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(American Antiquarian Society) Burkett, Nancy H. and John B. Hench (editors). UNDER ITS GENEROUS DOME, THE COLLECTIONS AND PROGRAMS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1992 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 190 pages.
Second edition, revised. Edited by Nancy H. Burkett and John B. Hench and a foreword by Jill Ker Conway. Illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 42174

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Angle, Paul M. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AN ACCOUNT, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
Kingsport Kingsport Press 1958 tall 8vo. cloth, slipcase. (vi), 77, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 1500 copies.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 3071

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(Art) Pollen, John Hungerford. UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON ART, VOL.I A-K / VOL.2 L-Z / VOL.III SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME.
3 volumes. New York Burt Franklin n.d. large 8vo. cloth. (ii),ix,(iii),1030; (iv),1061-2188; (iv),655+(1) pages.
Burt Franklin reprint (their Bibliography and Reference series, no.47) of the original 1870 and 1877 works published by the South Kensington Museum in London. See Besterman 523 for the original. In the 1860's, the Kensington Museum decided to publish a kind of union catalogue of "books on art," based on library holdings in England and elsewhere. To be included were books on "Painting, Sculpture, Architecture; on Mosaics, Enamels; hand-wrought utensils in all materials which show a decorative intention; on tombs, monuments bearing sculpture, and on decoration..." (preface by the editor, John Hungerford Pollen), along with other items of potential interest to art students, including illustrated editions of literary works. Music was excluded. In 1870, the Museum issued a kind of cumulated preliminary version, with about 60,000 entries, arranged simply by author/title in brief, unnumbered entries, with no systematic subject access or indexing. A supplementary volume in the same format, with about 18,000 entries, followed in 1877.
Price: $ 110.00 other currencies Order nr. 51972

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(Art) Pollen, John Hungerford UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON ART, VOL.I A-K / VOL.2 L-Z / VOL.III SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME.
3 volumes. New York Burt Franklin n.d. large 8vo. cloth. (ii),ix,(iii),1030; (iv),1061-2188; (iv),655+(1) pages.
Burt Franklin reprint (their Bibliography and Reference series, no. 47) of the original 1870 and 1877 works published by the South Kensington Museum in London. See Besterman 523 for the original. In the 1860's, the Kensington Museum decided to publish a kind of union catalogue of "books on art," based on library holdings in England and elsewhere. To be included were books on "Painting, Sculpture, Architecture; on Mosaics, Enamels; hand-wrought utensils in all materials which show a decorative intention; on tombs, monuments bearing sculpture, and on decoration..." (preface by the editor, John Hungerford Pollen), along with other items of potential interest to art students, including illustrated editions of literary works. Music was excluded. In 1870, the Museum issued a kind of cumulated preliminary version, with about 60,000 entries, arranged simply by author/title in brief, unnumbered entries, with no systematic subject access or indexing. A supplementary volume in the same format, with about 18,000 entries, followed in 1877. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 97952

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(August, Herzog) HERZOG AUGUST ZU BRAUNSCHWEIG UND LUNEBURG, 1579-1666.
Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Bibliothek 1979 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 421, (3) pages.
Magnificent exhibition catalogue devoted to the life and times of this enlightened German prince and the library founded in his honor.
Price: $ 17.00 other currencies Order nr. 37485

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(Autographs) Crum, Margaret. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTOGRAPHS IN THE BODMERIANA.
Cologny-Geneve Foundation Martin Bodmer 1977 8vo. paper-covered boards. 104, (2) pages.
First edition. List of autographed manuscripts from the collection of Martin Bodmer at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Separated into British writers, American writers, Miscellanea, and John Augustine Daly. Several facsimile of manuscripts interspersed. Indexed.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 56044

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(Autographs) Joline, Adrian H. MEDITATIONS OF AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR
New York Harper & Brothers 1902 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. x, 316 pages.
First edition. There are seventeen illustrations reproducing letters of Thackeray, Sterne, Bronte, Tennyson, Johnson, Pope, Scott, Darwin and others. Covers faded.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 157

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(Autographs) Joline, Adrian H. MEDITATIONS OF AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR
New York Harper & Brothers 1902 8vo. cloth. x, 316 pages.
First edition. There are seventeen illustrations reproducing letters of Thackeray, Sterne, Bronte, Tennyson, Johnson, Pope, Scott, Darwin and others. Inside hinges cracked.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 96628

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Baker, Hugh S. " RATIONAL AMUSEMENT IN OUR MIDST," PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN CALIFORNIA, 1849-1859.
Berkeley, CA California Library Association 1960 tall 8vo. self paper wrappers. (iv), 26 pages.
Reprinted from The California Historical Society Quarterly, Volume XXXVIII, Number 4, Decemberm, 1959. With a two page foreword by Richard H. Dillon.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 97238

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(Baldwin, Christopher Columbus) Larkin, Jack and Caroline Sloat (editors) A PLACE IN MY CHRONICLE: A NEW EDITION OF THE DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BALDWIN, 1829-1835.
Introduction and Transcription by Jack Larkin Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2010 8.5 x 11.5 hardcover, dust jacket 322 pages
The text of Baldwin's diary is a virtual trip back in time, and this edition with its lively illustrations and helpful identification of the hundreds of people he meets along the way, takes the reader back into Massachusetts in the years between 1829 and 1835. Numerous illustrations and pictures expand the descriptions Baldwin gives readers in his entries. Additionally, Larkin and Sloat use footnotes to explain information, such as dates or places, that audiences may be unfamiliar with. Baldwin's entries detail a wide variety of subjects, including everyday occurrences, such as the weather and places he visited, as well as the obscure and unusual things that amused him. Also discussed are people Baldwin met (with an index in the back describing every person in detail) in addition to his feelings on important subjects, such as slavery and religion, and his passions for books and reading. Larkin and Sloat have restored Baldwin's diary to its most original form, including the format, style and language in which he wrote. Readers will have a thorough understanding of life in Massachusetts in the early republic after reading Baldwin's diary.

"The diaries of Christopher Columbus Baldwin have long been among the American Antiquarian Society's nineteenth-century treasures. Baldwin's 'chronicle' now has a modern edition worthy of its invaluable contents, richly illustrated and superbly annotated thanks to the labors of Jack Larkin and Caroline Sloat. In these pages, everyday life in central Massachusetts- courtship and death, career and travel- shares the stage with key national developments of the early republic, from party politics to temperance to phrenology. Through it all, Baldwin reveals the passion for reading and collecting books that made him AAS's ideal librarian at the time and a forebear to all the men and women who have built America's great research collections." - Scott Casper, professor of history, University of Nevada, Reno
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104667

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(Beckley, John) Berkeley, Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley JOHN BECKLEY, ZEALOUS PARTISAN IN A NATION DIVIDED.
Philadelphia American Philosophical Society 1973 thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 312 pages.
First edition. Biography of the first Librarian of Congress. Minor jacket wear.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 418

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.3, MARCH 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Hicks on Nancy Drew books, G. Dibert-Himes on the library of Schloss Corvey in Germany, B.G. Henneke on old ship's logbooks, J.G. Schiller on the early publishing history of the Paul Bunyan tales, T. Conway on James Michener, G. and M. Green on the Little Blue Books of the 1920's and 30's, N. Basbanes on Romanov books at the New York Public Library, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 51973

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.7, JULY 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J.S. Murray on 19th-century book canvassers in America, C. Pelayo on the private library of her great-uncle Menéndez Pelayo, G. Menzies on memoirs of aristocratic Russian émigrés, P. Dininny on Kenny's Bookshop in Galway, R. Meador on Orson Well's 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, N. Basbanes on the bookseller P. Juvelis, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 52958

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
VOLUME 4, NO.1, JAN., 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Ramsland on A. Camus, B. Roismann-Cooper on the private press printer Gloria Stuart (who learned printing from Ward Ritchie and is at the moment better known for her role in a recent movie), S. Stipe on "the book that ruined Kate Chopin's career," B. Hicks on Powell's Books in Portland, N. Basbanes on the London Library, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53955

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(Bird & Bull Press) Stewart-Murphy, Charlotte A. A HISTORY OF BRITISH CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, THE BOOK LABELS AND EPHEMERA OF THE PAPANTONIO COLLECTION.
Newton, PA Bird & Bull Press 1992 tall 8vo. quarter leather, decorated paper over boards. 153, (2) pages.
Limited to 185 numbered copies. Printed on Arches mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at The Bird & Bull Press. Gives a history of British circulating libraries through the use of the Papantonio collection of library book labels and book related ephemera of the eighteenth and nineteenth century by the noted English collector Sir Ambrose Heal. The author has thoroughly researched the subject and has produced an interesting account of the libraries and the increase of literacy among the poorer classes. With related information on the printers, booksellers, engravers and bookbinders of the period. Illustrations of sixty-four labels, trade cards and prints are included.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 34912

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(Birmingham Library) SUPPLEMENT TO CATALOGUE, FROM 1863 TO NOVEMBER 1873.
Birmingham Printed by Josiah Allen (1873) 8vo. original paper wrappers. (iv), 166 pages.
Some nineteenth century library markings. Front wrapper detached.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 56542

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(Borromäus, H. Karl) VERZEICHNIS DER VON DEM VEREIN VOM H. KARL BORROMÄUS
Empfohlenen Buecher für das Jahr 1885. Köln J. P. Bachem 1884 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 170 pages
Written in German. With 7411 entries of books recommended by the society. Wear, tears, paper loss on extremities, lower half of spine missing, upper half taped, soiled, large diagonal tear on back cover (taped), front cover page partially stuck to title page.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 100684

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(Boston Public Library) ANNUAL LIST OF NEW AND IMPORTANT BOOKS ADDED TO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.
2 volumes Boston Published by the Trustees 1898-99 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards xii,176 pages; xii,164 pages
Annual list of books added to the Boston Public Library, selected from the monthly bulletins, Vol. 1, 1896-97, Vol. 2, 1897-98, with a synopsis of classification. Over ten thousand titles were selected from more than fifteen thousand listed in the bulletins, the proportion of books in the fine arts being the largest. Ex-library copy from the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia, with markings. Some chipping and small tears on spines of both volumes, wear to extremtieis, front free endpaper detached on volume 1.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 69642

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Bostwick, Arthur E. A LIFE WITH MEN AND BOOKS.
New York The H. W. Wilson Co. 1939 thick 8vo. later cloth. 358 pages.
First edition. Autobiography of a famous librarian.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 97337

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(Bradshaw, Henry) Stokes, Roy HENRY BRADSHAW, 1831-1886
Metuchen The Scarecrow Press 1984 8vo. cloth. v, 272 pages.
First edition. Volume Six of the Great Bibliographers Series. Biography of this librarian - bibliographer followed by a bibliography of his writings and excerpts from his works.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 11204

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Breedlove, Joseph Penn DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 1840-1940
A Brief Account with Reminiscences Durham, N.C. The Friends of Duke University 1955 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (ii), 81+(1) pages
Details the history of said library based on its members' memories. Wrappers worn - soiled, creased short tears.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 97509

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(Brett, William Howard) Eastman, Linda A. PORTRAIT OF A LIBRARIAN WILLIAM HOWARD BRETT.
Chicago American Library Association 1940 8vo. cloth. (x), 104, (2) pages.
First edition. A biography of this well-known Cleveland librarian. Ex library copy with markings.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 100804

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(Brigham, Clarence Saunders) CLARENCE SAUNDERS BRIGHAM 1877-1963.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1963 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 14 pages.
Reprinted from the Proceedings.
Price: $ 12.50 other currencies Order nr. 915

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(British Library) INDEX TO THE ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS, WITH THOSE OF THE EGERTON COLLECTION, PRESERVED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND ACQUIRED IN THE YEARS 1783-1836.
London Printed by Order of the Trustees [of the Museum] 1849 large 4to. all but disbound. (iv), 514 pages.
Between the publication of the 1782 Ayscough catalogue and the inception of the Index to the Additions in 1836, the British Museum acquired about 5,000 manuscripts or manuscript sets. The Index to the Additions was not retroactive, and manuscript acquisitions from 1783 through 1835 had, therefore, no coverage in any printed catalogue until this gap was closed in 1849 by this "Index." The first 2,000 or so of the approximately 5,000 entries (numbered 5018 to 10,018) were taken from manuscript catalogues at the Museum, and most of the remaining 3,000 (post-1828) were extracted from the annual printed lists of donations and bequests, or from those of additions, with a few additional items. This resulted in a certain lack of uniformity in description, but the Museum felt that the problem was not serious enough to justify postponement (for editing) of this much-needed publication. Nineteenth century library markings. Pages 509-514 provided in photocopy facsimile. Front and rear boards detached, spine lacking. Boards heavily worn at edges and corners. First several pages detached. Some chipping to edges of title page. Soiled.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 56199

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BRITISH MUSEUM. ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATE, AND NUMBER OF PERSONS ADMITTED.
(London British Museum 1818) 4to. self paper wrappers (4) pages.
Interesting accounting statement issued by the British Museum (Thomas Keith, Accountant) giving full details of the costs and income of the Museum. With month by month attendance records for seven years present in table form. Appears to be removed from some other document although the titling information is printed in a way that would appear as the front cover when folded.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 88126

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