Kovenhavn: Glydendalske Bognahdel, 1934. folio. parchment-backed boards. 26 pages of text followed by 100 plates. With facsimile plates reproducing pages from books printed by famous Danish printers. Wear along edges of covers. With a bookplate indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about DANSK TYPOGRAFISK ATLAS, 1482-1600
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 75427
Eine Studie.
Stuttgart: C. E. Poeschel, 1934. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 84 pages. Eine Studie. Written in German. With a foreword and two indices. A study on the German magazine booksellers. Minor wear, edges tanned. Laid-in is a sheet about the book by the publisher. With the laid-in bookplate from Oak Knoll designating this book as from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about DER DEUTSCHE ZEITSCHRIFTEN-BUCHHANDEL
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100694
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The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1873-1933. small 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Over forty catalogues from the Dutch subscription agent and book dealer Martinus Nijhoff, produced over a fifty year period. Martinus Nijhoff was founded in The Hague in 1853. It began as a small shop specializing in rare books and broadened in the ensuing years to include supplying and procuring books for academic libraries. Catalogues are printed in either Dutch, English, German or..... READ MORE about COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 76233
Dictionaire des ouvrages relatifs à l'historie de la vie publique et privée des personnages célèbres de tous les temps et de toutes les nations, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours ... enrichi du répertoire des bio-bibliographies générales, nationales et spéciales.
Paris: A. Lacroix, 1866. small 4to. cloth with leather spine label. iv, 2191 pages. Dictionaire des ouvrages relatifs à l'historie de la vie publique et privée des personnages célèbres de tous les temps et de toutes les nations, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours ... enrichi du répertoire des bio-bibliographies générales, nationales et spéciales. Two volumes in one. Bio-bibliography. According to the subtitle, "Dictionary of the works relating to the history of public..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE BIOGRAPHIQUE UNIVERSELLE
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 76232
Stuttgart: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1943. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (viii), 247 pages. Second edition. A guide book to the publishing world and its relationship with authors. Covers faded. READ MORE about EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE VERLAGSKUNDE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 75566
Turin: Carlo Clausen, 1902. large 8vo. later quarter cloth with marbled paste paper-covered boards and original stiff paper wrapper bound in. 136, (2) pages. First edition. Fourth annual supplement for the two volume original Bibliotheca Bibliografica Italica (1889, 1895), this one for the books that were issued for the year 1900 (Besterman 3220). A three page table describing the format of the catalogue precedes the 392 entries, numbered consecutively with those from previous volumes and..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA BIBLIOGRAFICA ITALICA: CATALOGO DEGLI SCRITTI BIBLIOLOGIA, BIBLIOGRAFIA E...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 77644
Catalogo Degli Scritti di Bibliologia, Bibliografia e Biblioteconomia. Primo Supplemento Annuale, 1895.
Turin: Carlo Clausen, 1896. 8vo. self paper wrappers. 45, (3) pages. Catalogo Degli Scritti di Bibliologia, Bibliografia e Biblioteconomia. Primo Supplemento Annuale, 1895. Text in Italian. Bibliography of books published in Italy and books about Italy published abroad. Published under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Instruction. First annual supplement. Arranged alphabetically. Index of subjects. Booklabel of H.P. Kraus. Front wrapper slightly torn at top edge. Light tanning throughout. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA BIBLIOGRAPHICA ITALICA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108352
3 volumes
Firenze: Biblioteca Palatina, 1853-1869. 4to. modern cloth binding, leather spine labels, uncut edges. xx, 741+(1); xii, 904 with four pages of plates and facsimiles; xxiv, 716, (2), 42 pages. 3 volumes. First edition. An annotated catalogue of the manuscripts included in the Biblioteca Palatina in Florence, the catalogue includes excerpts and entries on works of philosophy, religion, and literature from the collection of manuscripts assembled by Ferdinand III of Lorrain. In 1861, the Biblioteca Palatina..... READ MORE about I MANOSCRITTI PALATINI DI FIRENZE
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 75821
2 volumes.
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Berlagsbuchhandlung, 1961. 8vo. cloth. (x),464; iv,198, (8); (iv),495 pages. 2 volumes. First volume and supplement bound together; second volume bound separately. Reprint of the three volumes originally published in 1788, 1802 and 1805 respectively. This bibliography of early German books is fairly typical of Georg Panzer's (1735--1829) work, though he often focused more narrowly on printing in Nuremberg. Printed in gothic type throughout. With a memorial bookplate indicating that this book came..... READ MORE about ANNALEN DER ALTEREN DEUTSCHEN LITERATUR
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 76895
3 volumes containing seven parts.
Madrid: Tipografía de los Huérfanos, 1891-1907. small 4to. quarter cloth. (xlvii)+(1), 434, (6); (x), 558, (2), x-l, (4); (x), 564, (4) pages. 3 volumes containing seven parts. Complete first edition in seven parts. (Besterman, 5187). A bibliography of printing in Madrid until from the early 16th- century until 1625. Contains table of contents, appendices, and indices. Some browning to pages. Loosely inserted is a commemorative book label which indicates that this set came from the..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAFÍA MADRILEÑA, Ó DESCRIPCIÓN DE LAS OBRAS IMPRESAS EN MADRID
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 76025
Köln: Wienand, 1966. small 4to. quarter cloth, paper boards, gilt stamped upper cover and spine, dust jacket. 409 pages. First edition. An index for volumes 1-25 from the scholarly art history periodical begun in Germany in 1924. This index covers the first four decades of the periodical's publication history. Some tearing and rubbing to dust jacket. With the small private booklabel of H.P.K. (Kraus) affixed to the front pastedown. READ MORE about WALLRAF-RICHARTZ-JAHRBUCH, WESTDEUTSCHES JAHRBUCH FÜR KUNSTGESCHICHTE, REGISTER ZU DEN BÄNDEN...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 74648
Lecce: Stab. Tip. Giurdignano, 1912. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 26 pages. Text in Italian. Historical survey of the introduction of printing in Lecce, Italy. Extract from Revista Storica Salentina, Anno VII, n. 10-11. Front wrapper torn and detached from text. Tanning throughout. READ MORE about ANCORA: SULL'INTRODUZIONE DELLA STAMPA IN LECCE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 108359
N.P. Essener Verlagsanstalt, (1944). 8vo. cloth-backed boards. vi, 162 pages. Ink inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE about MENSCHHEITSGESCHICHTLICHE BEDEUTUNG DES BUCHDRUCKS, EIN BEITRAG ZUR ENTWICKLUNGSGANZHEITLICHEN...
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 30992
2 volumes
(Paris): n.p., n.d. (but circa 1876). 8vo. later cloth with embossed seal (entwined Ls in an oval, surmounted by a crown). 9 pages + one fold out leaf of plates in black and white; 20 pages. 2 volumes. A pair of offprint articles, one responding to the other, from La Revue Universelle des Arts and the Bulletin des Commissions royales d'art et d'archéologie, bound separately. The Pinchart article seems to dismantle the criticism voiced by..... READ MORE about LA PLUS ANCIENNE GRAVURE SUR CUIVRE FAITE DANS LES PAYS-BAS and LES GRANDES ARMOIRIES DU DUC...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77096
N.P. n.p., 1972. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 142 pages. Written in German. With an introduction and index. Contains 570 entries, and several black-and-white plates throughout. Some wear and soiling on covers. Laid-in is the bookplate of Oak Knoll designating this as from the library of H. P. Kraus. READ MORE about BAROCKE BÜCHERLUST, AUS DEN SAMMLUNGEN DER HERZOG AUGUST BIBLIOTHEK WOLFENBÜTTEL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 101516
4 volumes.
(Paris): Georges Rapilly, 1888-1908. small 8vo. vol 1: half leather with marbled paper-covered boards; 2: full cloth; 3 & 4: quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards, orginal paper wrappers bound-in. Variously paginated. 4 volumes. Each volume contains about 20 sales catalogues (each of which is 40 pages long and lists approximately 750 texts) put forth by the Parisian bookseller Georges Rapilly. The catalogues list books on architecture, sculpture, painting and engraving. Some catalogues also include..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE LIVRES D'ART ARCHITECTURE ET DÉCORATION PEINTURE, SCULPTURE, GRAVURE, ARTS...
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 76202
Münich: R. Oldenbourg, 1870. small 8vo. quarter calf with marbled paper-covered boards and marbled edges. xii, 443 pages. First edition. Volume 9 of the serial publication, Geschichte der Wissenschaften in Deutschland. Part one examines the development of German philology from the origins of the language through the late eighteenth century. Includes chapters on the Reformation, Germanic philology in the Netherlands, England and Scandanavia. Part two analyzes the works of the Romantics in the second half..... READ MORE about GESCHICHTE DER GERMANISCHEN PHILOLOGIE VORZUGSWEISEIN DEUTSCHLAND
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 77628
Milano: G.G. Görlich, (1945). large 4to. later cloth with original paper front wrapper laid-down on front cover. 96, (2) pages + 53 plates. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. A study of Italian Renaissance book illustration from the late fifteenth century through the first quarter of the sixteenth century, this volume investigates xylography in the Venetian, Lombard, Florentine, Sienese, and Roman contexts, many examples of which are reproduced in the large plates section at the..... READ MORE about ARTE DELL'ILLUSTRAZIONE NEL LIBRO ITALIANO DEL RINASCIMENTO
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 77213
Meisenheim: Anton Hain, n.d. (circa 1964). tall 12mo. paper-covered boards, illustrations in gilt on front cover. Not paginated. Two page introduction followed by the facsimile. Illustrated. Commemorative booklabel indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus and a bookplate on the front pastedown indicating that this book was part of the Stock & Reference library of H.P. Kraus. Covers slightly faded. READ MORE about BAUERNPRAKTIK, EIN BAUEENKALENDER AUS DEM JAHRE 1543
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 95100
Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der hohen philosophischen Fakultät der vereingten Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
Halle a. S. n.p., 1912. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vii), 95 pages. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der hohen philosophischen Fakultät der vereingten Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Written in German. With an introduction. A dissertation on the beginning of woodcut illustrations in Ulm. Wear at extremities with tears, soiling, and creases. Signed by the author on the title page. Laid-in is a bookplate from Oak Knoll designating this as from the library of H. P. Kraus. READ MORE about DIE ANFÄNGE DER HOLZSCHNITT-ILLUSTRATION IN ULM
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 101556
Washington: The Library of Congress, 1961. tall 8vo. cloth. 123 pages. First edition. With 13 plates. Reproduces the earliest known list of recommended reading. With a bookplate indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about THE 19TH BOOK, TESORO DE POVERI
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 20021
Viertes Beiheft zum Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen
Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1889. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 461-531+(1) pages. Viertes Beiheft zum Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen. This publication includes two essays--one dealing with 16th-century German book printer Jakob Köbel and including an extensive bibliography of his works and the other a study of two 14th-century library catalogues. The wrappers of this copy are detached (but present), lightly soiled and a bit tattered, but the printed portions are intact. A plate attached inside the front..... READ MORE about DIE with ZWEI BÜCHERVERZEICHNISSE DES 14. JAHRH. IN DER ADMONTER STIFTSBIBLIOTHEK von P. J....
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 90967
Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1975. small 4to. cloth. (v), 287 pages. First edition. This volume lists the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printers, booksellers and editors of the present-day Belgium alphabetically, giving each an encyclopedia-style entry about each figure, followed by a brief bibliography of sources used to compile the entry. Tables at the end of the volume list the figures by their city of activity, and by their specific addresses within each city. Memorial bookplate on..... READ MORE about DICTIONNAIRE DES IMPRIMEURS, LIBRAIRES ET ÉDITEURS DES XVe ET XVIe SIÈCLES DANS LES LIMITES...
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 76920
Mainz: Gutenberg Gesellschaft, 1966. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16, (2) pages. Kleiner Druck 79. With a bookplate indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about DAS PRIVATLEBEN DER DEUTSCHEN FRÜHDRUCKER IN SPANIEN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 31081
Mainz: n.p., 1926. 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, plain paper dust jacket. 36, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies. Essay on the beginning of printing. Example of fine printing by Wilhelm Woellmer. READ MORE about DIE HEIMATSTADT DER DRUCKKUNST
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 75519
