Paris: Ader Tajan, 1993. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 130 pages. Auction held June 4th, 1993. Includes seciton on 16th century bindings by Parisian binders, plaque bindings produced in Lyon and decorated 17th and 18th century bindings. Many illustrations including a number in color. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'UN AMATEUR
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 72461
Paris / Rouen: Claude Guérin / Dominique Courvoisier, 1990. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Auction sale of 105 items. With many bookbindings illustrated. Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, PROVENANT DU CHATEAU DE X... ET APPARTENANT A DIVERS AMATEURS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 72402
Paris: Auguste Blaizot & Fils, 1939. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. Chromolithographed frontispiece showing a binding by Gruel and many large black-and-white plates of fine bindings throughout text (20 plates). Covers soiled. READ MORE about TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES, ILLUSTRÉS MODERNES, PUBLICATIONS DE SOCIÉTÉS DE BIBLIOPHILES... TRÉS...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 95209
(Istanbul, Turkey): Kemal Çig, (1971). oblong 8vo. embossed cloth, dust jacket. 72 pages. Text in Turkish. Introduction, essays, bibliography. Color illustrations. Dust jacket torn at top edge and worn. READ MORE about TÜRK KITAP KAPLARI
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130703
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 152 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Covers chipped around edges with part of spine covering missing. Pages wrinkled. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 35225
London: G. Michelmore, n.d. 4to. rebound in cloth with paper spine label. 162 pages. A magnificent catalogue filled with illustrations including foldout plates. Many bindings are described and illustrated. Lacks original covers. READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 126225
(Veenendaal): Gaade Uitgevers, (1987). small 8vo. cloth. xii, 170+(1) pages. First edition. A study of Dutch bookbinding from 1840-1940. Chapters address such topics as binding in the early part of the 19th century, the different functions of bindings and the various forms of binding at the fin de siècle. A Catalogue of 284 bindings follows. Many are illustrated here in color and black & white. In Dutch. READ MORE about IN LINNEN GEBONDEN. NEDERLANDSE UITGEVERSBANDEN VAN 1840 TOT 1940
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 62629
(Veenendaal): Gaade Uitgevers, (1987). small 8vo. later cloth. xii, 170, (4) pages. First edition, one of 300 numbered copies containing two bound-in samples in the back. A study of Dutch bookbinding from 1840-1940. Chapters address such topics as binding in the early part of the 19th century, the different functions of bindings and the various forms of binding at the fin de siècle. A Catalogue of 284 bindings follows. Many are illustrated here in color..... READ MORE about IN LINNEN GEBONDEN. NEDERLANDSE UITGEVERSBANDEN VAN 1840 TOT 1940
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 71281
(Luxembourg City, Luxembourg): Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg, 2000. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 276 pages. Preface by Monique Kieffer, introduction by the author, bibliography, indices of authors and provenances, table of contents. Illustrations and descriptive text about bookbindings in the Luxembourg library from the Gothic era through the 17th century. READ MORE about RELIURES DES XVIE ET XVIIE SIÈCLES CONSERVÉES À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE LUXEMBOURG
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 131258
Een Tentoonstelling van Gesigneerde 19e-eeuwse banden.
Gravenhage: Museum van het Boek, 1978. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers enclosed in handmade cloth case with paper cover label. 83, (3) pages. Een Tentoonstelling van Gesigneerde 19e-eeuwse banden. S-K 1015. Illustrated exhibition catalogue. READ MORE about VORSTELIJKE BOEKBAND EN UIT DE KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 37449
Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co Ltd, 1961. 4to. cloth. 29 pages, with 71 leaves of plates. First edition (S-K 2174). The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has one of the largest collection of bookbinding examples in the world. Many books had been published on bindings of various countries of Western Europe, but none on oriental bindings until this book was published. The bindings are divided into three sections: Christian bindings of the Near East (plates..... READ MORE about SOME ORIENTAL BINDINGS IN THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 57363
Bloomington, IL: Public School Publishing Co., 1912. tall 12mo. cloth. v,72; iv,72 pages. Two books bound in one including the practical treatise on bookbinding. Illustrated. Covers rubbed with wear along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING FOR SCHOOLS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 24913
Luxemburg: Nationalbibliothek Luxemburg, 1972. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142, (2) pages. S-K 1051. Descriptions of the important bookbindings in this national library. Sixty-two bindings described in great detail with each accompanied by an illustration. Some plates in color. Preface by Gilbert Trausch. With the Brazier-Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about BEMERKENSWERTE EINBANDE IN DER NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK ZU LUXEMBURG
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 38500
Avant-Propos de Jacques Guignard. Avec La Collaboration de Pavlina Hamanova et Howard M. Nixon.
Luxembourg: Editions de l'Imprimerie Saint-Paul, 1978. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 121, (3) pages. Avant-Propos de Jacques Guignard. Avec La Collaboration de Pavlina Hamanova et Howard M. Nixon. S-K 4188.Text in French. Study of the armorial bindings in the collection of this early Luxembourg collector. Many illustrations including a number in color. READ MORE about RELIURES AUX ARMOIRIES DE PIERRE ERNEST DE MANSFELD
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 38668
New York: Bell Publishing Company, (1963). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 93 pages. With 255 illustrations by the author. Reprint of the first edition. READ MORE about HAND BOOKBINDING, A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 5985
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1962. large 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. x,193+(1) pages; 42 plates. Volume 10 of the series Beiträge zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen established by Carl Wehmer and edited by Walter Bauhuis. Noted Arabist and philologist Weisweiler introduces the text with commentary on particulars of Islamic bookbinding, then lists 387 detailed entries by library and country. 42 black and white plates depicting Islamic bookbindings. Discolored around the edges of the covers and spine. Ex-libris..... READ MORE about DER ISLAMISCHE BUCHEINBAND DES MITTELALTERS NACH HANDSCHRIFTEN AUS DEUTSCHEN, HOLLÄNDISCHEN UND...
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 65574
Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 31, (1) pages. Text in German. Foreword by Paul Raabe. Exhibition of the works of the Peter-Hahne workshop. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about WERKSTATT PETERS-HAHNE HAMBURG 1927-1982
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126335
London: Odhams Press Ltd., (1948). 8vo. cloth. 448 pages. Reprint of the 1946 first edition. Full of practical information. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about PRACTICAL PRINTING AND BINDING; A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN ALL BRANCHES OF...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 5925
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. tall 4to. full leather, clamshell box. (42) pages. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Don Etherington, bookbinder and former director of Conservation at both the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, TX). The binding is a full crushed red moracco with black goat leather and blue crushed moracco onlaid leather strips. Gilt dotted tooling. Duel moracco and..... READ MORE about TWELVE BINDINGS. WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE...
Price: $2,950.00 Order nr. 135133
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1981. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 420-444. An article in the "Harvard Library Bulletin", Volume XXIX, Number 4, October 1981. Contains three other articles as well as notes. READ MORE about 'THE BOOK-PRESERVATION PROBLEM AS SEEN AT HARVARD."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 100879
Boston: Richard J. Wolfe, 1991. 8vo. decorated paper over cloth-backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages. Limited to 250 signed copies, 200 for sale. Text is a facsimile of original Dutch text with translation on facing page. Gives information on gilding of leather, paper, and silk, velvet and fore edge, marbling on edges of calf and sheepskin, and dyeing of calf and sheepskin. Tipped-in are 8 samples of some of the processes explained in the..... READ MORE about GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 34250
Salzburg: Werkstätte für Buchkunst, 1982. small oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (69) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies, initialed by Mr. Stock. Catalogue for an exhibition listing twenty-one art bindings and two "book walls" (holders for sets of small paperbacks). Eleven black-and-white illustrations and twelve color illustrations. Stock's bindings represent a generally conservative approach to the book as art, in which the book has a more-or-less conventional structure and retains its function as a book..... READ MORE about WOLFGANG STOCK BUCHEINBANDE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 53855
Stuttgart, Germany: Max Hettler, 1969. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers. 66 pages. Text in German. Bibliography, foreword by Otto Wächter. German terms relevant to bookbinding translated into English, French, and Italian. Alphabetical indices in all four languages. A few pencil and ink notations in text. Wrappers slightly tanned. READ MORE about WÖRTERBUCH DER HANDBUCHBINDEREI UND EIN BANDRESTAURIERUNG
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 126398
San Francisco: Hand Bookbinders of California, 1976. 4to. typescript enclosed in pamphlet holder. (1), 37, 7 leaves. Very scarce publication regarding bookbinding references. A fine copy.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BOOK-BINDING NOTES, 1875-1943 With Notes added by Mrs. Young and by Leah Wollenberg, who was a...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 14018
Seven Issues
Austin, TX: Booklab, Inc., 1989-? 8vo. paper wrappers. variously pagianted. Seven Issues. Seven issues of the Booknote periodical. Spines faded. Issues include: 1) Catalogue of Services and Products 2) Salvage of Library Materials from Water or Insect Damage 3) Collection Maintenance Repair for Publishers' Cased Books 4) Safe Handling and Exhibition of Books 5) Advantages of Protective Enclosures: The Drop-Spine Box 6) Survey, Assessment and Planning for Library Conservation 7) A Glossary for the Structure..... READ MORE about Seven issues of 'Booknote', by Booklab, Inc
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 136422
