Bradford & London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., (1928). small 4to. paper over boards, paper cover label. 11 pages. First edition. With an interesting list of comparitive compostion and production costs. READ MORE about NEW METHODS OF REPRODUCTION OF BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS, WITH FIVE EXAMPLES OF 'REPLIKA' PROCESS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 80606
Dresden: G. Schönfeld, 1860. 8vo. contemporary half cloth with marbled paper-covered boards. 50 pages. Separately printed from Neuen Anzeiger für Bibliographie und Bibliothekwissenschaft. Foxed. READ MORE about CHRONOLOGISCHE ÜBERSICHT VON BIBLIOGRAPHISCHEN SYSTEMEN. (SEPARATABDRUCK AUS DEM NEUEN ANZEIGER...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 80620
London: George G Harrap & Company Ltd, (1931). 8vo. cloth. 256 pages. First edition. Commentary on reading, libraries and literary style. Illustrated. Covers faded. READ MORE about BOOKS AND READERS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 36155
N.P. The English Association, 1933. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 22, (2) pages. The English Association pamphlet no. 86. Illustrated with facsimiles of the front pages of some of the newspapers. Covers soiled. READ MORE about THE OLD ENGLISH NEWSPAPER
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 36067
Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1932. tall 12mo. paper wrappers. x, 50, (2) pages. History and description of the theater collection. Covers faded. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'ARSENAL.CATALOGUE ANALYTIQUE SOMMAIRE DE LA COLLECTION THÉATRALE RONDEL,...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 80691
Mainz: Verlag der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1930. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 37, iv, (4) pages. Publication 13 of the Gutenberg-Gesellschaft. Dissertation on Gutenbergs tomb. Front cover detached; worn along edges. READ MORE about DAS GRAB GUTENBERGS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 80701
Sofiia: Bulgarskata Akademiia na Naukite, 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xvii), 304 pages. This index covers the first 23 volumes of the journal Novo Vreme, or "New Times," from 1897 to 1923. Entries are organized by topics, including philosophy, study of socialism, social sciences, politics, economics, Soviet revolution and Soviet Union, natural sciences, literary theory, and fine literature. The book also includes detailed subject indexes and a few monochrome illustrations. This copy has its original..... READ MORE about POKAZALETS NA SPISANIE NOVO VREME, 1897-1923
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 80715
An Annotated List and Bibliography
London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1968. 8vo. cloth with gilt lettering. (xiv), 538 pages. An Annotated List and Bibliography. A bibliography of charters granting land or secular rights over land. Cover is lightly smudged. READ MORE about ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 87238
Wien: Adolf Holzhausen, 1894. 8vo. self. 80 pages. A catalogue of selected books and manuscripts in English library cathedrals. A few of the libraries catalogued are the cathedral libraries of Salisbury, Canterbury, Chichester, Winchester, and Westminster Abbey. Spine gone, but volume still bound together. Cover slightly worn and soiled. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA PATRUM LATINORUM BRITANNICA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 88322
Band I. A-Bau.
Duisburg: Verlag für Pädagogische Dokumentation, 1994. 8vo. cloth. 512 pages. Band I. A-Bau. The first volume of this reference work. READ MORE about QUELLENLEXIKON ZUR DEUTSCHEN LITERATURGESCHICTE. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STUDIES ON GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 80720
Sonderabdruck aus der Beilage zur "Allgemeinen Zeitung," Nr. 229 und 230 vom 10. und 11. Oktober 1898
Berlin: Verlag der Abegg-Stiftung der Gesellschaft für Verbreitung von Volksbildung, 1898. 8vo. quarter cloth with cardboard covers. (v), 32, (2) pages. Sonderabdruck aus der Beilage zur "Allgemeinen Zeitung," Nr. 229 und 230 vom 10. und 11. Oktober 1898. This booklet, an offprint from a supplement to the German newspaper Allgemeinen Zeitung, discusses English public libraries. This copy shows minor wear and soiling. The name of the author, title and date are written on the outside..... READ MORE about ENGLISCHE VOLKSBIBLIOTHEKEN
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 88020
Mess-Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels von dem Erscheinen des ersten Mess-Kataloges im Jahre 1564 bis zu der Gründung des ersten Buchhändler-Vereins im Jahre 1765. (With:) - - Codex Nundinarius Germaniae literatae continuatus. Der Mess- Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels Fortsetzung, die Jahre 1766 bis einschliesslich 1846 umfassend.
Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1963. tall folio. unlettered two toned cloth. xxxvi, 440 in quadruple columns. Mess-Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels von dem Erscheinen des ersten Mess-Kataloges im Jahre 1564 bis zu der Gründung des ersten Buchhändler-Vereins im Jahre 1765. (With:) - - Codex Nundinarius Germaniae literatae continuatus. Der Mess- Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels Fortsetzung, die Jahre 1766 bis einschliesslich 1846 umfassend. Reprint of the Halle 1850-77 edition. The essential bibliography of the term catalogues issued for..... READ MORE about CODEX NUNDINARIUS GERMANIAE LITERATAE BISECULARIS
Price: $455.00 Order nr. 80728
Leipzig: Carl Rühle, 1884. small 8vo. original cloth-backed paper-covered boards. 143 pages. Fourth edition. Bookseller's manual. A very good copy. READ MORE about WIE ICH DEN BUCHHANDEL ERLERNTE. EIN VERSUCH DAS TECHNISCHE WIE DAS GEISTIGE IN DEUTSCHEN...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 80768
Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1923. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 198 pages. One of 500 multigraphed copies. It includes all works within its scope in The Newberry Library up to 1922. The bibliography includes all work in, or partly in, English from the beginning of printing down to and including 1640. No facsimiles or reproductions are listed. Contains an index of printers, booksellers, and stationers. Cover slightly worn and brittle, with small tears along edges..... READ MORE about THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLISH BEFORE 1641
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 87357
To which are prefixed, Memoirs of Hyder Aly Khan and his Son Tippoo Sultan.
N.P. The British Critic, 1809. 12mo. self paper wrappers. pp.547-560. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of Hyder Aly Khan and his Son Tippoo Sultan. Section removed from the British Critic, Vol. XXXIV, December 1809, reviewing this book. The lengthy review provides an excellent summary. READ MORE about A (drop title) DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE ORIENTAL LIBRARY OF THE LATE TIPPOO SULTAN OF MYFORE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 87748
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1967. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 286 pages. First edition. Jacket spine faded. READ MORE about LIBRARY SURVEYS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 80787
A Paper read at the Congress of the Library Association of Great Britain, held at Plymouth, 1885.
St. Helens: Dromgoole and Co., 1886. 12mo. original paper wrappers, stitched. 37 pages. A Paper read at the Congress of the Library Association of Great Britain, held at Plymouth, 1885. The author was the Bristol City Librarian. Heavily proof-corrected with occasional notes and an ink spot on the cover. READ MORE about THE EARLIEST FREE LIBRARIES OF ENGLAND
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 80791
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (Privately Printed), 1846. 4to. original cloth. (iv), xi, (ii), 216 pages. This history--or collection of "notes" as Mr. Thomas modestly labels it--reconstructs the stories of the Public Departments of England's government from their (sometimes obscure) origins to the 1840s. Francis Thomas (1794?-1857), Secretary of the Public Record Office, made extensive use of historical documents to compile this work, which was privately printed by W. Clowes & Sons for Her Majesty's..... READ MORE about NOTES OF MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 87075
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, (1935). 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 96 pages with 27 illustrations. First edition. Jacket price clipped. READ MORE about A TOUR OF THE TEMPLE PRESS, AN ACCOUNT BY JAMES THORNTON M.A., OF PRINTING AND BINDING BOOKS AT...
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 21892
X.
London: National Central Library, 1952. 8vo. cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards. xii, 139 pages. X. Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about LIBRARY CO-OPERATION IN GREAT BRITAIN, REPORT OF A SURVEY OF THE NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY AND THE...
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 80828
London: G. Routledge, 1892. 8vo. original cloth. xii, 178, (2) pages. Uncommon. Ex-libris of Basil Blackwell. Wear at spine ends. Book block cracked halfway through text. READ MORE about THE SPECTATOR. A DIGEST-INDEX
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 80844
Canada: Univ. Toronto Press, (1964). 8vo. cloth. 211 pages. First edition. READ MORE about THE HUMANITIES IN CANADA. SUPPLEMENT TO DECEMBER 31, 1964
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 80848
(Bristol): Reprinted from the ‘Trans. of the Bristol & Glos. Archæological Society.’, (1908). 8vo. self paper wrappers. pp. 78-195. Scarce. Appears to be removed from a larger volume. The leaves are a little dusty. READ MORE about GLOUCESTERSHIRE MEDIÆVAL LIBRARIES
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 80851
London: National Book League, n.d. small 8vo. stapled self paper wrappers. 14 pages. Notes on book design. Includes sections on book production, manufacturing techniques, type selection and setting, illustrations, binding, jackets and private presses. Lightly soiled and top front corner creased. READ MORE about SOME NOTES ON BOOK DESIGN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 87308
London: Sotheby & Co., 1970. 4to. boards. 97 pages with 55 plates and a colored frontispiece. S-K 1184. Almost a half million dollars of sales. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY, THE SEVENTH PORTION: FORTY-THREE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE 9TH TO...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 6258
