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STAPLES PRESS LTD
[Catalogue of an] Alphabet Exhibition. The Alphabet throughout the Ages and in all Lands. Sponsored and arranged by Staples Press, London, 1953. [Compiled by] David Diringer. Assisted by H. Freeman.
4to., with a folding frontispiece and numerous illustrations and type samples in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. Scarce. The advisory panel includes Francis Meynell, Stanley Morison and Mortimer Wheeler.
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POPE Alexander
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. [Aldine Edition]. SPLENDID SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
3 vols., sm. 8vo., with engraved portrait frontispiece and title-vignettes, small neat signature on front free endpaper of first volume, some light and inoffensive age-staining to first few leaves; original blue pebble-grain cloth, backstrips with printed paper labels (lightly browned but entirely unworn), uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean set. WITH THE FINE NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF HENRY WILLIAM POWNALL ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. With 4pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at end at first volume. Aldine Poets, vols. 13, 14, 15 respectively. A landmark in nineteenth century typography and publishing, the Aldine Edition of the British Poets was printed for the house of Pickering by Charles Whittingham at Tooks Court. The Aldine issue of Pope was first published in 1831 (see NCBEL II, 502). 'A complete collection of our Poets, with well written Memoirs, and good readable type is a desideratum; and from the works sent forth we feel assured that the Aldine Editions will supply the want' (Athaneum). A LOVELY SET IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING.
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VAN DORSTEN J.A.
Thomas Basson 1555-1613. English Printer at Leiden. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROY STRONG
8vo., First Edition, with 5 plates (one folding an captioned in red) and 5 illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [SIR] ROY C STRONG WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This valuable reference includes an extensive checklist of Basson's works. Sir Roy Strong (1935- ), historian, art critic and garden writer, was educated at the University of London and the Warburg Institute. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1973 and of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987. In 1980 he was awarded the prestigious Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg in recognition of his contribution to the arts in the UK.
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EVANS Joan
The Endless Web. John Dickinson and Co., Ltd., 1854-1954.
Roy. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, title in red and black, 49 plates, an endpaper pedigree and an endpaper map, fore-edges lightly spotted; buckram, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled and creased (without material loss) at edges
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SABBE Maurits
Christopher Plantin. Translated from the Flemish by Alice Van Riel-Goransson. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, 11 tipped-in illustrations in red by Pennell, neat signature on front paste-down, page-edges lightly browning; boards gilt, small tear at extreme head of backstrip, blank lower outer corner removed from one leaf (not affecting text), a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned, frayed at edges and wanting most of backstrip. Pennell's pen drawings first appeared in Devinne's 'Christopher Plantin and the Plantin Museum' published for the Grolier Club in 1888.
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MORAN J.
Stanley Morison. His typographic Achievement.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous typographic facsimiles (some in red and black and many full-page) in the text; cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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MORISON Stanley
A Brief Survey of Printing History and Practice. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous type-facsimiles in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original boards, cloth corners and backstrip, paper label, boards very lightly rubbed else an unusually bright, clean copy in the scarce dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. . A small portion of the contents appeared in a more condensed form in a printing supplement issued with the Manchester Guardian, 23 May 1922. Scarce in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Appleton 18.
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MORISON Stanley
Four Centuries of Fine Printing. Two Hundred and Seventy-Two Examples of the Work of Presses established between 1465 and 1924. With an Introduction. [Second, revised, Edition].
8vo., on laid paper, with 271 fine plates of facsimiles; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Appleton A35a.
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CRUTCHLEY E.A.
A History and Description of the Pitt Press. Pitt for the Use of the University Printing Press AD 1833, altered and restored AD 1937. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with folding coloured frontispiece and plates in monochrome; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, unevenly sunned dustwrapper.
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UPDIKE D.B.
Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and Use. A Study in Survivals. Second Edition.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression thus, with numerous type facsimiles in the text; original buckram, gilt backs, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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STEELE R.
The Earliest English Music Printing. A Description and Bibliography of English Printed Music to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY
4to., Second Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. High-quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1903.
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MEYNELL Francis
My Lives. WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR
8vo. First Edition with plates and facsimiles in the text; terracotta cloth gilt back blue endpapers a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR LOOSELY INSERTED. The letter is dated 18 September 1974 and written from Meynell's residence at The Grey House, Lavenham, Suffolk. It is highly characteristic, referring as it does to the design shortcomings of a published document -'the matter of the Report is full of interest - but its presentation - ugh! What conceivable justification is there for the vast head-of-page margins (and diminutive tail-margins) on type pages - made all the sillier by the full page arrangements of illustrated pages.' A copy of a newspaper obituary of the author is also included. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF MEYNELL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY , ACCOMPANIED BY A TYPICALLY FORTHRIGHT CREATIVE OPINION FROM ONE THE LEADING BRITISH DESIGNERS AND TYPOGRAPHERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, NEW YORK
Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955. Masterpieces of Typography through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. [With an Essay by Joseph Blumenthal. Third Impression]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, Third Impression, with numerous fine full-page facsimiles throughout; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with the Aldine emblem, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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CRUTCHLEY Brooke
Two Men. Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE; 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portraits and facsimiles; blue boards, red buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. A Cambridge Christmas book.
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SIMON Oliver
Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series. Volumes 1-18. NEAR FINE RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND CLOTH
18 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout; two volumes in original cloth, the remainder in printed wrappers with tissue dustwrapper, a near fine run. A GOOD RUN IN UNUSALLY BRIGHT CONDITION.
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GILL Eric
Letters of Eric Gill. Edited by Walter Shewring. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece in red and black, and plates; red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, , red top (lightly faded), fore-edge mildly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
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MORISON Stanley
Stanley Morison and D.B. Updike. Selected Correspondence. Edited by David McKitterick. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title in blue and black, and 20 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARKER Nicolas
Stanley Morison. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, red top, fore-edge spotted else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at edges and fold-ins.
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[SWISS GRAPHIC DESIGN]
Publicite et Arts Graphiques 1946/1947. Revue de la Publicite et des Arts Graphiques en Suisse. Edited by Maurice Collet. FIRM COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page and mounted); pictorial wrappers, uncut, covers moderately age-soiled, fore-edges lightly browned else a good, firm copy. Valuable annual survey of printed graphic design in Switzerland. Includes essays by Tschichold, Wenger, Neubold and others.
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PHILLIPS, ed. Euan
Tribute to Brooke Crutchley. on his Retirement as University Printer. Edited by Euan Phillips [and others]. 650 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; patterned boards (from a design by Reynolds Stone), black cloth back lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright,clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 650 COPIES.
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KEYNES Geoffrey
William Pickering Publisher. A Memoir and a Check-List of his Publications. Revised Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Revised Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and numerous facsimiles and illustrations in the text; sand cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. Revised and updated version of the original Fleuron edition of 1924.
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COCHRANE James Aikman
Dr. Johnson's Printer. The Life of William Strahan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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YORKE Malcolm
Eric Gill. Man of Flesh and Spirit. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frntispiece and numerous photographs throughout; green cloth, back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CRUTCHLEY Brooke
Two Men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge. Printed for his Friends by the University Printer, Christman 1968. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, plates, and several mounted type specimens at end; patterned boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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GILL Evan R.
The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill. An Inventory. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and 16 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled, and unevenly browned at backstrip and rear panel. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HUTCHINS Michael
Printing at Gregynog. Aspects of a great Private Press. Translated by David Jenkins. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. 4to., First Edition, text in English and Welsh, with coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; original printed wrappers, small mark on lower wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published on the occasion of the 1976 Gregynog Press Exhibition.
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CLEVERDON Douglas
Stanley Morison and Eric Gill 1925-1933. 230 COPIES WERE PRINTED: MICHAEL HARVEY'S COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in brown and black, and plates; original marbled wrappers, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 230 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 108). THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SUBSCRIBER MICHAEL HARVEY: LOOSELY INSERTED ARE A P.L.s FROM CLEVERDON AND A PROOF LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Printed for the subscribers [list included] and for presentation to Cleverdon on his eightieth birthday. The text is based on a talk given to the Double Crown Club, the Wynkyn de Worde Society and on several other occasions.
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DICKSON Robert
Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and numerous full-page facsimiles (all original tissue guards present) in the text; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 352).
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PARTRIDGE Walter
Journeyman. A Printer's Impressions through Eighty Years in a rapidly changing World. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARKER Nicolas
Stanley Morison 1889-1967. A Radio Portrait compiled from Recollections by T.F. Burns, Arthur Crook, Francis Meynell, John Carter, Brooke Crutchley, Graham Pollard, Janet & Reynolds Stone, Beatrice Warde. 800 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; black cloth, upper board blocked in silver, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 800 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 116).
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CLAPPERTON Robert Henderson
Modern Paper-Making. [Third Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs and charts (a number folding); blue buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser Text and Cover Papers
This is a very good copy in a plastic comb binding (intact), stiff paper covers printed in color with Weyerhaeuser paper sample names: 'Weycroft', 'Louvain', 'Carousel', 'Kashmir', 'Gainsborough', etc. No date but ca. 1970's. Each of the 10 paper sample sections has a color printed title page with the different paper weights and characteristics available in that sample, followed by a number of blank sheets in different colors that are available with that sample. A typical early to mid 1970's Weyerhaeuser trade catalog. 11" high X 10" wide. All printing in offset lithography. Publisher's 'Complimentary Copy' business reply card laid in. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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McLean, Ruari
Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and jacket clean, lightly, evenly toned. 8 color plates + 64 black & white illustrations. 9" high X 6" wide, 182 pages.
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Christie's
Picasso Lithographs Themes and Variations
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's in New York on April 28, 2003. The sale consisted of the Mourlot family or Imprimerie Mourlot collection of lithographs printed by them for Picasso. 349 lots in the sale. Illustrated in color and black & white. 11" high X 8" wide, 163 pages. Prices realized sheets included.
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Christie's
Picasso Lithographs Themes and Variations
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's in New York on April 28, 2003. The sale consisted of the Mourlot family or Imprimerie Mourlot collection of lithographs printed by them for Picasso. 349 lots in the sale. Illustrated in color and black & white. 11" high X 8" wide, 163 pages. Prices realized sheets included. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Doggett, Marguerite V.
Long Island Printing 1791-1830: A Checklist of Imprints
This is a very good hardcover copy without dust jacket, as issued, with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated in black & white with facsimiles of title-pages. 10" high X 6" wide, 192 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Vives Sabate, Ricard
Col.leccio de Goigs Gravats, i Estampats a Ma, per Ricard Vives Sabate. Primera Serie [with] Segona Serie
Two volumes, complete. The "goig" is a typical Catalan art form ("gozo" in Spanish), dating back to the 16th century. It is a broadsheet with a printed poem dedicated to a specific saint, and illustrated with woodcuts or metalcuts. During the 20th century Ricard Vives Sabate was the only artist who kept this tradition alive. These two portfolios contain ten of his goigs, dedicated to those saints most venerated in Catalonia: Sant Jordi (St. George), La Nostra Senyora de Montserrat (Our Lady of Montserrat), Santa Eulalia, Santa Cecilia, Sant Ricard, La Mare de Deu de la Merce, Santa Anna, Sant Josep Oriol, Sant Oleguer, and Sant Lluis. Each of the goigs is printed by hand and illustrated with several metalcuts. From a total edition of 255 copies, each of these portfolios is one of only FIVE copies with the goigs printed on parchment and beautifully hand-illuminated in color and heightened with gold. Furthermore, each of the goigs is signed by the artist. Folio, hand-made paper wraps (also decorated with hand-illuminated metalcuts). Fine and bright, with no defects.
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Nash, Ray, Rollo G. Silver, and Roderick Stinehour (editors)
Notes on Printing & Graphic Arts (PaGA)
A virtually complete run of this important publication dedicated to typography and the other book arts. Includes volume I, nos. 1, 3, and 4; volume III, no. 3; complete bound sets of volumes IV through IX, and volume X, no. 2. Small 4to. Individual issues in self-wraps, as issued. Bound volumes in publisher's attractive quarter cloth over decorated boards. A fine set, with no defects.
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Mendez, Francisco and Dionisio Hidalgo
Tipografia Espanola, o Historia de la Introduccion, Propagacion y Progresos del Arte de la Imprenta en Espana. A la que antecede una noticia general sobre la imprenta de la Europa y de la China: adornado todo con notas instructivas y curiosas.
A standard bibliographical account of early printing in Spain, organized by town. XIV, 436 pp. and a large folding chart. Extensive studies of the earliest printers in Spain and their productions. Mendez had planned to publish a second volume, but the manuscript was lost before it had been printed. One color plate, numerous facsimiles. Printed on laid paper. 4to, original wraps. Fine and bright. Bigmore & Wyman II, 36: "This is still a most esteemed work on Spanish typography."
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Herluison, Henry
Recherches sur les imprimeurs & libraires d'Orleans. Recueil de documents pour servir a l'histoire de la typographie et de la librairie orleanaise, depuis le XIVe siecles jusqu'a nos jours
THE EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of this study of printing and bookselling in Orleans from the 14th century to 1850. Includes a capsule biography of each of the printers and a detailed bibliography of the books issued. 589 items described. EDITION LIMITED TO 78 NUMBERED COPIES PRINTED ON FINE WOVE PAPER. 4to. Attractively bound in recent cloth. Original wraps bound in. Uncut. Light staining to original wraps, with a small hole in the front wrap. Silverfishing to preliminary blank leaf. Else fine and bright.
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Jimenez Catalan, Manuel
Ensayo de una tipografia zaragozana del siglo XVII [with] Ensayo de una tipografia zaragozana del siglo XVIII (bibliography of books printed in Zaragoza (Saragossa), Spain)
Two volumes, complete. Jimenez Catalan's monumental bibliography of Zaragoza imprints from 1601 to 1800. XIII, 513, [6]; 489, [9] pp. 1420 + 1576 items arranged in chronological order and thoroughly described. Includes notes on the principal printers and booksellers, a few facsimiles, and lengthy extracts from particularly interesting publications. Fully indexed. 4to. First volume bound in quarter calf; second volume in buckram. Original front wrapper preserved in both volumes. A bit of wear to binding of first volume, else a FINE AND BRIGHT SET. Very scarce.
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Sainz Rodriguez, Pedro
Biblioteca Bibliografica Hispanica V: Bibliografia sobre la Historia de la Imprenta (bibliography of the history of printing in Spain and Spanish America)
The standard bibliography of the history of printing in Spain and Spanish America. Includes all manner of topo-bibliographies. 498 items described in great detail. Large 8vo, original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT.
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Houdoy, Jules
Les imprimeurs lillois. Bibliographie des impressions lilloises 1595-1700.
FIRST (and only non-reprint) EDITION OF THE STANDARD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EARLY LILLE IMPRINTS. XXII, 391 pp. 484 books described in great detail. Short biographies of all printers. Index. Title-page printed in red and black. Edition limited to 300 copies, all printed on fine Dutch handmade laid paper. Large 4to. FINELY BOUND BY DAVID (signed) in half morocco and marbled boards. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Original wraps and backstrip bound in. Light wear to binding, else fine and bright.
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Beveridge, William (Gulielmus Beveregius)
Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri Duo. Una cum totidem Arithmetices Chronologicae Libellis
Third edition of this classic work on calendars and time-keeping among the ancients. [8], 384 pp. Greek, Hebrew, Indic, Samaritan, Syriac, and Ethiopic types used throughout. 8vo. Attractively bound in contemporary paneled calf, spine with gilt fleurons in six compartments, covers decorated in blind. Moderate wear to binding, front joint split but holding. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. A scarce and important book.
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Commission des Inspecteurs des Ponts-et-Chaussees
Canal Maritime de la Seine. Rapports de la Commission des Inspecteurs des Ponts-et-Chaussees, sur les plans et projets presentes par les Soumissionaires, en vertu de l'Ordonnance royale du 16 fevrier 1825
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the MOST IMPORTANT MONOGRAPH ON THE CANAL LINKING PARIS WITH THE SEA, one of the great engineering projects of its time. XI, 221 pp. plus 3 lithographed maps. The book is divided into two sections: Besons (near Paris) to Rouen, and Rouen to Le Havre. Each section is divided into numerous (and very detailed) subsections. Numerous tables throughout. At the end are three large folding lithographed maps, with the course of the Seine colored by hand in blue. Beautifully printed by Didot on fine wove paper, with large margins. From the library of noted engineer Rudolph Glossop (1902-1993), with his bookplate on pastedown. 4to. Attractively bound in half crimson morocco. FINE AND BRIGHT, with no defects. An outstanding copy of an important book.
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Beguin, Martine and Jean-Paul Felley (Alberto Sartoris)
Alberto Sartoris en couleurs. Catalogue raisonne. Oeuvre serigraphique 1972-1992.
The standard monograph and catalogue raisonne of the silkscreen prints (serigaphs). Detailed descriptions, and a full-page color plate of each item. Extensive documentation. 1000 copies printed. Large 4to. Original wraps. A little minor wear to covers, else fine and bright. Scarce.
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Maignien, Edmond (Bibliotheque Municipale de Grenoble)
Catalogue des incunables de la Bibliotheque Municipale de Grenoble
An outstanding catalogue. 1 leaf; XIV, 498 pp plus 3 full-page plates. 614 incunables described in great detail. 4to. Original wraps. Uncut and unopened. FINE AND BRIGHT, with no defects.
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Berthelot, Andre
Essai d'un inventaire du fonds espagnol ancien de la Bibliotheque Municipale du Mans
A catalogue of old Spanish books in the municipal library of Le Mans. pp. 121-151. An offprint from some unidentified publication. Dozens of items described in detail. Large 8vo. Plain wraps. A little tear to wraps, internally fine.
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Didot, Ambroise Firmin
Catalogue raisonne de la bibliotheque de M. Ambroise Firmin Didot. Livres avec figures sur bois. Solennites. Romans de chevalerie.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the rare catalogue raisonne of Didot's private collection. 2 leaves; 4 pp.; cccx, 313-384 columns (complete). This volume, the only one published, covers early books illustrated with woodcuts (896 items, grouped by place of publication), fete books (75 items), and romances of chivalry (28 items). All items thoroughly described, with extensive notes. A LARGE-PAPER COPY, printed on fine laid paper. 4to. Attractively bound in later buckram. Tiny traces of wear to extremities of binding, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Vicaire III, 258. Very rare, especially on large paper.
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Langlois, Victor
Un chapitre inÈdit de la question des Lieux-Saints. Que le tombeau de JÈsus n'est pas dans l'Eglise du Saint-Sepulchre, mais dans la MosquÈe d'Omar a JÈrusalem
THE ONLY COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM OF ANY BOOK ISSUED BY POULET-MALASSIS. In this monograph, Langlois (1829-1869), a leading Orientalist of his time (despite his short life), ingeniously uses archeological, historical, and scriptural evidence to prove the true location of Jesus' tomb. 48 pp. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON FINE VELLUM BY JOUAUST, ONE OF THE GREAT PRINTERS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY. to. Attractively bound in contemporary quarter morocco and decorated boards. Spine in five compartments with fleurons and raised bands. Tiny traces of wear to binding, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Launay 152; Contades, p. 39; OberlÈ 594 (this copy: "PrÈcieux exemplaire imprimÈ sur peau de vÈlin. Il est probablement unique. C'est le seul volume publiÈ par notre Èditeur qui ait ÈtÈ tirÈ sur peau de vÈlin.") Copies of this book on paper are very rare; this unique copy on vellum is A PIECE OF PUBLISHING HISTORY. Provenance: Jean-Jacques Launay, the comprehensive bibliographer of Poulet-Malassis, acquired this book after compiling his bibliography, and thus while he cites the book in his bibliography, he does not describe it (obviously because he was unable to locate any copy at all.) From him it passed to Gerard OberlÈ.
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