Valley Cottage, NY: Aleph-Bet Books, n.d. [1984]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 22 ills. (somewhat faintly reproduced). A wide variety of titles from this leading specialist, 258 items in all. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de..... More
Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 197p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of 752 manuscripts, books, and globes relating to travels, voyages, discoveries, atlases, natural history, architecture and gardens, navigation and related fields. Fully indexed. More
New York: Argosy Book Stores, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, no ills. Dated from penciled acquisition date, "July -49-." Addressed to Massachusetts historian H. Leavitt Horton; the pencil marks and notes within are presumably his. Lists 420 items, including "[Maxim] Karolik material" as noted on the cover. Can..... More
London: B. Weinreb Architectural Books, 1975. First edition. Sewn soft cover. 319p, many ills. Catalogue of 1,979 books and other sources on furniture, interior design, murals, mosaics, ceilings, exhibitions, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, vases, ornament, and some original drawings and watercolors. Chiefly British and European titles of the 18th-20th centuries..... More
Tunbridge Wells: P.M. Barnard, n.d. [ca. 1910-12]. First edition. Soft cover. 74p, several ills. Bookseller catalogue with 162 items, often described and documented in detail. The "facsimiles" are reproductions of woodcut illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
N.p. [New York?]: Brentano's, 1949. Williams, Gluyas. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, many small ills. including author photos, book jackets, and Gluyas Williams cartoon on cover (from Father of the Bride). Advertising pamphlet for the "top current books" of June 1949 from Brentano's, "booksellers to the world." Among the featured..... More
Paris: Rodolphe Chamonal, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 68p, many ills., some in color. In French. Handsome antiquarian bookseller's catalogue offering over 400 books on games and pastimes, plus some children's books. Includes entertainment and performing arts, gymnastics and boxing, fireworks, billiards, playing cards, chess, hunting, mountaineering, bullfighting, golf, etc...... More
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [1980s-90s]. First edition. Soft cover. 97p, many black-and-white ills. Bookseller's catalogue of 397 antiquarian books and other printed materials on art conservation and restoration, all described in detail. Chiefly American, British, and French. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
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Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, many ills. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering catalogues of books about and containing photographs. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Cambridge, MA: Charles Wood, n.d. [2003]. First edition. Soft cover. 83p, many photos. Offers 221 illustrated books, albums, catalogues, and technical manuals, all described in scrupulous detail. More
Geneva: Musee de l'Athenee, 1960. Dufy; Buffet. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, many ills., 1 in color. Exhibition announcement laid in. In French. Exhibition catalogue. Checklists of 37 works by Dufy and 37 works by Buffet, all chiefly oils. "Raoul Dufy ou le Triomphe de la Joie" by Courthion, reprinted..... More
Philadelphia and New York: Rosenbach Company, n.d. [1920]. First edition. Soft cover. [10]p, no ills. Pages age browned. Published to promote Rosenbach's offering of these books. With contemporary penciling, often noting buyer and price. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
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Chicago: Ernest Dressel North, 1923. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. (429 items), a few plates of fine bindings. Covers soiled inside and out, creased; upper rear cover corner chipped off. Chiefly literature. The plates show bindings by Cobden-Sanderson, Sauty, Bradstreet's, Riviere and Son, and two embroidered bindings (one from the 17th..... More
Utrecht: Forum, 1994-2002. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Pricelists laid in. A little wavy and dusty from storage, spines faded. Sumptuous catalogues offering "printed books, manuscripts, broadsides and prints illustrating four centuries of education and popular culture in Western Europe with emphasis [on] the Low Countries." Each..... More
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London: Francis Edwards, 1934. First edition. Soft cover. 103p + 3 pls. (maps by Ptolemy, Ortelius, Speed). Bookseller catalogue of 1453 items: "rare atlases, old maps and charts, original manuscript maps, facsimiles of early maps, road books [including the first known such], books of geographical interest. Single sheet and decorated..... More
London: Francis Edwards, 1968. Soft cover. Cover reads: Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift and Their Times. 69p, 1 ill. on cover. 69 items. "With Selections on The Bangorian Controversy, Banking and Coinage, Dr. Dover, William Higden, London, The Duke of Marlborough, Relations with Spain, The Standing Army, Union with Scotland, etc...... More
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London: G. Michelmore & Co., n.d. [ca. 1930]. First edition. Soft cover. 264p, 386 generally long entries. Very occasional penciling. Comprises "many important Business, Political, and Literary Documents and Letters," including the Goodricke and Banks papers, early charters, a Hans Christian Andersen collection, fine bindings, illuminated manuscripts, a Luther collection..... More
![Item #31142 Catalogues 36, 38, and 64 [books, manuscripts, drawings, wood engravings, etc.]. G F....](/pictures/thumb/31142.jpg?v=1664882764)
Hurst, UK: G.F. Sims, 1957, n.d. [1950s-60s]. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated, all with over 300 items. Cat. 36 is dated; the others are not. Cat. 36 cover: "Here Is Another Catalogue of Books Drawings Letters and Manuscripts" (360 items, 8 pls.), including early John Cowper Powys..... More
Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, n.d. [early to mid-1930s]. First edition. Soft cover (covers dusty, age soiled). 381 detailed entries, 37 line ills. + 15 pls. Large folding frontispiece from a ca.1575 table of the planets. Blank order card laid in, also an addenda sheet adding one item. "Including astrology, calendars..... More
Minneapolis: Granary Books, February 1987. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several ills. Laid in: errata slip for a Hermetic Press item, and an offprint of an article about Granary Books from Small Press, January-February 1987. Fully describes and prices 743 recent books and broadsides distributed by Granary Books. Short statement..... More
London: Feisenberger, 1947-1951. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Cat. 16 issued by Feisenberger & Gurney. Cat. 1 offers 186 annotated "fine books and manuscripts," some with corrected entries pasted in. The others each offer several hundred old and rare books, manuscripts, incunabula, illustrated books, bindings, and works..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1968]. First edition. Hardcover. 148p + color frontispiece and 115 ills. of woodcuts in the text, mostly the same size as the original. Covers stamped in gold; a little smudged and dusty. Catalogue of 97 books in many fields, all described in scholarly detail. Beautifully..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1960]. First edition. Soft cover. Fifty "manuscripts and documents, many unpublished and unrecorded, early printed and illustrated books including important first editions, charts and atlases," all described in meticulous detail. Includes the Amoretti Codex of Vespucci, which Kraus later donated to The Library of Congress..... More
Munich: J. Halle, n.d. [1925]. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, no ills. except two 16th-century woodcut ills. on covers. In German. Over 560 items about music and musicians: books, sheet music, and portraits of composers and performers, including many women. Order postcard laid in. Can be sent outside the U.S...... More
