New York: Yale University Press, 2011. square 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 431 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Magnificent catalog of the newly renovated Islamic Art galleries at The Met. Glass, metal, books, ceramics, but above all textiles, carpets, embroideries, dress and ornaments. READ MORE about MASTERPIECES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ISLAMIC ART IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 136722
London: Scolar Press, (1980). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 461 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Biography of this author of ghost stories and leading antiquarian with specialties in bibliography and paleography. Includes a bibliography of his writings. READ MORE about MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 31497
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 127 +(1) pages. First edition. A fine copy. Published in conjunction with "Splendid Plumage," an exhibition held at the New York Public Library, February - April 1988. Surveys the Library's collection through examples reflecting the skills and techniques of international artists who have illustrated birds found worldwide. Lists 96 beautifully detailed plates, many in color, depicting woodcuts, aquatints, engravings, lithographs by artists such as..... READ MORE about THE BIRD ILLUSTRATED, 1550 - 1900, FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 64990
London: Sotheby and Co., 1928. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 8 pages and 5 plates. The illustrated version of the catalogue. According to William and Sylvia Peterson (The Kelmscott Chaucer, a Census), this copy in a binding by Lilian Barton-Wilson was sold by Arthur Fairfax Murray at this sale, purchased by Dutton, sold to Chaucer Head Book Shop, sold to John Saks, sold at Christie in 1983 to Sir Paul Getty and then sold by Sir..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF A COPY OF THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER PRINTED UPON VELLUM AND OF THE EXTREMELY FINE...
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 106212
London: Sotheby & Co., 1956. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 63 pages. This is the illustrated version with four plates of this auction sale. Prices realized written in pencil. Spine ends frayed, else near fine. READ MORE about INCOMPARABLE COLLECTION OF KELMSCOTT, WILLIAM MORRIS FORMED BY SIR SYDNEY COCKERELL, LITT.D....
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 15659
New York: Christie's, 1983. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 155 pages. Illustrated. This sale contained a complete collection of Kelmscott imprints printed on vellum, including the Chaucer. READ MORE about PRINTED BOOKS, FINE BINDINGS AND WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANSUCRIPTS INCLUDING THE JOHN A. SAKS...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 25265
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 180 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. The author, begins by suggesting an evolutionary pattern of book history, consisting of periods of stability punctuated by rapid change which comes about when certain conditions coincide. In this scheme, the current evolution (or devolution?) of the book into the electronic "book," now said to be underway, is another such change, arising from the same factors..... READ MORE about THE EVOLUTION OF THE BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 53107
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 94 pages. With 5 color plates and 52 halftones plates. Dust jacket has some tears and minor wear. Price list laid in. READ MORE about TWENTY-FIVE MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 14164
New York: American Art Association, 1932. 4to. cloth. viii, 84 pages. McKay 9397. Rebound in later cloth. A fine copy. Preface by Seymour De Ricci. A pivotal sale in the history of bookselling. DeRicci described the collection of 35 manuscripts and 2135 books as "the most valuable and interesting to be sold by auction since the Robert Hoe sales ...." Scandal resulting from bidding arrangements made between Mitchell Kennerley and Barnet J. Beyer led to..... READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, INCUNABULA AND AMERICANA FROM THE FAMOUS LIBRARIES OF THE MOST HON. THE...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 6824
New York: Empire State Book Company, 1927. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xv, 208 pages. Second U.S. impression of the second edition, revised. Preliminary pages foxed, else very good. With 8 plates. Includes a long chapter on literary forgeries. READ MORE about BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THEIR STUDY AND USE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 102745
Being Recent Acquisitions, Comprising Babylonian tables, Papri, Illuminated and Text Manuscripts. Early Chinese Printing, Incunabula, Reformation books, French literature. Armorial and decorative bindings.
London: Maggs Bros Ltd., 1956. square 8vo. paper wrappers. 40, (1) pages. Being Recent Acquisitions, Comprising Babylonian tables, Papri, Illuminated and Text Manuscripts. Early Chinese Printing, Incunabula, Reformation books, French literature. Armorial and decorative bindings. Light uneven fading to the covers. Near fine. Illustrated. 100 items. Index. READ MORE about ANCIENT MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN. A CATALOGUE OF MSS. & BOOKS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136526
ISSUED ON THE OCCASION OF THE 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS.
London: Maggs Bros Ltd., 1956. square 8vo. paper wrappers. 110 pages. ISSUED ON THE OCCASION OF THE 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS. Light uneven fading to the covers. Some wear to head and tail of spine. 110 items. Illustrated. READ MORE about RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS. A SELECTION OF ATTRACTIVE ITEMS FROM VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136524
(London, England): Maggs Bros. n.d. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 36 pages. Maggs Catalogue 1407. 72 items with color illustrations. READ MORE about EUROPEAN BULLETIN 25. CATALOGUE 1407
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 136542
London: Maggs Bros. 1969. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 59 pages followed by 18 plates. With three page history of the firm and some related illustrations. With a subject index. A fine copy. READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF MAGGS CATALOGUES, 1918-1968
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 14030
New York: Viking, (1996). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (xii), 372 pages. First U.S. edition. Tracks the history of the transmission of the printed word to the reader. Intermixes this story with sub-plots concerning book thieves and anarchists, book burners and censors, and others. A fine copy. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF READING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 45919
Bruxelles: Bibliotheque Royale Albert, 1984. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 120 pages. A catalogue of manuscripts from 1600-1984, includes both printed originals and facsimiles. Portion of a manuscript facsimile and colored illustration on cover. A fine copy. READ MORE about MANUSCRITS ET IMPRIMES ANCIENS EN FAC-SIMILE DE 1600 A 1984
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 88305
Chicago, IL: Newberry Library, 2001. oblong 4to. paper wrappers. 104 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Exhibition catalogue fully illustrated in color. READ MORE about CARTOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY : THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY OCTOBER 10, 2001-JANUARI...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 136706
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1980. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 9-91+(1) pages. Catalogue for an auction held at Sotheby's on April 15, 1980. Entries for each of the five items include historical background and descriptions of each map. Many black and white illustrations, three in color with the frontispiece folded. List of prices realized and bidding slip loosely laid in. Covers loose from book and with some wrinkling, several pages offset, underlining in..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF HIGHLY IMPORTANT MAPS AND ATLASES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 69278
Aylesbury: Shire Publications Ltd., n.d. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages. Later edition. History followed by more detailed look at the collecting of British maps. READ MORE about DISCOVERING ANTIQUE MAPS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 21703
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1961. 8vo. cloth. x, (ii), 302 pages, with 2 fold out plates. First editions. Exlibrary with markings. Spine faded, else very good. A scientific study of the history of cartography, which in the past has been seriously hampered by our limited knowledge of the source material and of its whereabouts. This work is designed to remedy in part this situation by publishing a list of the map collections in the Netherlands;..... READ MORE about COLLECTIONS OF MAPS AND ATLASES IN THE NETHERLANDS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 58431
Oxford: Phaidon-Christie's, (1986). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 314 pages. Second edition, reprinted from the first of 1983. Fine in fine jacket. Divided into three parts, covering map making from 1470 onwards, famous map-makers such as Mercator and Ortelius, and advice to the collector on buying and conserving old maps. A sound general introduction for the new collector, and a mass of precise information for the expert. Well illustrated. Appendices, bibliography and index. From the..... READ MORE about ANTIQUE MAPS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 44589
New York: Facts on File, Inc., (1987). large 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 319+(1) pages. First edition. A fine copy. Documenting three centuries of daring exploration, tenacious settlement and fierce colonial rivalry, the maps of early America beautifully reproduced in this book make it an authoritative reference book as well as a stunning visual experience. This handsome volume contains 180 extensively captioned maps, nearly all in full color, and more than 90 supplementary illustrations. The accompanying..... READ MORE about THE CARTOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA 1500-1800
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136697
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1975). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 177 pages. First edition. A fine copy. With a late 19th century map of North America glued to front free endpaper. READ MORE about FIVE CENTURIES OF MAP PRINTING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 57671
The Insider's guide to Collecting--for Every Taste and Every Budget
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1989). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper covered boards, dust jacket. 242 pages. The Insider's guide to Collecting--for Every Taste and Every Budget. First edition. A fine copy. Proven insider tips for evaluating and collecting everything from fine art to antique cars to cookie jars--whether you have five hundred dollars to invest or five million, the author has taken the guess work out of the auction house. Dust jacket slightly soiled, corners..... READ MORE about THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 101261
Houten: HES & DE GRAAF, 2010. 8 x 11 inches. Hardcover. 468 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Presented on the occasion of Christopher de Hamel's sixtieth birthday, this book celebrates his many accomplishments during his years at Sotheby's and more recently as the Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Christopher de Hamel has described more medieval manuscripts than any other living scholar. His sale catalogues have set..... READ MORE about THE MEDIEVAL BOOK: GLOSSES FROM FRIENDS & COLLEAGUES OF CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 105567
