New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1993). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 358 pages. Table of contents, statement by the Spanish Minister of Culture, director's foreword, acknowledgments, note to the reader, bibliography, index, photographic credits. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, 1993-4. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about THE ART OF MEDIEVAL SPAIN
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 130771
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. 1975. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 109+(1) pages, plates. Text in English, with one essay in French and one in German. Preface, table of contents, lists of illustrations and abbreviations. Sixty five black and white plates. Essays presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium in 1971 by scholars Nigel G. Wilson, Jean Irigoin, Cyril Mango, Hans-Georg Beck, and Kurt Weitzmann on the book in the Byzantine Empire. READ MORE about BYZANTINE BOOKS AND BOOKMEN: A DUMBARTON OAKS COLLOQUIUM
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 130633
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, (1939). small folio. cloth. 14+(1) pages, plates. Preface by Paul Claudel, introduction by Marcel Aubert. 19 color plates. Two color plates tipped-in in text. Front cover lightly stained at bottom. Rebound. READ MORE about FRENCH CATHEDRAL WINDOWS OF THE TWELTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130636
Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Gallery, 1936. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 175, (3) pages. Second printing. Foreword. Black and white illustrations throughout. An overview of the collections of the Walters Art Museum. READ MORE about HANDBOOK OF THE COLLECTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131528
Paris, France: Librarie Historique Clavreuil-Fabrice Teissèdre, 2007. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 461, (3) pages. Text in French. A catalogue offering a number of manuscripts, many relating to French history, and books on a variety of subjects, mainly historical. Price list laid in. Inside front hinge partly cracked. READ MORE about LIVRES RARES ET MANUSCRITS ANCIENS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 130770
New York, NY: The New York Public Library, 1914. small 4to. cloth. variously paginated. Multiple books bound in one volume. Also includes Frank Weitenkampf,The Fifteenth Century: The Cradle of Modern Book Illustration (1938); Edward S. Harkness, Livre du Petit Artus (1928); Seymour de Ricci, A List of Medieval Manuscripts in the New York Public Library (1930); The Mural Painting by Edward Laning in the New York Public Libaray (1942); Walter Allen, The Four Corvinus Manuscripts..... READ MORE about THE SPENCER COLLECTION OF MODERN BOOK BINDINGS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 131375
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, (1949). small folio. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 31+(1) pages, plates. Introduction by Michael Stettler. Tipped-in frontispiece, sixteen color plates, six black and white illustrations in text. Dust jacket chipped at edges. READ MORE about STAINED GLASS OF THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY FROM THE CHURCH OF KOENIGSFELDEN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 130635
(New York, NY): The New York Graphic Society by arrangement with UNESCO, (1961). folio. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 26, (4) pages, plates. Preface by Richard Ettinghausen, introduction, with bibliography, by M.S. Ipsiroglu and S. Eyuroglu. Table of contents. 32 color plates. Covers rubbed and scuffed, tanned, bumped at corners. Some water staining at bottom of leaves of text. READ MORE about TURKEY: ANCIENT MINIATURES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 130537
Paris, France: Librairie Plon, n.d. small folio. stiff paper wrappers. 19+(1) pages, plates. Text in French. Preface by Paul Claudel, introduction by Marcel Aubert. 19 color plates. Front cover lightly stained at bottom. READ MORE about VITRAUX DES CATHÉDRALES DE FRANCE XII ET XIII SIÈCLES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130634
London, England: Elliot Stock, 1893. 4to. cloth, paper spine label, fore-edge uncut. unpaginated. A facsimile reporduction of teh first edition printed at Augsburg, Germany, in 1471. Introduction, with footnotes, by Canon W.J. Knox Little. Spine label rubbed. Covers slightly rubbed and scuffed at edges. Light tanning on endpapers. READ MORE about THE IMITATION OF CHRIST
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 130615
New York, NY: Harper & Row, (1963). 8vo. half cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (vi), 151+(1) pages. First edition. Recollections of the author's youth. READ MORE about THOSE DAYS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131403
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1980). 8vo. cloth. viii, 191+(1) pages. Greenwood's Art Reference Collection, Number 1. Table of contents, preface, indices of authors and subjects, biographical sketch of the compiler. A bibliography. READ MORE about BOOK ILLUSTRATION AND DECORATION: A GUIDE TO RESEARCH
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130663
Bloomington, IN: The Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1998. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 75+(1) pages. Exhibition at the Lilly Library of the development of American short story literature. Acknowledgments, introduction, index of authors and titles. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about 150 YEARS OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 115671
London: The British Library, 1998. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 501 pages. First edition. Books and Collectors brings together the most recent research of twenty-three distinguished scholars, focusing on four major themes in the history of the book over five centuries- monastic books and medieval learning, humanism and incunabula, the dispersal of monastic libraries, and postmanastic collectors. Contributers include David McKitterick, Mirjam Foot, and Janet Blackhouse among, others. Includes a chronological bibliography of Andrew Watson's principal..... READ MORE about BOOKS AND COLLECTORS 1200-1700 ESSAYS FOR ANDREW WATSON
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 55699
(Winona Lake, IN): American Schools of Oriental Research, (1981). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 45+(1) pages. Number 3 in a series. The author assisted by George Themelis Zervos, foreword by David Noel Freedman. Endnotes and glossary. Seven black and white plates. Covers lightly tanned near edges. READ MORE about THE NEW DISCOVERIES IN ST. CATHERINE'S MONASTERY: A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MANUSCRIPTE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 130710
Foreword by James H. Billington. Afterword by John Y. Cole.
Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, (1996). small 4to. leatherette, dust jacket. x, 150 pages. Foreword by James H. Billington. Afterword by John Y. Cole. First edition. Filled with illustrations of some of the most interesting and important American books of the Library of Congress. Signed by the author on title page. READ MORE about THE BOOK IN AMERICA WITH IMAGES FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 46161
New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, n.d., but circa 1927. 12mo. later library cloth. x, 190 pages. Table of contents, list of illustrations, appendices, index. 61 drawings by the author and 16 other illustrations. Includes discussions of collecting and bindings. Ex-library, with markings. READ MORE about BYWAYS AMONG ENGLISH BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 130654
4 Volumes
(Vatican City: Presso la Biblioteca Apostolica, 1964). 4to. cloth, paper slipcase, top edge gilt. xxxviii, 296, (2); viii, 326, (2); x, 327, (3); viii, 392, (2) pages. 4 Volumes. Text in Italian and French. A collection of scholarly studies of bibliography and history of manuscripts in the Vatican Library in honor of De Marinis, a bookseller and scholar. Volume I includes an essay on De Marinis by the editor. Each volume with a table of..... READ MORE about STUDI DI BIBLIOGRAFIC E DI STORIA IN ONORE DI TAMMARO DE MARINIS
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 130543
Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Buchdruckerei v. Ostheim, (1958). 8vo. illustrated paper-covered boards. 84 pages. Text in German. Table of contents, list of illustrations. Tipped-in color plates, black and white illustrations. Texts and illustrations relating to Christmas in the collections of the St. Gallen monastery. Covers slightly rubbed and scuffed at edges. READ MORE about WEIHNACHT IM GALLUS-KLOSTER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131526
Chicago, IL: American Library Association, (1973). 8vo. cloth. xxii, 159+(1) pages. Third edition. Preface by the author, table of contents, index. A guide to library cataloging. Bibliographical essay precedes text. READ MORE about CATALOGING U.S.A
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131404
London, England: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1870. 16mo. original vellum boards, string ties, top edge cut, other edges uncut, later clamshell box. variously paginated. Limited to 131 numbered copies, signed by the editor. Venus and Adonis from a hitherto unknown edition of 1599. The Passionate Pilgrim from the first edition of 1599. Certaine of Ovid's Elegies translated by Christopher Marlowe. Editor's preface precedes the first three works. Listing of editions precedes Venus and Adonis. Covers..... READ MORE about VENUS AND ADONIS, THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, EPIGRAMMES, AND CERTAINE OF OVID'S ELEGIES
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 130678
New York: Burt Franklin, (1969). 8vo. cloth. xix, 503 pages. Reprint of the 1865 first edition. The first 30 pages were reprinted from Edwards' article which had appeared in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Covers famous collectors and libraries of all countries. READ MORE about LIBRARIES AND FOUNDERS OF LIBRARIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 36935
Nashville, TN: AASLH Press, (1987). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 253+(1) pages. Table of contents, acknowledments, introduction, three appendices, annotated bibliography, index. Black and white illustrations. A guide to preservation and conservation. READ MORE about THE CARE OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131378
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1900. small 4to. original paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. xi, 119 pages. First edition (Hart no.75). With 56 illustrations. Contains many biographical sketches and reproductions of portraits of booksellers and printers. Chipped around edges with paper along hinges partially split. Covers soiled. Bumped corners. Spine cracked down the center. READ MORE about NOTES ON PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WITH A CHAPTER ON CHAP BOOKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 1534
Boston: David R. Godine Publishers, 1994. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First American edition. This text is based on the wonderful collection formed by de Beaumont and donated to the British Museum. Contains 91 illustrations in black-and-white and 8 in color. With information on the collector, more technical look at the process, information on the publishers, editors and engravers and a select bibliography. READ MORE about VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, 1850-1870, THE HEYDAY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING. THE ROBIN DE BEAUMONT...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 40567
