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(Accounting) THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. LIBRARY CATALOGUE.
2 volumes. London The Council of the Institute 1937 small 8vo. gilt stamped cloth. vi,256; vi,259 pages.
Third edition, second impression. This two volume set gathers together the best books on the subject of accountancy from the Library of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Volume one lists subjects and authors while volume two is a bibliography of bookkeeping. Cosmo Gordon provides a preface. Bookseller's tag on front pastedowns. Stain to bottom edge of initial pages in volume one.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 61719

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(Adams, Randolph) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RANDOLPH G. ADAMS WITH AN INTRODUCTRY MEMOIR.
Ann Arbor William L. Clements Library 1962 large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 35 pages.
Limited to 750 copies. Includes a bibliography by Georgia Haugh and a biography by Howard H. Peckham.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 77255

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Alston, R.C. HANDLIST OF LIBRARY CATALOGUES AND LISTS OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.
London The Bibliographical Society 1991 4to. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 87 pages.
Occasional Papers No.6. A handlist of this collection, with dates and a short description of the contents of each entry. Combined author/subject index. Covers rubbed along edges.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 47826

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ARBEITEN AUS DEM EVANGELISCHEN BIBLIOTHEKAR-LEHRINSTITUT.
4 volumes. Göttingen Evangelisches Bibliothekar-Lehrinstitut 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977 one large 8vo. & 3 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with fabric covered spine. (iv),iii,46; 48; (xxii),44,xxiv; x,70 pages.
Volumes 4, 6, 7, and 8 in this series. Includes studies of journalistic documentation of news in public libraries, of specialized bibliographies and catalogues, on the catalogue of a children's library, and on organizations for evangelical books.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 51247

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(Architecture) Schimmelman, Janice G. ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS IN EARLY AMERICA, ARCHITECTURAL TREATISES AND BUILDING HANDBOOKS IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES THROUGH 1800.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 221 pages.
First edition. This annotated bibliography describes 147 architectural treatises and building handbooks that were available in American libraries and bookstores prior to 1800. The books listed were highly influential in colonial America. Originally published as part of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY in 1985, this revised and expanded edition is the first hardcover edition. ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS IN EARLY AMERICA is an essential and valuable tool for collectors and students of early American architecture.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 105339

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(Argentina) Becu, Teodoro. LA BIBLIOGRAFIA EN LA REPUBLICA ARGENTINA.
Buenos Aires Comite Argentino de Bibliotecarios de Instituciones Cientificas y Technicas 1945 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 34, (2) pages.
First edition. Volume two of the series Contribuciones al Conocimiento de la Bibliotecologia(Contributions to the Knowledge of Library Science). An informative essay analyzing the literary publications of Argentina and the issue of an official national bibliography. Text in Spanish. Minor spotting to cover.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 57323

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(Argentina) CATALOGO DE LA BIBLIOTECA POR ORDEN ALFABETICO DE AUTORES...
Cordoba [Argentina] Universidad Nacional de Cordoba 1914 large 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 165 pages.
Books in the Univ. Nac. in the above sections, by author or by title where no main author is available. With a list of theses and of works received too late for inclusion in the main list. Author index. Covers irregularly faded, somewhat soiled. Backing separating at top.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 51043

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(Argentina) CATALOGO DE LA BIBLIOTECA POR ORDEN ALFABETICO DE AUTORES, 2. SECCION, HISTORIA Y GEOGRAFIA...
Cordoba Universidad Nacional 1908 large 8vo. sewn, stiff paper covers. 3-158 pages.
Not in Besterman. About 1,100 author/title main entries arranged by subject or format: history, geography, voyages, atlases and maps, dictionaries, pamphlets, bibliographies--followed by 350+ entries for periodicals and an alphabetical index. Covers soiled, light browning around edges. Lacks backing.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 52023

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(Argentina) CONGRESO NACIONAL, BIBLIOTECA, CATALOGO GENERAL.
Tomo 1. Buenos Aires Congreso Nacional n.d. (1913) small 4to. quarter cloth, marbled boards. (iv), 482 pages.
Alphabetical catalogue (author/country/title) of the holdings of the library of the Argentine Congreso Nacional (not to be confused with the Biblioteca Nacional). Entries, which are bibliographically somewhat minimal, for 3,914 works and 20,530 volumes. This work is complete in itself, but was also meant to be the first of a series of publications, which is probably why it is called "tomo I." A few very small worm holes in the cloth. Covers bumped, chipped. The backing is frayed at top and bottom and has almost completely separated at the outside of the hinge along the back cover. Top edge soiled, first and last 3-4 pages foxed, as is the front edge.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 50233

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(Argentina) EXPOSICION DEL LIBRO Y DE LA LITOGRAFIA.
Buenos Aires Circulo Militar 1940 small 4to. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. viii, 137, (3) pages.
Limited to 1,900 copies. Not in Besterman. catalogue for an exhibition in Buenos Aires of books and lithographs organized by the "Circulo Militar" for the inauguration of the National Military Library and the Museum of Arms: 1,334 numbered, rather minimal entries for books arranged by category (countries, bibliographies of Napoleon, the English Invasion, etc.), with 34 additional entries, and 64 numbered entries for lithographs. Browned, covers chipped, starting to detach. Backing partly missing.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 51920

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(Argentina) Matjevic, Nicolas. BIBLIOGRAFIA BIBLIOTECOLOGICA ARGENTINA.
Bahia Blanca Universidad Nacional del Sur n.d. (1969) small 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. (ii), xii, 354 pages.
Per introduction: "the first bibliography dedicated in form exclusively to Argentine output in the field of library science" (p.V). Classified bibliography arranged according to the Universal Decimal Classification, with 77 topical subdivisions covering library topics and related fields such as the book trade, and printing and publishing, especially in Argentina. 2,539 numbered entries, mostly from the 1920's on, covering books, book chapters, articles, official documents, conference materials, and other items. With an alphabetical index of personal/corporate authors, organizations, translators, and other originators of documents. Preliminary matter printed in an unusual sans serif, with the rest reproduced from typescript. Wrappers lightly soiled, creased or worn at corners; back creased, chipped at bottom.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 50245

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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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(Autographs) Metzdorf, Robert F. CATALOGUE OF THE AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.
Rochester University of Rochester Library 1940 8vo. cloth. 176 pages.
Over 1,000 autograph letters described with long extracts from many. With letters from Borrow, Bronte, Carlyle, Garrick, Hawthorne, Samuel Johnson and Whitman. Presentation from the author on free endpaper "Bob Barry, from Bob 10 Mar. 54." Spine faded.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 76615

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(Bancroft Library) Morgan, Dale L. & George P. Hammond (editors) A GUIDE TO THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY.
2 volumes. Berkeley University of California Press 1963 8vo. cloth, dust jacket x,377; x,294 pages
Volumes I and II of 3 part series of guides to the Bancroft Library's collection of more than four million manuscripts related to the history of western North America and early Latin America. Jackets show minor wear.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 101856

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(Bancroft Library) SOME TREASURES OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY CELEBRATING THE DEDICATION OF THE ENLARGED AND REMODELED LIBRARY, MAY 6TH, 1973.
Berkeley Friends of the Bancroft Library 1973 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 85 pages.
Introduction by James D. Hart. Illustrated. Some cover fading.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 43615

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Bannister, Arthur Thomas (compiler) A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE HEREFORD CATHEDRAL LIBRARY.
Hereford Wilson and Phillips 1927 small 4to. later cloth (xii), viii, 190 pages
A bibliography of the manuscripts from between eighth and fifteenth centuries in the Hereford Cathedral Library and their respective donors and previous owners. Original wrappers, in excellent shape, bound-in front has an ornate red border with alternating coats of arms. Includes an introduction by Montague Rhodes James, the Provost of Eton. A few notes penciled in margins. Two faded splotches on back.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 96616

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Barringer, George. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AT GEORGETOWN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG.
Washington, DC Georgetown University Library 1985 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages.
First edition. Includes a history of the library with an illustrated overview of its special collections. Introduction by Joseph E. Jeffs, University Librarian.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 96166

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(Beatty, Chester) SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY
(Princeton, New Jersey) Princeton University Library 1967 8vo stiff paper wrappers (vi), 58 pages
Catalogue of a "representative sampling of one of the most remarkable collections in the world"--consisting of 116 items, the inaugrial exhibition of an ongoing collaboration to make materials from the Chester Beatty Library in Ireland available to scholars in the United States.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 90434

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Bedwell, C. E. A. A CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTED BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, WITH AN INDEX OF SUBJECTS
3 volumes. Glasgow Printed for the Honourable Society at the University Press 1914 thick 8vo. cloth xii,(ii),693+(1); (iv),695-1395+(1); (iv),520,(2) pages
First edition. The first volume contains a history of this library which was established in the 17th century. A Supplement (Volume IV), comprising additions 1914-1924, was issued in 1925. Circular red library stamp of the Bibliothèque Andre Mater on each title-page; minor wear to head and tails of spine, contents good and bright.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 79929

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(Belgium) TREASURES OF BELGIAN LIBRARIES.
Edinburgh National Library of Scotland 1963 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 134 pages followed by 32 plates.
Histories of various important Belgium libraries followed by treasures from their collections. Foreword by Herman Liebaers. Rubbed along hinges.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 36960

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Benge, R.C. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE PROVISION OF BOOKS.
London Association of Assistant Librarians 1963 8vo. cloth. 240 pages.
Sections on reading, writing, library service, publishing, and bibliography. Indexed. Bumped at spine.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 48949

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(Berg Collection) Szladits, Lola L. PERENNIALS, A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY SELECTION FROM THE BERG COLLECTION.
New York The New York Public Library Collection 1988 8vo. paper wrappers. (x), 89 pages.
Illustrated catalogue of over 140 treasures from this extensive and important collection. Rubbed along hinges.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 51109

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Besterman, Theodore BIBLIOGRAPHY, LIBRARY SCIENCE AND REFERENCE BOOKS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
Totowa Rowman and Littlefield 1971 8vo. cloth. (xiv), 271 pages.
Taken from the massive work from Besterman listing all bibliographies on all subjects.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 31018

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Paul Lacombe's copy

LE BIBLIOGRAPHE MODERNE, COURRIER INTERNATIONAL DES ARCHIVES ET DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES.
19 volumes bound in 18. Paris n.p. 1897-1919 large 8vo. quarter leather with five raised bands, marbled paper-covered boards, with original paper wrappers bound in. variously paginated
A complete run of this bimonthly periodical until 1919 (i.e. volumes one to nineteen). The periodical continued to 1931and Superseded Revue internationale des archives, des bibliothèques et des musées. Merged into Revue des bibliothèques. Journal of bibliography, archives, libraries and library sciences. Ex-libris of Paul Lacombe, the French book collector and author. Minor wear to extremities. Loosely inserted is a commemorative book label which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus purchased by Oak Knoll Books at the auction sale.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 76155

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