(Breslauer, Martin).

MISCELLANY OF BOOKS AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS ON MANY SUBJECTS.

List XXXIX.
London: Martin Breslauer, (1971). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 88 pages followed by 28 pages of plates. List XXXIX. A bookseller's catalogue including many examples of seventeenth and eighteenth century bookbinding. Also includes autograph letters, incunabula, and type specimens. Works by William Shakespeare and Richard Weir, among others, are offered. Illustrated by twenty-eight pages of plates, many showing notable bindings. Index of authors and titles. READ MORE about MISCELLANY OF BOOKS AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS ON MANY SUBJECTS

Price: $12.00  other currencies  Order nr. 77695

CATALOGUE OF PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS.

London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 111 pages followed by eight pages of plates each depicting numerous items. No.12 of the 1979/1980 season. Illustrations throughout text. Corner bumped. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 70288

(Center For Book Arts).

THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 29, 1984.

New York: Center for Book Arts, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding to, book forms. Introduction by..... READ MORE about THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY...

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 36530

Cim, Albert.

PETIT MANUEL DE L'AMATEUR DES LIVRES.

Paris: Ernest Flammarion, n.d. (circa 1920s). 12mo. quarter brown leather with marbled paper covered boards, four raised bands, with original paper wrappers bound-in. 254, (2) pages. Extracted by Cim from his five-volume work, l'Encyclopédie du Livre (Flammarion, 1905-8). Includes discussions of paper, format, printing, binding, arrangement of libraries, bibliographic classification. Several illustrations of contemporary book shelving. Leather rubbed on spine. Printed on cheaper paper. READ MORE about PETIT MANUEL DE L'AMATEUR DES LIVRES

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 114412

(Danon, Robert).

MANUSCRITS ENLUMINES ET LIVRES RARES, COLLECTION ROBERT DANON.

Paris: Vente aux Encheres Publiques, (1973). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Auction catalogue containing 134 illuminated manuscripts from the collection of Robert Danon. Each item is illustrated, some in color. Text in French. Estimated prices loosely inserted. Minor cover soiling. READ MORE about MANUSCRITS ENLUMINES ET LIVRES RARES, COLLECTION ROBERT DANON

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 35247

(Edition Kaiser).

DAS SCHÖNE BUCH/THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Kaiser, 1993. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 342, (2) pages. Limited to 800 copies. Text in German and English. Table of contents, preface. General index, indices of provenances and binders. A catalogue, 160 items, including a variety of subjects with a number of fine bindings. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Price list laid in. READ MORE about DAS SCHÖNE BUCH/THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 131715

Faxon, Frederick W.

LITERARY ANNUALS AND GIFT BOOKS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY 1823-1903.

Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1973. 8vo. cloth. 26 pages, 24 plates; xxxii, 140 pages. The growing interest in the nineteenth-century book prompted the decision to reissue this little-known but extensive bibliography. Twenty-five pages of illustrations and two essays on the bindings and illustrations of the Annuals have been added to this edition. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about LITERARY ANNUALS AND GIFT BOOKS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY 1823-1903

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 16377

(Grolier, Jean). Portalis, Roger (Editor).

RESEARCHES CONCERNING JEAN GROLIER, HIS LIFE AND HIS LIBRARY. WITH A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF HIS BOOKS BY A.-J.-V. LE ROUX DE LINCY.

Translated and Revised by Carolyn Shipman.
New York: Burt Franklin, n.d. tall 8vo. cloth. xlv, 385 pages. Translated and Revised by Carolyn Shipman. Reprint of the 1907 first edition. Minor spotting of covers. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about RESEARCHES CONCERNING JEAN GROLIER, HIS LIFE AND HIS LIBRARY. WITH A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF HIS...

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 11665

(Incunabula). Grothe, Walter.

WIEGENDRUCKE IN DER ZEITENWENDE.

Klagenfurt: Ferd. Kleinmayr, 1950. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. x, 148 pages and 12 plates. An essay on incunabula including an annotated bibliography describing 132 items. Illustrated with plates of early book illustrations and one period binding. Wear along outer edge of front board. Boards slightly warped. READ MORE about WIEGENDRUCKE IN DER ZEITENWENDE

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126249

(Kelmscott Press).

PRINTED BOOKS, FINE BINDINGS AND WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANSUCRIPTS INCLUDING THE JOHN A. SAKS COLLECTION OF THE KELMSCOTT PRESS PRINTED ON VELLUM.

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. A fine copy. READ MORE about PRINTED BOOKS, FINE BINDINGS AND WESTERN ILLUMINATED MANSUCRIPTS INCLUDING THE JOHN A. SAKS...

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 25265

(Kulche, Gust).

VERRES SCULPTURES AQUARELLES RELIURES/BOEKBANDEN AQUARELLEN SCULPTUREN GLAZEN KULCHE KULCHE.

Brussels, Belgium: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1995. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 181+(1) pages. Text in French and Flemish. Comments by Philippe Roberts-Jones, R.H. Marijnissen, and others. Includes Kulche's work as bookbinder. Acknowledgments by Françoise and August Kulche. Presentation on half title from August Kulche. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about VERRES SCULPTURES AQUARELLES RELIURES/BOEKBANDEN AQUARELLEN SCULPTUREN GLAZEN KULCHE KULCHE

Price: $55.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126290

(Lecuire, Pierre).

LIBRI DI PIERRE LECUIRE.

Florence: Di Centro, 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 95 pages. A catalogue for the exhibition of Pierre Lecuire's works held at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze from March 14 to April 14, 1990. Lists 32 of Lecuire's books each accompanied by a full-page reproduction of an illustration from that particular book. Includes bibliographical references and an index. With an introduction by Lucia Chimirri and a preface by Piero Bigongiari. All in Italian. READ MORE about LIBRI DI PIERRE LECUIRE

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 60956

(Lecuire, Pierre).

TROIS EXPOSITIONS DES LIVRES DE PIERRE LECUIRE.

Mulhouse, Colmar, Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale, Bibliothèque de la Ville de Colmar, Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire, 1974. 12mo. stiff paper wrapper covered with suede with onlays. 44, (4) pages. Introduction by Danielle Taesch followed by a biographical sketch by Jacques Guignard and the illustrated exhibition catalogue showing the work of this book artist. Bookplate removed from front inside cover. READ MORE about TROIS EXPOSITIONS DES LIVRES DE PIERRE LECUIRE

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 68984