paris: Promodis­Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, (1989), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xxiv,463; xv,547; xii, 671; xxii,793+(1)pages. $ 650.00First edition. In French. The complete four volume set of this work.Vernet, Andre (editor). LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES MÉDIÈVALES DU XIe SIÈCLE. With the help of experts in the field, this volume attempts to document the ecclesiastical, royal, and private libraries of the middle ages. Well illustrated throughout, depicting both manuscripts and libraries. Jolly, Claude (editor). LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES L’ANCIEN REGIME 1530–1789.Varry, Dominique (editor). LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES DE LA REVOLUT ION ET DU XIXe SIÈCLE, 1789–1914.Poulain, Martine (editor). LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES AUX XXE SIÈCLE, 1914–1990.Minor jacket chipping. [103093]

109. Franklin, Colin. EXPLORING JAPANESE BOOKS AND SCROLLS. (San Francisco): Book Club of California, (1999), large 4to., half cloth with pictorial paper­covered boards, paper label on spine, slipcase. xi, (i), 156+(2) pages. $ 225.00Limited edition of 450 copies were printed for members of the Book Club of California, San Francisco. Elegantly designed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. Antiquarian Colin Franklin explores the rich history of calligraphy, printing, and bookmaking in Japan; supplemented by examples from his extensive collection of Japenese books and scrolls. 93 beautiful color plates. The text is set in Scripps College Old Style, originally designed by Frederic W. Goudy. Decorations throughout the book are taken from traditional Japanese patterns. Blue and gold patterned endpapers mirror the decoration of the slipcase. Binding is half blue silk . Colorful Japanese prints decorate the paper-covered boards. [73778]

110. Fuhrmann, Otto W. GUTENBERG AND THE STRASBOURG DOCU­MENTS OF 1439; AN INTERPRETATION. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940, 4to., cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. xii, 260 pages. $ 225.00Limited to 660 copies. Handset in Bruce Rogers’ 14 point Centaur by George W. Van Vechten Jr. and printed by George C. Montgomery. Contains illustrations by Fritz Kredel. A scholarly work, handsomely printed. Slipcase faded. [14485]

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111. Gaullieur, E.­H. ÉTUDES SUR LA TYPOGRAPHIE GENEVOISE DU XVI AU XIXE SIÈCLES, ET SUR LES ORIGINES DE L’IMPRIMERIE EN SUISSE. Genève: n.p., 1855, 8vo., contemporary quarter blue leather with pastepaper covered boards, five raised bands. (iv), 260 pages. $ 250.00First edition (Bigmore & Wyman I, 256). A history of printing in Switzerland and especially in Geneva. Contains four folding plates at the end with multiple images on each. Covers rubbed around edges. One plate is torn. [102507]

112. Gill, Eric. AN ESSAY ON TYPOGRAPHY. London: Sheed & Ward, 1931, small 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 120, (2) pages. $ 750.00First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies printed and signed by René Hague and Eric Gill (Gill no.21). Discussion of compostion, lettering, typography, punch-cutting, paper and ink, etc. A beautifully printed book, the first to be set in Gill’s Joanna Roman type face. Printed by Hague and

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Gill on specially watermarked Hague and Gill handmade paper. Nice association item as it bears the following inscription on the free endpaper “Ned Catich, St. Abrose College, Davenport, Iowa.” Catich wrote many books on writing, calligraphy, and letter forms. Jacket chipped at spine ends. [65172]

113. (Gille Fils) Invoice on the stationary of Gille Fils, Fondeur et Imprimeur. Paris: Gille Fils, 1793, bill head (16.8 x 23.5 cm). $ 135.00An invoice for posters delivered by the printer—type producer, Gille Fils, to a M. Poultier dated 23 Fructidor An II (August 1793). Five items billed on this invoice. The bill head itself has a beautiful vignette in the corner. Age darkening around edges. [102527]

114. Goodspeed, Charles E. YANKEE BOOKSELLER, BEING THE REM­INISCENCES OF CHARLES E. GOODSPEED. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1937, 8vo., half leather over cloth, top edge gilt, slipcase with paper spine label mounted. xiv, 325 pages. $ 250.00First edition, one of 310 numbered and signed copies. Many illustrations. Interesting history of the firm of Goodspeeds with many anecdotes including finding a tamerlane. Slipcase rubbed and cracked along hinge. Unusually fine copy of a book that usually is in poor condition. [24572]

115. (Gravesend Press) Boccaccio, Giovanni. THREE ADMIRABLE ACCIDENTS OF ANDREA DE PIERO. Lexington, Kentucky: Gravesend Press, 1954, 12mo., quarter paper­covered boards with decorated paper­covered covers. (vi), 48, (2) pages. $ 450.00First edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. With woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel. A “story of roguery” from the fourteenth century. A wonderful association item as this copy bears the following presentation at the top of the free endpaper “For John De Pol with friendly greetings from Joe Graves, Oct. 21st, 1955” and has John De Pol’s bookplate on front pastedown. [103993]

116. Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose (editors). BOOK HISTORY, VOLUME I TO 9 and 11, 12. 11 volumes. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, 8vo., cloth. various paginations. $ 250.00Volumes 1 to 9 and 11, 12 of this series of volumes on book history. Filled with interesting information. [103025]

117. (Grenfell Press) Dowell, Coleman. THE SILVER SWANNE. New York: The Grenfell Press, (1983), 4to., quarter vellum with paper­covered boards. 41, (4) pages. $ 200.00First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 115 numbered and signed copies. A ghost story which tells of three men from three centuries, whose stories and the consequences of their acts are eerily similar. It has been printed by hand in four colors and was set in Centaur monotype by Michael Bixler. It was bound by hand by Claudia Cohen with printed Fabriano Roma paper over boards and a vellum spine stamped in gold. The paper is J. Barcham Greene’s Chatham Vellum, which is a hand-made linen sheet imported from England. A prospectus is loosely inserted. [60864]

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118. (Grolier Club) GAZETTE OF THE GROLIER CLUB, NEW SERIES, 1966–1999. 58 volumes. (New York): Grolier Club, 1966–2007, small 8vo., self paper wrappers for early issues; New Series. stiff paper wrappers. $ 150.00New Series. Number 1 (June 1966)–58 (2007) with some being double issues. The official membership journal of the Grolier Club of New York, founded in 1884 as a society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts, and containing many articles related to Club exhibitions. Illustrated. Also includes the following from the first series of Gazettes nos. 4, 5, 8, 11/12, Volume II. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 (May, 1949). Also includes 9 issues of the News Sheet of the Grolier Club (1978–1981). [103896]

119. Gruel, Leon. RECHERCHES SUR LES ORIGINES DES MARQUES ANCIENNES QUI SE RENCONTRENT DANS L’ ART ET DANS L’ INDUSTRIE DU XVE AU XIXE SIECLE PAR RAPPORT AU CHIFFRE QUATRE. Paris et Bruxelles: Librairie Nationale d’ Art et d’ Histoire—G. Van Oest, Editeur, 1926, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 110, (2) pages. $ 250.00First edition. Hundreds of reproductions of printers’ marks. Presentation on free endpaper “à Monsieur Henry Walters, dernier travail de M Leon Gruel, Respectiueux hommage de P. Gruel.” Covers detached; first number of pages loose. [102879]

120. Guigard, Joannis. ARMORIAL DU BIBLIOPHILE AVEC ILLUSTRATIONS DANS LE TEXTE. Two volumes bound in one. Paris: Librairie Bachelin­Deflorenne, 1870–1873, 8vo., later half green leather with marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt. (ii),254; (ii),272 pages. $ 225.00First edition. Illustrations of hundreds of coat-of-arms of bookcollectors. Inscription in pencil. [102756]

121. Guillot, Ernest. ELEMENTS DE L’ORNEMENTATION DU XVIe AU XVIIIe SIÈCLES. TIRÉS DES MANUSCRITS, DES IMPRIMÉS, DES ESTAMPES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE ET DES MONUMENTS HISTORIQUES DE L’ÉPOQUE. XVIIe ET XVIIIe SIÈCLES. Paris: L. Tugis et Fils, Editeurs, n.d. (circa 1880), oblong 12mo., original stiff paper wrappers printed in many colors. 16 leaves. $ 150.00Part of a series issued by Guillot to demonstrate ornamentation in different styles and time periods. Each plate contains multiple images, each done in chromolithography. This volume covers the 17th and 18th centuries and shows the styles in France during the periods of Louis XIII to Louis XVI. Back cover is chipped and has piece missing. Wear along edges. [102515]

122. Guillot, Ernest. ELEMENTS DE L’ORNEMENTATION DU XVIe AU XVIIIe SIÈCLES. TIRÉS DES MANUSCRITS, DES IMPRIMÉS, DES ESTAMPES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE ET DES MONUMENTS HISTORIQUES DE L’ÉPOQUE. XVIe SIÈCLE. Paris: Librairie Renouard, H.Laurens, Editeur., n.d. (circa 1880), oblong 12mo., original stiff paper wrappers printed in many colors. 16 leaves. $ 150.00Part of a series issued by Guillot to demonstrate ornamentation in different styles and time periods. Each plate contains multiple images, each done in chromolithography. This volume covers the Middle Ages through the 16th century in France. Note the variant in publishers. The plates are the same as in the copy edited by Turgis Fils. Wear along edges. [102517]

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123. Guillot, Ernest. ELEMENTS DE L’ORNEMENTATION DU XVIIe AU XVIIIe SIÈCLES. TIRÉS DES MANUSCRITS, DES IMPRIMÉS, DES ESTAMPES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE ET DES MONUMENTS HISTORIQUES DE L’ÉPOQUE. XVIe SIÈCLE. Paris: Tugis et Fils, Editeurs, n.d. (circa 1880), oblong 12mo., original stiff paper wrappers printed in many colors. 16 leaves. $ 150.00Part of a series issued by Guillot to demonstrate ornamentation in different styles and time periods. Each plate contains multiple images, each done in chromolithography. This volume covers the Middle Ages through the 16th century in France. Note—there is a typographic error in the title on the cover (should be XVIe rather than XVIIe) that is fixed in the running head on the plates. Wear along edges. [102516]

124. Hardwich, T. Frederick. A MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMISTRY, INCLUDING THE PRACTICE OF THE COLLODION PROCESS. London: John Churchill, 1859, 8vo., stamped cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. vi,[iii]­xii, 13–300 pages. $ 300.00Fifth edition. Greatly expanded and revised from the first edition of 1855. This manual quickly became the standard for its time. Several plates are included with illustrations of the chemical processes, with a complete index and useful information. The introduction to the second edition is included and concludes with “In conclusion, a hope is expressed that this ‘Manual of Photographic Chemistry’ may be found to be a complete and trustworthy guide on every point connected with the theory and practice of the Collodion process.” With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Interior and exterior hinges are cracked, light foxing throughout book, edges of covers are worn with bumped corners. [97837]

125. Hargrave, Catherine Perry. A HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CARDS AND GAMING. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930, tall 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xxvi, 468 pages. $ 225.00First edition. Discussion of the history of the playing card in all countries; profusely illustrated with some in full color. In addition to the large bibliography of books on the subject, the author also includes lists of decks in the collection of the United States Playing Card Company. Covers faded and rubbed with fraying at spine ends. [103027]

126. Harrisse, Henry. JOHN CABOT THE DISCOVERER OF NORTH AMERICA AND SEBASTIAN HIS SON. A Chapter of the Maritime History of England under the Tudors 1496–1557. London: Benjamin Franklin Stevens, 1896, 8vo, original two toned polished buckram. xii, 503, (5) pages. $ 185.00First edition. Growell 55. Growell notes “ he [Harrisse] never was fortunate enough to find a publisher in America . . .” Cloth is split along front hinge causing spine to be partially detached. [103816]

127. Hasluck, Paul N. (editor). THE BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY, PRACTICAL, THEORETIC, AND APPLIED. ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY­EIGHT FULL­PAGE PLATES AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS AND WORKING DRAWINGS. London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., (1905), 8vo., original green cloth stamped in black and gilt, all edges stained red. xl, 744 pages. $ 225.00First edition. Contains 48 plates, 4 in color, and 934 text illustrations. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Also contains the signature of Henry Saville on fly-leaf and that of J. S. Cuppy on the title page. The covers have been varnished, affecting the edges of the end-papers. [98276]

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128. Hellinga, Wytze. COPY AND PRINT IN THE NETHERLANDS, AN ATLAS OF HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. With Introductory Essays by H. de la Fontaine Verwey and G.W. Ovink. Two volumes. Amsterdam: North­Holland Publishing Co., 1962, 4to., cloth, cardboard slipcases. xxvii,253 pages; (viii) pages followed by 219 plates. $ 350.00A study of the book in the Netherlands from the 15th century to the 20th century. Includes information on the book and culture, the book trade and the form of the book. With 219 plates showing pages of books followed by long descriptions of the 219 items pictured. [45056]

129. Hubl, Arthur Freiherrn Von. THREE­COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY: THREE­COLOUR PRINTING AND THE PRODUCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PIGMENT PICTURES IN NATURAL COLOURS. Translated by Henry Oscar Klein. London: A.W. Penrose & Co., 1904, 8vo., cloth. 148 pages followed by 32 pages of advertisements. $ 150.00First edition in English of this book published as DIE DREIFARBEN PHOTOGRAPHIE in Germany in 1897. First work to discuss three-color photography. Illustrated, including some in color. With bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Lacks the color filters that are supposed to be inserted in a small pocket in the back of the book. Bookplate on free endpaper. [15548]

130. (Ireland, William Henry) Malone, Edmond. AN INQUIRY INTO THE AUTHENTICITY OF CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS, PUBLISHED DEC. 24, MDCCXCV. AND ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKSPEARE, QUEEN ELIZABETH, AND HENRY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON: ILLUSTRATED BY FAC­SIMILES OF THE GENUINE HAND­ WRITING OF THAT NOBLEMAN, AND OF HER MAJESTY; NEVER BEFORE EXHIBITED; AND OTHER AUTHENTICK DOCUMENTS: IN A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HON. JAMES, EARL OF CHARLEMONT. London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1796, 8vo., full leather, five raised bands, decorations in gilt. vii+(i), 424, (4) pages. $ 350.00First edition. (NCBEL II, 1759). Written in the form of a letter, Malone furthered his cause of proving that William Ireland had created forgeries of William Shakespeare. The three plates are present. Front hinge cracked. Bookplate. [20463]

131. (Israel, Nico) Van Uchelen, Ton Croiset et al.(editors). THEATRUM ORBIS LIBRORUM, LIBER AMICORUM PRESENTED TO NICO ISRAEL ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY. Utrecht: HES Publishers, (1989), 8vo., cloth. xii, 518 pages. $ 160.00A festschrift in honor of noted bookseller, Nico Israel. Contains about 38 essays by well known booksellers, bibliographers, librarians, and others on Geography and Travels, Rare Books, Booktrade, Collectors and Libraries. [35766]

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132. Jackson, Holbrook. THE ANATOMY OF BIBLIOMANIA. Two volumes. London: The Soncino Press, 1930, 1931, thick 8vo., cloth, top edges gilt. xi,420; xi,434 pages. $ 225.00First edition, limited to 1048 numbered copies. (Webber p.80). A. Edward Newton has said the following about this book, “Of all the books in praise of books ever written this is the most exhaustive and the best. One wonders if Jackson be a man or a whole regiment of men. It would seem that no man’s reading could have been so exhaustive.” No jackets although a former owner has added specially made cloth jackets for each volume. Faint spotting to bottom of back cover of volume one which also shows on specially made cloth cover. Ownership inscription in pencil. [73654]

133. Jammes, Andre and Eugenia Parry Janis. THE ART OF FRENCH CALOTYPE WITH A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1845–1870. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1983), oblong 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 284+(1) pages. $ 275.00A history of calotype photography in France, with two hundred black-and-white calotype photographs of varied subjects. This volume traces the relation to the history of prints and the calotype’s influence on impressionism. The book also contains an essay on the origins of early photography and a bibliography. Minor wear at spine ends of dust jacket. [103936]

134. ( Johnson, Samuel) Newton, A. Edward. SALE CATALOGUE OF DR. JOHNSON’S LIBRARY WITH AN ESSAY BY A. EDWARD NEWTON. New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, (1925), 8vo., boards, paper spine and cover labels. 11 pages followed by the 28 page facsimile of the catalogue. $ 195.00Limited to 250 numbered copies. Signed by Newton. The facsimile was made from Ralph Isham’s copy and not Newton’s as Isham’s copy had both the prices realized and the names of the buyers. Excellent introduction. Spine label chipped. Bookplate. Foxing of pastedowns. Ownership inscription in pencil [36258]

135. Karrow Jr., Robert W. MAPMAKERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AND THEIR MAPS. Bio­Bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570.Chicago, IL: Newberry Library, 1993, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xxx, 846 pages. $ 500.00This book presents authoritative biographical essays on eighty-eight cartographers from the earliest period of European cartography. There are also bibliographical descriptions of more than two thousand maps and several hundred books, pamphlets and broadsides including works from other scientific disciplines such as astronomy, medicine and mathematics. Contains a section of black-and-white plates, and three indices. Minor wear at edges of dust jacket. [103937]

136. Kenyon, Frederic G. ANCIENT BOOKS AND MODERN DISCOVERIES. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1927, 4to., vellum­backed marbled boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. (x), 86 pages and 20 plates. $ 400.00First edition, limited to 350 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the press of William Edwin Rudge. (Haas 141). The collotype plates were made by Emery Walker. Six chapters on early bookmaking including discussions of 12 early types of book material, writing on vellum, paper and libraries. Minor wear to covers. Ownership inscription in pencil. [41990]

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137. Klein, Henry Oscar. COLLODION EMULSION. and Its Applications to Various Photographic and Photo­Mechanical Purposes, with Special Reference to Trichromatic Process Work. London: Penrose & Co, 1905, 8vo., cloth. 95, (31) pages. $ 150.00Nine plates including the color frontispiece. Final 28 pages are advertisements for photographic equipment and supplies. Offset on both free endpapers. General wear. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [99210]

138. Koeman, C. MISCELLANEA CARTOGRAPHICA. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY. Utrecht: HES & DE GRAAF, 1988, 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. xl, 390 pages. $ 150.00Edited by P. van der Krogt and G. Schilder. Contains the most important studies by professor Koeman, republished on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. With illustrations [103782]

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139. Kopal, Zdenek and Robert W. Carder. MAPPING OF THE MOON PAST AND PRESENT. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, (1974), 8vo, cloth. vii, 240 pages. $ 150.00A history of lunar mapping from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Including U.S. Air Force, U.S, Army, U.S.S.R. and National Geographic mapping. This book is volume 50 in the “AstroPhysics and Space Science Library” series. The book has three black-and-white fold-out lunar charts and many black-and-white photos throughout. Spine ends and corners bumped, some soiling on covers, binding flaws evident on covers and pages. [103935]

140. Kopriva, Milan. TYPOORNAMENTY. PRACOVNIKUM REDAKCI, NAKLADATELSTVI, POLYGRAFIE A MILOVNIKUM TYPOGRAFIE VYBRAL A USPORADAL.. (Praha: Pluto, 1990), 4to., cloth portfolio with paper cover label containing 240 type ornamental type specimens. $ 350.00Reprint of the first edition. With an introduction to the first edition reproduced along with a postscript in multiple languages including English. Beautifully produced type specimen book. [102523]

141. Lemercier, Alfred. LA LITHOGRAPHIE FRANÇAISE DE 1796 À 1896 ET LES ARTS QUI S’Y RATTACHENT; MANUEL PRATIQUE S’ADRESSANT AUX ARTISTES ET AUX IMPRIMEURS. Paris: Ch. Lorilleux & Cie., 1896, 4to., modern quarter calf, marbled paper­covered boards. xxiv, 358 pages. $ 950.00Twenty-eight plates, some in color, and many illustrations in the text. Originally published in 12 parts; here bound together. Some internal spotting. [99477]

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142. (Libri, Guglielmo) MONUMENTS INÉDITS OU PEU CONNUS, FAISANT PARTIE DU CABINET DE GUILLAUME LIBRI, ET QUI SE RAPPORTENT À L’HISTOIRE DE L’ORNEMENTATION CHEZ DIFFÉRENTS PEUPLES. Londres: n.p., 1864, large folio, Sheets loosely inserted in modern cloth folder with original paper wrapper mounted on front. (iv), 14 pages, followed by 65 plates. $ 2,750.00Second edition, enlarged with extra plates and including the supplement to the first edition. The supplement is now fully incorporated into the book. Its introduction forms a type of foreword and its plates (marked A-E) precede the LX plates of the first edition. Also includes a half-title not found in the first edition. (Ruju pp.297–299; Pollard p.307; Hermann, Sotheby’s pp.41–43). Designed as both advertisement and introduction to the last of the London sales conducted by Sotheby’s, this splendid Catalogue has a brief introductory text in both French and English followed by deluxe chromolithographed illustrations. Time has not diminished the allure of the chromolithographed depictions of the fine bindings and decorative art used to enhance these early manuscripts. It is presumed that much of the material in this catalogue was stolen, as Libri, it is now known, was a notorious book thief who removed items from many continental libraries. De Ricci describes how Lord Asburnham was a great client of Libri’s and the difficulties his family had in dispersing his library due to claims of ownership from various public libraries chiefly in France (English Collectors pp131–136). Sheets loosely inserted in modern cloth binder with original paper wrapper mounted on front. Paper repairs along edges. [102505]

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143. Lietze, Ernst. MODERN HELIOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION IN THE ART OF REPRODUCING DRAWINGS, ENGRAVINGS, MANUSCRIPTS, ETC., BY THE ACTION OF LIGHT . . . WITH 32 ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD AND 10 SPECIMEN HELIOGRAMS. New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1888, tall 8vo., original cloth. viii, 143, (5) pages. $ 600.00First edition. A technical discussion of this “new art” of reproducing mechanical drawings, etc., by the use of chemicals and light based on the author’s practical experiences. He gives formulas and methods of each of the contemporary patents. Of added interest are 10 actual tipped-in samples of illustrations reproduced by the different methods. Samples of Silver Print on Citro-Chloride of Silver Paper-negative, Silver Print on Citro-Chloride of Silver Paper-positive, Ordinary Bluye Print—negative, Ordinary Blue Print-Positive, Red Prusslate of Potash Print, Direct Cyanotype, Ink Picture, Carbon Print, Uranium Print developed with Nitrate of Silver, and Uranium Print developed with Red Prussiate of Potash. Ink ownership inscription at top of title page and on free endpaper from J.C. Lewore of Cincinnati dated 1890. Covers spotted around edges with wear at spine ends. [4431]

144. (Limited Editions Club) THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IN THE KING JAMES VERSION WITH WATER COLORS BY CHAIM GROSS. Introduction by Franklin H. Littell. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1979, 4to., quarter leather, slipcase. xii, 121, (3) pages. $ 150.00Limited to 2000 numbered copies signed by Gross and Littell. Printed at the Press of A. Colish and designed by Bert Clarke. [16539]

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145. (Limited Editions Club) Gray, Thomas. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH­YARD With an Introduction by Sir Hugh Walpole. Decorated with Wood­engravings sketched in the same country church­ yard by Agnes Miller Parker. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938, small 4to., cloth with raised design on front cover. xv, 72, (2) pages. $ 225.00Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Parker. Designed by Robert Ashwin Maynard and printed at his Raven Press. Lacks slipcase. Bookplate on free endpaper. [102839]

146. (Limited Editions Club) Lewis, Sinclair. MAIN STREET. With a Special Introduction by the Author and Illustrations by Grant Wood. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1937, small 4to., cloth. xvii, 367, (3) pages. $ 250.00Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Wood. Printed at the Lakeside Press of Chicago and designed by W.A. Kittredge. Lacks slipcase. Light cover wear. Bookplate on free endpaper. [102837]

147. (Limited Editions Club) Maugham, W. Somerset. OF HUMAN BONDAGE. Two volumes. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938, tall 8vo., cloth, leather spine labels. xiv,406; (ii),407–805, (2) pages. $ 150.00Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by John Sloan. Printed at Yale University Press under the direction of Carl Purington Rollins. Contains 16 etchings by Sloan. Lacks slipcase. Spines age darkened. Bookplate on free endpapers. [102844]

148. (Limited Editions Club) Twain, Mark. SLOVENLY PETER (DER STRUWWELPETER), TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH JINGLES FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN OF DR. HEINRICH HOFFMANN WITH DR. HOFFMANN’S ILLUSTRATIONS ADAPTED FROM THE RARE FIRST EDITION BY FRITZ KREDEL. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935, 4to., quarter leather over decorated cloth, cloth folder, slipcase. (ii), 34, (2) pages printed French fold. $ 200.00Limited to 1500 numbered copies. Printed by The Marchbanks Press with colored illustrations from stencil. Wear to outer cloth folder. Bookplate on free endpaper. [86865]

149. Linton, W.J. SOME PRACTICAL HINTS ON WOOD­ENGRAVING FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF REVIEWERS AND THE PUBLIC. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879, small 8vo., original cloth. (viii), 91 pages. $ 175.00First edition. Contains a number of woodcuts in the text. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Small ink stamp of “E.F. Smith Collection” on copyright page. Worn spot along front hinge. [22917]

150. (Lithography) TRAITÉ DE LITHOGRAPHIE. PUBLIÉ PAR LA MAISON CH. LORILLEUX & CIE. HISTOIRE. THÉORIE. PRATIQUE. (Paris: La Maison Ch. Lorilleux & Cie), 1889, 4to., later cloth spine with printed paper­covered boards, modern paper spine label. 380, (2), 4 pages. $ 750.00Contains 3 portraits of Senefelder, 1 color plate, 1 plate done in héliotype, 31 text illustrations and diagrams. With the name “M. Thibout” penciled on the title page. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [84141]

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151. Logan, Herschel C. THE AMERICAN HAND PRESS ITS ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT AND USE. Whittier, Ca.: The Curt Zoller Press, 1980, 8vo., quarter cloth, paper covered boards. x, 48 pages. $ 135.00Limited to 300 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at his Castle Press; this is one of 275 bound in cloth and Fabriano paper covered boards. Illustrated by the author with a foreword by Ward Ritchie. A brief history of the hand press with many illustrations. Presentation on first blank “To Henry Morris—With best wishes for many more Bird & Bull Press volumes, Sincerely, Curt Zoller, 1/16/82” and with a handwritten note to Morris inserted. [103075]

152. Macrakis, Michael S. (editor)VN M. GREEK LETTERS: FROM TABLETS TO PIXELS. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1997, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xxviii, 325 pages.. $ 235.00First edition. GREEK LETTERS follows the history and development of Greek types and printing: their role in the history of the printed word and civilization, the urgent need for quality modern fonts and the challenges faced by the current and future realm of Greek type design. These challenges inspired the Greek Font Society, formed in 1992, to promote and design quality Greek fonts for printing and use on the computer screen. These issues also spurred the Society to gather some of the most respected professionals, designers and scholars at the first International Symposium on the Contributions of the Greek Alphabet. Noted figures, including Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Nicolas Barker and John A. Lane, from the fields of typography, history, book history, art, economics, technology and policy in Greece, Europe and America came to the Symposium to present papers on these issues, now contained in GREEK LETTERS. This work, profusely illustrated, not only addresses the Hellenist scholar, but also the modern writer, typographer, historian, graphic designer, printer, publisher and computer specialist. [45576]

155. (Maps) Shirley, Rodney W. THE MAPPING OF THE WORLD, EARLY PRINTED WORLD MAPS, 1472–1700. (Riverside, CT: Early World Press Ltd, (2001), thick 4to., cloth, dust jacket. (lii), vii­xlviii, 670 pages. $ 750.00Fourth edition. Containing a new preface and a corrigenda and addenda which adds 260 entries. Profusely illustrated including a number in full color. Includes as appendices a list of lesser known map makers and a chronological listing and rarity index. Magnificent book. [103844]

156. (Marbling) Easton, Phoebe Jane. MARBLING, A HISTORY AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1983, small 4to., cloth, marbled paper sample inset in front cover. xiii, 190, (4) pages. $ 200.00Limited to 850 numbered copies. Chapters on Suminagashi, marbling in the Near East, origins of marbling in Europe and America, mechanics of marbling, a bibliography of books on the subject, etc. Includes a number of tipped-in samples. [37519]

157. Martin, Henri­Jean et al. HISTOIRE DE L’EDITION FRANCAISE. 2 volumes. Paris: Promodis, (1982), (1984), 4to., cloth, dust jackets. 629,(2); 653,(2) pages. $ 300.00First editions. A monumental study of the history of the book in France from the middle ages to the present day. A well illustrated, nice production. Two additional volumes were published which cover the period after 1830. Jackets age yellowed and wrinkled (volume one). Ownership inscription in pencil. [102750]

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158. MATRIX, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES. 28 volumes, the complete set published to date. Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1981–2009, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers with printed and decorated dust jackets (for first five volumes) and decorated paper­covered boards with printed and decorated dust jackets (for volume six to seventeen). $ 6,500.00With limitations varying from 350 for the first volume to limitations in the 900s for later volumes. The tenth volume contains an index to the first ten issues. Filled with important articles on all aspects of private printing, historical printing history, book illustration history and all other subjects of interest to the bookarts person. Illustrated with color, tipped-in illustrations, foldouts, broadsides, samples etc. This set contains the original volumes of one and two. Fine set. [47602]

159. McMurtrie, Douglas C. A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN THE UNITED STATES. The Story of the Introduction of the Press and of its History and Influence during the Pioneer Period in Each State of the Union. Volume II, Middle & South Atlantic States. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1936, thick 8vo., cloth. xviii, 462 pages. $ 135.00First edition, volume II was the only volume completed as McMurtrie died shortly thereafter. An important history of American printing. Spine faded. [11183]

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160. (Moser, Barry) THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, KING JAMES VERSION. (New York): Viking Studio Edition, (1999), thick 4to, cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 994, (10) pages. $ 750.00Special copy of the first trade edition of Barry Moser’s Pennyroyal Caxton Bible; the title page reads that “This is one of five hundred copies of the Viking Studio Edition of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible that have been printed especially for the friends and patrons of the Pennyroyal Caxton Press.” Signed in pencil by Moser at the end of the lengthy colophon page. The text follows Frederick H. A. Scrivener’s 1873 critical edition of the Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version. Stunningly illustrated by Barry Moser. [102803]

161. Mumey, Nolie. A STUDY OF RARE BOOKS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COLOPHONS, PRESS DEVICES AND TITLE PAGES OF INTEREST TO THE BIBLIOPHILE AND THE STUDENT OF LITERATURE. Denver: The Clason Publishing Co., 1930, thick 4to., cloth­backed boards, paper cover and spine labels. xi, 572 pages. $ 225.00First edition, limited to 1000 signed and numbered copies. Contains three major sections: History of Books, Printers, Colophons; Press devices; and Aids to Identification of rare books. Profusely illustrated. Covers soiled with some spotting. Ownership inscription in pencil. [25059]

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162. Nansen, Dr. Fridtjof. FARTHEST NORTH. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram” 1893–96 and of a Fifteen Months’ Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. Two volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897, 8vo., original cloth stamped in gilt, silver, green and red, top edge gilt. (xiii),587; (xi),714 pages. $ 300.00Two volume set which is a record of the journey of exploration taken to the North Polar Regions by the Norwegian ship Fram from 1893–1896. With 120 illustrations, etched frontispiece,16 colored plates and four fold out maps in front and back cover pockets. With an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. Corners and spine ends bumped with minor rubbing at extremities and a small tear on the back cover of volume one. Remains of bookplate on front endpaper of volume one with offset on paste-down, and a cracked front hinge. [103987]

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163. Nash, Ray and Roderick D. Stinehour (editors). PRINTING & GRAPHIC ARTS. 38 issues, the complete set, bound in eight volumes. Lunenburg, VT: The Stinehour Press, 1953, 8vo., publisher’s cloth­backed decorated paper­covered boards with original stiff paper wrappers bound­in. $ 350.00Excellent articles on the history of early American typefounders, bibliographies of type specimen books, early Canadian printing, earliest American color printing, etc. The first two volumes are bound together in a facsimile of the original publisher’s binding. Volume 3 to 9 are in the publisher’s binding and the two issues of volume 10 are in paper wrappers as issued. [103893]

164. (Newfoundland) O’Dea, Agnes C. (compiler). BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND. Two volumes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1986), 8vo., cloth. (xx),826; (viii),827–1450 pages. $ 145.00This two volume set is a comprehensive bibliography of Newfoundland and Labrador which brings together the written records of five centuries. Volume One contains more than 5911 entries, and Volume Two contains 378 entries of Annuals followed by the indices. The entries include books, pamphlets, government documents, unpublished theses, reports, letters, diaries and film, and are organized chronologically. Foreword by Dr. L. Harris, a preface by Anne Alexander and indexes organized by author, title and subject. Slight bumping to spine ends. Top front corner bumped on Volume Two. [103984]

165. (Nuremberg Chronicle) Koberger, Anton. THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. (New York: Brussel & Brussel, 1966), Thick folio, cloth. Not paginated. $ 200.00Facsimile of Schedel’s Buch der Chroniken priinted in 1493. Printed on specially produced paper by Curtis Paper Mills of Newark, Delaware. [102970]

166. (Officina Bodoni) Gogol, Nikola. THE OVERCOAT, FROM THE TALES OF PETERSBURG. Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1975, 4to., quarter vellum with light brown Roma paper sides and device on front cover in gold, paper spine label, top edge gilt. 122, (4) pages. $ 1,500.00Limited to 160 numbered copies signed by the artist, Pietro Annigoni. (Schmoller 193). Printed on Magnani hand-made paper by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. Contains the original Russian text with a translation into English by Constance Garnett, six etchings by Pietro Annigoni and a postscript by Mardersteig. Prospectus loosely inserted. Mardersteig comments in the bibliography on the typographical problems he faced with this book because of the different types to be used for the Russian and English text and his solution to the problem. [24221]

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167. Palivec, Josef and Jan Soucek. NASLOUCHÁNÍ. (Praha): Edice Sladké jádro srdce, (1992), 4to., quarter leather with marbled paper covered boards in a slipcase with matching marbled paper. 28, (2) pages. $ 275.00Limited to only 100 numbered copies. The full color illustrations are each signed by the artist in pencil. A stunning production. [102976]

168. (Papermaking) THE BRIQUET ALBUM, A MISCELLANY ON WATERMARKS, SUPPLEMENTING DR. BRIQUET’S LES FILIGRANES, BY VARIOUS PAPER SCHOLARS. Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1952, 4to., cloth. (ii), 158, (2) pages. $ 500.00First edition, limited to 400 numbered copies. With contributions by Armin Renker, Henri Alibaux, Alfred Schulte, Hans Bockwitz, Dard Hunter, E.J. Labarre and others. This is Volume Two in the series issued by the Paper Publications Society and one of the more difficult to find. The illustrations in this original edition are better than those of the reprint. [24772]

169. (Papermaking) Haemmerle, Albert. BUNTPAPIER, HERKOMMEN, GESCHICHTE, TECHNIKEN, BEZIEHUNGEN ZUR KUNST. Munchen: Georg D.W. Callwey, (1961), 4to., decorated boards, dust jacket. 251 pages. $ 375.00Issued on the 150th anniversary of this firm. The history of decorated and marbled paper with 155 illustrations and eighteen actual paper specimens tipped-in. Has a thirteen page bibliography of the subject done in triple column and descriptions of 664 examples of decorated paper. Jacket chipped. [16131]

170. (Papermaking) Lenz, Hans. MEXICAN INDIAN PAPER. ITS HISTORY AND SURVIVAL. TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY H. MURRAY CAMPBELL. Mexico: Rafael Loera y Chavez, 1961, 4to., quarter blue leather with decorated cloth covered boards. 280, (2) pages. $ 950.00First edition in English. An important work on the history of papermaking in Mexico. There are over 300 illustrations in color and black and white, including photographs of papermaking processes and reproductions of Pre-Columbian manuscripts. There are also eleven tipped-in paper samples. Minor rubbing along edges. [102580]

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171. (Papermaking) THE PAPER MAKER. Wilmington: Hercules Powder Co., 1933, 4to., stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding. $ 1,400.00This periodical is very difficult to assemble as a set. We have the following 56 issues:

172. (Papermaking) Rottensten, Birte & Ebba Waaben. DANSKI VANDMAERKER & PAPIRMOLLER, 1570–1695. 2 volumes. (København): Konservatorskolen Det Kongelige Danski Kunstakademi, 1986, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. (ii),201; (ii),218 pages. $ 130.00Hundreds of papermakers identified. With watermarks reproduced. [102977]

173. (Papermaking) Shorter, Alfred H. PAPER MILLS AND PAPER MAKERS IN ENGLAND, 1495–1800. Hilversum, Holland: The Paper Publications Society, 1957, 4to., simulated leather. 457, (3) pages. $ 1,250.00First edition, limited to 600 copies. Volume VI in the series on papermaking issued by the Society and edited by E.J. Labarre. History followed by maps showing locations of the mills at different time periods, lists and reproductions of watermarks, various appendices describing more specific examples of papermaking and indices. Indespensible reference book. Covers show light soiling. [20125]

Volume 05. 1936. Autumn. Volume 09. 1940. No.1.Volume 10. 1941. No.3.Volume 11. 1942. No.1, 2, 3.Volume 12. 1943. No.1, 2. (started issuing 2 a year)Volume 13. 1944. No.1, 2.Volume 14. 1945. No.1, 2.Volume 15. 1946. No.1, 2. Volume 16. 1947. No.1, 2.Volume 17. 1948. No.1, 2.Volume 18. 1949. No.1, 2.Volume 19. 1950. No.1, 2.Volume 20. 1951. No.1, 2.Volume 21. 1952. No.1, 2.Volume 22. 1953. No.1, 2.Volume 23. 1954. No.1.

Volume 24. 1955. No.2.Volume 25. 1956. No.1, 2.Volume 26. 1957. No.1, 2.Volume 27. 1958. No.1, 2.Volume 28. 1959. No.1, 2.Volume 29. 1960. No.1, 2.Volume 30. 1961, No.1, 2.Volume 31. 1962. No.1, 2.Volume 32. 1963. No.1, 2.Volume 33. 1964. No.1, 2.Volume 34. 1965. No.1, 2.Volume 35. 1966. No.1, 2.Volume 36. 1967. No.1. (started issuing 1 a year)Volume 37. 1968. No.1.Volume 38. 1969. No.1.Volume 39. 1970. No.1. [103092]

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174. (Papermaking) Winckler, Otto. DER PAPIERKENNER, EIN HANDBUCH UND RATHGEBER FÜR PAPIER­KÄUFER UND VERKÄUFER, TECHNISCHE LEHRANSTALTEN ETC. ZUM PRAKTISCHEN GEBRAUCHE BEARBEITET. Leipzig: Th. Grieben’s Verlag (L. Fernau), 1887, large 8vo., later half calf with patterned cloth covered boards, five raised bands, leather spine label, all edges stained red. viii, 280 pages. $ 225.00First edition. Dedication to Hermann Gmeiner-Benndorf “president of the German Paper Association.” Late 19th-century German papermaking. A book on the composition, manufacture, processing, classification and testing of paper, the paper trade, and the machinery used in the paper industry. Well-organized in nine main sections with 145 short, numbered chapters, followed by an index and 36 paper samples (lacking in this copy). Each chapter has subject headings in the margins. The book is meant as a guide to the intelligent selection of papers for various uses, and as an overview of paper-testing (which also assists paper-users in understanding the resulting paper specifications). There are 127 illustrations, mostly of machinery, but also of processes and materials (drawings of the microscopic components of paper). The section on the paper market includes many statistics. Otto Winckler directed a “facility for paper-testing” (preface), which may have been the facility established by the German government for that purpose near Berlin in 1886; however, he signs the preface “Leipzig.” Minor rubbing of covers. [102494]

175. (Papermaking) Zongmu, Wang. AN ESSAY ON PAPER: OBSERVATIONS MADE BY WANG ZONGMU AT THE IMPERIAL PAPER MILL AT JADE MOUNTAIN. Manoa: Manoa Press, 1993, 8vo., stitched blue marbled paper, paper cover label. (24) pages. $ 285.00Limited to 85 numbered copies signed by James Rumford, the proprietor of the Manoa Press of Hawaii. Rumford translated the text written by Zongmu (1523–1591) and printed the book by hand on paper produced by him. Includes a specimen of modern chu paper. Illustrated. [39976]

176. PARENTHESIS: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSO­CIATION. 11 (of 16) volumes. Vancouver/Sheffield: FPBA, 2000–2009, small 4to., paper covered boards, portfolio, slipcase. Various pagination. $ 1,650.00The DeLuxe version of this periodical. The DeLuxe versions include an extra portfolio of material from the presses which is inserted in a slipcase along with the hardbound copy of the issue. Includes issues 5–9 and 11–16. Collections of essays about fine printing with articles. [103889]

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177. (Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey. BRADBURY & EVANS, COLOUR PRINTERS. Oxford: The Plough Press, 1984, small 4to., half­leather over boards. (vi), 19 pages. $ 450.00First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, this is one of 20 copies bound thus. A history of this excellent English color printing firm. Contains two tipped-in examples of their work, a specimen sheet from THE OCTAVO FERNS and THE BRITISH SEAWEEDS. Also has six illustrations of equipment. [2956]

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178. (Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey. GRAPHIC METHODS IN BOOK ILLUSTRATION. Loughborough: Plough Press, 1981, small folio box containing a text signature of 8 pages and 18 other fascicules. $ 750.00Limited to 120 numbered copies. Each of the 18 fascicules describes a different method of illustration and contains an original example of that illustration technique tipped in. Included are the woodcut, wood engraving, etching, copper, stipple and steel engraving, aquatint, mezzotint, chalk and line style lithography, lithographic and relief style color printing, hand-coloring, photography, Woodbury type, collotype, photogravure and photomechanical printing. Accompanied by illustrations printed in different colors. Excellent teaching tool. [38036]

179. (Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey. NINETEENTH CENTURY TRADE BINDING. Two volumes. Oxford: Plough Press, 1983, small 4to., cloth, top edge gilt, paper spine labels, slipcase. 46, (2) pages in first volume; second is a cloth folder containing one sheet with seven specimens of different types of leather pasted on, another sheet with nine specimens of cloth pasted on, a four page section with 71 reproductions of cloth rubbings being the Winterbottom designs and a specimen of brass type that would be used by a bookbinder. $ 550.00Limited to 152 numbered copies and out of print before publication. Another fine Plough Press book on a subject area which has become increasingly important. Wakeman discusses the materials and machinery used in trade binding in both cloth and leather and has 27 illustrations from contemporary sources to aid the text. The book is hand-printed in two colors on mould made paper. [5983]

180. (Plough Press) Woolnough, C.W. THE WHOLE ART OF MARBLING AS APPLIED TO PAPER, BOOK EDGES, ETC. Containing a full Description of the Nature and Properties of the Materials Used, the Method of Preparing Them, and of Executing Every Kind of Marbling in Use at the Present Time, with Numerous Illustrations and Examples. London: George Bell and Sons, 1881 (Oxford: Plough Press, 1985), 8vo., green cloth in facsimile of the original. 42 page introduction followed by the 82 page facsimile. $ 600.00Limited to only 150 copies. A reprint with an historical introduction of the second and last edition of this first practical marbling manual. This facsimile contains actual tipped in specimens of marbled paper which replicate the samples appearing in the original edition. Ownership inscription in pencil. [6169]

181. (Previous Parrot Press.) Bishop, Hal. THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF FRANK MARTIN. (Oxford, England): Previous Parrot Press, 1998, Small 4to., One­eighth leather with paper­covered boards. Artist illustration front cover. Decorative slipcase. 152 pages. $ 300.00Published in a limited edition of 360 copies, signed by compiler and artist. Text contains a selection of the wood-engravings, small woodcuts, linocuts and vinyl engravings, and a catalog of all the relief prints compiled by Hal Bishop. Martin is an etcher, engraver and woodcut artist who for a time studied under the noted artist Gertrude Hermes. He later held the position of Professor of Engraving and Etching at London’s Camberwell School of Art. [103998]

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182. Quinn, B. David, (editor). NEW AMERICAN WORLD, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA TO 1612. Five volumes. New York: Arno Press, 1979, 4to., colth. (xxxviii),477; (xxiv),594; (xxvi),494; (xxvi),454; (xxvi),572 pages, with 147 plates,. $ 250.00This five volume set explores in great detail the history of the American world. Beginning with the Greeks and Romans through the Muslim and the Medieval worlds. It charts the earliest explorations of America, including journeys made by the Spanish, English, French and Portuguese, examining all the various expeditions from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. With 147 black-and-white map plates, bibliography listed by country and index. The corners and spine ends on all five volumes are slightly bumped. [103985]

183. Ray, Gordon N. THE ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK, 1700–1914. Two volumes. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, (1982), 4to., cloth, dust jackets. xxxii, 557 pages. $ 200.00First edition. An extremely important book containing an excellent text and 620 black and white illustrations and 16 pages of color plates. [76850]

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184. Reilly, Elizabeth Carroll. A DICTIONARY OF COLONIAL AMERICAN PRINTERS ORNAMENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. A TRIBUTE TO ALDEN PORTER JOHNSON. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1975, 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xxxvi, 515 pages. $ 180.00First edition. This work contains reproductions of more than 2,000 ornaments and illustrations used by American printers from 1640 to 1776. The book also includes the names and locations of the printers who used each ornament, an index of printers and a chronological listing of the ornaments. Book is a little worn at the spine ends. Dust jacket has a few small tears at the spine ends, tanning at the edges. [4668]

185. Ris­Paquot. TRAITÉ PRATIQUE ELEMENTAIRE DE PHOTOTYPIE, A L’USAGE DE MESSIURS LES IMPRIMEURS, PHOTOGRAPHES ET AMATEURS. Abbeville: Chez L’Auteur, n.d. (circa 1895), 8vo., contemporary quarter leather with marbled paper­covered boards. xii, 252, (2) pages. $ 350.00First edition (Roosens & Luc Salu 8306). Contains 15 (of the 21) plates demonstrating different photographic processes (with plate xi lacking the actual photograph). With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Ex-library copy with stamps on the title page and two other pages. Numbers on title page. A scarce book. [98684]

186. Robinson, B.W. (editor). ISLAMIC PAINTING AND THE ARTS OF THE BOOK. London: Faber and Faber, (1976), small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 322 pages followed by plates. $ 300.00First edition. With contributions by the editor, Dr. Ernst J. Grube, Professor G.M. Meredith-Ownes and R.W. Skelton. With an Introduction by Dr. Ivan Stchoukine. 44 plates in color and 157 illustrations in black and white. Minor jacket rubbing. [103018]

187. (Rogers, Bruce) Dowson, Ernest. THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE. New York: The Grolier Club, 1923, large 12mo., marbled paper­covered boards, wrap­around paper label, plain paper­covered slipcase with paper spine label. 49+(1) pages. $ 135.00Limited to 300 copies (Asaf 78, Warde: Bruce Rogers, p.68). In 1921, the Grolier Club commissioned six printers to produce a book of their choice in their own design. Rogers selected the Dowson playlet in which Pierrot gains the love of a Moon Maid for one night and learns the difference between mortals and immortals, or artists and art. Since this work had first appeared in 1897 with decorations and illustrations by Beardsley, it was, as the saying goes, something of a tough act to follow. Rogers decided, perhaps following the deliberately archaic poetic diction of the play, to “embower” (Warde p.39) the text in various combinations of rococo-style ornaments. These are developed from the title page design, which contains all of the elements appearing elsewhere except for two simple astronomical ornaments and part of Roger’s colophon device. Pages are framed in one of three variants of a border printed in rose red using chains and garlands of dots and floral elements modelled after Fournier. Printed by W.E. Rudge using Deberny type. Covers rubbed. [54293]

188. (Rosenthal Family) Angermair, Elisabeth, Jens Koch, Anton Löffelmeier, Eva Ohlen, und Ingo Schwab. DIE ROSENTHALS DER AUFSTIEG EINER JÜDISCHEN ANTIQUARSFAMILIE ZU WELTRUHM. Wien: Böhlau, (2002), large 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. 262 pages. $ 150.00First edition. Biographical account of the Rosenthals, the renowned family of German-Jewish antiquarian booksellers. This book accompanied an exhibition on the Rosenthal family held at the

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189. (Royal Asiatic Society) CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS PUBLISHED BEFORE 1932 IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1940, 4to., cloth. viii, 541+(1) pages. $ 300.00This volume is a complete catalogue of the Royal Asiatic Society Library of books published before 1932.. This volume excludes the Bible, pamphlets, reprints, and books in the Chinese, and Siamese languages. Entries are accompanied by descriptions in various languages. There is also a supplementary list and two appendices, one coveing gazetteers and the second concerning periodicals. The book is bumped at the head and tail of spine and corners. [103941]

190. Sawyer, J.R. THE “ A.B.C.” GUIDE TO THE MAKING OF AUTOTYPE PRINTS IN PERMANENT PIGMENTS. London: The Autotype Company, 1887, small 8vo., original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. xiv, 98, 19+(1) pages. $ 375.00First edition (Bridson & Wakeman E360). Contains two plates, including one folding plate showing workers doing the process. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Small ink stamp of a company at the bottom of the title page. Pencil scribbling in back on blank pages. [85537]

191. Sawyer, J.R. THE “ A.B.C.” GUIDE TO THE MAKING OF AUTOTYPE PRINTS IN PERMANENT PIGMENTS. London: The Autotype Company, 1899, small 8vo., original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 104, 23 pages. $ 200.00Fifth edition, revised (See Bridson & Wakeman E360). Contains two plates including one folding plate showing workers doing the process. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Has a tipped-in page printed in red issued by the company which concerns “Sensitive Tissue.” Paper repairs to edge of front free endpaper; the half-title, and the edge of the frontispiece plate. [97831]

192. (Schöner, Johann) Stevens, Henry. JOHANN SCHÖNER, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AT NUREMBERG, A REPRODUCTION OF HIS GLOBE OF 1523 LONG LOST . . . Edited with an Introduction and Bibliography by C.H. Coote. London: Henry Stevens & Son, 1888, small 8vo., original cloth with three large foldout plates inserted in a pocket in the back. xlv, 206 pages. $ 150.00First edition. (Parks no.60). With facsimiles of letters by Schoener and Transylvanus. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Frontispiece partially detached. [15757]

193. Schraubstadter, Carl. PHOTO­ENGRAVING. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE PRODUCTION OF PRINTING BLOCKS BY MODERN PHOTOGRAPHIC METHODS. Saint Louis: C. Schraubstadter, Jr., 1892, 8vo., original cloth. 132, (4) pages. $ 185.00First edition. Contains a history of the process of producing printing blocks followed by a practical discussion by an expert in the field. Interesting look at a developing field. Loosely inserted in this copy is a four page pamphlet entitled “Day’s Zinc Engraving Process” and this is accompanied by a single sheet with an illustration. Covers rubbed. [98738]

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194. (St. Dominic’s Press) Gill, Eric. SONGS WITHOUT CLOTHES. Being a Dissertation of the Song of Soloman and Such­like Songs. Together with a Preface by Fr. Vincent McNabb. Ditchling, Sussex: Printed and Published at S. Dominic’s Press, 1921, small 8vo., cloth­backed boards, dust jacket. [6], 46 pp. $ 400.00Printed in an edition limited to 240 copies. (Taylor A82a, Gill no.8). Variant in cloth-backed boards with jacket. The jacket contains an additional Gill engraving. Jacket chipped along edges with a small piece missing at top of spine and along front cover. [102638]

195. Streeter, Burnett Hillman. THE CHAINED LIBRARY, A SURVEY OF FOUR CENTURIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH LIBRARY. New York: Burt Franklin, (1970), 8vo., cloth. xxii, 368 pages. $ 200.00Reprint of this fine history of libraries in England. With 93 illustrations and plans of buildings. [10535]

196. Taubert, Sigfred. BIBLIOPOLA, PICTURES AND TEXTS ABOUT THE BOOK TRADE. Two volumes. Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., (1966), 4to., cloth, leather spine labels. xxvi,123; x,523 pages. $ 265.00First edition. Text in French, German and English. Hundreds of illustrations of booksellers taken from various sources and ages. An impressive work. Slight wear to spine labels. [10575]

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197. Thomas, Peter and Donna. PAPERMAKING IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND. Santa Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1990, 12mo., full leather, four raised bands, slipcase. (42) pages. $ 250.00First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies. Reproduces diary entries written by John Evelyn and Celia Fiennes which record their visit to an English paper mill. These accounts are the only known records of how paper was being made in England in the 1600s. Contains an original sample of seventeenth century paper and a reproduction of brown paper. Printed by letterpress on handmade paper and illustrated with five linocuts by Donna Thomas. [31793]

198. (Type Specimens) Imprimerie Royale. NOTICE SUR LES TYPES ÉTRANGERS DU SPÉCIMEN DE L’IMPRIMERIE ROYALE. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, n.d. (circa 1847), 4to., publisher’s printed boards with gilt decorations and intricate borders, patterned heavy paper endpapers and pastedowns. 66. (2) pages. $ 2,850.00First edition. (Audin 14, Updike II, p.327, Burke 596, Jammes 109). However, this is a large paper copy with slightly different pagination and with intricate printed borders surrounding each page. The trade edition has two unnumbered pages at the beginning and ends with page 65 while this large paper copy ends with page 66 followed by an unnumbered leaf. This has caused the page numbers of the special table to be pages 48 and 49 rather than 46 and 47 as pictured in Jammes (p.183). Presents typographic specimens from the Imprimerie Royale in more than thirty languages, including ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Armenian, Syriac, Arabic, Mongol, Tibetan, Russian, Runic, Anglo-Saxon, German (Fraktur), Javanese, and Gujarati. The two-page comparative table of Roman types shows those used by the Press from 1640 to 1846, with one font attributed to Garamont and others engraved by Grandjean and Alexandre, Luce, Firmin Didot, Jacquemin, and Legrand. Updike calls this “one of the most enlightening documents about French typeface in existence.” Wear along edges and scratches on the covers. A magnificent large paper copy of a very significant specimen book. [102582]

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199. (Type Specimens) New York. SPECIMEN BOOK OF SELECT TYPE FACES, CONTAINING SPECIMEN PAGES OF TYPES SUITABLE FOR EVERY PRINTING PURPOSE. New York: New York Monotype Composition Company, n.d., 4to., cloth, metal screw binding. not paginated. $ 150.00With an index, and charts of “Approximate Number of Words to Square Inch”. Included at the end are various styles of symbols, initials, and borders. Sections are separated by tabbed dividers, although most tabs are missing. Contains a vast amount of type faces, arranged into five classes: “Modern, Old Style, The Cheltenham Series, Bold Faces, Gothic and Typewriter, each class of type face being arranged numerically” (from the index). Minor wear at extremities, some rubbing or soiling on covers, head of spine with 1 1/4 inch splits on both edges. [102586]

200. (Type Specimens) Sun. THE SUN TYPE BOOK. London: The Sun Engraving Co. Ltd., n.d. (circa 1930s), large 4to., orange cloth stamped in gilt, beveled edges, all edges stained yellow. (xii), 192 pages. $ 175.00A large format specimen book meant to show the wide range of types and engraving processes available to the customer. Per preface, guards were bound into the back of the book so that the customer could mount newer specimen sheets and one four page specimen sheet has been mounted. The preliminary section shows many pictures of the various departments in the company. Full alphabets shown. Covers show some soiling. Ink ownership inscription dated 1938 on verso of free endpaper. [102495]

201. (Type Specimens) Van Loey­Nouri. SPÉCIMEN DE LA FONDERIE TYPOGRAPHIQUE VAN LOEY­NOURI. Bruxelles: Van Loey­Nouri, n.d. (circa 1930), 4to., original quarter leather over cloth. (x), 36, 307 pages. $ 1,250.00Well produced specimen catalogue including some two color work. Specimens include Caracteres de Texte, de Fantasie, Machine a Ecrire, Filets, and other ornaments. Covers rubbed and soiled with cracks along hinges. Some pages were stuck together at the bottom at one point and some of the pages show damage when the pages were separated. [36850]

202. Uzes, Francois D. CHAINING THE LAND: A HISTORY OF SURVEYING IN CALIFORNIA. Sacramento, CA: Landmark Enterprises, (1977), 8vo., quarter paper­covered boards, cloth, dust jacket. (xviii), 315 pages. $ 150.00Second edition. Francois D. Uzes began his surveying career in Califiornia in 1954. As head of the Boundry Determination Unit, he was responsible for inventorying, surveying, mapping and determining the boundaries of four and a half million acres of state owned land. He was also a collector of old surveying books and maps. Contains appendices and an index, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Minor rubbing and soiling at extremities of dust jacket, with small tears and creases at the head. [103931]

203. Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. (editor). THE BOOK THROUGH FIVE THOU­SAND YEARS. Introduced by Herman Liebaers with an Afterword by Ruari McLean. London and New York: Phaidon, (1972), thick 4to.., cloth, dust jacket. 496 pages with over 264 illustrations. $ 395.00First English translation. Chapters on The Prehistory of Books and Writing by David Diringer, the Book in the Orient, the Manuscript in the West and The Printed Book in the West. This book is rapidly becoming a classic. Jacket has tears at head of spine. [33841]

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204. Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. SIXTEENTH­CENTURY PRINTING TYPES OF THE LOW COUNTRIES. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1968, large 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xxvi, 366 pages. $ 275.00First edition. The definitive study and classification of type faces from Holland and Belgium. An extremely useful book for students of 16th century books printed in England and France as well as the Low Countries because of the heavy exporting of this type. Minor soiling of jacket. [16176]

205. Wakeman, Geoffrey. ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN LITHOGRAPHY, ANA­STATIC PRINTING AND PHOTOZINCOGRAPHY. Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1970, 4to., half leather over marbled paper­covered boards. 64 pages. $ 225.00First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. With three actual specimens inserted. An important history of the first commercially successful means of reproducing the printed page. Well printed by this private press. Corners of covers are stained. [5253]

206. Wall, E. J. A DICTIONARY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, FOR THE AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER. CONTAINING CONCISE AND EXPLANATORY ARTICLES. ILLUSTRATED BY MANY SPECIALLY PREPARED DIAGRAMS. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, 1889, small 8vo., original cloth. (iv), 237 pages. $ 165.00First edition (See Bridson & Wakeman for Wall’s many contributions to this subject). Anthony’s photo series no. 25. Illustrated. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. [98487]

207. WAYZGOOSE ONE. Pyrmont: Wayzgoose Press, 1985, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 93, (4) pages. $ 150.00Limited to 450 numbered copies. The premier issue of what was to be a series of yearly periodicals patterned after Matrix in England. Printed by James Taylor at his Wayzgoose Press. Resembles Matrix in that it contains various articles on the bookarts and includes tipped-in examples. Includes articles on George Howe and early printing in New South Wales, an interview with Leong Chan, printmaker, on Paper Making at Botany, The Art and Craft of Oil and Watercolour Marbling, Hand Made Paper at Bemboka and many others. Loosely inserted is a hand-printed errata broadside. [36954]

208. Weber, Carl J. A THOUSAND AND ONE FORE­EDGE PAINTINGS, WITH NOTES ON THE ARTISTS, BOOKBINDERS, PUBLISHERS AND OTHER MEN AND WOMEN CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF A CURIOUS ART. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1949, small 4to., cloth, leather spine label, dust jacket. xvi, 194 pages with 24 illustrations. $ 395.00First edition, limited to 1000 copies. With a listing of 1001 books containing fore-edge paintings and various pieces of information about each book. With a note in ink on the free endpaper “The Estelle Doheny Collection, St. Johns Seminary, Camareilo, Calif. 93010.” Spine of jacket spotted. [21084]

209. (Whitman, Walt). LEAVES OF GRASS. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co, 1882, 8vo., original cloth stamped in gilt. 382 pages. $ 250.00BAL 21419, Myerson A2.7–d. Seventh edition, first Philadelphia printing. Reprint from the slightly altered plates of the Boston 1881–1882 edition. Portrait of Whitman opposite page 29. Rubbed along edges. [94233]

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210. (Whittington Press) MATRIX 28. (Lower Marston Farm, Risbury: Whittington Press, 2009), 4to., stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (vi), 180, (2) pages. $ 235.00One of 630 copies bound thus. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This issue contains essays by Alan Powers on The Curwen Story, Andrew Anderson on Eric Gill, Humphrey Stone on the photographers, Janet Stone, David Hughes on the Baynard Press, James Fergusson on The Amate Press, Michael Harvey on Janet the Typeface, Hal Bishop on Ronald Salmond, John Randle on The Offizin Haag-Drugulin, Jerry Cinamon on Leipzig rambling, Andrew Dolinski on Poltawski, Barbara Henry on producing the Vandercook Book, Katherine McCanless-Ruffin on The Shinola Vandercook, and many more. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates, etc. Card regarding Matrix 29 loosely laid-in. [103107]

211. (Whittington Press) MATRIX 28. (Lower Marston Farm, Risbury: Whittington Press, 2009), 4to., stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (vi), 180, (2) pages. $ 605.00One of 70 copies of the deluxe version bound thus. The separately issued portfolio contains a suite of photographs by Janet Stone of Myfanwy Piper, Lord David Cecil, Geoffrey Keynes, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Julian Huxley, Doublas Cleverdon, L.P. Hartley & Laurence Whistler. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This issue contains essays by Alan Powers on The Curwen Story, Andrew Anderson on Eric Gill, Humphrey Stone on the photographers, Janet Stone, David Hughes on the Baynard Press, James Fergusson on The Amate Press, Michael Harvey on Janet the Typeface, Hal Bishop on Ronald Salmond, John Randle on The Offizin Haag-Drugulin, Jerry Cinamon on Leipzig rambling, Andrew Dolinski on Poltawski, Barbara Henry on producing the Vandercook Book, Katherine McCanless-Ruffin on The Shinola Vandercook, and many more. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates, etc. Card regarding Matrix 29 loosely laid-in. [103108]

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212. Wilkinson, W.T. PHOTO­MECHANICAL PROCESSES. A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHOTO­ZINCOGRAPHY, PHOTO­LITHOGRAPHY, AND COL­LO TYPE. London: England Bros., 1897, small 8vo., original cloth. (ii), vi, 174, (6) pages. $ 185.00Second edition, revised and enlarged. (Bridson & Wakeman E68). Illustrated. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Well preserved copy. [97804]

213. Wilson, Edward L. WILSON’S CYCLOPÆDIC PHOTOGRAPHY: A COMPLETE HAND­BOOK OF THE TERMS, PROCESSES, FORMULÆ AND APPLIANCES AVAILABLE IN PHOTOGRAPHY, ARRANGED IN CYCLO­PÆDIC FORM FOR READY REFERENCE. New York: Edward L. Wilson, 1894, 8vo., original publisher’s cloth, beveled edges. viii,17–522 pages. $ 225.00Illustrated with 245 figures in the text. The pagination is unusual, but clearly there are no pages missing. Index at the beginning of the book. Appendix from page 455 through 472 followed by advertisements for photographic equipment, supplies and books. Boards a bit rubbed, wear at the spine ends and corners. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. [98421]

214. Wilson, Edward L. WILSON’S PHOTOGRAPHICS: A SERIES OF LESSONS, ACCOMPANIED BY NOTES, ON ALL THE PROCESSES WHICH ARE NEEDFUL IN THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Philadelphia: Edward L. Wilson, 1883, 8vo., original pebbled green cloth stamped in gilt. 352, 353–376 pages. $ 200.00Reprint of the 1881 first edition (see Bridson & Wakeman E54 for other information on Wilson). Contains two plates. Pages 353 to 376 form a supplement of advertisements for photographic supplies. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Book has been recased. Faint stain at the top of preliminary pages. [98207]

215. (Witsch & Schmitt) SPECIMEN BOOK OF FRONT BRANDS AND MORTISED BORDERS, FROM WITSCH & SCHMITT. New York and Chicago: Witsch & Schmitt, n.d. (circa 1880s), 8vo., original green cloth stamped in gilt. (ii), 176, (2) pages. $ 450.00A specimen book showing cigar bands and box cover designs produced and sold by this printer. Two other catalogues noted by Romaine but not this one. The last leaf acquaints the reader with the fact that the company also produced show cards. All in black and white. Great images. Light wear and spotting to covers. [102875]

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216. (Woodcraft Press) Legg, Owen. COMPLETE RUN OF THE WOODCRAFT PRESS PUBLICATIONS. Tonbridge: Woodcraft Press, ’73–’06, various sizes and bindings. $ 3,250.00Eleven volumes printed by the Woodcraft Press.“Born in a suburb of London which had provided David Jones and Jack London, I grew up amongst the ruins of a bombed city. We played on bombed sites and watched birds among the semi derelict sports fields of South London. Our training was with the Boy Scouts who sent us everywhere camping and hiking, thus my love of the countryside and nature. My father was a great gardener and that stimulated my interest in gardens and growing vegetables. In fact my garden here is practically self supporting and is decorated with topiary. The best example is of an enormous peacock in the front garden which is a topic for the local agricultural college.

From school I went to British Columbia for six weeks on the British Schools Exploring Society’s expedition. Straight after that was Hospital Medical School and eyes down to qualify, as thought, to go onto surgery. National Service came along and as I was a conscientious objector, I went to Congo as a voluntary missionary. My son was born on the Equator. Back In England, I tried for my Surgical exams and failed seven times. Obviously, that wasn’t for me so 1 switched to General Practice in 1966 and moved to Tonbridge.

All this time I had been sketching and oil painting, but not really developing artistically. Not until I started printmaking at the college of further education in nearby Tunbridge Wells did my ideas start to solidify not ossify, but develop. Linocuts for me limit the possibilities, but generate the ideas. Moving from prints I wanted text to accompany the image so I used handwritten poetry or cut lettering. This lead onto my first book in 1973 (the Armourer’s Play) where Images of Knights and nudes, are combined with the text of a mystery play. This was exhibited during the 1973 York Festival. As time progressed, so my books have changed. Each as a result of my interests and preoccupations of the time. Many after long years of thought, others pretty instantaneous. The William Morris was finished on the morning when I set out as a medical Officer with the BSES expedition to Iceland. Thoughts of a Young Explorer was written and printed as a fund-raiser for my stint on the expedition to Alaska in 1999. Soon after that I retired from medicine, but my speed of book-making does not seem to have increased produce sculpture from time to time and recently had an exhibition of these at Chatham. Now I am working full time on my current project Danse Macabre, a fifteenth century French poem with modern translation, illustrated by murals from a French church and footballers dancing with skeletons. My prints and books are scattered round the world Including the British library, Greenwich print Collection, Graphotek Berlin, Manchester University and Columbia university. I have exhibited widely In England, but also one man shows in Wales and France. I have belonged to the Free Painters & Sculptors for 4.1 years, exhibit regularly with them and have been their Hon Sec for 10 years.”-Owen Legg

The eleven titles are below:

(Woodcraft Press) Butterfield, Frederick William Lois and Bill Griffiths. BATTLE OF MALDON.|THE. N.P. (but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2003, square 8vo., cloth, glassine dust jacket. not paginated.Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. This is the sixth book in the 30 years of the Woodcraft Press. The text is two translations of an Anglo-Saxon lament: the first, by Butterfields, was originally privately printed in 1903 and the second, by Griffiths, is a modern literal translation. There are linocut prints and borders in several colors—different on each page. The paper is white laid 100 gsm , recycled 12pt Gill hand set with a 4pt leading and wood type for the titling. Per the colophon “ as each sheet has been through the press at least a dozen times there are thumb prints and off-set marks on some sheets in most copies.” Glassine has a few tiny tears and chips.

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(Woodcraft Press) West, Gilbert. GARDENS OF STOWE.|THE. N.P. ( but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2006, 8vo, silk cloth, matching slipcase. not paginated.Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. The text is taken from Descriptions of Lord Cobhan’s Garden at Stowe 1700–1750 edited by G. B. Clarke. Legg says that on his first visit to the gardens he imagined them peopled by nymphs and satyrs with perhaps nudes in the foreground. “Over the years this memory remained and has led me to produce a series of prints combining Stowe’s follies with famous paintings.” There are twelve full-page prints plus a print of Gilbert West from an engraving in the National Portrait Gallery. Printed in handset Burlington, 18pt, 2pt leaded on Fabriano No.5 . Spine of slipcase a little faded.

(Woodcraft Press) Jones, Ken. CHRISTMAS LETTERS FROM A FRIEND. Letters written by Ken Jones to Owen Legg 1985–1996. N.P. ( but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1997, oblong 4to, cloth, dust jacket. not paginated.Limited to 175 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. Ten years of seasonal letters. Jones and Legg have been friends for over 60 years. Illustrated primarily with photographs. Each letter has at least one illustration and/or photograph and most have a story to go with it. Introduction by Helen Legg. A charming book. Dust jacket is all stars and looks a bit like gift wrap.

(Woodcraft Press) Sackville-West, Vita. GARDEN.|THE. Illustrated by Owen Legg. N.P. ( but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1989, large 4to, cloth, slipcase. 136, (4) pages.Limited to 200 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, this being one of 180 on Fabriano 5 paper.. A very nice setting of Sackville-West’s poem with five full-page, full-color linocuts of Sissinghurst plus additional ornaments in the text. The type is 18pt Perpetua, roman and italic. Woodblock letters for the titling and initial capitals. Prospectus laid-in

(Woodcraft Press) Graves, Robert and Omar Ali-Shah (translation). RUBAIYYAT OF OMAR KHAYAAM.|THE. Illustrated by Owen Legg. Tonbridge: Woodcraft Press, 1980, 4to, full goatskin, Mylar jacket, cloth slipcase. not paginated.Limited to 40 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg and the bookbinder (signature illegible). The colophon as printed states 45 copies, but the limitation that is handwritten is 40 and that number has been verified by Mr. Legg. There are 30 linocut illustrations. The paper is handmade from rag pulp, colored with wool fleck . Handset in 18pt Dante italic. The binding is quite striking—the dark top board has a large rectangle cut-out with a smaller rectangle in-set which in turn as a circle cut-out with a silver quarter moon in-set. The spine repeats the quarter moon motif. Lovely production.

(Woodcraft Press) Legg, Owen. ADVICE TO A YOUNG EXPLORER. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1999, square 8vo, stiff paper wrappers, cord tied. not paginated (8 pages).Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg. Illustrated with one linocut of a grizzly bear printed in three colors. “ The poem is an attempt to bring the friendly childhood bear into the real wild world of ecology and conservation.” Legg was a medical officer to the 1999 British Schools Exploring Society’s expedition to the Talkeetna and Cugach National Parks. A couple of tiny creases at the corners.

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(Woodcraft Press) Palsson, Hermann and Paul Edwards. EGIL’S HEAD RANSOM. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2001, square 8vo, stiff paper wrappers, cord tied. not paginated (8 pages).Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg. Illustrated with two full page linocuts. An excerpt from a translation of Egil’s Saga which saved his life when Egil recited it before the court of King Eric Bloodaxe in 948. The frontispiece is based on a helmet in the York Jorvik Viking Centre, which dates from the period of this poem. A couple of tiny creases at the corners.

(Woodcraft Press) Morris, William. ON FIRST SEEING ICELAND. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1992, 8vo, blue stiff paper wrappers. not paginated (8 pages).Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, but this one has the number (92/100) crossed-out and Artist’s Copy written in. William Morris first published this poem in a collection called “Poems by the Way” in 1892 having written in after visits to Iceland in 1871 and 1873. The Woodcraft edition was printed to mark Legg’s departure for Iceland with the British Schools Exploring Society. Printed on handmade white Wilcox 100 cotton, made at Wookey Hole Mill. The type is Dante 16pt. The illustration is printed on Japanese mulberry paper.

(Woodcraft Press) PRAYER FOR TODAY.|A. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1994, narrow 4to, single sheet held in printed folder.Limited to 100, numbered and signed by Owen Legg at the end of the poem. A satirical look at modern life. The poem began as a joke over lunch by a group of friends, one of whom completed it and passed it on to her doctor [presumably Mr. Legg, who is a doctor as well as a fine press printer/artist]. The full page linocut is based on a cheese display at a local delicatessen. Printed on handmade cotton rag Wookey hole Mill paper using Dante 16pt. type. Quite attractive and fun!

(Woodcraft Press) Legg, Owen and Leslie Grinsell. CUT IN THE CHALK. Tonbridge: (Woodcraft Press), 1977, folio, half leather, paper-covered boards. not paginated.Limited to 40 copies, numbered and signed by Owen Legg. Text by Grinsell, illustrations by Legg. Eleven full-page prints of hill figures illustrate the archeological information. Extra suite of prints housed in a folder affixed to the rear pastedown. Set in 24 pt Ehrhardt, type and linocuts are printed on Barcham Green Chrisbrook. The duplicate set of linocuts was printed on Japanese handmade paper. The second book of the press.

(Woodcraft Press) ARMOURERS’ PLAY.|THE. Adam et Eva, Angellus cum vanga et oolo assignans, eis laborem. (Tonbridge: Woodcraft Press), 1973, folio, loose leaves contained in a folder which is housed in a slipcase. 10 leaves.This is the artist’s proof, numbered and signed by Owen Legg on each illustration. The text is form the York Cycle of mystery plays: modern English text by J.S. Purvis, middle English text by Lucy Toulmin Smith. Originally written over 400 years ago, various Guilds took responsibility for the pageant, costumes and actors. Thus the Armourers’ Company maintained the sixth play in the cycle; that in which Adam and Eve are thrust out to till the earth. The plates are printed from linoleum blocks, usually in three colors. All the lettering is cut by hand and printed in colors to match the figures. The ten prints have been made on Barcham Green Waterleaf handmade paper in Double Elephant size which was subsequently halved to give a sheet size of 20” x 271/2”. The folder of hand-made Japanese paper, along with the matching slipcase , has the coat of arms of the Armourers. This paper is made from mulberry leaves flecked with silk strands. Prospectus laid in. Both the folder and the slipcase have some fading. [101099]

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217. Wytfliet, Cornelius A. THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM, A SERIES OF ATLASES IN FACSIMILE. Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964, 4to., cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 110 pages and 19 double­page plates. $ 165.00This is a facsimile, in Latin, of Cornelius van Wytfliet’s atlas of the Americas from 1597. With an introduction by R.A. Skelton, a list of bibliographic references and 19 black-and-white double-page map plates. Cloth, dust jacket has heavy wear to extremities and tearing to the edges and corners. Small piece missing at bottom front edge and small tape repair to top edge at spine. [104001]

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218. Yeats, William Butler. THE VARIORUM EDITION OF THE POEMS OF W.B. YEATS. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. New York: Macmillan, 1957, thick 8vo., two­toned cloth, slipcase. xxxv, 884 pages. $ 1,750.00Limited to 825 numbered copies containing the signature of Yeats (on sheets signed before his death) (Wade 211N). Specially printed on paper produced by the Oxford Paper Company. Yeats revised his work frequently and this volume presents the variations along with comments by the poet and others. Without original acetate dust jacket. The slipcase is spotted with wear along edges. The spine of the book is faded and rubbed. Bookplate on free endpaper and small ownership inscription in red ink. Back inside hinge cracked. [103017]

219. (Yellow Barn Press) Fraser, James H. (editor). JOHN DEPOL, A CELEBRATION OF HIS WORK. BY MANY HANDS. Council Bluffs, IA: The Yellow Barn Press, 1994, tall 8vo., cloth spine with DePol patterned paper over boards with a leather spine label, slipcase. 149 pages. $ 550.00Limited to 150 numbered copies of which only 90 were for sale. A festschrift volume produced for this fine wood cut artist. Includes over 121 engravings, most of them printed from the original blocks, cover DePol’s work from the 1950s to the present. With sections printed by the Press of the Appletree Alley, Aralia Press, The Barbarian Press, Press of Harold Berliner, Bowne & Co., the Bullnettle Press, the Buttonmaker Press, The Press of the Indiana Kid, Pentagram Press, Red Hydra Press, the Red Ozier Press, The Stone House Press, W. Thomas Taylor and the Yellow Barn Press. Also contains contributions by other people such as John Anderson, Lewis and Dorothy Allen, The Cary Library Press, Fort Hill Press, the Glad Hand Press, the Golden Hind Press, the Hammer Creek Press and the Zauberberg Press which were printed by the Yellow Barn Press and others. Prospectus loosely inserted. Becoming very scarce. [40266]

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Bibliography225. Abbey, J.R. SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770–1860. With LIFE IN ENGLAND. With TRAVEL. Four volumes, complete set. Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972, 4to., cloth, dust jackets. xx,399; xxi,428; xiii,300; xiii,301–675 pages. $ 1,500.00Reprint of the first editions. Filled with bibliographical descriptions of the color plate books published in England during this period and containing many plates in color. [25180]

226. Adams, H.M. CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE, 1501–1600 IN CAMBRIDGE LIBRARIES. Two volumes. Cambridge: University Press, 1967, thick small 4to., cloth, dust jackets. viii,768; (iv),795 pages. $ 600.00First edition. In addition to the thousands of listings of books, there are two sets of indices to printers and publishers, one by name and the other by location. Loosely inserted is the four page errata & corrigenda pamphlet. [103803]

227. Adams, Thomas R. and David W. Waters (compilers). ENGLISH MARITIME BOOKS PRINTED BEFORE 1801, RELATING TO SHIPS, THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND THEIR OPERATION AT SEA. Including Articles in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.Providence, R.I. and Greenwich, England: The John Carter Brown Library and The National Maritime Museum, 1995, 4to., cloth. xxxi, 602 pages. $ 450.00This extensive bibliography covers all aspects of maritime history, ship construction, ship handling, the crew and navigation. D.W. Waters deals with books printed before 1640 and T.R. Adams with English maritime publishers, particularly the firm of Mount and Page. Arranged alphabetically and topically. Foreword by N.A.M. Rodger. Corners and spine head slightly bumped. [103932]

228. (Alaska) Lada­Mocarski, Valerian. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON ALASKA PUBLISHED BEFORE 1868. . With an Introduction by Archibald Hanna, Jr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969, thick 4to., cloth. viii, 568 pages. $ 150.00First edition. Full descriptions of 161 early books on Alaska including a facsimile title page of each. Jacket chipped with tears at head of spine. [183]

229. Alden, John (editor). EUROPEAN AMERICANA: A CHRONOLOGICAL GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN EUROPE RELATING TO THE AMERICAS, 1493–1650. Two volumes. New York: Readex Books, 1980, small 4to., cloth. liii,467; xlviii,954 pages. $ 550.00With number of pages and locations of copies. Also gives bibliographical references to each work. Contains a short history of Americana bibliography and indices by printers, booksellers, geographic location, author, title and subject. An additional four volumes have been published which extend the dates of publication. [14274]

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230. (Americana) AMERICAN IMPRINTS INVENTORY. Twenty six volumes. New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1964, 4to., red cloth. Thousands of pages. $ 700.00Reprints of the original works which were published over the period 1937 to 1942. Extensive run of these bibiographies of United States communities and states prepared by workers of the WPA, under the direction of Douglas C. McMurtrie. Includes the following: No.1 Missouri (1808–1850), No.2 Minnesota (1849–1865), No.3 Arizona (1860–1890), No.4 Chicago Anti-Fire (1851–1871), No.5,6,38 Kentucky (1787–1820), No.7 Nevada (1859–1890), No.8 Alabama (1807–1840), No.9 New Jersey (1784–1800), No.10 Kansas (1854–1876), No.11 Kellogg Collection of “Patent Inside” Newspapers of 1876, No.12 Sag Harbor, Long Island (1791–1820), No.13 Idaho (1838–1890), 14 West Virginia (1791–1830), No.15 Iowa (1838–1860), No.16,20,32 Tennessee (1793–1850), No.17 Ohio (1796–1820), No.18 Wyoming (1866–1890), No.19 Louisiana (1803–1934), No.23,24,41,42 (1833–1863), No.25. New Mexico (1784–1876), No.26 Nebraska Non-Documentary (1847–1876), No.31 California Non-Documentary Imprints (1833–1855), No.36 Utica, New York (1799–1830), No.39 Arkansas (1821–1876), No.40 Massachusetts (1801), No.44 Washington (1853–1876), No.45 Massachusetts 1802, No.52 Michigan (1796–1850). Ex library copies with markings. The first volume is heavily bumped on the corner. [103106]

231. (Americana) THE ANNOTATED EBERSTADT CATALOGS OF AMERICANA. IN FOUR VOLUMES INCLUDING INDEX. NUMBERS 103 TO 138, 1935–1956. Introduction by Archibald Hanna Jr. Index by Karl Brown. Four volumes. New York: Argosy­Antiquarian Ltd., 1965, thick 8vo., cloth. $ 300.00A virtual mine of information on Americana, with prices, brought together with the use of a lengthy index volumes. Thousands of entries given. Spines slightly faded. [23109]

232. (Americana) Maggs. BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA ET PHILIPPINA. Eight (of nine) volumes, missing volume eight. London: Maggs Bros., 1922–1930, square 8vo., stiff paper wrappers (except Parts 5 and 7 which are bound in cloth with leather spine labels). thousands of pages. $ 250.00A massive collection of books and manuscripts concerning Americana, being catalogues 429, 432, 442 (missing last leaf), 465, 479, 496, 502 and 549. Lacking Part VIII which was devoted to Brazil. Wrappers worn and detached on some volumes. [103922]

233. (Arctic) Tremaine, Marie (editor). ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY. 3 volumes. (Washington, DC): Department of Defense, 1953, 8vo., cloth. 4485 pages. $ 475.00First edition prepared for and in cooperation with the Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., under the direction of the Arctic Institute of North America. An annotated listing of 20,003 titles, making this by far the most comprehensive bibliography of Arctic books (Besterman 4919). Field work in all disciplines and in all sections of the Arctic region are represented, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries. In selection of material, some priority has been given to narratives and scientific results written by the explorers and scientists themselves. Files of all essentially arctic journals and of major journals in various subject fields have been searched through 1949. The bibliography is arranged in two sections: (1) an alphabetic register, under the author’s name, of his books, papers, and contributions to works of multiple authorship; (2) a subject-geographic index to these publications. With foldout maps at the end of each volume. Library bookplate and number on spine indicate that this set was a duplicate from the Library of Congress. [103827]

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234. (Astronomy) Houzeau, J.C. Et A. Lancaster. BIBLIOGRAPHIE GENERALE DE L’ASTRONOMIE Edited by Dr. D.W. Dewhirst. Three volumes. London: The Holland Press, 1964, thick small 4to., cloth, dust jackets. xxxii,1737; lxxxix,2225 pages. $ 275.00Reprinted from the original five part series issued between 1880 and 1889 with additional material by Dewhirst. (Besterman p.587). With 42,500 entries. Essentially a new edition because of all the material added by Dewhirst. Jackets worn and torn. [2946]

235. (Astronomy) Zinner, Ernst. GESCHICHTE UND BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER ASTRONOMISCHEN LITERATURE IN DEUTSCHLAND ZUR ZEIT DER RENAISSANCE. Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1941, large 8vo., cloth, top edge stained yellow. (viii), 452 pages. $ 135.00Bibliography of astronomical works in Germany during the Renaissance, describing over 5200 items. Includes a historical introduction. Indexed. Cloth split along both hinges with spine covering becoming detached. [51141]

236. (Australia) Ferguson, John Alexander. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA. Seven volumes. Canberra, Australia: National Library of Australia, (1975), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. (xx),540; (xviiii),568; (xiii),632; (xiii),732; (xiv),1146; (viii),1141; (xii),1075 pages. $ 750.00Volume I and II are facsimile editions and the rest are original editions. This set is the standard reference work for printed matter relating to Australia. Volume I: introduction by G. Chandler, with 32 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume II: covers the years 1831–1838, and includes 39 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume III covers the years 1839–1845 and is the original 1951 edition published by Angus and Robertson Ltd., with 37 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume IV covers the years 1864–1850 and is the original 1955 edition. With 38 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume V covers the years 1851–1900, entries A-G. It is the original 1963 edition. With a frontispiece, 35 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume VI covers the years 1851–1900, entries H-P, and is the original 1965 edition. With a frontispiece, 36 black-and-white illustrationsand an index. Volume VII covers the years 1851–1900,entries Q-Z and is the final volume in the set. It is the original 1969 edition. With a frontispiece, 36 black-and-white illustrations and an index. All volumes have some minor wear and rubbing at extremities, and spine ends are bumped. Volume 3 is missing the dust jacket. [103982]

237. (Belgium) Statusvan Der Haeghen, Ferdinand. BIBLIOTHECA BELGICA, BIBLIOGRAPHIE GENERALE DES PAYS­BAS. Six volumes. N.P.: Editions Culture et Civilisation, 1979, thick 4to., cloth. $ 750.00New impression of the 1964 edition, re-edited under the direction of Marie-Therese Lenger. An important and extensive bibliography of the thousands of items printed in the Low Country from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The individual descriptions are very extensive; for instance the section covering Aesop covers 23 pages with descriptions of 48 separate editions. Illustrated throughout. Well indexed. An essential reference set. The fifth volume of this set has been water damaged and is wrinkled and spotted. [35768]

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238. Benezit, E. DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DES PEINTRES, SCULPTEURS, DESSINATEURS ET GRAVEURS DE TOUS LES TEMPS ET DE TOUS LES PAYS. 10 volumes. Paris: Librairie Grund, 1976, thick 8vo., cloth. $ 325.00Reprint of the fifth edition. Still one of the best biographical guides to artists, illustrators, engravers and others involved in the art field. Covers all times and countries. Minor spotting of spine of one volume. [103845]

239. (Bishop Library) THE CORTLANDT F. BISHOP LIBRARY. New York: American Art Association, 1938, 1938, 1938, 1939, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers. $ 135.00Very good set of this magnificent library catalogue. Many plates of bookbindings. A fifth volume was issued in 1948 and described Bishop’s French books—that is not present. Light cover wear. Ownership inscription in pencil. [102751]

240. (Bookbinding) BIBLIOTHEQUE HENRI BERALDI. Five volumes, complete. Paris: Me. Etienne Ader & Leopold Carteret, 1934–1935, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers. (iv),iii,39,(5) with 47 plates of bindings, 5 spread page and 6 in color; (viii),152,(4) pages with 91 plates, 51 of bindings and 3 in color; (iv),iv,252,(4) pages with 143 plates, 101 of bindings and 5 in color; (iv),iv,112,(4) pages with 69 plates, 21 of bindings and 1 in color; (iv),162,(4) pages with 40 plates of bindings. $ 450.00Auction catalogue, 1499 lots sold in 5 sessions on various dates from May, 1934 to October, 1935 (Blogie, Vol. II, 326, 326, 329, 331, 332). A magnificent sale of the private library of Henri Beraldi (1849–1931), an important print and book collector, president of the Societe des Arnis des Livres, and co-author, with Baron Roger Portalis of Les Graveurs du Dix-Huitieme Siecle (1880), a major inventory of prints. This is widely regarded as one of the greatest collections ever to come to the sales room, being particularly rich in fine bindings from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Illustrated with 400 plates, including several chromolithographs of bindings and many tipped in facsimiles of historical prints and paintings. (1) Livres Anciens des XVI et XVII Siecles. (2) Livres Illustres du XVIII Siecle. (3) Epoque Romantique, Editions Originales, Classiques, Livres Illustres 1801–1875. (4) Livres des Illustres Modernes. (5) Livres des XVI--XVIII Siecles Romantiques et Modernes. Some chipping of paper wrappers at spine ends. Front cover of volume 4 almost detached. Soiling of covers. Ownership inscription in pencil. Prices realized for the first two volumes loosely inserted. [25349]

241. (Brown, John Carter) BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA, CATALOGUE OF THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY IN BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. Seven volumes. Millwood: Kraus Reprint Co., 1975, tall 8vo., cloth. $ 700.00Seven volumes. An invaluable Americana reference set. The complete set of this bibliography is composed of the following volumes. Thousands of collations are given.1).EARLIEST BOOKS TO THOSE DATED 1674. x,511; (viii),552; (iv),310 pages. Reprint of the third and last edition originally printed over the period 1919 to 1931. 2).BOOKS PRINTED 1675–1700. Providence: Brown University Library, 1973, 4to., cloth. xxxi, 484 pages. Third and best edition adding to the material published in the period 1875–1882. 3).PART III. 1701–1800. Two volumes. N.P.: Kraus Reprint Co., 1963, tall 8vo., cloth. (iv),iv,446; (vi),554 pages. Reprint of the first edition first published in 1870 and 1871. 4).SHORT TITLE LIST OF ADDITIONS, BOOKS PRINTED 1471–1700. (vi),67 pags. Providence: Brown University Press, 1973. [1046]

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242. Brunet, Jacques­Charles. MANUEL DU LIBRAIRE ET DE L’AMATEUR DE LIVRES. Nine volumes. Copenhague: Rosenkilde et Bagger, 1966, 8vo., cloth. $ 550.00Reprint of the fifth and best edition. Included are the two volume supplement and Deschamps’ Dictionnaire de Geographie. Still the best overall reference book for French books although books of other languages are included also. Some spotting of covers. Corners bumped. [15385]

243. (California) A DESCRIPTIVE & PRICED CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND MAPS RELATING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO THE HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND PRINTING OF CALIFORNIA & THE FAR WEST, FORMERLY THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS WAYNE NORRIS, LIVERMORE, CALIF. Oakland: The Holmes Book Company, 1948, 4to., cloth­backed decorated paper­covered boards, paper spine label. (x), 217, (3) pages. $ 150.00Limited to 500 copies. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. A lavish bookseller’s catalogue describing over 4,000 items. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Covers faded with rubbing at spine ends and corners. Spine label chipped. [103787]

244. (Canada) THE EDGAR AND DOROTHY DAVIDSON COLLECTION OF CANADIANA AT MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY. (Sackville, New Brunswick: Center for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University), 1991, folio, cloth, leather labels on front and spine. xxiv, 418+(1) pages. $ 225.00Limited to an edition of 500, this being number 3. Extensive bibliography with a number of black-and-while illustrations. All typographic matter printed letterpress directly from the type on Carlyle Japan paper. Prospectus loosely inserted. [96388]

245. (Canada) Lande, Lawrence. LAWRENCE LANDE COLLECTION OF CANADIANA IN THE REDPATH LIBRARY OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation, 1965. With RARE AND UNUSUAL CANADIANA; FIRST SUPPLEMENT TO THE LANDE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Montreal: McGill University, 1965, 1971, folio, large 4to., leather spine, cloth over boards, slipcase; cloth. xxxvi,303 pages,113 pages of plates; xx, 779 pages. $ 650.00First editions, first volume is signed by Lande and limited to 950 copies. The supplement is signed by Lande and is limited to 500 copies. The first volume is printed on handmade paper and has many illustrations including facsimiles and foldout maps. Includes the prospectus to volume one. [1219]

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246. (Canada) Staton, Frances M. and Marie Tremaine. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIANA, BEING ITEMS IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF TORONTO, CANADA, RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA. With FIRST SUPPLEMENT. With SECOND SUPPLEMENT Edited by Sandra Alston and Karen Evans (in two volumes). With an Introduction by George H. Locke. Four volumes. Toronto: The Public Library, 1934, 1959, 1985, 1986, thick tall 8vo. and 8vo., cloth, leather spine label, cloth. (xiv),828; (xvi),333,(3); 839; 909 pages. $ 600.00First edition. (Besterman p.1107). 4,646 items described in first volume and the second volume extends it to 6286 entries. Index. The second supplement is in two volumes and adds another 3500 items to the bibliography. Spine of first volume faded. [103793]

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247. Carter, John. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE ILLUSTRATING THE IMPACT OF PRINT ON THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DURING FIVE CENTURIES. Compiled and Edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir. (London: Cassell and Co., 1967), 4to., stiff paper wrappers. xxxvi, 254, (2) pages. $ 550.00First edition, a proof copy in wrappers. One of the most important exhibitions held in the twentieth century. This special copy contains a printed “Publication Date: 27 April 1967, Published Price: Approximately £8.8s” notice at the bottom of the front cover. The date and price have been crossed out and the following information added in ink “25th May” and “£7.7.0” above and below the cross outs. No other markings in the catalogue. Note that this proof does not contain the index which begins on page 257 of the final version. Wear to paper covering on spine and spotting of front cover. Small hole perforates back cover and blank page in back. [97559]

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248. A Collection of 45 sale catalogues relating to maps and books. Nine volumes. N.P.: n.p., n.d., Vol. I­IV 8vo., Vol. V 4to., Vol. VI­VIII 8vo., Vol. IX 12mo., cloth, leather spine labels. variously paginated. $ 450.00Nine volumes of bound book sellers catalogues from various dealers in Britain and America, twentieth century, 45 catalogues from sellers including Francis Edwards, Maggs Brothers and Parke-Bernet Galleries. With thousands of entries covering various topics such as Americana, Canadiana, Spanish and Hispanic Americana, atlases and maps and private collections. Cloth with minor rubbing and some scratching to spine labels. [104004]

249. (Children’s Books) Mahony, Bertha E. ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS, 1744–1945. With 1946–1956. With 1957–1966. With 1967–1976. 4 volumes. Boston: The Horn Book, (1970), (1972), (1972), (1978), 4to., cloth, dust jackets. xvi,528; xvii,299; xvii,295; xiv,290 pages. $ 185.00Reprints of the first editions. Gives the history and development of illustrated books plus biographies and bibliographies of illustrators and their works. The second volume was written by Bertha Mahony Miller, Ruth Hill Viguers and Marcia Dalphin; the third volume was written by Lee Kingman, Joanna Foster and Ruth GIles Lontoft; the fourth volume was written by Lee Kingman, Grace Allen Hogarth and Harriet Quimby. Well preserved set. [103020]

250. (China) Cordier, Henri. BIBLIOTHECA SINICA, DICTIONNAIRE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DES OUVRAGES RELATIFS A L’EMPIRE CHINOIS. Six volumes bound in five. New York: Burt Franklin, (1968), 8vo., cloth. xvi, 3–1575–4339, (iv),iv,84 pages. $ 235.00Reprint of the revised and greatly enlarged second edition, which was issued over the period 1904–1908. It remains “the only reasonably complete bibliography for China in any European language” (Walford II:274). This reprint also contains the index, which was done as a separate volume in 1953. Item numbers in each volume taped to spine. [103824]

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251. (Church, E.D.) Cole, George Watson. A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS RELAT­ING TO THE DISCOVERY AND EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA FORMING A PART OF THE LIBRARY OF E.D. CHURCH. Five volumes. New York: Peter Smith, 1951, thick 8vo., cloth. $ 250.00Reprint of the scarce 1907 first edition which was limited to only 150 copies. Detailed bibliographical descriptions with annotations. Also has a number of illustrations. Spines slightly faded. [14065]

252. Cioranescu, Alexandre. BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, DU DIX­HUITIÈME SIÈCLE. Three volumes. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1969, small 4to., cloth. x,760; (iv),761–1440; (iv),1441–2138 pages. $ 400.00This is one of the best bibliographies of eighteenth century French literature. Organized by author it contains 67,912 entries including names such as Voltaire, Alighieri Dante, and Napoleon. Indexed. [58630]

253. Clark, Thomas D. TRAVELS IN THE OLD SOUTH, A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Three volumes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1969), 8vo., cloth, slipcase. xx,328; xvi,290; xviii,404 pages. $ 165.00First edition, second printing. Volume One covers the Formative Years, 1527–1783, Volume Two covers the Expanding South, 1750–1825 and Volume Three covers the Ante Bellum South, 1825–1860. well-preserved set of this classic. [18210]

254. (Colines, Simon De) Schreiber, Fred. SIMON DE COLINES, AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF 230 EXAMPLES OF HIS PRESS 1520–1546. Provo: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1995, small 4to., cloth, paper spine label. lxxxiv, 242, (4) pages. $ 175.00First edition, limited to 750 copies. The first true Renaissance printer, Colines worked with the finest French book decorators and type designers to transform the French book. By using the format pioneered by Aldus Manutius, his press (1520–1546) published reasonably priced “pocket” classics, making them affordable to students and popularizing italic and cursive types in France. Colines holds the distinction of having prepared the first critical text of the Greek New Testament, the first printed in France. He produced the earliest accented Greek type in France, fifteen years prior to the Grecs du Roi. In 1528, de Colines introduced an elegant cursive, derived from Arrighi, followed by a smaller italic based on the Aldine. The 230 books described in this work, one-third of Colines’s actual production, illustrate de Colines’s types, ornamental initials, printer devices and title borders. A catalogue of the books published and facsimiles of two of Colines’s publisher catalogues are also included. Designed by W. Thomas Taylor. Illustrated. Presentation from the author on free endpaper. [75493]

255. Crandall, Marjorie Lyle. CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS, A CHECK­LIST BASED PRINCIPALLY ON THE COLLECTION OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM. Two volumes. With MORE CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS. By Richard Harwell. Two volumes. Richmond: The Virginia State Library, 1957, 8vo., later cloth with paper spine labels. xxxvi,158; (viii),159–345 pages. Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 1955, tall 8vo., cloth. xxxvi,408; (vi),409–910 pages.. $ 250.00Over 6700 entries in all. [23670]

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256. Darlow, T.H. and H.F. Moule. HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTED EDITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE IN THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. Four volumes. New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1963, small 4to., cloth. $ 300.00Reprint of the 1903 first edition. The best bibliography of the subject. [15382]

257. Deak, Gloria Gilda. PICTURING AMERICA 1497–1899. PRINTS, MAPS, AND DRAWINGS BEARING ON THE NEW WORLD DISCOVERIES AND ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY THAT IS NOW THE UNITED STATES. With a foreword by Vartan Gregorian. Two volumes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1988), 4to., cloth,. xxx, 657; xix, followed by 880 illustrations. $ 750.00First edition. Contains over 800 prints drawn from The New York Public Library’s remarkable collection of Americana. Each is carefully described and its significance outlined in the accompanying text. Includes an index to artists, engravers, printers, publishers, etc. Lettering on spine partially rubbed off. Scarce and important set. [103904]

258. Decker, Peter. PETER DECKER’S CATALOGUES OF AMERICANA. Three Volumes. Foreward by Archibald Hanna. Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1979, 8vo., cloth. variously paginated. $ 145.00Printed in an edition of 400 copies. Reprints catalogues 22–50 which span the years 1944–1963. This period saw the cataloguing of the magnificent Greenly and Fickes collections. Biographical introduction by Peter Decker. The third volume serves as a index to the other two and is reproduced from typescript. [72618]

259. DEUTSCHE BIBLIOPHILIE IN DREI JAHRZEHNSTEN VERZEICH­NIS DER VEROFFENTLICHUNGEN DER DEUTSCHEN BIBLIOPHILEN GESELLSCHAFTEN UND DER IHNEN GEWIDMETEN GABEN, 1898–1930. Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Bucherei. Leipzig: Freunde der Deutschen Bucherei, 1931, small 4to., cloth. xvi, 252, (2) pages. $ 135.00First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies. Bibliography of the books published by the various book collecting clubs of Germany. Each list is accompanied by a history of the club. [103150]

260. Dreyfus, John. ASPECTS OF FRENCH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TYPOGRAPHY A STUDY OF TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE BROXBOURNE COLLECTION AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. With a Handlist Compiled by David McKitterick. Cambridge: For the Roxburghe Club, 1982, 4to., cloth. xvi, 119 pages. $ 225.00First edition. The first of these Roxburghe titles to be devoted to printing type. This important study is well-produced and illustrated. The specimens are described in great detail in the bibliography. [14063]

261. Einstein, Milton I.D. & Max A. Goldstein. COLLECTORS’ MARKS. St. Louis: The Laryngoscope Press, 1918, large 8vo., cloth, edges roughly cut. (xiv), 128, x, 34, (3) pages, with 50 additional pages of plates. $ 150.00Limited to 300 numbered copies. The first part (Coll. Marks), by Louis Fagan of the British Museum, first appeared in 1883 and contains 671 “marks” for book owners (individuals or institutions): signatures,

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initials, monograms, stamps, stars, crosses, coats of arms, intertwined forms and “other marks and devices,” all reproduced in facsimile. The accompanying list indicates, to the extent known, the collector or owner to whom the mark refers and gives information on the sale of the collection to which the mark pertains. Fagan identifies about three-fourths of the marks with regard to ownership, with auction information for perhaps one-half. With index. A following “supplement” lists fifty variants of the marks already reproduced. The last part (“new contributions”) is an addition by the editors of this edition, Milton Einstein and Max Goldstein, and lists 205 additional marks, many of them from America (e.g. M. Cassatt, J.P. Morgan), following the format of part one, although a smaller portion of marks are identified. Spine faded. Unopened copy. [103081]

262. ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, A DICTIONARY. 32 volumes bound in 16. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1926, small 4to., original half calf with red cloth covered boards, top edge gilt. $ 350.0013th edition. Minor wear along hinges. [103923]

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263. Esher, Lord. THE MODERN LIBRARY, COLLECTED BY VISCOUNT ESHER. N.P.: Privately Printed, 1930, 8vo., polished buckram, top edge gilt, others uncut. xiv, 320 pages. $ 750.00First and only edition, limited to 100 copies. Viscount Esher (1852–1930) was one of the earliest collectors who made thorough collections of modern first editions. From the preface “The plan on which I have founded my library is a combination of investment and speculation. I invest in the established classics; I speculate in the living authors. The former are a gilt-edged security, safer than Consols, firmly based on the sanctions of time. The latter are the expressions of my individual opinion and taste, the value of which only the future can justify. Having chosen my author, I buy a first edition of every book or pamphlet that has ever been printed of his work.” His library was sold at Sotheby’s in 2134 lots on 25–26 March, 20–21 May, and 18–20 November, 1946. Presentation on free endpaper “Mr. Fr. Altschul, with kind regards from Esher, July 1931.” Loosely inserted is a three page autograph manuscript of Esher’s review of “The Writings of Alfred Edgar Coppard” by Jaocb Schwartz and published by Ulysses Bookshop in 1931. Not a favorable review “Also contains a review of Schwartz’s other work entitled “1100 Obsure Points” which get a very unfavorable review. Frank Altschul was a noted American collector and proprietor of the Overbrook Press. Spine faded. [102640]

264. Ethridge, James M. (editor). CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, THE INTER­NATIONAL BIO­BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO CURRENT AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS. 15 volumes. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1962–, small 4to., cloth. thousands of pages. $ 150.0015 volumes of this set. Includes Volumes 1 to 12, 15 to 24 and 41–44 and 65–69, bound in 15 volumes. Ex library set with markings. [103739]

265. (Fairfax­Murray, Charles) Davies, Hugh W. CATALOGUE OF A COL­LECTION OF EARLY GERMAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF C. FAIRFAX MURRAY. Two volumes. London: The Holland Press, 1962, thick 4to., cloth. xviii, (4), 462; 463–818, lxii pages. $ 275.00Reprint of the very limited first edition. Seymour de Ricci called this work a “Bibliographical monument of lasting importance.” Originally issued in an edition of 250 copies, the first edition has become scarce. (Brenni no. 678). The word “German” in the title refers to books produced in countries with a non-Latin European base; thus books from Belgium, Switzerland and Austria-Hungary are included. A number of bindings illustrated. [4652]

266. Fuchs, Johanne W. LEXICON LATINITATIS NEDERLANDICAE MEDII AEVI. WOORDENBOEK VAN HET MIDDELEEUWS LATIJN VAN DE NOORDELIJKE NEDERLANDEN. Leiden: Brill, 1998–2005, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. $ 225.00Have 14 fasc. (50, 52–64). For the group. [102975]

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267. GENERAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS. COMPACT EDITION. 27 volumes. With TEN­YEAR SUPPLEMENT, 1956–1965. 5 volumes. With FIVE­YEAR SUPPLEMENT, 1966–1970. 3 volumes. With FIVE­YEAR SUPPLEMENT, 1971–1975. 2 volumes. 37 volumes. 2 volumes. New York: Readex Microprint Co., 1967, small 4to., cloth. $ 350.00The mini-print edition in which each of these volumes contains about 10 volumes of the original edition. This set is similar to the NUC catalogue in the U.S. with descriptions of all the books in the British Library that had been added to the library up to 1975. Being in mini-print keeps the total size to about two shelves instead of the hundreds of shelves required by a full size set. Postage will be added strictly at cost. [35595]

268. (Gibbon, Edward) CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF EDWARD GIBBON, AUTHOR OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, LEFT BY HIM AT LAUSANNE. London: Sotheby and Co., 1934, 8vo., later cloth with original paper wrappers bound­in. 31 pages. $ 150.00Auction sale of his library. One page foreword to the catalogue. Almost all the books contained either a bookplate (reproduced on front cover of the auction sale catalogue) or a small booklabel. Covers spotted. Ownership inscription in pencil. [102782]

269. Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. GLOSSARY OF THE BOOK, TERMS USED IN PAPER­MAKING, PRINTING BOOKBINDING AND PUBLISHING WITH NOTES ON ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, BIBLIOPHILES, PRIVATE PRESSES AND PRINTING SOCIETIES. London: George Allen and Unwin, (1960), thick small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. (xiv), 484 pages. $ 150.00First edition. Jacket chipped at spine ends. Head of spine bumped. [16025]

270. Haebler, Konrad. THE STUDY OF INCUNABULA TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY LUCY EUGENIA OSBORNE. With an Foreword by Alfred W. Pollard. New York: The Grolier Club, 1933, 8vo., cloth. xviii, 240 pages. $ 250.00First edition thus, limited to 350 numbered copies (Asaf 99). A very important book on the study of incunabula. Bookplate of George Allison Armour. A few minor spots on cover. [8006]

271. Halkett, Samuel and John Laing. DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Third (revised and enlarged) edition.(London): Longman, (1980), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. $ 150.00Only volume published in this attempt to revise the original John Horden was general editor. This volume contains fully-documented evidence about the authorship of some 4,000 anonymous and pseudonymous publications in English, including translations from other languages, up to 1640. [102766]

272. Hamilton, Sinclair. EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND WOOD ENGRAVERS 1670–1870. Two volumes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968, 4to., cloth. xvii,265; xv. 178 pages. $ 500.00The first volume is the 1970 reprint of the first edition. Main catalogue and supplement. Contains biographies and bibliographies with many facsimiles. An essential reference book in the area. [78098]

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273. Harrisse, Henry. NOTES POUR SERVIR A L’HISTOIRE, A LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE ET A LA CARTOGRAPHIE DE LA NOUVELLE­FRANCE ET DES PAYS ADJACENTS, 1545–1700. Paris: Librairie Tross, 1872, 8vo., original stiff paper wrappers. xxxvi, 367, (5) pages. $ 150.00First edition. Bibliographical descriptions of early books on America and maps concerning new France. Foxing of covers with chipping along edges. [51670]

274. Hertzberger, Menno (editor). DICTIONARY FOR THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKTRADE IN FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN, SWEDISH, DANISH, ITALIAN, SPANISH AND DUTCH AND JAPANESE. N.P.: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, 1978, tall 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. 190 pages. $ 150.00Reprint of the first edition with the addition of the Japanese section. Essential book for the bookseller. Jacket chipped. [20975]

275. (Hoe Catalogue) CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF ROBERT HOE OF NEW YORK. Eight volumes bound in two. New York: The Anderson Auction Co., 1911–1912, tall 8vo., later cloth. $ 550.00McKay 6972, 6979, 7060, 7063, 7108, 7111, 7173, 7177. (Brenni no.289). One of the finest collections of books sold in America, the Hoe sale realized almost two million dollars which was larger than the previous four largest book sales added together. Included was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible that Huntington bought for 50 thousand dollars. Hoe had an excellent collection of bindings and had many of his own books bound by the famous binders of the day. Of the total of 120 plates in the eight volume set, 37 are of bindings. Also helpful is the index to binders and bindings that appears at the end of each part. Completely priced in Rred pen in the margin. Well preserved set. [6255]

276. Hoefer, M. Le Dr. NOUVELLE BIOGRAPHIE GENERALE DEPUIS LES TEMPS LES PLUS RECULÉS JUSQU’A NOS JOURES, AVEC LES REN­NEIGNEMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES ET L’INDICATION DES SOURCES A CONSULTER. 46 volumes bound in 23. Copenhague: Rosenkilde et Bagger, 1963, 8vo., cloth. Thousands of pages. $ 875.00Reprint of the original edition. A biographical dictionary of the highest importance. Thousands of biographies given along with guides to further information. [103843]

277. (Holford, William George) THE HOLFORD LIBRARY, PART I (2,3,4). CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT SERIES OF ILLUMINATIONS ON VELLUM. London: Sotheby and Co, 1927, large 8vo., later cloth with original paper wrappers bound­in, leather spine label. 37+(1); 147+(1); 127+(1); 90 pages. $ 250.00Auction catalogue, Sotheby’s, London, in 4 parts 1927–28 (Blogie, 1927, XII 5–9; 1928, VI 4–6). William George Holford (1866–1927) made a fortune as a mining engineer in South Africa. Sotheby mentions in its preface that in its pieces of first-rate quality the Holford collection stands alone. Part I featured 48 lots of Illuminations on Vellum, including a large leaf from a 12th century English psalter, painted on both sides. Part II, 870 lots of choice and valuable books in superb morocco bindings from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Parts III and IV, a total of almost 1500 lots, featured among its mind-boggling highlights the 1538 hand-painted Odyssey bound for Maiolus (Thomas Mahieu), Catherine de Medici’s chief secretary. Illustrated with many fold-out and color plates. Loosely inserted are prices realized for Parts II and IV. Spine faded. [71203]

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278. (Honeyman Sale) THE HONEYMAN COLLECTION OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS. Seven volumes. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1978–1981, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers. $ 325.00The complete set of this very important sale of science books. Well-illustrated. Photocopies of prices realized loosely inserted in each volume. Some fading of covers. [6527]

279. Horblitt, Harrison D. ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FAMOUS IN SCIENCE, BASED ON AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE GROLIER CLUB. New York: The Grolier Club, 1964, thick 4to., two­toned cloth, top edge gilt, slipcase. (vi), 449, (3) pages. $ 650.00Limited to 1000 copies and printed by the Stinehour Press on Curtis rag paper (Asaf 131). Each book description is accompanied by a full page reproduction of the title page or some other appropriate page. [75321]

280. (Huth, Henry) CATALOGUE OF THE FAMOUS LIBRARY OF PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND ENGRAVINGS COLLECTED BY HENRY HUTH, AND SINCE MAINTAINED AND AUGMENTED BY HIS SON, ALFRED H. HUTH . . . Nine volumes. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1911–1920, small 4to., various bindings. $ 500.00Complete set of the Huth Catalogue. Mixed editions and condition:1. Number 16 of the Fine Paper edition, with prices and purchasers’ names. Later green cloth is rubbed with spine label missing.

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2. Illustrated Copy. Later green cloth is rubbed with spine label missing. Covers detached from book block. Book block stitching is broken.3. Number 16 of the Fine Paper edition, with prices and purchasers’ names. Later green cloth is rubbed with spine label worn.4. and 5. Illustrated Copy. Volume 4 is priced in the margin and volume 5 contains some prices in the margin. With Prices and Buyers’ names bound in for each volume. Later green cloth with worn leather spine label.6. Illustrated Copy. With Prices and Buyers’ names bound in. Later green cloth with worn leather spine label.7. Illustrated Copy. Paper wrappers with back cover worn and detached.8. Illustrated Copy. Paper wrappers chipped and spotted.9. Number 16 of the Fine Paper edition, with prices and purchasers’ names. Later half red calf with red cloth covered boards. Covers rubbed and spotted.[103026]

281. (Incunabula) Copinger, W.A. SUPPLEMENT TO HAIN’S REPERTORIUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM OR COLLECTIONS TOWARDS A NEW EDITION OF THAT WORK. Three volumes. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1895, 1898, 1902, thick 8vo., later cloth. xv,(i),510; (vi),454; (iv),670 pages. $ 250.00First printings of these volumes published in London (Besterman 5030). Although Hain’s Repertorium provided an incredible foundation for the identification of incunabula, the work itself was not complete by any means. The first part of Copinger’s Supplement contains nearly 7000 corrections of and additions to the collations of works described or mentioned by Hain, while the second part, divided into two volumes, contains nearly 6000 volumes printed in the fifteenth century but not mentioned by Hain. For the most part, Copinger follows Hain’s abbreviations and method of describing entries. In the third volume, Konrad Burger not only provides an index for both printers and presses and to Hain, but also an addenda to Copinger’s Supplement. Covers rubbed and spotted. [103131]

282. (Incunabula) Goff, Frederick R. INCUNABULA IN AMERICAN LI­BRARIES, A THIRD CENSUS OF FIFTEENTH­CENTURY BOOKS RE­CORDED IN NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTIONS. With SUPPLEMENT TO THE THIRD CENSUS. Two volumes. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1964, 1972, 4to., cloth. lxiii,798; xii,104 pages. $ 300.00First edition of this third census. Printed at the Anthoensen Press. Spine of first volume is faded. [28473]

283. (Incunabula) Hain, Ludovici. REPERTORIUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM IN QUO LIBRI OMNES AB ARTE TYPOGRAPHICA INVENTA USQUE AD ANNUM MD. Four volumes bound in two. N.P.: n.p., n.d. (circa 1948), 8vo., cloth. (iv),594,(2); (iv), 563; (iv),558; iv,548 pages. $ 250.00A reprint of the 1826–1838 edition. “The basic bibliography to which anyone working on fifteenth- century books refers to or is referred to.”- Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography 124. The methodology used by Hain, i.e. whenever possible printing the beginning and end, line by line, of every work cited, and giving details such as size, format, kind of type, pagination, etc., allows exact identification of incunabula. Although most very early works lacked a specific title, the information supplied by Hains, together with a textual description, makes an error in identification “practically out of the question.” -Sheehy AA269. This four-volume set can be called the foundation work for the identification of incunabula. [74179]

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284. (Incunabula) MONUMENTS OF TYPOGRAPHY AND XYLOGRAPHY, BOOKS OF THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE ART OF PRITING. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1897, small 4to., modern quarter leather with cloth­covered boards, top edge gilt. xviii, 312 pages. $ 150.00A sale catalogue, with prices, of examples of typography during the first fifty years of its existence in the various countries into which it was introduced during the fifteenth century. A few specimens from presses established at later periods in small or secluded localities are also included. This is an offering from the famed bookseller Bernard Quaritch, who in a lengthy preface expresses a wish for some “munificent benefactor” to purchase the collection en bloc, and preserve its integrity by donating it to a deserving library. Six hundred forty three items are fully described, including thirty examples of xylography, books in which the text as well as designs were printed by the use of wood-engraving. Since the practice of this art did not survive the advent of typography, examples are extremely rare. Index. Ownership inscription in pencil. [102693]

285. (Indonesia) Cordier, Henri. BIBLIOTHECA INDOSINICA, DICTION­NAIRE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE. Five volumes bound in three. New York: Burt Franklin, (1967), small 8vo., cloth. pp.vii.coll.1104; pp.[iii].coll.1105–1510; pp.[iii].coll.1511–2280; pp.[iii].coll.2281–3030; pp.[iii].coll.311. $ 145.00Reprint of the original edition of 1912 along with an author-subject index compiled by M.A. Roland-Cabaton added in 1932 (Besterman 3050; Sheehy DE212). Extensive, classified bibliography where all aspects of the region are covered. 20,000 items available for all fields of Indochina. [103823]

286. ( Japan) Trautz, F.M. BIBLIOGRAPHISCHER ALT­JAPAN­KATALOG 1542–1853. Kyoto: Deutschen Forschungsinstitut, 1940, large 8vo., cloth. xxxviii, 416+(1) pages. $ 175.00Reprint of the 1940 first edition done by Verlag Dokumentation Saur KG in 1977. (Besterman 3247). Introductory material in both German and Japanese. Bibliography of approximately 1600 works related to Japan: travel accounts, studies about Japanese culture, history, government, religion and linguistics, covering the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Chronological index, index of libraries in Germany and Japan holding copies. Bottom of spine bumped. [103805]

287. Livingston, Luther S. (Editor). AUCTION PRICES OF BOOKS. A REP­RESENTATIVE RECORD ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE ENGLISH BOOK­PRICES CURRENT IN 1894 TO 1904, AND INCLUDING SOME THOUSANDS OF IMPORTANT AUCTION QUOTATIONS OF AN EARLIER DATE. Four volumes. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1905, 4to., cloth, top edges gilt. xi,579; 580; 579; 530 pages. $ 175.00Limited to 750 copies printed. Relatively unknown source of information on early book sales. Especially important as providing the only index to some of the more important early sales such as the Rice, Menzies, Brinley, Barlow, Ives, Coburn, Johnson, Hawkins, etc. sales, the Daniel, Beckford, Thorold, Wodhull, Sunderland sales in England, etc. Livingston concentrated on books printed in England, Americana, foreign language books published before 1520 and gave as much detail as possible. Sets of this extensive work are rarely seen on the market. The entries seem to be extremely well judged, i.e. concise but with sufficent information where required and always with a sale source reference. A great asset of the work, due to the long timespan it covers, is its ability to show at a glance more or less the entire early (modern) auction history of a particular title. With two bookplates including the leather bookplate of W. van R. Whitall. Covers rubbed with wear at tips; inside hinges cracked. [80423]

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288. (Maps) Bosse, David. CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPER MAPS, A CAR­TOBIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHERN DAILY PRESS. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1995), 8vo., cloth. xvii, 253, (2) pages. $ 145.00Number 5 in the series of “Bibliographies and Indexes in Military Studies”. Contains an appendix and index and 2041 entries, organized by year and by the press or periodical in which they appeared. Laid-in is a one-page document of information about this book. Spine tail bumped, otherwise fine. [102356]

289. (Maps) Jolly, David C. ANTIQUE MAPS, SEA CHARTS, CITY VIEWS, CELESTIAL CHARTS & BATTLE PLANS, PRICE RECORD & HANDBOOK FOR 1983–(1999–2000). 16 volumes. Brookline: David C. Jolly, 1983–2000, 8vo., cloth. various pagination. $ 240.00Complete run of these prices guides. Now being issued in CD-rom. A wealth of information. [103849]

290. (Maps) Le Gear, Clara Egli. LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. Five volumes. (Mansfield Centre: Martino Fine Books, n.d. but 1999), thick 8vo., cloth. xlvii,666; lxxii,681; cxxx,708; v,190; xvi,290 pages. $ 350.00(Besterman p.1164). First published by the GPO in Washington over the period 1958 to 1992. Continues the earlier four volumes written by Philip Phillips with detailed descriptions of atlases and maps held by the Library of Congress. This catalogue is a classic; it is invaluable to librarians, bookdealers, historians and carto-bibliographers. [54938]

291. (Maps) McCorkle, Barbara Backus. NEW ENGLAND IN EARLY PRINTED MAPS 1513 TO 1800, AN ILLUSTRATED CARTO­BIBLIOGRAPHY. Foreword by Edward H. Dahl. Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, (2001), large 4to., cloth, embossed medallion on front cover, dust jacket. xvii, (iii), 354, (2) pages. $ 165.00Limited to 1000 copies. As the first comprehensive, fully descriptive list of the printed maps of New England prior to 1800, this volume documents every effort to depict the area cartographically, including maps printed in the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy, as well as English and American maps. Designed to be a practical reference tool for historians, collectors, antiquarian map dealers and all lovers of early cartography, it offers descriptions of over 800 maps. With 455 black and white illustrations, quick visual identification of specific areas is possible. Includes indexes by title, by persons associated with the creation of the map, an annotated bibliography and a listing of individual state maps. Jacket rubed and soiled with tears along edges. [77196]

292. (Maps) Phillips, Philip Lee. LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. Four volumes. (Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, n.d. but 1999), thick 8vo., cloth. xiii,1208; (ii),1209–1659; cxxxvii,1030; clxiii,639 pages. $ 350.00(Besterman p.1164) which was published by the GPO in Washington over the period 1909 to 1920. Detailed descriptions of 5324 atlases and maps held by the Library of Congress. Exceedingly important reference set. [52700]

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293. (Maps) Tooley, Ronald Vere (compiler). TOOLEY’S DICTIONARY OF MAPMAKERS, REVISED EDITION, K­P. Editor Josephine French. (Riverside, CT): Early World Press, 2003, tall 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. vi, 472 pages. $ 200.00Revised edition containing almost twice the entries of the 1979 edition. This volume covers the letters K to P. Tear in jacket along edge. [103878]

294. (Marion Press) Larremore, Thomas A. and Amy Hopkins. THE MARION PRESS, A SURVEY AND A CHECKLIST. With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers. Jamaica, NY: Queens Borough Public Library, 1943, 8vo., cloth. xx, 272, (2) pages. $ 350.00First edition, limited to 228 numbered copies. The Marion Press was founded by Frank Hopkins, former shop-foreman for Theodore DeVinne. A total of 197 items are described in detail in the book and a 173 page history of the press and the press movement is given which gives much information on turn of the century printing. Small spots on edge of front free endpaper and pastedown. [103773]

295. Meyer, Fredrich Hermann. KATALOG DER BIBLIOTHECK DES BÖRSENVEREINS DER DEUTSCHEN BUCHÄNDLER. Two volumes. Leipzig: Verlag des Börsenvereins der Deutschen Buchhändler, 1885, 1902., 8vo., later quarter cloth with paper covered boards. xxxvi,708; xx,655–1406 pages. $ 325.00Second edition (Besterman, 5270). A description of books about books in the library of this German bookseller’s organization. 7564 entries. With the second volume expanding the listing through 1901. Scarce catalogue of this pre-eminent collection of books relating to all aspects of book production. [103034]

296. (Morrison, G.E.) CATALOGUE OF THE ASIATIC LIBRARY OF DR. G.E. MORRISON, NOW A PART OF THE ORIENTAL LIBRARY, TOKYO, JAPAN. 2 volumes. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2009, tall 8vo., cloth. (iii),8,802; (ii),551 pages . . . $ 250.00Reprint of the 1924 first edition which was published in Tokyo by the Oriental Library (Besterman 1329). The Morrison Library was the crystallization of many years efforts attributed to G. E. Morrison, adviser to the President of China, and former Peking correspondent of The Times, London, who collected almost all available books and records with particular reference to China and its adjacent countries up to 1917. Included are books dealing with Central Asia and Siberia, with Japan, Siam, Indo-China and the Straits and a few on the Philippines. The volumes are organized by language, part one containing books in English and part two books in other languages. Within each volume the organization is alphabetical. Besterman cites 20,000 printed items for this catalogue. [102413]

297. Mortimer, Ruth. CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS. PART I: FRENCH 16TH CENTURY BOOKS. Two volumes. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964, 4to., cloth, slipcase. xx,358; (vi),359–728 pages. $ 375.00Well annotated descriptions of 557 books. Illustrated and with all the appropriate indices. Slipcase cracked along top hinge. [1965]

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298. Munby, A.N.L. (editor). SALE CATALOGUES OF LIBRARIES OF EMINENT PERSONS. Twelve volumes, complete. London: Mansell/Sotheby Parke­Bernet, 1971–1975, large 8vo., cloth, dust jackets. viii,388; vi,457; viii,465; vi,283; vi,554; vi,363; viii,246; vi,389; vi,558; vi,514; vi,296; viii,593 pages. $ 650.00Complete set of the series edited by A.N.L. Munby. An item of interest to literary scholars, bibliographers, and book collectors. Facsimiles of 88 auction catalogues for sale of the collections (and sometimes the household furnishings) of 64 “eminent persons” of the 17th through 19th centuries, including 37 “poets and men of letters” (William Beckford, Byron, Fielding, Goldsmith, Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Piozzi, Sterne, Swinburne, Wilde, Wordsworth, et al.), 5 actors (Garrick, Kemble, et al.), 5 antiquaries (R. Thoresby, G. Vertue, et al.), 7 architects (incl. (Hawksmoor and Wren), 6 politicians (incl. Burke, Hastings, and Wilkes), and 4 scientists (incl. Halley and Hooke). Facsimiles are of priced originals where possible and are unedited except where faint hand notations needed to be redrawn. A brief introduction discusses each “eminent person,” their collection, and the catalogue. These volumes bear no date other than the dates of copyright for the introductions, which run from 1971 to 1975. Prospectus loosely inserted. Backings of dust jackets are somewhat faded, with occasional chipping and soiling. [53111]

299. (Naval) ENSAYO DE BIBLIOGRAFIA MARITIMA ESPANOLA. Barcelona: Instituto Nacional del Libro Espanol, 1943, thick 8vo., stiff paper wrapppers. ciii, 461, (3) pages. $ 250.00Lenghty introduction followed by bibliographical descriptions of over 4500 items relating to Spain and its shipping. Well illustrated. [15937]

300. Nissen, Claus. DIE BOTANISCHE BUCHILLUSTRATION, IHRE GESCHICHTE UND BIBLIOGRAPHIE. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1966, 4to., cloth. xii,264; (iv),164; 97 pages. Three volumes in one. $ 275.00Revised edition. Divided into two sections, a history of the field of botanical illustration and a bibliography with descriptions of over 2000 books. This edition contains the supplemental third volume at the end. [25166]

301. Nissen, Claus. DIE ILLUSTRIERTEN VOGELBUCHER, IHRE GE ­SCHICHTE UND BIBLIOGRAPHIE. Stuttgart: Hiersemann Verlag, 1953, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 222 pages. $ 225.00Besterman p.4367. Superb bibliography of books and pamphlets concerning ornithology. Lengthy historical introduction followed by full descriptions of 1,031 items. Illustrated. [41539]

302. Norton, F.J. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF PRINTING IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 1501–1520. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1978), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 581 pages. $ 300.001368 items from Spain and 43 from Portugal are described in detail in this massive bibliography. Jacket chipped along edges. [12598]

303. Olschki, Leo S. LE LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ AU XVe SIECLE. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1926, tall 8vo., stiff paper wrappers with parchment outer wrapper. xl, 80 pages followed by 220 plates. $ 145.00Besterman p.3006. Bibliography of illustrated books of the 15th century (225 titles) accompanied by many plates including some in color. Some yellowing of paper. Much better preserved than usual. Ownership inscription in pencil. [33897]

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304. (Pennell, Joseph) Wuerth, Louis A. CATALOGUE OF THE LITHOGRAPHS OF JOSEPH PENNELL. With an introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931, 4to., leather­backed paper­covered boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, dust jacket and original mailing box. xxii, 243 pages. $ 500.00First edition, limited to 425 numbered copies (Freitag 7338). Each of his 620 known lithographs are illustrated with bibliographical information given. A very fine copy. [102869]

305. (Phillipps, Sir Thomas) BIBLIOTHECA PHILLIPPICA, NEW SERIES. 20 volumes. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1966–1977, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. Complete set in twenty parts. $ 400.00The illustrated version of these catalogues. Difficult to find as a set as Part V concerned Americana and was issued in America. The 1981 catalogue devoted to English Charters and Documents owned by Phillipps is not present. Uneven fading of covers. [103028]

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306. (Photography) Gernsheim, Helmut. INCUNABULA OF BRITISH PHO­TOGRAPHIC LITERATURE A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH PHO TO­GRAPHIC LITERATURE 1839–75 AND BRITISH BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS. London: Scolar Press, (1984), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 159 pages. $ 235.00Divided into three parts; Books and Newspapers illustrated with original photographs, Early Photographic Literature and journals on photographs. [3387]

307. (Photography) Goldschmidt, Lucien and Weston J. Naef. THE TRUTHFUL LENS, A SURVEY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK 1844–1914. New York: The Grolier Club, 1980, 4to., cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. xii, 241, (3) pages. $ 675.00Limited to 1000 copies (Asaf 141). 192 books in bibliography. Has many illustrations of the photographs. Well printed by the Stinehour Press. Some chipping of leather spine label. [103023]

308. (Photography) LIBRARY CATALOG OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1982, folio, cloth. (iv),iv,728; (iv),709; (iv),430; (iv),425 pages. $ 450.00Massive reference to the history of photography. Two page introduction by Gail McClain, Librarian. Reproduces the card catalogue of the library. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson and signed by him in pencil on the free endpaper in each volume. [102971]

309. Poggendorff, J.C. BIOGRAPHISCH­LITERARISCHES HAND WOR­TERBUCH ZUR GESCHICHTE DER EXACTEN WISSENSCHAFTEN . . . MATHEMATIKERN, ASTRONOMEN, PHYSIKERN, CHEMIKERN, MI­NERALOGEN, GEOLOGEN. Two volumes in four. (Mansfield Centre: Maurizio Martino, n.d. but 1998), thick 8vo., cloth. xi,846; (ii),650; xiii,930; (ii),788 pages. $ 295.00Reprint of the 1883–1904 edition published by Johann Ambrosius Barth in Leipzig. (Sheehy EA231; Besterman 5638). The set remains the standard and indispensable work for information about the life and works of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, mineralogists, geologists and other scientists of all nations. For each scientist, Poggendorff provides a brief bibliography of his writings, including periodical articles. This reprint covers the period 1858 to 1904. Over 140,000 references. [52744]

310. Polak, Jean. BIBLIOGRAPHIE MARITIME FRANCAISE DEPUIS LES TEMPS LES PLUS RECULES JUS QU’A 1914. Grenoble: Editions des 4 Seigneurs, 1976, 4to., cloth. 367, (3) pages. $ 275.00Limited to 300 numbered copies. 9615 items described in detail followed by reproductions of title pages. [30220]

311. Praz, Mario. STUDIES IN SEVENTEENTH­CENTURY IMAGERY. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1964, 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. 607, (3) pages. $ 150.00Second edition. Hundreds of books described in great detail. Includes later editions, number of plates and locations. [30095]

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312. Rietz, Rolf Du. BIBLIOTHECA POLYNESIANA, A CATALOGUE OF SOME OF THE BOOKS IN THE POLYNESIANA COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE BJARNE KROEPELIEN AND NOW IN THE OSLO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Oslo: Privately published by the heirs of Bjarne Kroepelien, 1969, thick 4to., cloth. lxix, 455 pages. $ 265.00First edition, limited to 800 copies. Lengthy introduction followed by descriptions of 1368 titles. A number of the titles are accompanied by annotations. Edges are faintly spotted. [21366]

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313. (Rothschild Library) ROTHSCHILD LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH ­CENTURY BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS FORMED BY LORD ROTHSCHILD. Two volumes. (Folkestone): Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1969, large 8vo., cloth. 840 pages. $ 250.00Reprint of the very scarce first edition. Some facsimiles. An important reference book. Light rubbing. [16111]

314. (Russia) THE KILGOUR COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE, 1750–1920 WITH NOTES ON EARLY BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1959, thick 4to., full red morocco with gilt decorations, five raised bands, all edges gilt, pastepaper covered slipcase wiht matching red leather trim. Not paginated. $ 1,250.00Over 1300 books described in detail with photographic reproductions of many title pages. Also describes Kilgour`s collection of Russian bookplates. Excellent bibliography for famous Russian authors of fiction. A special copy of this book in full leather. Presentation on first blank “Presented to William Alexander Jackson without whose personal help and whole hearted support this volume would not have been completed. Bayard L. Kilgour Jr., March 30, 1959.” Further inscribed “Presented to Israel Perlstein who found many of the finest pices in this collection, Wm. A. Jackson.” With Jackson’s booklabel on the front pastedown. Wm. Jackson was Harvard’s librarian for many years. [103130]

315. (Russia) THE PAUL M. FEKULA COLLECTION, A CATALOGUE. Two volumes. New York: The Estate of Paul M. Fekula (at Harvard University Press), 1988, large 4to., cloth, slipcase. lxx,(2),424; (xii),394 pages. $ 500.00Limited to 300 copies. This is the first and only edition of this remarkable bibliography detailing the Russian and Slavic collection of Paul M. Fekula (1902–1982). “The most important collection of Russian and Slavic books and manuscripts ever amassed by an individual in the West,” this annotated bibliography describes 7,244 items and includes author descriptions and bibliographical citations. Describing works from almost every field, the bibliography includes special sections devoted to periodicals, books about books, religion, travel accounts, linguistics, paleography and the arts, in addition to large sections devoted to Russian and East Slavic literature and history. This work is also an important English language reference guide to works in Cyrillic and Slavic languages, including manuscripts, early printed books, Russian literature, and Slavic church imprints. An essential bibliographical tool, this volume contains well over 5,000 items more than Harvard’s catalogue of the Kilgour collection and is well-illustrated with title pages, illustrations, and author’s dedications, some of which are reproduced in color. [43755]

316. Sader, Marion (editor). READER’S ADVISER, THE BEST IN REFERENCE WORKS. 6 volumes. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1994, thick small 4to., paper covered boards, dust jackets. xxxvii,1472; lx,1122; xxxii,1127; xxviii,1054; xxxiii,975; x,823 pages. $ 225.00Fourteenth edition. Volume One (Reference Works, British Literature & American Literature): Volume Two (World Literature); Volume Three (Social Sciences, History & the Arts); Volume Four (Philosophy & Religion); Volume Five (Science, Technology & Medicine); Volume Six (Indexes). [103032]

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317. Sandys, John Edwin. A HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP. Three volumes. Mansfield Centre (CT): Maurizio Martino, n.d. (1997), small 8vo., cloth. (ii), xxiii+(i),701+(1); xxviii,(ii),498; (ii),xiii+(i),523 pages. $ 195.00Limited to 200 copies. Vol.I is a reprint of the third edition of this volume (Cambridge University Press, 1921). Vols. II and III are reprints of the first editions of these two volumes (Cambridge, 1908). This is a survey of “classical scholarship,” i.e. either scholarship (literary, philosophical, rhetorical or linguistic) in classical times, or classical scholarship in post-classical times, from 600 BC up to the end of the 19th century. There are 66 illustrations and 20 tables. Each volume has a list of tables and illustrations, a rather detailed list of contents, a “select bibliography,” and an index of scholars and authors.

318. Smith, Harry B. SENTIMENTAL LIBRARY, COMPRISING BOOKS FORMERLY OWNED B. N.P.: Privately printed, 1914, 4to., vellum backed cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. xxvi, 332 pages. $ 225.00First and only edition of this magnificent book. (Webber p.121). Printed by the DeVinne Press. Smith states in his preface that he collected “only books which are interesting on account of their associations and books which have been made unique by the addition of letters or manuscripts.” This is a beautiful book containing an excellent collection. Rosenbach bought the collection en bloc and later sold it to Elkins. Covers soiled with spotting of vellum and back cover. Light foxing of pastedowns and endpapers. [44830]

319. (South Africa) Mendelssohn, Sidney. MENDELSSOHN’S SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH A DESCRIPTIVE INTRODUCTION BY I.D. COLVIN. Two volumes. London: The Holland Press / Arco Publications, 1957, thick 8vo., cloth, dust jackets. lxxii,1008; (viii),1139 pages. $ 225.00Reprint of the 1911 first edition. (Besterman p.179) This reprint was limited to 500 sets. 10,000 entries given in this unsurpassed bibliography of all books in all languages on South Africa. A masterpiece of scholarship and research. Jackets worn; tape marks on corners of free endpapers. [103903]

320. (South Carolina) Gould, Christopher and Richard Parker Morgan. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, SOUTH CAROLINA IMPRINTS, 1731–1800. Santa Barbara: ABC­Clio Information Services, (1985), 4to., cloth. xxxii, 325 pages. $ 365.00First edition. Fully describes over 1400 items. Also includes information on bibliographies, newspapers, public records and South Carolina printers. An excellent resource. [35561]

321. Southward, John. CATALOGUE OF THE PASSMORE EDWARDS LIBRARY. Assisted by the Librarian (F.W.T. Lange). London: St. Bridge Foundation Institute, 1897, 8vo., half dark red calf with purple pebbled cloth covered boards, decorations in gilt. xv+(i), 79 pages. $ 175.00First and only edition. Passmore donated his superb collection of books on the history of the book to complement and supplement the donation of William Blades. C.J. Drummond, Chairman of the Printing Schools Committee was instrumental in steering the library to St. Brides. Contains a five page history of this transaction which reproduces a letter from Passmore to Drummond. Presentation on first blank page “G.W. Jones Esq. With C.J. Drummond’s kind regards. 26. 10. 99.” Jones was the noted printer and a collector in his own right. Covers rubbed with some fading. [102509]

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322. (Stone & Kimball) Kramer, Sidney. THE HISTORY OF STONE & KIMBALL AND HERBERT S. STONE & CO WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEIR PUBLICATIONS, 1893–1905. Preface by Frederic G. Melcher. Chicago: Norman Forgue, 1940, 8vo., cloth, slipcase. xxii, 380 pages. $ 150.00First edition, one of 500 copies printed on special rag-content paper and in slipcase. [7666]

323. Stone, Herbert Stuart. FIRST EDITIONS OF AMERICAN AUTHORS; A MANUAL FOR BOOK LOVERS . Introduction by Eugene Field. Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1893, tall 12mo., original cloth, top edge gilt. (ii), 223, (3) pages. $ 175.00First edition of this scarce book; Stone and Kimball’s second book preceded only by a unique copy of an advertising booklet for the Chicago World’s Fair (Kramer 2). Lettering on spine slightly faded. [7664]

324. (Streeter, Thomas W.) THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF AMERICANA FORMED BY THE LATE THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER. Eight volumes, one of which is the index volume with prices realized. New York: Parke Bernet Galleries, 1966–1969, large 8vo., original boards. $ 400.00Complete set with index which has prices realized. This collection of 4423 items brought $3,104,982 and the catalogue of the sales is an indispensable bibliographical tool for anyone interested in Americana. Worn set with plastic jackets around each volume (taped to endpapers. Some spines loose. Internally fine. [35358]

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325. (Texas) Streeter, Thomas W. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXAS, 1795–1845. Five volumes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1960, tall 8vo., cloth. lxxi,260; (iv),261–616; xxiv,283; xlii,278; (iv),279–677 pages. $ 1,000.00First edition, limited to 600 copies. The first two volumes cover Texas imprints, the third volume has Mexican imprints and the last two volumes other United States and European imprints. [16116]

326. (Tinker Library) Metzdorf, Robert F. THE TINKER LIBRARY, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY CHAUNCEY BREWSTER TINKER. New Haven: The Yale University Library, (1959), thick 8vo., cloth. xxvi, 530 pages. $ 150.00First edition, limited to 500 copies. With a preface by James T. Babb and detailed bibliographical descriptions of over 2300 items. Illustrated. Covers rubbed with some worn spots. [103738]

327. (Tobacco) Brooks, Jerome E. TOBACCO, ITS HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY THE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND ENGRAVINGS IN THE LIBRARY OF GEORGE ARENTS, JR. TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, A GLOSSARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES. Five volumes, complete. New York: The Rosenbach Co., 1937–1952, folio, cloth, leather spine labels. xvi,543; ix,564; vii,545; (viii),486; (vi),327 pages. With ten volumes of supplements, complete. New York: The New York Public Library, 1958–1969, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. 650 pages and plates. $ 3,250.00The first five volumes are limited to 300 numbered copies. Beautifully illustrated and printed. Spine labels chippped. [30772]

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328. Tooley, R.V. ENGLISH BOOKS WITH COLOURED PLATES 1790 TO 1860. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., (1954), small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. vii, 424 pages. $ 185.00First printing of the revised edition. This edition contains 517 titles covering 700 volumes. Spine faded. Jacket price clipped. Some foxing of free endpaper. Essential reference book. [15557]

329. (Travel) Cox, Edward Godfrey. A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL INCLUDING VOYAGES, GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS, ADVENTURES, SHIPWRECKS AND EXPEDITIONS. Three volumes. Seattle and New York: University of Washington and Greenwood Press, 1935, (1969), tall 8vo., stiff paper wrappers for 1st volume; cloth for other two. x,404; vii,591; xvi,732 pages. $ 150.00Original first edition (1935) of first volume and reprints of the second and third volumes. (Besterman 312, 2727, 6466; Sheehy CL13). The three volumes cover The Old World, The New World and England. This bibliography is filled with the literature of travel including voyages, geographical descriptions, adventures, shipwrecks, and expeditions. Over 10,000 entries, with an author index. Books on foreign travel and voyages presented in chronological order from earliest date available to 1800. Important reference work for travel literature from the sixteenth century to the 1930’s. Wrappers on first volume chipped. [103098]

330. Vicaire, Georges. MANUEL DE L’AMATEUR DE LIVRES DU XIXE SIÈCLE, 1801–1893. ÉDITIONS ORIGINALES, OUVRAGES ET PÉRIODIQUES ILLUSTRÉS, ROMANTIQUES, RÉIMPRESSIONS CRITIQUES DE TEXTES ANCIENS OU CLASSIQUES, BIBLIOTHÈQUES ET COLLECTIONS DIVERSES, PUBLICATIONS DES SOCIÉTÉS DE BIBLIOPHILES DE PARIS ET DES DÉPARTEMENTS, CURIOSITÉS BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES, ETC.,ETC. Préface de Maurice Tourneux. 8 volumes in 1. Teaneck: Somerset House, 1973, folio, cloth. Not paginated. $ 450.00Reprint of the 8 original volumes in the first edition originally published in 1894. Each page of the original is reduced in size and placed 9 to a page. Essential manual for the amateur book collector of 19th century publications, with about 15,000 titles included. [103192]

331. Wheat, Carl I. MAPPING THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST, 1540–1861. Five volumes in six. Mansfield: Maurizio Martino Publishers & Parsippany: About Books, n.d. (1995), 4to., cloth. xiv,264; xiii,281; xiii,349; xiii,260; xix,222; (iv),223–487 pages. $ 700.00Limited to 350 copies. Reprint of the first edition which was issued in San Francisco over the period 1957 to 1963. With reproductions of maps throughout including many foldout examples. Excellent bibliography. An essential tool for those interested in Western Americana and cartography. This facsimile reproduces the original in full size. [41939]

332. Wheat, Carl I. MAPPING THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST, 1540–1861. San Francisco: The Institute of Historical Cartography, 1959, folio, two­toned cloth. xiv,264; xiii,281; xiii,260; xix,222; (iv),223–487 pages. $ 2,000.00First edition, limited to 1000 sets. Wheat, the well-known California historian, undertook this work in an effort to trace the opening of the American West by studying the succession of maps which, beginning in the 1540’s, accurately trace the paths of the explorers and the record of the resulting growth of knowledge.

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He sought out every map, manuscript or printed, relating to the Transmississippi West before 1861 and selected the most interesting and important. These maps cover the story of Spanish, French and English exploration. In all, 1302 maps are fully described, with many illustrated in full-page. A chronological calendar of maps, a full index, and a system of marginal references make these volumes easier to use than any other comparable work.This set lacks volume III which covered the period 1846–1854. [103921]

333. Wilson, Carroll A. THIRTEEN AUTHOR COLLECTIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND FIVE CENTURIES OF FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. Edited by Jean C.S. Wilson and David A. Randall. Two volumes. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950, 8vo., cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. ix,450; (vi),451–889,(3) pages. $ 175.00First edition, limited to 375 numbered copies. Superb collections of Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes, Irving, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, Whittier, Hardy and Trollope. Full bibliographical descriptions including variants, different editions, etc. With excellent annotations. Slipcase cracked along some edges and faded. Books are in very fine condition. [7843]

334. Wise, Thomas J. ASHLEY LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS COLLECTED BY THOMAS J. WISE. Eleven volumes. Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1971, 8vo., small 8vo., cloth. $ 550.00Reprint of the first edition which was limited to only 250 sets (Todd 420b). Each volume has an introduction by a famous person in the book world. Profusely illustrated and with full bibliographical descriptions of some of the scarcest books of English literature. Unfortunately included in this collection were the forgeries that Wise had printed himself and elevated to the level of rare first editions. This reprint contains the Ashley shelf marks of each of the books received by the British Museum marked in the margins and also contains a three page introduction by Simon Nowell-Smith. Very minor soiling. [17674]