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TAYLOR (E. G. R.)
The Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England 1714-1840.
First edition, xvi, 503pp., frontis., 12 plates, orig. cloth. A catalogue of some 2,200 names of practitioners with biographical and bibliographical details.
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WISE (Thomas J.)
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of William Wordsworth.
Numerous facsimiles, xvi, 268pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
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DURLING (Richard J.) Compiler.
A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine. Bethesda, Maryland. 1967. First Edition, 4to, 698pp., 1 facsimile, orig. cloth. [Sold with:] KRIVATSY (Peter) Compiler. A Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine. National Library of Medicine. 1989. First Edition, 4to, 1,315pp., orig. cloth. [Sold with:] BLAKE (John B.) Compiler. A Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine.
First Edition, 4to, 501pp., orig. cloth. Altogether it includes approximately 25,000 items. Between 30 and 40 per cent have not been recorded before.
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EDEL (Leon) & LAURENCE (Dan H.)
A Bibliography of Henry James.
Second Edition, revised, 427pp., frontis., 8 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
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AGRICULTURE.
Catalogue of the Walter Frank Perkins Agricultural Library.
First Edition, large 8vo, xii, 291pp., one of 500 copies, frontis., orig. cloth. Over 2,000 titles mostly before 1900.
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SHAW (Graham)
Printing in Calcutta to 1800. A Description and Checklist of Printing in Late 18th-Century Calcutta.
First edition, xi, 249pp., 7 plates, orig. cloth. 420 items described.
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ADAMS (Bernard)
London Illustrated 1604-1851: A Survey and Index of Topographical Books and their Plates.
First Edition, 4to, xxxiv,586pp., one of 1,000 number copies, frontis., 24 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. Lists more than 8,250 plates in 230 books and print sets published between 1604 and 1851.
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ACCOUNTING LITERATURE.
Historical Accounting Literature. A Catalogue of the Collection of Early Works on Book-keeping and Accounting in the Library of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Together with a Bibliography of Literature on the Subject Published before 1750 and not in the Institute Library.
4to, xxvi,360pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth. Fills a gap in the literature of accounting as well as providing a permanent record of what has become, over a hundred years, a magnificent library.
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NEWTON. BABSON COLLECTION.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton and the Material Relating to him in the Babson Institute Library, Babson Park, Mass. With an Introduction by Roger Babson Webber. [With:] Supplement... Compiled by Henry P. Macomber.
First Edition, 2 vols., large 8vo, xiv,228; [viii],92pp., limited editions of 750 and 450 copies respectively, portrait, 19 plates, orig. cloth, uncut, a nice set.
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ROSCOE (S.)
John Newbery and his Successors 1740-1814. A Bibliography.
First Edition, xxxii,461pp., coloured frontis., 32 plates, 35 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. John Newbery is famous among eighteenth century publishers for the manner in which he exploited the new market for children's books.
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MAGRIEL (Paul David)
A Bibliography of Dancing. A List of Books and Articles on the Dance and Related Subjects.
Large 8vo, 229pp., frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth.
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WALLIS (Peter & Ruth)
Newton and Newtoniana 1672-1975. A Bibliography.
First Edition, 4to, xxiv,362pp., orig. cloth. Contains ten times the number of Gray's work, including books and manuscripts concerning Newton himself, as well as editions of his own writings.
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HELTZEL (Virgil B.) Compiler.
A Check List of Courtesy Books in the Newberry Library.
First Edition, tall 8vo, x,162pp., 600 copies, orig. cloth, leather label on spine. Contains 1,539 entries, including various editions, of works on "courtesy literature" written before 1775.
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JOHNSON (C. R.)
Provincial Poetry 1789-1839. British Verse Printed in the Provinces: The Romantic Background. With an Introduction by Dr. Robert Woof.
First Edition, limited to 500 copies, frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth. The collection consists of 1,000 contemporary original minor verse printed in the provinces between 1789 and 1839.
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PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY.
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. English Literature 1475-1700. [Complied by E. Unger and W.A. Jackson].
3 Vols., large 4to, limited to 750 copies, with a new addendum of books found in the library but omitted from the original edition, frontispieces, 104 plates, orig. cloth, gilt. A long-awaited and much-needed reprint of one of the twentieth century's greatest, and scarcest, bibliographies, which was originally issued in an edition of only 150 copies. "The descriptions of the 1,105 printed books and 169 autographs and manuscripts are the chef d'oeuvre of William A. Jackson and the non plus ultra of 'critical' bibliography as postulated by Sir Walter Greg. Miss Unger had been the librarian of the Pforzheimer Library since 1920. The catalogue is a model of its kind." - Breslauer & Folter.
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CORDEAUX (E. H.) & MERRY (D. H.)
A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University of Oxford.
First edition, xxvii, 809pp., orig. cloth, d.w. a little soiled. This is an enumerative bibliography classified under some 500 headings. It embraces all aspects of University and College life and institutions and comprises more than 10,000 entries.
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GODDARD (Canon Ed. H.) Compiler.
Wiltshire Bibliography. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Pamphlets and Articles Bearing on the History, Topography and Natural History of the County.
First edition, viii, 276pp., orig. cloth, joints at head of spine slightly frayed. Part I: Wiltshire as a whole. Part II: Individual parishes arranged alphabetically.
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PENZER (Norman M.)
An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton.
xvi, 351pp., frontis., 23 illustrs., orig. cloth.
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HELLINGA (Lotte)
Printing in England in the Fifteenth Century. E. Gordon Duff's Bibliography with supplementary descriptions, chronologies and census of copies.
4to, xvii, 278pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth.
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TAYLOR (E.G.R.)
The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor & Stuart England.
First edition, xii, 443pp., frontis., 12 plates, orig. cloth. A catalogue of some 400 names of practitioners with much biographical information on each. Also, a list of works on the mathematical arts and practices.
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DINGLEY (Pauline)
Historic Books on Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry.
First edition, large 8vo, 183pp., 50 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Illustrated with fifty photographs, and provides a full description of every item (some 900 titles) in the collection, including details of pagination and illustrations. This is the first definitive bibliography in its field describing books and pamphlets on farriery, animal husbandry and veterinary science.
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LEFANU (W. R.)
A Bio-Bibliography of Edward Jenner 1749-1823.
First edition, xx, 176pp., limited edition, portrait, 28 plates, orig. cloth, gilt.
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MILITARY PRINTS.
Index to British Military Costume Prints 1500-1914.
First edition, 4to, x, 488pp., coloured frontis., 50 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. The work records for the first time all known British military costume prints. Over 15,000 plates are described, in sets, collections, and books, and as single prints.
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HANSON (L.W.)
Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750.
First edition, xxiv,978pp., orig. cloth. The comprehensive indexes are an important feature of the book. 6,487 entries, with bibliographical notes, and locations of copies.
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ROMANY COLLECTION.
Catalogue of the Romany Collection Formed by D.U. McGrigor Phillips, LL.D. and Presented to the University of Leeds.
First Edition, 4to, 227pp., frontis., orig. cloth, d.w.
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CAGLE (William R.)
A Matter of Taste. A Bibliographical Catalogue of International Books on Food and Drink in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
Second Edition, expanded and revised, 4to, 991pp., facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. This second, expanded and revised edition adds hundreds of titles to the original edition of 1,261 works in the formidable collection left to the Lilly Library by Dr. John Gernon. This extensive work covers not only books on gastronomy but also the related fields of wine-making, hotel and food management, diet, and herb gardening.
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SCHNAPPER (Edith B.) Editor.
The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music Printed Before the Year 1801. A Record of the Holdings of over One Hundred Libraries Throughout the British Isles.
First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, xx, 583; xx, 585-1178pp., orig. cloth, lightly faded. A major reference tool for work with early printed sources of music. These volumes provide the key sources in British libraries. Brief bibliographical entries; locations established in more than 100 libraries in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Breslauer & Folter, 167. "The first catalogue of the printed music holdings of a whole country."
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VICAIRE (Georges)
Bibliographie Gastronomique.
xviii,972pp., orig. cloth, d.w. a little torn. This classic bibliography of works on food, drink, cooking, kitchens, gourmets, gastronomes and everything that centres on the pleasures of eating and drinking, is a unique compilation, and the most important book of its kind.
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WISE (Thomas J.)
The Ashley Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters Collected by Thomas J. Wise. With a New Introduction by Simon Nowell Smith.
11 Vols., large 8vo, frontispiece or portrait in each volume, plates and facsimiles throughout, with the British Museum shelf number against each item in their possession, (all but about 240 items), orig. cloth, a couple of spines lightly spotted. "The catalogue of the Ashley Library, which was acquired by the British Museum, is a useful reference work, especially in English nineteenth-century first editions, which are represented in unrivalled completeness. The late seventeenth and eighteenth-century collections are also very full".?Breslauer and Folter, 151. "... the most remarkable collection of rare books and manuscripts in modern English literature put together by a single collector in Great Britain in the hundred years before 1850 and 1950".?Simon Nowell Smith (introduction).
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PRIDEAUX (Colonel W.F.)
Notes for a Bibliography of Edward FitzGerald.
xii, 88pp., orig. cloth.
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WEGEHAUPT (Heinz)
Alte Deutsche Kinderbucher Bibliographie 1507-1850. Zugleich Bestandsverzeichnis der Kinder- und Jugendbuchabteilung der Deutschen Staatsbibliotek zu Berlin.
4to, 347pp., numerous coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.
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ROBERTS (Warren)
A Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence.
Second edition, xvii, 626pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
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LANGFELD (William R.) & BLACKBURN (Philip C.)
Washington Irving: A Bibliography. [With] A Census of Washington Irving Manuscripts by H. L. Kleinfield.
x, 90, 32pp., illustrs., orig. cloth.
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OWEN (Robert)
A Bibliography of Robert Owen, The Socialist, 1771-1858.
54pp., orig. printed wrappers, uncut.
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LIVINGSTON (Luther S.)
A Bibliography of the First Editions in Book form of the Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Compiled Largely from the Collection Formed by the late Jacob Chester Chamberlain.
xiv, 132pp., frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth.
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FORD (Paul Leicester)
Franklin Bibliography. A List of Books Written by, or Relating to Benjamin Franklin.
Large 8vo, lxxi, [234]pp., orig. cloth. 1,002 Items described.
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GUNN (Drewey Wayne) Compiler.
Mexico in American and British Letters. A Bibliography of Fiction and Travel Books, Citing Original Editions.
viii, 150pp., orig. cloth.
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SCOTT (Temple)
A Bibliography of William Morris.
Small 8vo, viii, 120pp., one of 250 copies, orig. printed wrappers.
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LINDEBOOM (G.A.)
Bibliographia Boerhaaviana. List of Publications Written or Provided by H. Boerhaave or Based upon his Works and Teaching.
First edition, viii, 105pp., 4 plates, 9 facsimiles, orig. cloth.
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SELCH (Frederick R.) & BUTLER (H. Reynolds)
The Legacy of Sebastian Virdung. The Frederick R. Selch Collection Pertaining to the History of Musical Instruments.
4to, 240pp., 100 illustrs., printed paper wrappers. One hundred books on musical theory, instruments, and practice are illustrated, each with a facing page of bibliographical description. There is one appendix of Musical Instrument Catalogues, and another of Tutors and Instruction Manuals.
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BROMLEY (John) Compiler.
The Clockmakers' Library. The Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
First edition, 4to, xii,136pp., 52 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. 1,151 Items described.
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ORNITHOLOGY.
Ornithology Books in the Library of Trinity College, Hartford. Including the Library of Ostrom Enders.
First edition, 270pp., limited edition, 1 plate, orig. cloth, d.w. A working collection of considerable scope and breadth, it is rich in rare coloured plate books and strongly supported by scientific texts.
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FABER DU FAUR (Curt von)
German Baroque Literature. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Yale University Library.
First edition, 4to, xlii, 496pp., title-page illustrs., orig. cloth. Describes a total of 1,860 original editions of baroque books in Yale University Library, with full information on size, pagination, and illustrations.
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KEYNES (Geoffrey)
John Ray: A Bibliography.
First edition, 4to, xvi,164pp., limited to 650 copies, frontis., 3 plates, 16 facsimiles, orig. buckram, t.e.g. A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray, English Naturalist, Philologist and Theologian.
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WALLIS (R. V. and P. J.)
Index of British Mathematicians. Part III: 1701-1800.
4to, xiv, 176pp., facsimiles, orig. decorated boards.
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SHABERMAN (Raphael B.)
George MacDonald: A Bibliographical Study.
First edition, xvi, 176pp., one of 500 copies, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. This highly individual work presents for the first time a comprehensive account of the writings of George MacDonald by an author who has studied his work for over twenty years.
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MENGEL (Robert M.)
A Catalogue of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas Libraries.
2 Vols., large 8vo, xxix, 259; [4], 176pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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KEYNES (Geoffrey)
A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester.
First edition, xxiv,117,[1]pp., one of 345 numbered copies, 39 full page facsimiles, orig. buckram. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer.
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YOLTON (Jean S.)
John Locke: A Descriptive Bibliography.
First edition, xxix,514pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. This hugely detailed analytic and descriptive bibliography documents John Locke's works published from 1654 through 1800.
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[JAMES (Brian)]
A Catalogue of the Tract Collection of Saint David's University College, Lampeter.
Folio, xx, 316pp., orig. cloth.
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