Munchen: Munchner Drucke, 1925. 4to. cloth. xii, 158 pages followed by 31 plates. First edition. (ATF Cat. p.2235). History and bibliographical descriptions of over 200 imprints. 35 plates in total. READ MORE about DER MÜNCHNER BUCHDRUCKER HANS SCHOBSER, 1500-1530 MIT EINEM ANHANG WER IST JOHANN LOCHER VON...
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 19153
Leipzig: Deutsches Buchmuseum, 1925. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 102, (38) pages. Illustrated history of this museum devoted to the study of this museum. Describes some of the holdings. READ MORE about DAS DEUTSCHE BUCHMUSEUM ZU LEIPZIG, 1885-1925
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 21686
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927. small 4to. cloth. vii, 177 pages plus 4 leaves of plates. Publication honoring the twenty-third convention of the librarians of Dortmund. This collection of essays includes works on a number of topics related to works in collections in Dortmund, such as a study of a manuscript Bible of the thirteenth century, financial records from 1456 to 1478 and a history of the libraries of the region. Illustrated with twenty-seven facsimiles..... READ MORE about FESTSCHRIFT ZUR 23. VERSAMMLUNG DEUTSCHER BIBLIOTHEKARE IN DORTMUND
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 77790
Innsbruck: Universitäts-Verlag Wagner, 1941. 8vo. cloth. viii, 211 pages followed by 11 pages of plates. Written in German. With a foreword and index. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed, spine faded, boards slightly cocked. With the bookplate of Oak Knoll designating this as from the library of H. P. Kraus. READ MORE about SAMMELN UND SICHTEN, EINE PRAKTISCHE GRAPHIKKUNDE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 101508
Munchen: Karl Zink Verlag, 1959. square 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. 36 pages followed by 9 plates. Exhibition catalogue. READ MORE about BUCHKUNST UND BIBLIOPHILIE IN SPÄTGOTIK UND RENAISSANCE, AUSSTELLUNG DER BAYERISCHEN...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 75392
Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1911. 8vo. gilt decorated red cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 355 pages. First U.S. edition. "A view of the origins of that great institution, sketches of its early benefactors and principal officers, and a survey of the priceless objects preserved within its walls." Cover blocked in gilt with designs in orange, blue, and red. Armorial bookplate of Gustav A. Kirchmaier. READ MORE about THE BRITISH MUSEUM: ITS HISTORY AND TREASURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 10385
London: Skeffington & Son, 1893. small 8vo. publisher's cloth. x, 195 pages. Second revised edition. A reference book on the religious services of the English church. There are no listings for this text in OCLC. Presentation on the free endpaper from the author in black ink. Some foxing on front and back endpapers. Loosely inserted is a commemorative booklabel which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus purchased by Oak..... READ MORE about ENGLAND'S PRAYER-BOOK, A SHORT AND PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE SERVICES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 75746
Stockholm: Bröderna Lagerströms Förlag, (1917). 8vo. gilt-stamped quarter vellum with decorated paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. xv, (iii), 139+(1) pages with 56 additional plates. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Complete catalogue of the National Museum of Sweden's collection of Renaissance drawings. Illustrated with 56 beautifully printed reproductions. Includes object information, bibliographical references, and index. Copy belonged to noted scholar Otto Kurz, his signature (in pencil) is on the free endpaper. A handwritten page of..... READ MORE about ITALIENSKA HANDTECKNINGAR FRÅN 1400- OCH 1500-TALEN I NATIONALMUSEUM: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 74632
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1896. large 8vo. cloth, stained edges. iv, 648 pages. First edition (Besterman 5796). Approximately 15,000 entries list mostly seventeenth through nineteenth century books about social politics. Catalogues works in several languages, including English, French, Italian and, of course, German. With the small private book label of H.P.K.[Kraus] affixed to the front pastedown. Loosely inserted is a commemorative book label that indicates that this volume came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER SOCIAL-POLITIK
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 77909
Nieuwkoop: D. de Graaf, 1969. 8vo. cloth. ix, 371 pages. Third edition (first edition of 1886 catalogued in Besterman 5078). Lists sixteenth and early seventeenth century works formerly part of the Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg, now in the Vatican Library. The collection was taken to Rome by the Austrian commander Tilly during the Thirty Years War. Comprised of almost 10,000 works, the volumes were plundered from the libraries of Heidelberg University and personal collections of..... READ MORE about INVENTARIO DEI LIBRI STAMPATI PALATINO-VATICANO
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77562
Beiträge zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen Band 9
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1962. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), xiii, (iii), 180, (2) pages followed by 8 plates. Beiträge zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen Band 9. On the design of European library buildings after 1930, with numerous plans and elevations. The wrappers of this copy have faded irregularly and show minor wear at the edges. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy came from the reference library and stock of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about EUROPÄISCHE BIBLIOTHEKSBAUTEN SEIT 1930: LÖSUNGEN UND MÖGLICHKEITEN DER ANLAGE UND DER...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 91199
Vienna: Krystall-Verlag-Ges. 1926. 4to. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, gilt embossed design on front cover. 64, (8) pages + 40 leaves of plates in black and white. Volume 4 of the serial publication, Artes Austriae: Studien zur Kunstgeschichte Österreichs. Surveys Austrian painters in the age of Duke Ernst the Iron (1377--1424) until King Albrecht II, both members of the Hapsburg family. Legend tells us that both Duke Ernst and his wife could bend horseshoes with..... READ MORE about ÖSTERREICHS MALEREI IN DER ZEIT ERZHERZOG ERNST DES EISERNEN UND KÖNIG ALBRECHT II
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 77806
2 volumes.
Berlin: Deutscher Verein Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1936. folio. half vellum with paper-covered boards. (viii), 188 pages; (xii), 202 plates with 1096 illustrations. 2 volumes. First edition. An examination of the art of the 13th century divided in its study by regional schools with particular attention to stylistic similarities and departures with particular attention to the Upper, Middle, and Lower Rhein regions as well as the schools of Regensburg and Salzburg. Includes supplementary tables of the annual..... READ MORE about DIE LATEINISCHEN ILLUMINIERTEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DES XIII. JAHRHUNDERTS IN DEN LÄNDERN AN RHEIN,...
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 75794
London: Thames and Hudson, (1963). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 552 pages plus 24 plates. First English edition. Volume one in the General History of the Sciences series. Three parts describing the ancient, Greco-Roman and Medieval world. Each section describes contributions to mathematics, medicine and other sciences by various countries and societies. Covers all parts of the world from India to the Americas. Fifty-three black-and-white illustrations and forty-three figures. With a memorial bookplate on..... READ MORE about A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES, ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SCIENCE, FROM PREHISTORY TO AD 1450....
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 77220
Translated by A.J. Pomerans.
London: Thames and Hudson, (1966). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 635, (3) pages plus 32 plates. Translated by A.J. Pomerans. First English edition. Final volume in the General History of the Sciences series. Six parts describing various realms of science including mathematics, physical science, earth science, astronomy, biology, medicine and finally science and society. One-hundred fourteen black-and-white illustrations and thirty-three figures. With a memorial bookplate on the front pastedown which indicates that this book..... READ MORE about A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES, SCIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 77224
Köln: J.P. Bachem, 1925. 4to. cloth, lettering in gilt. 48 pages, 76 plates. First edition. A study of German book arts throughout the ages, including examples of manuscript illumination, engraving and bookbinding. Contains 76 black-and-white plates with examples of the German book arts. Jacket was torn at one point and has been internally repaired with tape. Free endpaper foxed. With the small booklabel of H.P.K. (Kraus) indicating that this book came from the Kraus reference..... READ MORE about RHEINISCHE BUCHKUNST IM WANDEL DER ZEIT
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 75562
Milano: P. A. Tosi, Novembre 1843. 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper over cardboard, paper spine label. 15+(1) pages. Text in Italian. Collected and published by P. A. Tosi on the occasion of his daughter Giovannina's wedding to Giovanni Tarchetti. Original wrappers bound-in. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy came from the reference library and stock of H.P. Kraus. Notes in pencil on both wrappers and front free endpaper. Sticker and tape correction on..... READ MORE about NOTIZIE BIOGRAFICHE E BIBLIOGRAFICHE SOPRA IL POETA MACCHERONICO BASSANO MANTOVANO
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 95706
Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1927. small 4to. boards, paper spine label. (ii) pages followed by the 27 page facsimile of the 1760 original edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies, being part of the series entitled Bibliotheca Typographica edited by Reichner. Reproduction of this 1760 book of type ornaments and ornamental arrangements. Covers faded with slight wear at spine ends. Front pastedown and free endpaper foxed. A scarce and interesting facsimile. READ MORE about ABDRUCK VON DENJENIGEN RÖSLEIN UND ZIERRATHEN WELCHE SICH IN DER K.K. HOFSCHRIFTGIESSEREY
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 19784
4 volumes.
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1917. 8vo. cloth, top edges gilt. thousands of pages. 4 volumes. First edition. Covers faded and rubbed. Mercantile library bookplate in each volume. Shaken with inside hinges cracked. READ MORE about THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 74344
Festvortrag zur Feier des 25 jährigen Bestehens 15. Mai 1938
(Leipzig): Deutschen Bücherei, 1938. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 38, (2) pages. Festvortrag zur Feier des 25 jährigen Bestehens 15. Mai 1938. Written in German. A copy of the lecture given by Dr. Heinrich Uhlendahl for the 25th year anniversary celebration of the German (National) Library. Laid-in is a pamphlet with a poem by Friedrich von Logau on the cover, and inside is a message from Uhlendahl wishing his friends and acquaintances a good year 1939. With..... READ MORE about FÜNFUNDZWANZIG JAHRE DEUTSCHE BÜCHEREI
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 100191
Berlin: Otto v.Holten, 1927. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, uncut edges. 12 pages + 5 leaves of plates in color and black and white. Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Surveys the history of German engravings made for the service of commercial art. Begins with the fifteenth-century engraver Master ES, arguably the most influential early German print-maker, and works through the nineteenth century with a general history. Tipped in illustrations include a reproduction..... READ MORE about ENTWICKLUNG DER DEUTSCHEN GEBRAUCHSGRAPHIK
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 77808
Ghent: C. Muquardt, 1865. 8vo. later cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. 152 pages. Limited edition of 75 copies. A reprint of the second part of Volume V of the author's Bibliographie Gantoise(Besterman 5165). Bibliography of books printed in Ghent without a printer's name from 1566 to 1850. 1152 entries. An excellent resource for any bibliographer of the Netherlands. From the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about LIVRES ET BROCHURES IMPRIMÉS À GAND SANS NOM D'IMPRIMEUR
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 77576
Washington and London: M. Walter Dunne, n.d. (early 20th century). folio. cloth, pages bound with rivits. 155 pages with 75 facsimiles. Abridged one volume edition. Contains 75 of the 150 facsimiles issued in the 2 v. edition published in 1901, which was an unauthorized reproduction of the "Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of manuscripts, British Museum," London, 1895-99. cf. Library Journal, 1901, v. 26, p. 376. "Special introduction" not..... READ MORE about UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MANUSCRIPTS : FAC-SIMILES FROM ORIGINALS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS,...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 76169
Münich: J.G. Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1866. small 8vo. quarter calf with marbled paper-covered boards and marbled edges. xii, 650+(1) pages. First edition. Volume 6 of series, Geschichte der Wissenschaften in Deutschland. Surveys the history of Catholic theology from the Council of Trent until the present. Begins with a discussion of German Catholicism in the age of confessional polemics in the seventeenth century. The second chapter examines the transformation of German Catholic theological scholarship in the Age..... READ MORE about GESCHICHTE DER KATHOLISCHEN THEOLOGIE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 77618
Leipzig: T.D. Weigel, 1891. small 4to. original cloth heavily stamped in gilt in facsimile of a bookbinding, top edge gilt. xvi, 299+(1) pages. First edition. Country-by-country description of illustrators. Filled with illustrations. Rubbed along hinges with some loss of cloth. A spectacular trade binding. With a bookplate indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about GESCHICHTE DER GRAPHISCHEN KÜNSTE
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 41888
