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(Abbey Collection) CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AND FINE BINDINGS FROM THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION, THE PROPERTY OF MAJOR J.R. ABBEY.
8 (of 11) volumes. London Sotheby & Co. 1965-1989 small 4to. paper-covered boards
Lacking parts 9, 10, 11. Includes Abbey's bindings and illuminated manuscripts.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 60844

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(Abbey, J. R.) CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY OF (THE LATE) MAJOR J. R. ABBEY
6 volumes. Volumes 2-7 London Sotheby & Co. (1966-)1970 large 8vo. (vols. 2-6); 4to. (vol. 7) paper-covered boards (vols. 2-4, 7); stiff paper wrappers (vols. 5, 6) variously paginated
Sotheby's sold portions of the spectacular library of English collector John Roland Abbey (1894-1969) while he was still alive and other portions following his death. These catalogues of the sales include descriptions of lots 695 - 2904 and numerous photographic illustrations--some in color, some folding. The exteriors of this set show minor soiling and minor to moderate wear. The cover is cracking a little at the upper front joint of volume 2 and has split at the lower back joint of volume 7. Volumes 3, 4, and 7 have the markings of formerly belonging to a public library collection. A price-list with buyers' names for the volume 5 auction is loosely laid-in.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 87365

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AL'MANAKH BIBLIOFILA (THE BIBLIOPHILE'S ALMANACH)
21 volumes. Moscow n.p. 1975-1993 8vo. cloth.
Twenty-one of the twenty-eight volumes published to-date in this periodical devoted to book collecting, printing, miniature books, bookplates, publishing and bookselling. Illustrated. The former owner of this set knows of no complete sets in the West. Includes the following volumes: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11-13, 15-20, 22-28.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 39558

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Andrews, William Loring GOSSIP ABOUT BOOK COLLECTING
2 volumes. New York Dodd, Mead and Co. 1900 8vo. decorated limp boards with printed paper jacket, top edge gilt, later cardboard slipcase. (x),98; viii,102 pages.
The first edition of this work has been limited to 157 copies of which this is one of the 116 copies printed on Holland paper for subscribers. (Duschnes 40; Webber 20) Gossip About Book Collecting displays 5 plates in the first volume and 7 plates in the second volume, five of which are in color. Because of Andrews' interest in bookbinding, many of the articles in the book are on bookbinding and bookbinders. Andrews was a founder of the Grolier Club and founder and president of the Society of Iconophiles. His collection was sold to a dealer shortly before his death. Beautifully printed by the Gilliss Press, this scarce title has some cover soiling and wear to outer jacket. Bookplate.
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 104111

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Andrews, William Loring. JEAN GROLIER DE SERVIER VISCOUNT d'AGUISY, SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE
New York The DeVinne Press 1892 8vo. original gilt-decorated blue cloth. 68 pages with 14 beautiful colored plates.
First edition, limited to 140 copies printed on hand-made paper and ten on Imperial Japan Paper, with a number of well-executed plates showing famous Grolier bindings, some of which are in color. Minor cover rubbing. Front end paper detached. Damp stain on some of the rear pages.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 114217

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ANTIQUARIAN BOOK MONTHLY REVIEW.
(Original title ABMR). Oxford ABMR 1980 - 1999 4to. self paper wrappers
Total of 188 issued of this periodical devoted to book collecting. Included under the title ABMR Volume XII, 1 (1980) to Volume XIX, 12 (1992) lacking only one issue (XVIII, no.1). Continued as Antiquarian Book Monthly Review which has 33 issues.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 77722

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ANTIQUARIAN BOOK MONTHLY REVIEW
London ABMR various dates 4to. paper wrappers Per issue
A wealth of book information, Antiquarian Book Monthly Review includes 149 issues of this periodical from October 1974 to October 1993 with gaps.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 104104

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Arnold, William Harris A RECORD OF BOOKS & LETTERS COLLECTED BY WILLIAM HARRIS ARNOLD. WITH AN ESSAY ON THE COLLECTOR'S POINT OF VIEW BY LEON H. VINCENT.
Jamaica, NY Dodd, Mead and Co. 1901 tall 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xx, 106 pages.
First edition, one of 29 numbered copies printed on Japan paper out of a total limitation of 145 copies numbered and signed by Frank Hopkins of the Marion Press. (Webber p.25). Arnold was a bookseller and collector. This book records his activities as a collector showing prices paid for books and prices realized at their auction sale. Filled with illustrations. Label is spotted along edge.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 32501

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(Beckford, William) CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST (TO FOURTH) PORTION OF THE BECKFORD LIBRARY REMOVED FROM HAMILTON PALACE. With CATALOGUE OF THE HAMILTON LIBRARY.
5 volumes bound in 1. London Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 1882, 1882, 1882, 1883, 1883, 1884 thick tall 8vo. half vellum with green pebbled cloth, top edge gilt. (vi), 237; vi, 195; viii,196; vi, 78; viii,150 pages
Complete set of this massive sale. William Beckford (1760-1844) was a novelist and art and book collector who rivaled the most important collectors of his day. The collection was kept intact by the family and sold many years after his death. The first four parts are completely priced in pen in the margin with the buyer's name written in pen in the opposite margin. Some soiling of covers with a crack along the bottom of the front hinge. Library bookplate is the only library marking.
Price: $ 800.00 other currencies Order nr. 106120

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Berjeau, J. Ph. (editor) BOOK-WORM (first two volumes) then THE BOOKWORM, A LITERARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY J. PH. BERJEAU (THE)
4 volumes (of 5 total). London Book-Worm 1867-1871 tall 8vo. contemporary half blue calf with marbled paper covered boards, top edges gilt (signed bindings by Zaehnsdorf). iv,188; iv,188; iv,188; iv,188 pages.
Ulrich & Kup p.17. Volumes two to five (of five total published). "A scholarly digest of bibliographical information. Significant notes on early printing and illustration." From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company. Rubbed along hinges.
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 102486

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Bertrand, Jean. JEAN BERTRAND. BIBLIOTHÈQUE. AUTEURS PAR ORDER ALPHABETIQUE.[From spine labels:]
N.P. n.p. n.d. Book box, labeled as noted above (3320 x 255 mm), hinged on front joint, clasps, full calf over oak boards, two leather spine labels
Book box that, when opened, reveals four green paper-lined sections for catalogue cards (each 42 x 75mm), each section held in place by solid barriers with moveable lettered divisions. A charming and unusual private library catalogue containing a few hundred records in two alphabetically listed columns, with the two further columns filled with blank cards. Many of the card entries are pasted clippings from booksellers' catalogues, some as late as the 1920s. In some cases the clippings are pasted onto the verso of what appear to be earlier ink entries, giving the impression that the catalogue was used over many years. The books described make for a pretty miscellaneous lot of information that do not indicate any particular proclivity of the owner. There are, however, two card entries under Bertrand (Jean) for the Compte-rendu de la Session de Congrès central d'Agriculture for the years 1846 and 1847 respectively. Covers quite bashed with some loss of leather, with some worm drill holes, but all perfectly sound and the wear (arguably) enhances the distressed antique look.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 79943

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BIBLIOGRAPHER, A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE (THE)
6 volumes bound in 3 London Elliot Stock 1881-1884 4to. later cloth.
Ulrich & Kup p.146. The complete set of this periodical under this title. Hundreds of articles on bookselling, printing, collecting, and bibliography. This magazine was continued as Book Lore. Pages 95 - 160 are detached and loosely inserted. Some tears in pages as the paper is fragile.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 104670

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BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS MANUSCRIPTS, AND EPHEMERA.
31 issues, a complete run. Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corp. 1996-1999 small 4to. full-color paper wrappers.
This magazine stopped being published after Volume 4, Number 4. Filled with articles of interest to the book lover. Many color illustrations.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 60411

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry THE PRIVATE PRESS-MAN'S TALE.
With illustrations by Lili Wronker. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1990 4to. paste paper over cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. 61, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 230 numbered copies. Letterpress printed with Van Dijck types on Arches mouldmade paper and bound by Barbara Blumenthal. A humorous collection of satire and prose, inspired by Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. All the text is related to the book arts - book-collecting, bookselling, printing, papermaking, etc. It includes an imaginary interview with William Morris, a great poem about the attitude of FINE PRINT magazine, Henry's explanation of the Handmade Paper Today incident and a review of the antics in Fine Print's book reviews. There are also two excellent articles by Sidney Berger on Book Fairs and Book Scouts. The illustrations have been very well executed and express all the humour of the text. An essential for anybody who is known in the books about books field, because they are bound to have been mentioned! Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 240.00 other currencies Order nr. 89153

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1999 large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations.
Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. Includes chapters on Bird & Bull Incunabula, 19th-Century Security Papers, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Numismata Typographica, Farewell to Papermaking, A History of Die Cutting, The Wurzburg Lithography and more. Includes a tipped-in sample of the first Bird & Bull handmade paper (1958). The portfolio case includes two removable cylinder seal impressions. These clay impressions, attributions to the article "Better Late Than Never," bear images of people and inscriptions from ancient cylinder seals in Babylonia. Full of illustrations in both black and white and color, many tipped-in. Text in Ehrhardt types on Arches Mouldmade paper. Several pages printed in two colors. Prospectus inserted.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 56850

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(Bird & Bull Press) Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2010 8vo quarter leather over cloth covered boards, leather label on spine 131 pages
First edition. Limited to 140 copies. There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it), and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R., as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws vistors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.

Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 104399

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(Bird & Bull Press) Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2010 8vo unbound signatures. 131 pages
First edition. Limited to 140 copies of which this is "140". There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it), and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R., as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws vistors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 108786

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(Bird & Bull Press) Spiller, Robert E. THE PHILOBIBLON CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1973 8vo. vellum spine, roller-printed paste paper over boards. 41 pages.
Taylor B4. One of 275 numbered copies. The Colophon for the book is a two page, 52 line, original poem by Henry Morris. Fine. (The book, not the poem.) With information on Rosenbach, Morley, and a bibliography of the books published by the club.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 74429

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(Bonna, Jean) Diesbach-Soultrait, Vérène de SIX SIÈCLES DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE: XVIIe SIÈCLE
2 volumes. Geneva Librairie Droz 2010 4to cloth 192,(4); 213,(3) pages
Text in French. Catalogue of the library of Jean Bonna, including works from the books and manuscripts. 323 items. Color illustrations throughout. Index and bibliography.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 109415

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Bouland, Dr L. MARQUES DES LIVRES ANCIENNES ET MODÉRNES, FRANÇAISES ET ÉTRANGÈRES.
Paris Librairie Henri Leclerc, L. Giraud-Badin 1925 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 517 pages.
First edition. An important book describing the bookplates and special designs on books used by collectors to denote ownership. Many illustrations and biographical descriptions of the collector. Spine age darkened. Some chipping along hinges and at spine ends.
Price: $ 360.00 other currencies Order nr. 105948

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Cole, John BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE TOUR FROM SCARBOROUGH TO THE LIBRARY OF A PHILOBIBLIST, IN ITS NEIGHBORHOOD.
Scarborough John Cole et al. 1824 8vo. modern quarter calf, five raised bands, maroon calf gilt spine label, marbled paper-covered boards, uncut. (ii), iv, 92+(1) pages.
First edition, a large paper copy. The total edition size was 158 copies, of which 100 were printed on small paper, 50 copies on large paper, and 8 on colored paper (Lowndes p.491). The large paper copies are different from the small paper copies in the following ways: the book block measures 22 cm rather than 20 cm; the title page contains a view of Hunmanby, rather than a quote from Dibdin; the verso of the title page contains the Dibdin quote and is blank in the small paper copy. Illustrated with original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick (Hugo no.4335). A bibliographical guide of the rare English folio and quarto volumes preserved in the library of the book collector and member of the Roxburghe Club, Francis Wrangham. Describes 100 items with lengthy annotations. Light spotting to endpapers; a very few isolated areas of browning to text; a couple of contemporary pencil amendments and remarks in margins; last two leaves mispaginated.
Price: $ 2,950.00 other currencies Order nr. 45049

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Cole, John BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE TOUR FROM SCARBOROUGH TO THE LIBRARY OF A PHILOBIBLIST, IN IT'S NEIGHBORHOOD.
Scarborough John Cole et al. 1824 8vo. original paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut, preserved in a modern cloth box. (ii), iv, 92+(1) pages.
First edition, limited to 100 copies. Signed by the author on the verso of the dedication page. Dedicated to Francis Wrangham (1769-1842), who assembled a library which contained over 14000 volumes and was accomplished at finding obscure and interesting titles. John Cole was a bookseller from Scarborough on whom Wrangham had great influence. This book gives a description of 100 selected titles in Wrangham's library, the notes being mainly drawn from Wrangham's private catalogue, then in MS., but destined to be printed two years later. (Michael Sadleir's Archdeacon Francis Wrangham 1769-1842. Oxford Bibl. Soc., 1937). From the library of John William Clay with his bookplate. Original paper wrappers worn along edges and hinges. Paper spine label mostly rubbed away. Unusual to find in original condition.
Price: $ 1,950.00 other currencies Order nr. 102508

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Comte Durrieu LES TRÈS BELLES HEURES DE NOTRE-DAME DU DUC JEAN DE BERRY.
Paris Pour les membres de la société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures 1922 4to. Black leather spine, marbled paper-covered boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon marker 127+(5) pages followed by 30 plates
Jean, Duc de Berry, was a notable art patron who commissioned the Très riches heures, one of the most famous illuminated Book of Hours (a liturgical book containing prayers said by the laity at each canonical hour of the day). This beautifully crafted book contains detailed descriptions and histories of his collections of manuscripts and paintings. Text is in French. Includes 30 full-page, black-and-white plates, all printed on recto. Black leather spine, marbled covers and endpapers, gilded top edge, ribbon marker, deckled pages. Some wear on edges and bumping on corners.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 97212

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Croiset, Uchelen van, K. van der Horst, G. Schilder THEATRUM ORBIS LIBRORUM. LIBER AMICORUM PRESENTED TO NICO ISRAEL ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1989 6.5 x 9.5 inches cloth xii, 518 pages.
With contributions on geography, travel, rare books, booktrade, collectors and libraries by C. Koeman, G. Schilder, R. Breugelmans, K. van der Horst, F.A. Janssen, C. Reedijk, J. Storm van Leeuwen, E. Braches, E. Cockx-Indestege, I.H. van Eeghen, H. de la Fontaine Verwey, L. Hellinga-Querido, P.F.J. Obbema, B. van Selm. etc. Illustrated.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 190.00 other currencies Order nr. 103505

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(Descamps-Scrive, René) BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE M. RÉNE DESCAMPS-SCRIVE.
3 volumes, complete. Paris Leopold Carteret and Lille: Émile Raoust-Leleu 1925 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv),vi,98,(4); (iv),203,(7); (iv),vi,247,(7) pages.
(Blogie Volume II, pp.299,300,301) The complete set of this important auction sale. Filled with tipped-in plates showing many of the fine bindings in the collection. The plates for volumes two and three are loosely inserted in separate paper portfolios as issued. Wrappers worn; pages fine. Spine mostly missing on volume one, but complete. Volume three, spine missing, covers detached, but complete.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 25152

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