Tübingen: H. Lauppschen, 1880. 12mo. later quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (iv), 55+(1) pages. Text of a speech given on the history of the book trade in Tübingen between 1500 and 1800. Indexed. Spine faded. Boards chipped, discolored, and rubbed. Bookseller's stamp and tag on front pastedown. Endpapers lightly foxed. Pages yellowed. READ MORE about BUCHERGEWERBE IN TUBINGEN VOM JAHRE 1500 BIS 1800
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 48540
New York: Garland, 1974. 8vo. cloth. (xiv), 467 pages. Reprint of the London 1794 edition. Ruddiman was a librarian with interesting secondary ties to the book world. In 1707 he became a book auctioneer, and in 1715, a printer in partnership with his brother. Chalmers was a fellow Scot and a noted antiquarian. READ MORE about THE LIFE OF THOMAS RUDDIMAN N, A.M., THE KEEPER, FOR ALMOST FIFTY YEARS, OF THE LIBRARY BELONGING...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 1361
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1935. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), 296 pages, with 24 illustrations. Two hundred years of the German publisher and bookseller. Spine of jacket yellowed; some wear to jacket at head of spine. READ MORE about VATER UND SOHN
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 48282
1981. small 4to. paper wrappers. pp.1-10. From Aus dem Antiquariat, no.1, 1981. Illustrated article on New York booksellers including Smith, Harper, Sabin, Dodd and others. READ MORE about URSPRUNG UND ENTWICKLUNG DES ANTIQUARIATSBUCHHANDELS IN NEW YORK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 39727
1984. small 4to. paper wrappers. pp.405-420. In Aus dem Antiquariat, no.11, 1984. Illustrated article on Philadelphia booksellers. READ MORE about URSPRUNG UND ENTWICKLUNG DES ANTIQUARIATSBUCHHANDELS IN PHILADELPHIA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 39725
New York, NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 12, 322 pages. Limited to 535 copies. Table of contents, list of illustrations, index. Includes a bibliography with addenda. The life of 18th century bookseller Edmund Curll, noted for scandalizing London in his day. Frontispiece and 32 black and white plates. Dust jacket chipped and tanned with closed tear along bottom of spine. Previous owner's bookplate..... READ MORE about THE UNSPEAKABLE CURLL, BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF EDMUND CURLL BOOKSELLER TO WHICH IS ADDED A FULL...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 128829
Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1961. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 360 pages and 3 figures. Only edition of this very important guide to book distribution. Jacket chipped along edges. READ MORE about THE WESTERN BOOK TRADE: CINCINNATI AS A NINETEENTH CENTURY PUBLISHING AND BOOK-TRADE CENTER,...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 22702
(Munich): n.p., (1948). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 38+(1), followed by 7 illustrations. A history of the Munich bookseller J. Lentner, published to celebrate its 250th anniversary. Illustrated by Felix Buttner. Some wear to wrapper. Front free endpaper yellowed. READ MORE about 250 JAHRE LENTNER'SCHE BUCHHANDLUNG
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48349
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1974. 8vo. paper wrappers. iv, pages 422 to 440. An offprint of an article printed in The Library which indicated the importance of book subscription list as a historical record. Contains lists of Provincial Booksellers from 1744. READ MORE about PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS C. 1744
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 56595
Heidelberg: Richard Meißach, 1921. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 22, (2) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1787 Berlin edition. An early work on printing and the book trade. Wrappers rubbed. Corners bumped. READ MORE about ETWAS UBER BUCHHANDEL, BUCHDRUCKEREN UND DEN DRUCK AUSSERHALB LANDES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 48304
Paris: Mouton & Co., 1958. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 288 pages. Text in French. A study of the printing and bookselling businesses in the southern French region of Languedoc in the waning years of the Old Regime, before the Revolution of 1789. Focus on government repression of those businesses. A volume in the "Book and Society" series publshed by the École Pratique des Hautes Études. Preface, table of contents, introduction, index of books published..... READ MORE about L' IMPRIMERIE ET LA LIBRAIRIE EN LANGUEDOC AU DERNIER SIÈCLE DE L'ANCIEN RÉGIME 1700-1789
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114569
Festschrift zur Feier ihres fünfzigjährigen Bestehens am 1. November, 1898.
Berlin: Verlag der Korporation der Berliner Buchhändler, 1898. large 8vo. contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. Spread double page frontispiece; (vi), 200 pages. Festschrift zur Feier ihres fünfzigjährigen Bestehens am 1. November, 1898. A festschrift for the "corporation" of Berlin booksellers, with an overview of the German book trade in the early 19th century, the history of bookselling in Berlin until 1848, the activities of this Berlin booksellers' association from 1848 to the time..... READ MORE about DIE KORPORATION DER BERLINER BUCHHANDLER
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 53878
N.P. n.p., 1959. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.3-20. A reprint from Studies in Bibliograpy, Volume Twelve. 1959. READ MORE about PUBLISHERS AND SINNERS: THE AUGUSTAN VIEW
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 100246
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1981. 8vo. cloth. xxxi, 207 pages. First edition. Excellent book describing over 300 book catalogues separately issued in America before 1801 by booksellers, publishers, auctioneers, and libraries. Includes locations of copies of the catalogues when known. Most complete listing to date. Printed at the Stinehour Press. READ MORE about DESCRIPTIVE CHECKLIST OF BOOK CATALOGUES SEPARATELY PRINTED IN AMERICA 1693-1800
Price: $37.50 Order nr. 5062
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. 8vo. cloth. 322, (2) pages. First edition. Ex Libris copy. With bookplate, "Western Reserve University." With, "MAXL," in marker on front free endpapers. Studies of education, libraries and the circulation of books, production of literature and various appendices including one on the movement of books to and among New Englanders. READ MORE about LITERARY CULTURE IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND, 1620-1730
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 23074
