With a Selection of Braziliana Printed in Countries Other than Portugal and Brazil
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2009. 7.5 x 11.25 inches. hardcover. 792 pages. With a Selection of Braziliana Printed in Countries Other than Portugal and Brazil. Compiled by the rare book cataloguer Valeria Gauz, this work describes in detail, item by item, the finest collection in North America of books relating to Brazil before the country declared its independence from Portugal in 1822. Nearly 650 of the titles in this catalogue antedate..... READ MORE about PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN BOOKS IN THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY 1537-1839

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New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2001. 4to. cloth. 151 pages. First edition. This exhibition catalogue describes and illustrates highlights of Yale's Frederic R. Koch collection, one of the finest gatherings of musical, literary, and historical manuscripts assembled in the past few decades. Selections range from seventeenth-century Copenhagen to early twentieth-century Helsinki. The collection is particularly rich in manuscripts by French, German, and Italian composers, including the score of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, the finest group..... READ MORE about HEINRICH SCHUTZ TO HENRY MILLER; SELECTIONS FROM THE FREDERICK R. KOCH COLLECTION AT YALE UNIVERSTIY

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THE CLASSICS THAT HAVE MADE ITALY: A NEW BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITALIAN AUTHORS with an introductory essay by John Ragone and a note by Umberto Pregliasco
Modena: Giorgio Regnani Editore, 2010. 8.25 x 11.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 415 pages. THE CLASSICS THAT HAVE MADE ITALY: A NEW BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITALIAN AUTHORS with an introductory essay by John Ragone and a note by Umberto Pregliasco. I Classici Che Hanno Fatto Ltalia (or The Classics That Have Made Italy) offers itself as a counterpart to the great work Printing and the Mind of Man, illustrating the history of the Italian culture through..... READ MORE about I CLASSICI CHE HANNO FATTO L'ITALIA: PER UN NUOVO CANONE BIO-BIBLIOGRAFICO DEGLI AUTORI ITALIANI

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A SPECIMEN OF THE STCN. WITH AN ENGLISH AND DUTCH INTRODUCTION ON THE SHORT -TITLE CATALOGUE NETHERLANDS.
Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1979. 8vo. cloth. 125 pages. A SPECIMEN OF THE STCN. WITH AN ENGLISH AND DUTCH INTRODUCTION ON THE SHORT -TITLE CATALOGUE NETHERLANDS. Lists 352 Hoorn imprints, with full collations. With 11 illustrations. Volume XII of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about A SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED AT HOORN BEFORE 1701

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 256 pages. This book includes a preliminary update of Thom Gunn: A Bibliography, 1940-1978 that was originally published in the Bulletin of Bibliography, and it completes the listing of Gunn's published work, as well as lists additional translations, interviews, reviews of his work, critical material, and more. Each section of the update is divided into two sections: "emendations," the collective term for additions..... READ MORE about THOM GUNN, A BIBLIOGRAPHY: VOLUME II, 1979-2012

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Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1996. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xlii), 710 pages. First edition. Printed Catalogues is an important record of 17th- and 18th-century books in the first printed university and public catalogue of the Harvard College Library. By 1764, the Library was considered the most substantial library in British North America at the time. For scholars of book history, American history and education, Printed Catalogues provides insight into the books of the..... READ MORE about PRINTED CATALOGUES OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY, 1723-1790

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(New Haven, CT): Yale University, 2001. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 99 pages. Exhibition catalogue portraying the collection of rare books and manuscripts that was displayed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from late July to September, 2001 The event was presented in two parts: (1) the meaning of "commonplace" and how it developed over the centuries and (2) how manuscripts were used in scholarly studies. Commonplace Books contains descriptions from titles..... READ MORE about COMMONPLACE BOOKS: A HISTORY OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE TWENTIETH...

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Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 1980. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 83 pages. Italian involvement with the Americas before 1800 was much more extensive than is usually realized. Columbus's voyages were but the first of a long series of interrelationships. 127 items with full descriptions showing the Italian contribution to America from 1492 to 1800. Explorers, superb map makers, political thinkers, travelers, physicians, scientists, and translators are among the figures represented here. Many excellent..... READ MORE about ITALIANS AND THE CREATION OF AMERICA; AN EXHIBITION AT THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY

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Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 2011. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 410 pages. Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley follows in the long tradition of Huxley bibliographic research, started in 1927 by Percy H. Muir and Bertie van Thal, and continued today in an active community of Huxley scholars. David J. Bromer's new addition to that legacy is the culmination of over twenty years of research, fact-finding, and detective..... READ MORE about AUN APRENDO: A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY

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Tokyo: Yushodo Press Co., Ltd., 2004. 6.5 x 9 inches. Hardcover, cardboard slipcase. 224 pages. Second edition. Describes 383 different items. Has a thorough index, including locations in English and Japanese-English, places of printing and printers, and provenances. Describes statistics on places and periods of printing. Also contains an extensive list of Concordances. Distributed for Yushodo Press Co., Ltd. by Oak Knoll Press. SALES RIGHTS: Worldwide except Japan; available in Japan from Yushodo Press Co...... READ MORE about INCUNABULA IN JAPANESE LIBRARIES (IJL2) SECOND EDITION OF UNION CATALOGUE OF INCUNABULA IN...

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Hartford, Connecticut: Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 2011. 10 x 8 inches. paperback pamphlet. 24 pages. To honor a gift given to the Watkinson Library by M. William McGill, this catalogue is an illustrated checklist of the works of British architectural and topographical artist John Piper. In the late 1920s, Piper attended both the Richmond School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and by the 1930s he was working steadily as an artist hardly..... READ MORE about JOHN PIPER IN THE WATKINSON: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, (2008). 9 x 12 inches. cloth with dust jacket. 384 pages. First edition, second printing. The literary origins of the American film noir cycle are more convoluted than a plot contrived by Raymond Chandler after a too-long night at Musso and Frank. Kevin Johnson has paired his obsessions with film and literature to illuminate even the murkiest connections. Identifying every 1940s American film noir with a published literary source..... READ MORE about THE DARK PAGE: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR, 1940-1949

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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 34 pages. Reprinted from Studies in Bibliography. 68 books identified to which Johnson subscribed. Notes to entries discuss other subscribers, record published references to the book or to Johnson's connection with it, and report the copies on which the present record is based. READ MORE about PRELIMINARY HANDLIST OF BOOKS TO WHICH DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON SUBSCRIBED

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