Frankfurt: n.p., 1968. 8vo. pamphlet holder with original paper wrappers bound-in. 48 pages. On Johann Christian Senckenberg and the library he founded. Illustrated. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about AD BIBLIOTHECAM JOH. CHRISTIAN SENCKENBERG MED. DOCT. MFRANCOFORT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 50709
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, Longman, and J. Taylor, 1834. small 8vo. original brown cloth, modern paper spine label. x, 414 pages. Part of a series entitled The cabinet cyclopaedia. Useful arts, volume 54. Chapter VIII: Type foundry (incl. Stereotyping). With 96 illustrations. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Cloth on front hinge split; wear at bottom of spine. READ MORE about THE CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA. USEFUL ARTS. A TREATISE ON THE PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT AND PRESENT STATE...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 98561
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, (2003). thick 8vo. paper-covered boards. xxv, 886 pages. Reprint of the second edition, revised and enlarged. Index to British Literary Bibliographies Volume 1. Records descriptive bibliographies of the printed works of British authors, printing and publishing, literary forms and genres, and a variety of subjects. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Stamp on free endpaper indicates that was an "Ex-Shelf Copy." READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH LITERARY BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 97933
2 volumes.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxvi,732; viii,488 pages. 2 volumes. Volumes IV and V of the Index to British Literary Bibliography. Volume IV covers that literature (other than that on specific authors) from about 1890 to 1969 on "works printed or published in Britain from 1475 to the present..." which deals with "bibliographic or textual matters" and "the conditions under which British books were produced and disseminated, with consequent effects on their..... READ MORE about BRITISH BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM, A BIBLIOGRAPHY / ...A BIBLIOGRAPHY (AUTHORS
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 53127
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 912 pages. Volume VII in the Index to British Literary Bibliography series, providing a comprehensive record of writings on the history of the printed book in Britain and of bibliography and textual criticism of British literature. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Spot in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about BRITISH LITERARY BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1970-1979, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 51585
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 470 pages. Volume VIII in the Index to The Index to British Literary Bibliography series, providing a comprehensive record of writings on the history of the printed book in Britain and of bibliography and textual criticism of British literature. READ MORE about BRITISH LITERARY BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1980-1989, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 98442
London: BRMP, 1950. 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. xxvi, 249 pages. First edition. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Spine slightly faded. With a small indentation mark at bottom of spine. READ MORE about THE BRITISH FEDERATION OF MASTER PRINTERS, 1900-1950
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 98385
N.P. (Pittsburg): n.p. (Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation), 1979. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers in yellow report folder. 103-114 pages. Offprint from Huntia, Volume 3, No. 2 ,1979. This volume is a journal of botanical history. Small tear on front wrapper. With the pencil and ink signatures of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about "A CONCORDANCE OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN REFERENCES TO REVIEWS IN BOTANICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES BY...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 99000
Washington: GPO, 1942. 8vo. later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. (ii), 311 pages. Second edition, revised and enlarged by the author with the assistance of James A. Granier. Over 3000 bibliographies described with annotations in English. Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LATIN AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 98107
London: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd., 1939. tall 8vo. cloth. xiv, 224 pages and 19 plates and 17 engravings. First edition. Tells primarily the story of the growth of a printing business during a 100 year period. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about A CENTURY IN PRINT, THE STORY OF HAZELL'S 1839-1939
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 98618
Including facsimile editions, in the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum
(London): Victoria & Albert Museum, 1979. 4to. later marbled paper-covered boards. iv, 121+(1) pages. Including facsimile editions, in the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum. Includes 889 items from the National Art Library. In the first part of this bibliography, the directories are alphabetically arranged under the name of the country, county, city, town, or district of the British Isles covered by the collection. Every entry is then sub-divided alphabetically under publisher, compiler, or..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TRADE DIRECTORIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES, IN THE NATIONAL ART LIBRARY
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 99403
N.P. n.p., 1971. 8vo. later pamphlet binder. pp.403-422. Reprinted from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Vol. 100, No.2, April 1971. With the ink and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about FISH AND FISHERIES LITERATURE RESOURCES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 100155
New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., (1969). large 8vo. cloth. x,707+(1) pages. First edition. The second volume of this succesivly published set. Provides an extensive list of well discussed terms relating to the field of library science. Volume two covers "Associat. to Book World." With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson who has noted that this volume covers auctions, W.J. Barrow, the Bibliographical Society, Bibliography, Bibliomania, Bibliotheque Nationale, Binding, Biological Literature, Biomedical libraries, etc. READ MORE about ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 98610
Lafayette: Purdue University, 1968. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 226 pages. Includes 10 chapters with books about general biological and biomedical science, followed by chapters on specific fields and interests. Includes a preface by the authors. Spine and edges very worn. Edges of pages smudged and slightly tanned. Wrappers rubbed and slightly smudged in spots. With the ink signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL RESOURCE LITERATURE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 99773
London: Systematics Association, 1967. 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, all edges speckled red. vii,186; 467-476; 3-22; 64-85. Third Edition. Five works are bound together here. The first is the bibliography, which contains 2363 entries. No. 2 is "Appendix III, Some Key Works on the Taxonomy of Micro-Organisms". No. 3 is "Bestimmungsliteratur für Wasserorganismen im mitteleuropäischen Gebiet" by Dr. E. Mauch, written in German. No. 4 is "V. Verzeichnis neuerer Monographien und Revisionen rezenter Insektengruppen", written..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KEY WORKS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE BRITISH FAUNA AND FLORA
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 102176
The Systematics Association Special Volume No. 9
London: Academic Press, 1978. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 179+(1) pages. The Systematics Association Special Volume No. 9. A bibliography. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. With the booksellers' ticket of Henry Sotheran Ltd. of London. Head of dust jacket spine reinforced with clear tape on the outside. Dust jacket lightly worn and soiled. Book shows slight shelfwear. READ MORE about KEY WORKS TO THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 99748
The Sources of History: Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1975). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. The Sources of History: Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence. An introductory book to the sources for the history of science covering over two and a half centuries. Focusing on the physical sciences in Great Britain, the author surveys the material available, offering assessments of its uses and warning of its possible misuses. Technical and non-technical written sources, laboratory equipment, industrial apparatus, scale-models..... READ MORE about SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE 1660-1914
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 99875
Folkestone, Kent: Dawson's, (1977). small 4to. cloth. xii, 204 pages. First edition. With chapters on the purpose and technique of Zoological illustration plus a review of Zoological works to the time of Linnaeus, the great age of illustrated works and the modern period. Well-illustrated. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. With an A.L.s. from the author to Bridson thanking him for help loosely inserted. READ MORE about ZOOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION, AN ESSAY TOWARDS A HISTORY OF PRINTED ZOOLOGICAL PICTURES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 32563
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1977). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 519 pages. First edition. "Twenty-four scholars and critics from a broad range of disciplines have here combined their skills to produce a comprehensive investigation of the response to Nature in the nineteenth century, the great age of Nature awareness." 130 illustrations. READ MORE about NATURE AND THE VICTORIAN IMAGINATION
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 98860
(Urbanna, IL: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science), 1977. 8vo. stiff wrappers. ii, 725-875, 10 pages. Volume 25, Number 4 (April 1977). Articles on maps, musicology, social sciences. Names written on outside front wrapper. READ MORE about LIBRARY TRENDS, TRENDS IN THE SCHOLARLY USE OF LIBRARY RESOURCES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106410
Berlin: Paul Parey, 1985. small 4to. wrappers. 132 pages. Written in German. Botanical book illustration through out history. Frontispiece, 8 color plates, 44 illustrations. Head of spine bumped. Pencil signature of Gavin Bridson on inside front wrapper. READ MORE about BOTANIK UND GARTENBAU IN PRACHTWERKEN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 104486
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. tall 8vo. original blue cloth stamped in gilt. xxx, 79 pages. Authorized edition, translated from the second French edition by S.R. Koehler, with an introductory chapter and notes by the translator. With preface by M. Blanc. (See Bridson & Wakeman B28). Illustrated with plates demonstrating different processes. Includes the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Covers rubbed. Name in ink on half-title. READ MORE about A TREATISE ON ETCHING. TEXT AND PLATES
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 97860
London: Walton & Maberly, 1859. small 8vo. modern pamphlet holder with extract bound-in. Extracted from The museum of science and art, volume 11, pp. 1-32. With 13 illustrations including some full-page. With the ink signature of Gavin Bridson. Bridson has added a printed title page. READ MORE about THE PRINTING PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 98499
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. 4to. cloth. xiv, 195 pages followed by 84 plates. First U.S. edition. Contains a history of British and American etching and a 32 page bibliography. Sections on satirical etching and the sporting print, the Old Etching Club, Samuel Palmer, Whistler, Haden, Legros, etc. Illustrated with 84 plates. Spine faded; covers soiled and with front hinge partially split. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN ETCHING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 46172
London: Philip Allan, 1922. tall 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, leather spine label. (xviii), 125, (7) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 275 copies. Introduction by Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. Careful study of how Pierre Lombart (1613-1682) lifted the horse and rider from Van Dyck's painting of King Charles I. Under an Archway for his famous engraving of Cromwell on Horseback. Illustrated. With a short summary of the..... READ MORE about THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN, PIERRE LOMBART'S ENGRAVING, CHARLES OR CROMWELL?
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 70039
