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(Tribbitt, Sherman W.) THE HONORABLE SHERMAN W. TRIBBITT, GOVERNOR, STATE OF DELAWARE.
N.P. n.p. n.d. postcard.
Postcard with his picture on one side and a full biographical description on the other.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 92826

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Tromonin, Kornilii Yakovlevich TROMONIN'S WATERMARK ALBUM, A FACSIMILE OF THE MOSCOW 1844 EDITION.
With Additional Materials by S.A. Klepikov. Edited, Translated, and Adapted for Publication in English by J.S.G. Simmons. Hilversum The Paper Publications Society 1965 4to. cloth. xv, 62 pages followed by the facsimile of 22 pages and 131 plates containing 1824 reproductions of watermarks.
First edition thus, limited to 500 copies. Volume XI in the publications of the Society.
Price: $ 110.00 other currencies Order nr. 70705

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(Tunisia) Ashbee, H.S. and R. Lambert Playfair A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TUNISIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF 1888 & A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRIPOLI AND THE CYRENAICA.
Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing Co. (2002) large 8vo. cloth (vi),144,(4); (ii),560-614,(2) pages
Facsimile edition, bound in one volume, of Parts I and II of the Bibliography of the Barbary States, each published separately in 1889, by Dulau & Co., London (Ashbee), and the Royal Geographical Society, London (Playfair), Besterman 6222 & 6210. The Ashbee volume on Tunisia is a listing in two parts from the "Earliest Times to the End of 1888, including Utica and Carthage, The Punic Wars, The Roman Occupation, The Arab Conquest, The Expeditions of Louis IX and Charles V, and The French Protectorate." Arranged alphabetically by author, with an index and map. The bibliography of Tripoli and the Cyrenaica by Sir. R. Lambert Playfair follows, containing 579 entries, from 484, B.C., to 1889, with a separate listing of the Tripoli Archives of the Public Record Office in London, extracted from 62 MS. volumes containing correspondence from and to the Consulate-General of Tripoli. Arranged chronologically, with an index and map. Col. Playfair has also written bibliographies of Algeria and Morocco, Parts III and IV from this series, reprinted by the same publisher.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 72224

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Twyman, Michael EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF IMPROPER BOOKS IN THE AGE OF THE HAND PRESS, WITH A CATALOGUE.
London Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association (1990) small 4to. cloth. 374 pages.
First edition. Includes chapters on Lithographic incunables, Military manuals, The Lithographic Publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Books on Accounting, and Books with pictures. Well-illustrated.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 31987

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(Type Specimens) INTERNATIONAL TYPEFOUNDERS/INTERNATIONAL TYPEFOUNDERS
2 volumes (Norristown PA) International Typefounders 1995; 1998 square 8vo. Two volumes, paper-covered boards not paginated
Thousands of type faces, each having one example, available from over 50 independent foundries and designers from around the world for PC or Mac. There is a CD available, but it is not included in the books. There is also a list of typeface distributors worldwide who carry these typefonts along with a website for ordering online. Quite interesting and very comprehensive.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 92971

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(Type Specimens) Jammes, Paul COLLECTION DE SPÉCIMENS DE CARACTÈRES, 1517-2004
(Paris) Librairie Paul Jammes, Éditions des Cendres (2006) 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket 393, (5) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 1000. A magnificent catalogue of type specimen books issued by this noted French bookseller. Contains 380 color illustrations of type specimens, many never before seen, with historical and bibliographical information for each. Printed in Sabon Next type.
Price: $ 320.00 other currencies Order nr. 94597

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TYPOGRAPHY 10, THE ANNUAL OF THE TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB.
New York Watson Guptill (1989) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages.
First edition. An annual production which provides a fascinating selection of design and typography. Full color throughout.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 28488

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(Typography.) Kegler, Richard, James Grieshaber and Tamye Riggs (editors) INDIE FONTS 2, A COMPENDIUM OF DIGITAL TYPE FROM INDEPENDENT FOUNDRIES.
New York P-Type Publications 2003 small square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 392 Pages
First edition. Foreword by Peter Bain. Book design by James Grieshaber. Text face is Alisal, designed by Carter & Cone. Indie Fonts provides a showcase collection of almost 1600 diverse fonts from 19 of today's hottest digital type foundries, creating an invaluable resource for designers, art directors and typographers. The book is organized by foundry so the user can get a feel for the work produced by each group. A visual font index is provided in the front for quick-scanning, with a fully cross-referenced index of font names, designers, and original designers. Contributing foundries include Atomic Media, Identikal, Jukebox, Storm Type Foundry, Terminal Design, and Union Fonts. Accompanying this book is a Bonus Fonts CD-ROM that contains representative 38 fonts. With a glossary of typographic terms and quick reference charts as appendixes. Designers looking for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 76365

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(Ulizio, B. George) Keller, Dean H. and Cara Gilgenbach (Editors) A CATALOGUE OF THE B. GEORGE ULIZIO COLLECTION IN THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES.
New Castle and Kent State Oak Knoll Press & Kent State University Libraries 2006 8.5" x 11" hardcover 246 pages
First Edition. A catalogue of the B. George Ulizio Collection of English and American Literature in the Department of Special Collections, Kent State University Library. B. George Ulizio (1889-1969) was a distinguished bibliophile who saw the value of making these great works available to students and scholars. The catalogue contains fifteen hundred entries. Mr. Ulizio chose significant works, which also carried the necessary scholarly relevance to be of interest to serious students and researchers. Co-published with the Kent State University Libraries.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 90196

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Updike, Daniel Berkeley PRINTING TYPES, THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE
2 volumes in one. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2001 6.5 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 1,088 pages
Third edition, reprinted with new introduction by Martin Hutner. This extraordinary work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons they contain for today's designers. The original two-volume set has been combined into one book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected from rare and beautiful books. Updike's well-written text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these illustrations, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. In Volume I, Mr. Updike discusses the Latin alphabet, the invention of printing, the cutting and casting of types, fifteenth-century types in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and England, as well as German, Italian and French types of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Volume II continues the discussion of types to the beginning of the nineteenth century and then describes American types and nineteenth-century types in general. The closing chapters on choice of type and the industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to problems printers face are very informative. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 63429

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(Updike, John) De Bellis, Jack & Michael Broomfield JOHN UPDIKE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS, 1948-2007
With "Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2007 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 624 pages (plus 359 pages on CD-ROM)
First Edition. John Updike is internationally renowned for his novels, short stories, poems, essays and criticism. He has won two Pulitzers, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other prizes. Updike has written a "Foreword to My Own Bibliography" especially for this book.
This definitive guide to materials by and about this prolific American author consists of a printed first volume and a second volume on CD (a first for Oak Knoll Press). The A and B sections of Volume I, concerning separately printed works by Updike and books to which he has contributed, are superb examples of descriptive bibliography. The printed volume also features over 500 grayscale images of book covers, jackets, broadsides, and many seldom seen items. It includes comprehensive listings of Updike's short fiction, poems, articles, essays, and reviews, as well as extensive documentation of letters, speeches, dramatic works, manuscripts, interviews, and blurbs. Volume II contains entries for material about Updike and his work (reviews, commentary, and theses), several appendices (media appearances, work read by others, works in translation, exhibits and catalogs), and full-color versions of images appearing in the printed volume. John Updike: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, 1948-2007 provides an indispensable guide to Updike's work and commentary about it.
Jack De Bellis, professor emeritus of English (Lehigh University), has authored The John Updike Encyclopedia (2000) and John Updike: Critical Responses to the "Rabbit" Saga (2004), as well as several essays and reviews concerning Updike's novels. This bibliography greatly expands his 1994 compilation for Greenwood Press. De Bellis has also published two books on the poet Sidney Lanier, and articles on writers ranging from Shakespeare to Ken Kesey, and from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Truman Capote. His first published work, on Andrew Lytle, was a bibliography. De Bellis was a Fulbright scholar to the University of Toulouse in France. He lives with his wife in Allentown, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia where he was born.
Michael Broomfield, a corporate lawyer by profession, has become, over the past 40 years, a preeminent collector of first editions and other materials by a number of American writers, including Raymond Carver, E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, Robinson Jeffers and many living authors. Collecting work in many forms, Broomfield displays remarkable attention to detail and an acute understanding of the complexities of editions. He has what is probably the most extensive private collection of John Updike materials. This bibliography is Broomfield's first book. He lives in New York City with his wife and their daughter.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 92254

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Vander Meulen, David L. (editor) BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS.
Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1998 8vo. cloth. x, 272 pages.
First edition. With a history of the Society by David Vander Meulen, a complete checklist of the Society's publications, also by Vander Meulen; a history of Studies in Bibliography by G. Thomas Tanselle; and an author index to the first fifty volumes of the Studies by David L. Gants and Elizabeth K. Lynch. Also contains William Todd's entertaining and informative anniversary address.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 53815

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Vazquez, Gisela WILMINGTON AND WESTERN RAILROAD.
(Charleston, SC) Arcadia Publishing (2008) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 127+(1) pages.
First edition. Part of the Images of Rail series issued by this publisher. Illustrated. The Wilmington and Western first ran in 1872 from Wilmington to Landenburg, PA.
Price: $ 21.99 other currencies Order nr. 99012

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(Vermont) Bassett, T.D. Seymour (editor) VERMONT, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITS HISTORY.
Boston Massachusetts Historical Society for the Committee for a New England Bibliography 2005 4to. cloth xxxiv+(1), 391 pages
In the beinning there was the perception of a problem and a need. Scholars, teachers, librarians, amateur historians, collectors, and others interested in the history of New England have long been aware of the lack of any adequate bibliographical key or access to the vast historical resorces of the region. This reprint of the first edition of 1981 tells the tales of this happening in Vermont. Volume Four of the series entitled Bibliographies of New England History.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 87693

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Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. FRENCH RENAISSANCE PRINTING TYPES: A CONSPECTUS
New Castle, Delaware, and London Oak Knoll Press, The Bibliographical Society, and The Printing Historical Society 2010 8.5 x 11.5 inches Hardcover 472 pages
A majority of today's Western text types, whether Roman, Italic, Greek, or Hebrew, derive from type designs conceived or perfected in sixteenth-century France. They became available all over Europe from the 1540s onwards. Their design, often going by the name of Garamont, remained unchanged for two centuries. Their pleasant serenity and excellent readability triggered a revival from the 1850s onwards.

This conspectus aims at surveying exhaustively and regardless of aesthetics, all Roman, Italic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic typefaces made in France during the sixteenth century. Such a survey will be of interest to historians, bibliographers, and philologists wishing to identify the types used in the imprints they are investigating, as well as to type historians or type designers wishing to base their attributions on documentary evidence.

The conspectus consists of introductory chapters on the sources available, the evolution of sixteenth-century type-casting and letter-engraving, biographical notices of 17 punchcutters (both famous ones, such as Colines, Garamont, Granjon, and lesser known ones, such as Vatel, Gryphius, or Du Boys) and the methodology used. The main part of the book consists of the facsimiles of 409 typefaces (216 Romans, 88 Italics, 61 Greeks, 41 Hebrews, 2 Arabics, and one phonetic) each with a short identifying notice, describing their letter family, size, punchcutter (or eponym), their first appearance in books or type-specimens, the surviving materials such as punches or matrices, and finally (for about two-thirds of them), the recent literature. Every typeface has been illustrated, several with multiple examples of their use.

Author Henrik D.L. Vervliet was previously Librarian at the University of Antwerp and a professor at the University of Amsterdam. His work includes bibliography and books on humanism and book history.

Available in the UK from The Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 120.00 other currencies Order nr. 103920

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Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. VINE LEAF ORNAMENTS IN RENAISSANCE TYPOGRAPHY: A SURVEY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers 2012 5 x 7 inches hardcover 416 pages
This new study from respected typographical scholar Hendrik Vervliet is the first published history of the sixteenth-century vine leaf as a typographical ornament. Not only is it an important contribution to typographical history, but it also provides a useful tool for identifying and dating books without an imprint.

In the course of the early sixteenth century, decoration of the printed book underwent a double metamorphosis. Previous medieval floral embellishments, commonly copied from Islamic and Byzantine sources, were replaced by new motifs including strapwork, interlacing, scrolls, and denaturalized leaves and stems. At the same time, there was a gradual inclusion of cast ornaments into the printers bills-of-fount, replacing the prestigious and time-consuming hand-painted illumination and decoration, and the sometimes crude woodcut techniques.

This new survey deals with the birth and early history of the typographical ornament commonly known as a vine leaf or Aldine leaf. Starting in 1505, the introduction sketches the fleurons beginnings in handwritten form onwards to printed epigraphical handbooks. These small ornaments originated as type-cast sorts in the first decade of the sixteenth century in Augsburg and Basle at presses that attended to the interests of a humanist reading public. From the 1520s onwards, the design evolved into an all-purpose decorative motif fitting for any publication. Venice and Paris designers, such as Garamont and Granjon, cut new designs that can still be found in most digital fonts today.

The main part of this book is a comprehensive catalogue of all sixteenth-century type-cast vine leaf designs. It provides a descriptive notice of each fleuron, irrespective of its aesthetic merit or country of origin. Illustrated with leaves throughout, the book details punchcutter, size, first and early appearances, and notes. A list of leaves in order of ascending width and a list by punchcutter or eponym are also included. These concluding lists are intended to assist in bibliographical research and provide inspiration for designers. In addition, through the examination of these typographic ornaments, this book provides a methodology for dating and locating books without an imprint.

Hendrik D.L. Vervliet has published books on humanism, bibliography, and book history. In 2011, the American Printing Historical Society presented him with its Annual Award for a distinguished contribution to the study of printing history.

Available in Europe from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 108912

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(Vidal, Gore) Abbott, Steven. GORE VIDAL: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1940-2009.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket, with CD-ROM containing text and images 516 pages plus 120 pages on CD-ROM
First edition. Gore Vidal, a twentieth-century Renaissance man, was described in the Citation for the 1993 National Book Award as "a masterly, learned, and percipient observer of an unparalleled range of subjects" which he addressed "with an artist's resonant appreciation, a scholar's conscience and the persuasive powers of a great essayist."

In 1948, Vidal wrote the groundbreaking novel The City and the Pillar. He is the undisputed master of the historical novel through Creation, Julian, and his American Chronicle series and is equally well-known for his inventive novels, including Myra Breckinridge and Duluth. In 2002, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated was an international best seller critiquing U.S. foreign policy. Vidal is a powerful voice interpreting and critiquing our world with insight, originality, and scholarship, often resulting in thought-provoking controversy.

This bibliography documents all phases of Vidal's ongoing remarkable work. It focuses on Gore Vidal as a writer from 1940 through June, 2009. In two volumes (second on CD), this is the definitive, comprehensive, and descriptive bibliography of his work and is a valuable reference book for libraries, collectors, scholars, booksellers, and Vidalophiles.

The book is organized in user-friendly sections, of which the A (Books and Pamphlets), B (Contributions to Books and Pamphlets), and D (Foreign Language Translations of Books) Sections identify, with detailed descriptions, Vidal's books, significant textual variations within a title by comparing different editions of a book, books and pamphlets with contributions by him and foreign translations in more than 30 languages, with full bibliographic citations of the books in French, Italian, and Spanish. More than 400 of his contributions to periodicals are listed and cross-referenced to their reappearances in books, collections, and anthologies. Also included are selected interviews with Vidal. His screenplays for film and television, both original writings and adaptations, are included, as are web postings and podcasts of essays, comments, excerpts, and reviews.

The Appendices include a chronology of Vidal's life, a table of essay titles (including title changes), a table of Vidal's small press appearances, a selection of critical works about him and his oeuvre, and a listing of Vidal's work as an actor. More than 650 images of the covers and title pages of a wide selection of Vidal's books are included in grayscale in Volume I, and more than 1400 in color on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Through this bibliography, scholars and readers interested in literature, social commentary, sexuality, media, religion, history, politics, and public life have a valuable tool for research on one of the Modern Era's most celebrated authors.

Steven Abbott has a master's degree in library science from Simmons College. He first met Gore Vidal when he interviewed him in Boston in 1973. Throughout the years, Abbott has built a definitive Vidal collection that is the foundation of this bibliography. At Vidal's direction, while researching this bibliography, Abbott located the original manuscript of Creation, which was then published as Creation: Restored Edition. Vidal generously authorized Abbott's access to his literary archives, agents, publishers and personal library in Ravello, Italy.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 96674

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Vigeant, Arsène LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L'ESCRIME ANCIENNE ET MODERNE.
Mansfield Centre, MA Martino Publishing 2005 8vo. cloth. (ii), 172, (2) pages.
Reprint of the first edition published in Paris in 1882 (Besterman 2138). A standard work on fencing. In all, 234 early books on fencing are described in detail. Listing is by author, with alphabetical arrangement.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 92476

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(Virgil) Kallendorf, Craig A CATALOGUE OF THE JUNIUS SPENCER MORGAN COLLECTION OF VIRGIL IN THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 544 pages
The Junius Spencer Morgan collection at Princeton University consists of over 700 titles (totaling around 900 volumes) of editions of the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BC), in Latin and in various vernacular languages. Technically the collection includes items ranging from the first printed edition (Rome, 1469) to the present, but the focus is strongly on material published in the early modern period.

This collection was formed by Junius Spencer Morgan, the nephew of the financier J. P. Morgan. Morgan's interest in Virgil was undoubtedly encouraged during his student days at Princeton and reflects his efforts to obtain the best copies he could find of items noteworthy for their scholarship, their illustrations, or their place in publishing history. The result is one of the largest collections of early printed editions of Virgil in the world, a collection whose balance and integrity make it the proper beginning place for research in this field. Given Virgil's central place in western education during the early centuries of printing, the catalogue of the Morgan collection should be of interest to art historians, cultural historians, and historians of education as well as classicists and specialists in printing history and the history of the book. This handsomely-produced volume includes close to fifty full-page color illustrations from the collection.

Craig Kallendorf received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, and is Professor of Classics and English and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University. His recent books include two Oxford monographs on Virgil: Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in Renaissance Italy (1999) and The Other Virgil: Subversive Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (2007), along with bibliographies of early Italian printed editions of Virgil and of the Aldine collection at the University of Texas. For Oak Knoll Press, he has co-edited The Books of Venice / Il libro veneziano (2009) and is working on a complete bibliography of the pre-1850 printed editions of Virgil.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 100481

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(Virgil) Kallendorf, Craig W. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARLY PRINTED EDITIONS OF VIRGIL, 1469-1850.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 384 pages
This book serves as a short-title catalogue of all the early printed editions of the Roman poet Virgil, from the first edition in 1469 up to and including books published in 1850. Virgil's three major poems, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, have stood at the center of western civilization throughout the early modern and modern periods. As such they were reprinted, individually and together, throughout Europe and the Americas. This bibliography offers the first complete record of the diffusion of these seminal works.

Almost five thousand books, including editions in the original Latin and in translation, are entered into the bibliography. The entries rest on direct observation of books in two large, discrete Virgil collections, along with material gathered from twenty-eight databases and specialized bibliographies and from individual libraries throughout the world. This bibliography is three times the size of its predecessor, Giuliano Mambelli's now over fifty year old Gli annali delle edizioni virgiliani, filling out and correcting the record in ways that have only become possible in the computer age.

Each entry contains information on the printer and place of publication, the names of any translators, editors, and commentators, and an indication of where a copy of the book may be found. An index of names allows cultural historians to connect Virgil to the scholarly activities of succeeding generations, while indices of printers and places of publication serve the needs of printing historians.

Craig Kallendorf received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. His recent books include The Other Virgil: Subversive Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (Oxford University Press, 2007) and bibliographies of early Italian printed editions of Virgil and of the Aldine collection at the University of Texas. For Oak Knoll Press he has co-edited The Books of Venice / Il libro veneziano (2009) and written A Catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Collection of Virgil in the Princeton University Library (2010).
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 106177

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(Voltaire) Bengesco, Georges VOLTAIRE, BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE SES OEUVRES
4 volumes bound in 2. Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing 2006 thick 8vo. cloth. 2181 pages.
Reprint of the first edition which was published in Paris by E. Perrin over the period 1882-1890 (Besterman 6460). François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694-30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist, and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws in France and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Christian Church dogma and the French institutions of his day. This remains a standard work on Voltaire, describing 12,500 works.
Price: $ 395.00 other currencies Order nr. 94708

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Voorn, Henk PAPER MILLS OF DENMARK & NORWAY AND THEIR WATERMARKS
Hilversum The Paper Publications Society 1959 4to. pseudo-parchment-backed decorated paper-covered limp boards. 46 pages followed by plates of watermarks.
First edition, limited to 600 copies. Publication of the work of Captain T. Lassen with additional notes by Voorn.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 70708

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Wagner, Henry Raup SPANISH VOYAGES TO THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing 2008 8vo. cloth. viii, 571 pages.
Facsimile reprint of the 1929 first edition published by the California Historical Society. In this volume is brought together practically all that is known concerning the voyages made by the Spaniards along the California and Oregon coast line between 1539 and 1602. The series opens with an account of the epochal voyage of Ulloa in 1539, and this is perhaps the most interesting record in the entire volume. The compiler has been able to reproduce Ulloa's original journal, has furnished an adequate translation, and has thus brought into full relief what has hitherto been one of the most elusive and tantalizing episodes of early exploration.
The body of the volume closes with an account of the project to found a settlement at Monterey, as a result of the report and recommendation of Vizcaino. The notes, appendixes, and other explanatory matter with which the volume terminates are so copious and so necessary for the adequate interpretation of the text that one questions whether it would not have made the work more useful and convenient for the student, to have bound them in a separate volume or placed them in a portfolio. The collection and interpretation of these interesting records represents the highest type of historical research work, and the volume can be most cordially recommended to the student or general reader. Illustrated and with maps (part folded).

Price: $ 110.00 other currencies Order nr. 102010

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(Walker, Sir Emery) Briggs, R.C.H. (editor) SIR EMERY WALKER: A MEMOIR
Tampa, FL University of Tampa Press 2011 8vo cloth covered boards, dust jacket 98 pages
Sir Emery Walker helped inspire the revival of fine letterpress printing and typography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A friend and collaborator of William Morris, he facilitated the design and casting of the famous Kelmscott Press types, and later, with T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, established the Doves Press and produced its famous types. Walker also founded a photo-engraving company that was renowned for the quality of its work. This illustrated memoir by R.C.H. Briggs is a rich introduction and tribute to the many facets of Walker's life and work. It has been edited with a foreword and notes by Richard Mathews. Royalties from its sales support the Emery Walker Trust.
Price: $ 22.00 other currencies Order nr. 116373

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(Walton, Izaak) Oliver, Peter A NEW CHRONICLE OF THE COMPLEAT ANGLER.
Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing 2005 8vo. cloth. xv, (v), 301+(1) pages.
Reprint of the first edition published in New York in 1936 (Besterman 6481). Izaak Walton, 1593-1683, wrote one of the most famous books in the English language, The Compleat Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation. The first edition appeared in 1653, and it was reissued frequently with additional material; the last edition in Walton's lifetime appeared in 1676. The book not only describes the technique of angling, but it draws a picture of peace and simple virtue that was Walton's protest against the civil wars taking place at the time. He also wrote several biographies, including ones of John Donne (1640), Sir Henry Wotton (1651), and George Herbert (1670), all of who were his friends. Oliver's bibliography is one of several on Walton. Oliver provides full title, collation, and plate count. Valuable annotations are also provided.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 89014

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