![[AUCTION CATALOGUES]. The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Removed from Shirburn Castle, Parts 1-12 (COMPLETE SET)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/386/370/1593370386.0.l.0.jpg)
[AUCTION CATALOGUES]. The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Removed from Shirburn Castle, Parts 1-12 (COMPLETE SET)
by Sotheby's (London). Macclesfield Library
London: Sotheby's, 2004. First Edition. Very good. Together 12 vols., large 4to. Original blue cloth, very good condition (NOT ex-library), Some minor bumping and edge wear to extremities, some spines leaning a trifle. 4,299 lots described, and hundreds of illustrations. Lists of Price Realized for Parts 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 loosely inserted. COMPLETE SET OF THE SALE CATALOGUES OF THE FAMED MACCLESFIELD LIBRARY, AN ASTONISHING COLLECTION OF GREAT RARITIES OF SCIENCE, "THE LAST GREAT LIBRARY TO... Read More
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The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library
by Light, Laura
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard Collection Library, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto, 114 pages. Illustrated with 25 plates in black and white. ¶ Brilliantly describes the exhibition of 39 manuscripts dating all from the twelfth century held by The Harvard Collection Library. The paleography of the twelfth century is famously difficult to discern scripts, and even countries, of origin. Laura Light does an outstanding job of guiding us through the collection.
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![[MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF COSTUME BOOKS]. Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostumbibliothek](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/888/829/1326829888.0.l.0.jpg)
[MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF COSTUME BOOKS]. Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostumbibliothek
by LIPPERHEIDE, Franz Joseph, Frieherr von [Eva Nienholdt & Gretel Wagner-Neumann, editors]
Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1965. Neubearbeitet. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, 2 vols. Original blue cloth. Overall in excellent antiquarian condition. This is the indispensable second edition of the catalogue of the greatest Costume book collection ever formed: the text consists of more than 1,166 pages; the items are very well described; and the text is illustrated by 221 black and white illustrations. In their day Franz Joseph and Frieda von Lipperheide were the foremost publishers of... Read More
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Vortrag zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung Kurt Londenberg / Bucheinbände in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel am 17. Februar 1979
by [Londenberg, Kurt]. Halbey, Hans A.
Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1979. Softcover. Very good. Narrow 8vo. 8vo. 11, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers. The opening lecture of an exhibition of Kurt Londenberg's bindings at the Herzog August Bibliothek. The lecture was given by Hans Halbey, Director of the Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz.
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![[BERMUDA / IRELAND / MAPS]. Catalogue of valuable printed books, important manuscript maps, autograph letters, historical documents, etc. [March 8, 1948]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/689/616/852616689.0.l.0.jpg)
[BERMUDA / IRELAND / MAPS]. Catalogue of valuable printed books, important manuscript maps, autograph letters, historical documents, etc. [March 8, 1948]
by Sotheby & Co. [Sotheby's London]
London: Sotheby's, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo. 68 pp. 715 lots. 12 b/w reproductions. Original green wrappers, stapled as issued. With printed list of prices and buyers' names. Scarce Sotheby's sale catalogue in which is described "a selected portion of the valuable library at Patshull House, Woverhampton, the property of the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Dartmouth, G.C.V.O. including: an exceedingly important collection of sixteenth century maps of Ireland, important early manuscript maps of Bermuda, Dublin,... Read More
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![[COMPLETE SET OF ALL 6 VOLUMES]. Repertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques interessant l'art ou la curiosite (4 vols.) - WITH: Les Marques de Collections de dessins & d'estampes + Supplement (2 vols.)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/694/557/1446557694.0.l.0.jpg)
[COMPLETE SET OF ALL 6 VOLUMES]. Repertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques interessant l'art ou la curiosite (4 vols.) - WITH: Les Marques de Collections de dessins & d'estampes + Supplement (2 vols.)
by Lugt, Frits
Ad 1-3: The Hague, Nijhoff, 1938-1964. Ad 4: Paris, Fondation Custodia, 1987. Ad 5: Amsterdam and The Hague, Nijhof, 1956 (facsimile reprint of the 1921 edition). Ad 6: Ibid, 1956, 1938. Very good. Together 6 vols., large 4to., all bound in original publisher's cloth. In UNMARKED and UNSPOILED condition. NOT ex-library! BEAUTIFUL SET, RARELY FOUND COMPLETE AND IN SUCH EXCELLENT CONDITION. ¶ REPERTOIRE DES CATALOGUES DE VENTES PUBLIQUES: more than 100,000 sale catalogues of art, furniture, ceramics,... Read More
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Essays on Manuscripts and Rare Books
by Lutz, Cora E.
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 177 number pages, original cloth, no dustjacket. Illustrated in black and white. ¶ An important discussion of notable examples of early manuscripts to early printed books, with very good illustrations.
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![[BINDINGS - BELFAST]. Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/563/056/1500056563.0.l.0.jpg)
[BINDINGS - BELFAST]. Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes
by [LYTTON, Edward Bulwer, Sir]
London: Saunders and Otley, 1835. First Edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [5], xiii, [1], 302; [2], 364; [2], 356pp. With tipped-in errata slips but without half-titles. BOUND BY JOHN TATE OF BELFAST in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges (trifle rubbed, some gatherings inexplicably proud), with Tate's tickets and recent bookplates of Robert J. Hayhurst to all FEPs, scattered foxing. First edition of this fantastical historical novel which "turns on the moral distinction between... Read More
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![[MANUSCRIPT]. Certification of the Nobility of Don Manuel Silbestre Joseph de Herrera y Tassis](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/832/355/1534355832.0.l.0.jpg)
[MANUSCRIPT]. Certification of the Nobility of Don Manuel Silbestre Joseph de Herrera y Tassis
by Herrera Family of Madrid
Madrid, 1728. Good. Manuscript on paper. Folio. 38 ff. (tears and wear along fore-edges, smaller tears along top and bottom of leaves, persistant waterstains, fol. 1 damaged with loss). Top portion of final leaf excised, but the text is continuous (see below). Recent sympathetic wrappers. With faults, and priced correctly. EXCELLENT SPANISH GOLDEN-AGE MANUSCRIPT WHICH DOCUMENTS AN ATTEMPT TO "CERTIFY" THE NOBILITY OF A NOBLEMAN IN PROVINCIAL SPAIN WHOSE FAMILY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FOUNDER OF SAN ANTONIO,... Read More
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![[AMERICA. Engraved map ca. 1600, North and South America with portion of Australia]. "America](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/239/586/1388586239.0.l.0.jpg)
[AMERICA. Engraved map ca. 1600, North and South America with portion of Australia]. "America
by [Magini, Giovanni Antonio]
[Cologne?], 1600. Very good. Copperplate engraved map (uncolored). 13.5 x 17.4 cm. (5 5/16 x 6 7/8 inches), trimmed around the platemark. Scale not stated. Stipple engraved seas. Unmatted, unframed. An attractive, early map of North and South America. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL ENGRAVED MAP, not a facsimile. JUSTLY FAMOUS MAP OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. The present map appeared without change in five editions of Ptolemy's "Geographiae universae" published between 1596 and 1621. The verso is blank,... Read More
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![[EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748]. Telliamed, ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer, la formation de la Terre, l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.G[uers]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/228/508/861508228.0.l.4.jpg)
[EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1748]. Telliamed, ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer, la formation de la Terre, l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.G[uers]
by Maillet, Benoit de
Amsterdam: Chez l'honore et fils, libraires, 1748. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. I: [10], cxix, [7], 208 pp. + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom. 1). II: [2], 231 pp. + 1 f. ("Addition") + 1 f. ("Errata" for Tom 1 [sic]). First title page with unobtrusive paper defect on lower margin, not affecting text; this copy is lacking half-title and Errata leaf for Tom. 2. Very attractive 19th-century French red glazed boards, red... Read More
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![[Cover title]: Souvenir of Malta. 32 Views. [Panorama / Souvenir Album]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/716/218/957218716.0.l.3.jpg)
[Cover title]: Souvenir of Malta. 32 Views. [Panorama / Souvenir Album]
by MALTA
Malta (?): s.n., 1920. Softcover. Very good. Dates: 1920-1930. Original cloth portfolio (17 x 11 cm, folding out to ca. 350 cm), with 32 panels of which 5 are of a panoramic view of the harbor. Includes also a view of the H.M.S. Melbourne in the harbor. Faint early ownership stamp inside lower cover.
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![[ALDINE PRESS / GIGLIO PRESS]. Together 2 volumes: I. Lettere Volgari di diversi nobilissimi huomini, Libro Primo. [Bound with:] Libro Secundo. II. Lettere Volgari Libro Terzo](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/475/200/1349200475.0.l.0.jpg)
[ALDINE PRESS / GIGLIO PRESS]. Together 2 volumes: I. Lettere Volgari di diversi nobilissimi huomini, Libro Primo. [Bound with:] Libro Secundo. II. Lettere Volgari Libro Terzo
by Manutius, Paulus (a.k.a. Paolo Manuzio)
Venice: Domenico Giglio; Paolo and Aldo Manutius, 1564. Good. Three volumes in two, 8vo. Ad 1: Part 1: [1], 2-138, [4] = 142 ff. Part 2: [1], 2-122, [2] = 124 ff. Contemporary limp vellum with "yapp" edges, title in MS on spine, singular "1" at bottom of spine indicating the first of two volumes, small abraisons on free endleaves from leather ties (no longer present). Date of 1742 written next to printer's device on Part 1 title.... Read More
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![[EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT ~ 1796]. Belisarius](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/918/402/1701402918.0.l.0.jpg)
[EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT ~ 1796]. Belisarius
by Marmontel, Jean-Francois
Newburyport, Mass. / Boston: Printed by William Barrett (for Thomas & Andrews, Boston), 1796. First edition thus. Very good. 18mo. ix, [1], 11-108 [i.e. 11-208] pp. (errors in pagination: 156, 207-208 misnumbered 136, 107-108). Contemporary mottled American sheep, red spine label, flat spine with single fillets dividing compartments (old leather repair in the second; FOXING throughout as is true in most copies on account of the paper stock; outer edges of gatherings B, L and R with even... Read More
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![[FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF PERU, 1817 - UNRECORDED EDITION]. Les incas ou la destruction de l'empire du Perou](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/537/920/1437920537.0.l.0.jpg)
[FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF PERU, 1817 - UNRECORDED EDITION]. Les incas ou la destruction de l'empire du Perou
by Marmontel, Jean-Francois
Paris: Guillaume et Companie, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, no. 14, 1817. Good. 2 vols., small 12mo. 233, [3]; 250, [4] pp. With 2 engraved frontispieces. Contemporary French mottled sheep (extremities worn and bumped; back cover of vol. 2 abraided with loss, leather on front hinge quite worn but the board is quite attached), marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges marbled. Text with minor foxing but completely unmarked and unspoiled. NOT ex-library! No copy of this edition has been located,... Read More
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![[POST-INCUNABLE ~ 1517: ALDINE PRESS]. Epigrammata](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/793/402/1701402793.0.l.0.jpg)
[POST-INCUNABLE ~ 1517: ALDINE PRESS]. Epigrammata
by Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis]
Venice: Heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1517. Very good. Small 4to. Collation: A-Z &8, COMPLETE. 190, [1] pp. Title-page and verso of final leaf with Aldine dolphin and anchor device (text with staining, two inscriptions washed out, one below colophon, the other above the printer's device on verso of final leaf). Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf (possibly English), spine elaborately gilt, edges gilt and gauffered, "Dutch" gilt floral boards on pastedowns, five binder's blanks at the front and back (covers with... Read More
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![[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. [Typed Letter Signed, On being chosen as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year," as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated January 16, 1964]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/193/188/1653188193.0.l.0.jpg)
[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. [Typed Letter Signed, On being chosen as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year," as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated January 16, 1964]
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Very good. Magnificent TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, 3-hole punch on left side, folded twice, evidence of rusty paperclip on upper left, boldly signed in blue ink by MLK Jr. TOGETHER WITH: copy of 2-page letter from the recipient, Earl Loganill, farm labor activist of McPherson, Kansas, to Dr. King, dated Jan. 5, 1964. EXTRAORDINARILY POIGNANT AND IMPASSIONED SIGNED LETTER FROM MLK JR. TO ONE OF HIS SUPPORTERS, OCCASIONED ON BEING CHOSEN... Read More
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Estate of James G. Fair, deceased. S.F. no. 2871. Appellants' petition for rehearing as to the personal property. Garret W. McEnerney, Robert Y. Hayne, Wm. M. Pierson, George E. Crothers, of counsel for appellants
by McEnerney, Garret William. California Supreme Court
[San Francisco]: Star Press, 1902. First Edition. Good. Small 4to. 44 pp. Original printed wrappers (chipped, spine partially defective). The complex and protracted litigation over the San Francisco estate of one of the richest men in America, mining tycoon James Graham Fair, dragged on for many years after his death in 1894. Born in Ireland in 1831, Fair and his impoverished father came to the U.S. in 1843. James went to California in 1850 to labor as a... Read More
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Mexico and Central America to illustrate Harper's Gazetteer
by McLellan, David
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. First Edition. Good. Large framed map (30 x 50 cm). Contemporary hand-coloring with blue wash, creasing where formerly folded. Evidence of repaired tear on right margin affecting border but not the map itself (not examined outside frame). Scale ca. 1:13,000,000. Scarce and important map, framed, and suitable for exhibition and study. The map shows sailing routes through the West Indies, major cities, and ports. Lower Mexico and northwest coast of South America... Read More
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Etude Bibliographique sur les Livres Illustres par SEBASTIEN LE CLERC
by Meaume, Edouard
Paris: Leon Techener, 1877. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo. [4], 83 pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers, edges untrimmed (some a little frayed). Copy no. 74 of 100 numbered copies, being one of the first celebrations of 17th-century French illustrated books, published when the craze for 18th-century French illustrated books was at its apogee: "Nous aurions voulu appeler l'attention des bibliophiles sur l'ensemble des livres du dix-septième siècle, trop negliges aujourd'hui, quand ce ne sont pas des exemplaires des... Read More
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![[PRINTING HISTORY - INCUNABULA]. Origines Typographicae](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/837/402/1701402837.0.l.0.jpg)
[PRINTING HISTORY - INCUNABULA]. Origines Typographicae
by Meerman, Gerard
The Hague, Paris and London: Nicolaus van Daalen / G.-F. de Bure / Thomas Wilcox, 1765. First Edition. Very good. Two vols., 4to. Ad 1: xi, [1], 260 pp. Ad 2: viii, 312 pp. + [2] pp. (Avis au Relieur). COMPLETE with 2 engraved portraits (Meerman and Coster), 1 double-page letterpress genealogical table of the Coster family (vol. 1, opposite p. 54), engraved coat of arms of Johann Schott, and 10 engraved plates of early documents and type... Read More
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![[MEXICAN AND CUBAN THEATER EPHEMERA 1905-1932 - Five items]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/902/442/1449442902.0.l.0.jpg)
[MEXICAN AND CUBAN THEATER EPHEMERA 1905-1932 - Five items]
by [Mexican and Cuban Theater Ephemera 1905-1932]
Mexico City and Havana, 1932. Fair to Good. Various sizes (8vo to large 4to), together five items. All original wrappers, various wear. ¶ 1-4. Programs from "The Little Theatre" of Mexico City (1931-1932). NONE ARE LISTED IN OCLC / FIRSTSEARCH. THIS THEATER SEEMS TO HAVE FADED INTO OBLIVION. But judging by the number of plays recorded in our programs, it was a vibrant collective. A sampling of the plays that were produced: Mrs. Musset Sees It Through by... Read More
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Ancien Mexico / Nouveau Mexico. Two handcolored, engraved prints from Antoine-Francois Prevost's "Histoire Generale des Voyages, Tome XII
by [MEXICO CITY]. Chedel, Pierre Quentin (engraver)
Paris: Chez Didot, 1754. Unbound. Very good. Size of images: 19 cm high (platemark) x 28 cm wide (platemark). 25 cm high x 35 cm wide. Professionally matted and framed. Two original handcolored copperplate engravings of Mexico City. The first engraving is a bird's-eye view of Mexico City (Tenochtitlan) on Lake Texcoco, depicting the City as it was when the Spanish conquered it. The engraving shows the various islands and causeways or bridges which linked parts of the... Read More
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![[MANUSCRIPT ARITHMETIC NOTEBOOKS, INCLUDING ONE WRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/222/1743222444.0.l.jpg)
[MANUSCRIPT ARITHMETIC NOTEBOOKS, INCLUDING ONE WRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN]
by Miss Mary Lewsey (et al.)
Maplestead, Essex, UK: Poplar Grove House, 1822. Very good. Small 4to. Together 3 manuscript notebooks. Ad 1 (Miss Mary Lewsey): Engraved title-page (blank) + [20] ff. written mainly on both sides, the remaining leaves blank. Paper stock watermarked "JE&A 1821." Printed label of Poplar Grove House (see below) pasted to the upper cover (several leaves excised at end). Ad 2 (J.D. Lewsey): [67] ff., written on both sides. Paper stock watermarked "C. WILMOT 1822." Textblock separating after fol.... Read More
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![[THEATER]. Le Misanthrope. Comedie en cinq actes et en vers](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/816/059/1717059816.0.l.jpg)
[THEATER]. Le Misanthrope. Comedie en cinq actes et en vers
by Moliere
Paris: Barba, Hubert, 1817. Nouvelle edition. Very good. 12mo (205 x 135 mm). [3-5], 6-76 pp. Contemporary French cartonnage, gilt "romantique" frame on both covers, lettered in gilt on the front, and on the lower the large seal of the July 1830 monarchy (see below), all edges gilt, pastedowns and endleaves of gauffered percaline (minor scuffing to the covers and spine). A very attractive copy. A FINE RELIC OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE'S LIBERAL JULY MONARCHY (1830-1848), BEING A SPECIAL CARTONNAGE... Read More
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