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BOFFITO (Giuseppe)
Biblioteca Aeronautica Italiana. Precede uno studio sull'aeronautica nella letteratura nell'arte e nel folklore/ [With:] Primo Supplemento Decennale.
First edition, 3 vols., [all published], cxv, [1],544, [2]; vi, [2], 678, [2]; 24pp., prospectus loosely inserted, frontispieces, numerous illustrs., the two volume main work is bound in cloth, orig. printed wrappers bound in, morocco label to spines, the supplement is in the orig. printed wrappers. Though no limitation details appear in the book, Olschki's prospectus for the main volume stated that only 300 copies were to be printed, of which 250 were for sale. The supplement, which includes early material, is apparently even scarcer.
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GRAY (G. J.)
A Bibliography of the Writings of Christopher Smart, with Biographical References.
Small 4to, 41, [1]pp., portrait, orig. printed wrappers detached, A. N. L. Munby's copy with his signature to upper wrapper
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DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall)
Poems.
First edition, viii, [2], 117pp., with engraved title-page, a little foxed and stained, final line of imprint cropped, text occasional spotted and lightly browned, marbled endpapers, cont. full straight-grained red morocco, gilt border on sides, flat spine, gilt, extremities a little rubbed. Dibdin's rare suppressed first separate publication, being preceded only by his contribution to the 'European Magazine'. Dibdin did not think much of his first effort as he emphatically stated in his 'Bibliomania' "I struck off 500 copies, and was glad to get rid of half of them as waste paper; the remaining half have been partly destroyed by my own hands... My only consolation is that the volume is now exceedingly rare". Jackson, 1; Windle & Pippin, A1.
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FIRMIN-DIDOT (Ambroise)
Alde Manuce et l'Hell?nisme a Venise.
First edition, lxviii, 646, [1]pp., frontis.,, 4 plates, cont. half calf, marbled boards, corners rubbed otherwise a nice copy. First edition of this classic monograph on Aldus. As well as a biographical account it gives a bibliographical and technical account of the products of the Aldine press from 1494 to 1515. From the reference library of Prof. T. A. Birrell.
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HELLER (Joseph)
Geschichte der Holzschneidekunst von den ?ltesten bis auf des neuesten Zeiten, nebst zwei Beilagen, enthaltend den Ursprung der Spielfarten and en Berzeichni? der s?mmtlichen xylographischen Werke.
First edition, xii, 457, [3]pp., a very good ex-library copy, illustrs., in the text, 11 engraved plates (some folding), nineteenth-century half vellum. "One of the best German works on xylography, with a history of the origin of playing cards."?Bigmore and Wyman. Bigmore and Wyman I, p. 322.
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SOTHERAN.
Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica: Catalogue of Works in Many Tongues on Exact and Applied Science, with a Subject-Index. Compiled by H. Z[eitlinger] H.C. S[otheran].
6 Vols., including 1st, 2nd & 3rd supplements, numerous facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth. Compilation of a first-rate antiquarian bookseller's catalogues, most items annotated. Heavily technical, starting with the earliest printed works. There are 17,397 entries and many illustrations; very good subject index. First Supplement was issued in 1932 (7,198 titles); Second Supplement in 1937 (2 vols., 22,943 titles); and Third Supplement in 1952 (5,951 titles). An extremely valuable work.
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PARKS (Stephen) Editor.
The English Book Trade 166-1853. 156 Titles relating to the early history of English Publishing, Bookselling, the Struggle for Copyright and the Freedom of the press, Reprinted in photo-facsimile in 42 volumes.
42 volumes, orig. uniform cloth. "The aim of this series is to provide access to contemporary sources for the history of English publishing and bookselling, including controversy over copyright legislation and freedom of the press, from the Restoration through the early nineteenth century. To this end, we have gathered from libraries in Great Britain and the United States a comprehensive working collection of pamphlets, broadsides and memoirs, amounting to 156 individual titles, reprinted in forty-two volumes".?Introduction.
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COCKLE (Maurice J.D.)
A Bibliography of Military Books up to 1642. With an Introduction by Sir Charles Oman.
4to, xl, 268pp., numerous facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. Bibliography of British and foreign military books fully describes, with collations, many of hundreds of works produced between the invention of printing and the year 1642, including printed editions of the classical technical writers.
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BOLTON (Herbert E.)
Guide to materials for the history of the United States in the principal archives of Mexico.
First edition, 4to, xvi, 553pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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DESCHAMPS (Pierre)
Dictionnaire de G?ographie Ancienne et Moderne / suivi de l'Imprimerie hors l'Europe.
Thick 8vo, viii, 1591; [6], 208pp., orig. cloth. Also issued as volume 9 of Brunet's 'Manuel du Libraire'. Arranged alphabetically by the medieval name (Latin or Greek); gives, under each, an indication of the modern name and brief information about the place with special emphasis upon the history of printing in that place, establishment of presses, etc. Also a index of modern names.
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ESCOFFIER (Maurice)
Le Mouvement Romantique 1788-1850. Essai de Bibliographie Synchronique et M?thodique.
First Edition, large 8vo, lxiv, [8], 426, [4]pp., cloth a little faded, leather label on spine. Records 1,903 works.
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A. MORENO MARTIN.
Granata: Libros Antiguos Catalogo Siglo XVI. Siglo XVI - Militares - Esgrima - Varios - Suplemento.
Folio, 222pp., numerous facsimiles throughout, orig. printed wrappers, 469 items.
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HUNGARY. SOLTESZ (E.) VELENCZEI (C.) & SALGO (A. W.)
Catalogus librorum sedecimo saeculo impressorum, qui in Bibliotheca Nationali Hungariae Sz?ch?nyiana asservantureditiones non Hungarice et extra Hungariam impressae / Az Orsz?gos Sz?ch?nyi Konyvt?r 16. sz?zadi nyomtatv?nyainak katal?gusa : nem magyar nyelvu, kulfoldi kiadvanyok.
3 Vols., large 8vo, lxiv, 3257pp., orig. cloth.
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ALMEIDA (Eduardo de Castro e)
Inventario dos documentos relativos ao Brasil existentes no Archivo de Marinha e Ultramar. VIII: Rio de Janeiro 1747-1755.
First edition, 4to, 658pp., orig. printed wrappers, a little torn.
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[DESCHAMPS (Pierre)]
Dictionnaire de G?ographie Ancienne et Moderne.
First edition, thick 8vo, viii, 1591pp., orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cloth, leather label on spine. Also issued as volume 9 of Brunet's 'Manuel du Libraire'.
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books 1566-1910. A Catalogue. Prepared by Judith St. John, with an Introduction by Edgar Osborne.
Large 8vo, 561pp., illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth.
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FUSSELL (G.E.)
The Old English Farming Books 1523 to 1730. [With:] More Old English Farming Books 1731 to 1793.
First Edition, 2 vols., 24 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.
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INCUNABULA.
A Selection of Incunabula from over 150 Presses... Part I [-Part V with Index]... for Sale by Lathrop C. Harper, New York.
5 Parts bound in one, frontispieces, cont. cloth, 1,000 items.
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KIRKPATRICK (B. J.)
A Bibliography of E. M. Forster.
Second edition, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
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THIBOUST (Cl.-L.)
L'Excellence de l'Imprimerie; Poeme Latin de Cl.-L. Thiboust, traduit par Cl.-Ch. Thiboust, son fils.
26, [4]pp., one of 200 numbered copies, 4 folding plates, orig. printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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JAMES (M. R.)
Lists of Manuscripts Formerly in Peterborough Abbey Library. Supplement to The Bibliographical Society's Transactions No. 5.
First edition, 104pp., disbound.
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MURPHY (Gwendolen)
A Bibliography of English Character-Books 1608-1700. Supplement to The Bibliographical Society's Transactions No. 4.
First Edition, 179pp., disbound.
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SAWYER (Charles J.) & DARTON (F.J. Harvey)
English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors.
First edition, 2 vols., xvi, 368; viii, 423pp., limited edition, bookplates, frontispiece, folding plate, 98 full-page illustrs., and facsimiles, orig. cloth, uncut, a very good set. Discusses the works of each writer in turn from a selling and book-collecting point of view; the authors were a bookseller and a collector.
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HOLMES (Sir Maurice)
Captain James Cook: A Bibliographical Excursion.
103pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth.
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GAMBA DI BASSANO (Bartolommeo)
Serie dei Testi Di Lingua e di altre opere importanti nella italiana letteratura scritte dal secolo XIV al XIX.
4to, 794pp., orig. boards.
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JAMES (M. R.)
Lists of Manuscripts Formerly in Peterborough Abbey Library. Supplement to The Bibliographical Society's Transactions No. 5.
First edition, 104pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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ROCHAMBEAU (Le Comte de)
Bibliographie des Oeuvres de la Fontaine.
xvi, 670pp., frontis., orig. cloth.
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THIBOUST (Claude Louis)
Typographiae excellentia [L'excellence de l'imprimerie. Po?me latin]. Paris: 1754. Second edition of the Latin poem, first edition of the French translation, 28, [2]pp., half-title, double titles in Latin and French, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Daulle, 2 etched plates (one folding) of a typefoundry and a printing shop, foremargin shaved with slight loss of image on folding plate, text closely cropped effecting imprint and a few letters and words to several foremargins. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Scalptura Carmen [La Gravure Po?me]. Paris: Le Mercier, 1753. Second edition in Latin, first edition of the French translation, xii, 76, xii, [1]-90, [2]pp. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Sculptura Carmen [La Sculpture Po?me].
viii, 94, [2], [1]-120, [4]pp., with half-title. 3 works bound in one (the first named bound last), cont. mottled sheep, worn. The second edition of this poem on the different technical processes involved in printing. This edition was published by Claude Charles Thiboust, his father, Cluade Louis Thiboust, was the author of the poem, and had originally printed it in 1718. The family of Thilboust occupies a distinguished place in the list of French typographers, having started printing in Paris in the middle of the sixteenth century, with successive members of the family being appointed to be Printers to the University. This is followed by two editions of Doissen's poem on engraving. Bigmore & Wyman, III, p. 8; I, p. 183
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MAGGS BROS.
Books Printed in Spain and Spanish Books Printed in Other Countries. Catalogue No. 495.
Frontis., small 4to, 869pp., 48 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers, 1,358 items. Compiled by Sarah de Laredo. It includes a copy of the first edition of Don Quixote (priced at ?3,800).
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COOKERY BOOKS. WESTBURY COLLECTION.
Catalogue of the Westbury Collection of Cookery Books...
100pp., facsimiles, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, 507 lots.
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FOOD AND WINE. SCHRAEMLI (Harry)
Catalogue of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts of the 15th to 20th Century on Food and Wine from the Well Known Library of Harry Schraemli.
144pp., prices and buyers names loosely inserted, facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, 513 lots.
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COOKERY BOOKS. LAMBERT (M. Leon)
Catalogue of the Collection of Books on Cookery and Gastronomy. The Property of M. Leon Lambert.
79pp., illustrs., in the text, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, 447 lots.
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NORTH (Michael)
Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions and Sales by Private Treaty 1643-1850 in the Library of the Grolier Club.
4to, 256pp., limited to 450 copies, 16 illustrs., orig. cloth-backed boards. A catalogue of an extensive collection of these works. The 616 entries comprise a full title-page transcription, detailed collation, and, often, a description of the circumstances of the sale and the history and subsequent fate of the collection. Many of the examples are rich in contemporary annotation and in bindings of the period and all of this is described in detail. A most valuable work of scholarship in this field of bibliography.
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BOSANQUET (Eustace F.)
English Printed Almanacks and Prognostications. A Bibliographical History to the Year 1600.
First edition, 4to, xi, [1], 204pp., 35 facsimiles on 28 plates (some double-page), title in red and black, orig. buckram backed-boards, uncut, t.e.g.
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REICHLING (Dietericus) [HAIN & COPINGER]
Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorivm Bibliographicvm...
First Edition, 8 parts, orig. printed wrappers, uncut. Important appendix to Hain & Copinger.
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REICHLING (Dietericus) [HAIN & COPINGER]
Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorivm Bibliographicvm...
First Edition, 8 parts, orig. printed wrappers (final part in sheets), uncut. Important appendix to Hain & Copinger.
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[JACKSON (William A.)]
An Annotated List of the Publications of the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D. Based mainly on those in the Harvard College Library with Notes of others.
First Edition, small folio, 64, [1]pp., limited to 500 copies, ex-library, portrait and 6 plates, orig. cloth, printed paper labels. 106 items with full descriptions.
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HALKETT (Samuel) & LAING (John)
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain. Including the Works of Foreigners Written in, or Translated into the English Language.
First edition, 4 vols., 4to, large paper copy, cont. half calf, extremities rubbed, uncut.
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ALSTON (R. C.)
Inventory of Sale Catalogues of Named and Attributed Owners of Books Sold by Retail or Auction 1676-1800. An Inventory of Sales in the British Isles, America, the United States, Canada, and India.
2 Vols., large 4to, 624; 625-1192pp., orig. cloth, printed title label to upper covers.
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ALSTON (R. C.)
Inventory of Sale Catalogues of Named and Attributed Owners of Books Sold by Retail or Auction 1676-1800. An Inventory of Sales in the British Isles, America, the United States, Canada, and India.
2 Vols., large 4to, 624; 625-1192pp., orig. cloth, printed title label to upper covers.
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HEBER (Richard)
Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq... Removed from his House in York-Street, Westminster, Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby and Son [Evans; Wheatley]...
13 Volumes bound in five, large 8vo printed on good wove paper, [iv], 388; xii, 363, [1]; [iv], 295, [1]; vii, [iii], 355, [1]; [iv], 257; [iv], 314; [iv], 306; [iv], 170; [iv], 195, [1]; [iv], 117, [1]; [iv], 189, [1]; [iv], 83, [1]; [iv], 82, [2]pp., parts 1-3 in orig. boards, spines chipped, covers loose, orig. printed label on upper covers, uncut, parts 4-7 cont. half calf, rubbed, spine stained and spotted, parts-8-13 cont. quarter morocco, rubbed, foot of spine torn, faint stamp of 'Mercantile Library, Philada.', front hinge shaken, title page to part 8 loose, prices and buyers' names supplied in a cont. hand, a made-up set of the complete English sale catalogues of the library of Richard Heber (the 13th volume is notoriously rare). Heber was a book collector on a monumental scale, De Ricci estimated his library between two and three hundred thousand volumes. The sales took place at a time when the market was absolutely glutted and there were practically no buyers. The total realised was ?65,774, for books which had cost their late owner a good deal over ?100,000. "The Dibdinian age may be aptly said to terminate with the dispersal of the gigantic library accumulated by Richard Heber, a bibliomaniac if there ever was one... From 1800 to 1830, he purchased at every London sale... He thought nothing of securing whole libraries... When he died, his books filled two houses in London, one at Hodnet, one at Oxford, one at Ghent and one at Paris, not to speak of smaller stores at... other Continental cities. The total number of volumes in his library must have been between two and three hundred thousand, and it is doubtful whether any private individual has ever owned so large a library... The London sales produced ?56,744, for books which had cost their late owner over ?100,000. The market was absolutely glutted and there were practically no new buyers... The Heber catalogues, although... arranged in the most inconvenient manner, are daily consulted by every bibliographer... His series of Continental books, early Italian and Spanish works, later Latin poetry, humanistic treatises... were unrivalled... The real strength... was, however, in the field of early English literature... For thirty years he... purchased nearly every item which came on the market".?De Ricci, p.102. Organised according to the residences where Heber kept his libraries, the present catalogues number 1 - 13 and were held in 1834, 1835, 1836 & 1837. Sotheby's managed the sale for parts 1- 3 and 9 - 10; R. H. Evans, for parts 4 and 6 - 8 and 11; B. Wheatley, parts 5 and 12-13.
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ANDERS (H. R. D.)
Shakespeare's Books. A Dissertation on Shakespeare's Reading and the Immediate Source of His Works.
First edition, large 8vo (238 x 155mm), xx, 316pp., orig. cloth.
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PLESCH (Arpad)
The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung Fur Botanik Vaduz Liechtenstein Collected by the late Arpad Plesch.
3 Vols., 4to, coloured frontispieces, plates throughout, prices and buyer's names loosely inserted, orig. boards, 863 lots.
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SMITH (Harold F.) Compiler.
American Travellers Abroad. A Bibliography of Accounts Published Before 1900.
4to, 166pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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HAMILTON COLLECTION.
Catalogue of Ninety-One Manuscripts on Vellum, Illuminated by English (Anglo-Saxon), Byzantine, French, Flemish, Dutch, Burgundian, German, Italian and Spanish Artists, of the VIIth to the XVIIth Century, Chiefly from the Famous Hamilton Collection, and till Lately in the Possession of the Royal Museum of Berlin. Which will be Sold by Auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, on Thursday, the 23rd day of May, 1889.
4to (270 x 175 mm), viii, 79pp., orig. printed wrappers spotted, spine chipped, 91 lots. The Duke of Hamilton had collected a remarkable series of mediaeval manuscripts, mainly illuminated, at an early age. This collection was purchased, for ?70,000, by the Prussian government. Because of the high cost of the collection, it was decided to sell a portion of it, hence this memorable sale which included the purple vellum codex of the Gospels presented by Henry VIII to Pope Leo X; it was bought by Quaritch for ?1500, sold to Theodore Irwin, of Oswego, and re-sold, in 1900, to Mr Pierpont Morgan.
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BURTON (Sir Richard)
Catalogue of a Large Collection of Miscellanouse Books, Including a Selection from the Library of the late Sir Richard Burton, of Sackett's Hill House, near Margate, Etc. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on Tuesday, November 6th, 1855.
8vo (225 x 140 mm), 78, [2]pp., stitched as issued, 1578 lots.
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COCKERELL (Sydney Carlyle)
A Psalter and Hours Executed Before 1270 for a Lady Connected with St. Louis, Probably his Sister Isabelle of France, Founder of the Abbey of Longchamp, Now in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson... with Photographs of all the Miniatures by Emery Walker.
Large oblong 4to, 36pp., double-column text, 25 plates, each with a reproduction of 2 MS pages, title printed in red and black, free endpapers browned, occasional foxing, orig. green roan-backed printed boards lightly stained. The text considers the MS in relation to the companion psalter of St. Louis in the Biblioth?que Nationale in Paris. Cockerell (1867-1962), secretary to the Kelmsott Press 1891-6, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1908-37, partner with Sir Emery Walker in process engraving business.
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[CLARKE (William)]
Repertorium Bibliographicum; or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries. London: William Clarke, 1819. First edition, xlviii, [2], 138, 133*-138*, 139-454, 449*-454*, 455-672, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved portraits (foxed and offset, the portrait of Towneley is inserted and stands proud), small ink splash to title, 2 woodcuts in the text. [Bound with:] A Dialogue in the Shades; between William Caxton, a Bibliomaniac, and William Wynken, Clerk. Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall. A Ballad. The Diary of Roger Payne, with a Lithographic sketch on the Monument to be Erected to his memory by the Bibliographical Club.
Second edition, [2 ads], [36]pp., with printed title-page and half-title, engraved headpiece, the advert leaf includes two editions of Beckford's Vathek and A Description of Fonthill Abbey. Small 4to (235 x 145 mm), 2 works in one, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. A survey of the principal public and private libraries in England, listing highlights of the collections and concluding with brief accounts of 30 important English book auctions from the 17th century onwards. William Beckford assisted in the compilation of this work, particularly in the description of his own library at Fonthill. The Dialogue in the Shades is a two-part pamphlet of satirical verse is a response to Dibdin's Lincolne Nosegay and the Bibliographical Decameron. The attribution varies from William Beckford to the Clarke brothers. This second edition is issued with an additional half-title, title-page with note from 'Mr. Wynkem' on the verso, and with the addition of The Diary of Roger Payne, a work in the same vein. A rare anti-Dibdinia item. Windle & Pippin, D9.
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GIARD (Ren?) & LEMA?TRE (Henri)
Les origines de l'imprimerie ? Valenciennes. Jehan de Li?ge.
Large 8vo (240 x 150 mm), [4], 14, [2]pp., with half-title, one of 50 copies, with the bookplate of Ren? Giard to front paste-down, "Extrait du Bulletin du bibliophile", marbled endpapers, cont. half hard grained morocco, decorated paper boards, uncut.
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HONEYMAN COLLECTION.
The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books and Manuscripts. The Property of Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., which will be sold by auction...
7 Vols., 4to, 6 coloured frontispieces, numerous plates and illustrs., throughout (some in colour, some folding), orig. printed wrappers, 3,309 lots. Perhaps the finest collection on the history of science brought together this century.
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