These books include the newest arrivals to my ongoing offering of bookseller and auction Catalogues. More will follow. In stock are many more catalogues of US, UK, and European booksellers, including many from the 1920s-1950s. Please let me know if you're looking for a specific dealer or sale and I'll be glad to look for you! "Catalogues are the windows to the soul of the rare book trade"--John R. Payne, Great Catalogues by Master Booksellers.
![The Gardens of Kijkuit [signed by John D. Rockefeller]. Welles Bosworth, Arnold Genthe](/pictures/thumb/A6514.jpg?v=1595449863)
1919. Bosworth, Welles; photos by Arnold Genthe. The Gardens of Kijkuit. Privately Printed (Norman T.A. Munder & Co., Printers, Baltimore), 1919. N.p., many large halftone pls. from photos by Arnold Genthe + folding plan of the house and gardens. Grey boards in stab binding sewn with original silk ribbon. Light..... More
Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles. Group of 13 catalogues. 1939-1966. Variously paged and illustrated. Good to very good paperbounds. Overall cover soil; old mailing address and canceled stamps. Stamp cut away from Cat. 136, with loss to a few items listed on last page. ** Cats. 136 (1939), 156, 180..... More
1934. Dulau & Co., London [bookseller]. Catalogue 220: Interesting Books in English Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 1934. 1011 items, no ills. Very good paperbound (covers sunned). ** Includes books formerly owned by John Addington Symonds, an extensive collection of Tennyson and Browning with many previously unrecorded variants..... More
Dulau & Co., London [bookseller]. Group of 8 catalogues. 1933-37. Variously paged and illustrated (some with photos of the shop). Good paperbounds (overall cover soil; one spine chipped; a few checkmarks. Cat. 214 middle gathering is split but sewn and will hold. ** Cats. 210, 214, 241, 248, 252, 253..... More
1939. Goldschmidt, E.P. & Co. Catalogue 52: Old Books. A Collection of Early Photographs and Books Commemorating the Centenary of Fox Talbot and Daguerre. London [1939]. 80p, several pls. Very good paperbound (light cover soil, top of spine chipped). ** Items 121-294 consist of books about Fox Talbot, Daguerre, the..... More
Goldschmidt, E.P. [bookseller]. Collection of 72 rare book catalogues and lists. London, 1924-1980. Variously paged and illustrated, with color in the later numbers. Good to very good paperbounds (some cover soil and wear to the earlier numbers, occasional pencil notes). All internally very good and clean. Here's your chance to..... More
1930. Gottschalk, Paul. Catalogue X: Rare and Early Printed Books, Autographs and Manuscripts, Early English Literature, Miniatures, Bindings. Berlin, 1930. 165 items, many line ills. and photos + 2 folding pls. Good stapled paperbound (covers chipped, small piece out of back cover). Internally very good. In English. Scarce... More
Hiersemann, Karl W. [bookseller]. Group of 5 catalogues. Leipzig, 1923-1931. Variously paged and illustrated. Very good paperbounds (paper age browned, occasional pencil notes). ** Cats. 517 (1923), 591, 595, 609, 612 (1931). Incunabula and other early printing, manuscripts, bindings, etc., in many fields, including 20th-century books. More details on request..... More
Internationaal Antiquariaat (Menno Hertzberger). Group of 11 rare book catalogues. Amsterdam, 1920s-ca. 1958. Variously paged and illustrated. Good paperbounds (cover soil, occasional pencil notes). ** Cats. 38 (1920s), 43, 49, 50, 75 (1934?), 93, 100 (1940?), 149, 174, 190 (Sixty-Two Incunabula, 1950s), 220 (Incunabula, 1958?). Manuscripts, incunabula, Bodoni, emblem books..... More
1944. Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY. Color Plate Books [etc.] Property of the Estate of the Late J.P. Morgan. Sale 545, March 21, 1944. 318 lots, several pls. Good paperbound (lightly damp rippled). Price for each item scrawled in blue pencil over the listing; the sale realized $21,845 in total. ** Also..... More
1941. Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY. The Important Collection of First Editions of William B. Yeats, Property of C. Walter Buhler. Sale 281, May 1, 1941. 303 lots, no ills. No prices realized. Very good paperbound. ** Lots 121-182 comprise Yeats first editions, presentation copies, manuscripts, and autographs. Also American views collected..... More
1930. Sotheby, London. Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Remaining Library of John Ruskin. 1930. 122 lots, 3 pls. No prices realized. Good paperbound (cover soil and wear). ** "Comprising the autograph manuscripts of Fors Clavigera, a great part of Praeterita, and many works on art and literature, lectures, etc.; the..... More
Various authors. Collection of 18+ catalogues and other works on the Vienna Secession and Jugendstil. Various publishers and dates. Variously paged and illustrated. All paperbound, good to very good or better. In the language of the country of publication. A wealth of documentation and images for these art movements and..... More
