(British Library).

INDEX TO THE ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS, WITH THOSE OF THE EGERTON COLLECTION, PRESERVED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND ACQUIRED IN THE YEARS 1783-1836.

London: Printed by Order of the Trustees [of the Museum], 1849. large 4to. all but disbound. (iv), 514 pages. Between the publication of the 1782 Ayscough catalogue and the inception of the Index to the Additions in 1836, the British Museum acquired about 5,000 manuscripts or manuscript sets. The Index to the Additions was not retroactive, and manuscript acquisitions from 1783 through 1835 had, therefore, no coverage in any printed catalogue until this gap was..... READ MORE about INDEX TO THE ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS, WITH THOSE OF THE EGERTON COLLECTION, PRESERVED IN THE...

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(British Museum).

INDEX TO THE ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS, WITH THOSE OF THE EGERTON COLLECTION, PRESERVED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND ACQUIRED IN THE YEARS 1783-1836.

London: Printed by Order of the Trustees [of the Museum], 1849. large 4to. original grained cloth. (iv), 514 pages. Between the publication of the 1782 Ayscough catalogue and the inception of the Index to the Additions in 1836, the British Museum acquired about 5,000 manuscripts or manuscript sets. The Index to the Additions was not retroactive, and manuscript acquisitions from 1783 through 1835 had, therefore, no coverage in any printed catalogue until this gap was..... READ MORE about INDEX TO THE ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS, WITH THOSE OF THE EGERTON COLLECTION, PRESERVED IN THE...

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 55099

(British Museum). Porter, G.W. (Editor).

A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PLACED IN THE GALLERIES IN THE READING ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

London: Printed by Order of the Trustees (of the British Museum), 1886. 8vo. cloth. vi, 611+(1) pages. First printing. Alphabetical listing by author, with subject index, covering mostly contemporary works. Tear in cloth along back hinge and across part of spine. READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PLACED IN THE GALLERIES IN THE READING ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 62532

Bruce, H.A.

FIRST REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION OF HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS.

London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1870. 4to. original cloth. xiv, 133+(1) pages. Report of a royal commission to collect, catalogue, and preserve manuscripts of historical importance. Includes the commission of Queen Victoria, the commission's report. Includes appendices related to England, Scotland, and Ireland. Appendices include detailed descriptive information about each manuscript. Endpapers tanned. Bookplate on front pastedown and previous owner's name on front free endpaper. READ MORE about FIRST REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION OF HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 116361

(Byron).

FOUNDERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY CELEBRATING OUR ONE MILLIONTH VOLUME: POEMS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS BY GEROGE GORDON, LORD BYRON.

DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University, 1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 2500 copies. Keepsake published in commemoration of NIU's Founders Library acquisition of its one millionth volume. Comments by William R. Monat, university president, and Jean A. Major, director of libraries. Comments on Byron by Charles W. Hagelman, Jr., Professor of English, with comments on the Byron collection in DeKalb by Anthony Bliss, Rare Book Librarian. Facsimiles of five pages of Byron's Poems..... READ MORE about FOUNDERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY CELEBRATING OUR ONE MILLIONTH VOLUME: POEMS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS BY...

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 114971

Campbell, F.B.F.

MEMORANDUM RELATIVE TO THE NEED FOR SPECIAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES. WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE DIVISION OF THE STREAM OF LITERATURE.

London: Printed by Arliss Andrews, 1894. small folio. original paper wrappers (1st volume) and self paper wrappers (2nd volume). 6 pages followed by table; 3 pages. "In illustration of "The Bibliography of the Future," a Paper Submitted to the "Library Association," September, 1894. Also present is three page brochure entitled "Co-Operative Bibliography. How Editors of Journals and Magazines can help Librarians." Faint spotting of corners of pages in first text. READ MORE about MEMORANDUM RELATIVE TO THE NEED FOR SPECIAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES. WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE...

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94993

Chanin, Eileen.

BOOK LIFE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 6 x 9.25 inches. paperback. 496 pages. Australia's greatest book collector, David Scott Mitchell, gave his extraordinary library and a bequest for its development to the people of Sydney and the world. Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell, by Eileen Chanin, is the first comprehensive account of his life and collecting, told through books, readings, and contemporary correspondence. Mitchell was a man of astoundingly..... READ MORE about BOOK LIFE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL

Price: $59.95  other currencies  Order nr. 108954

(Chetham Library). Radcliffe, John.

BIBLIOTHECA CHETHAMENSIS, SIVE BIBLIOTHECAE PUBLICAE MANCUNIENSIS AB HUMFREDO CHETHAM ARMIGERO FUNDATAE CATALOGUS EXHIBENS LIBROS IN VARIAS CLASSES [SIC] PRO VARIETATE ARGUMENTI DISTRIBUTOS.

3 volumes.
Mancunii (Manchester): n.p., 1791-1826. small 8vo. one volume disbound and others bound in library buchram, all edges speckled red. Frontispiece,xvi,(2), 367; 368-622; frontispiece,v-xii,174, (6),116,86,48 pages. 3 volumes. Humphrey Chetham (1580-1653), a successful Manchester businessman and public figure, left a sum for founding of a library, afterwards named the Chetham Library. In 1791, the Chetham librarian, John Radcliffe, produced a two-volume classified catalogue in Latin with 6,723 numbered entries and divided into five general subjects with..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA CHETHAMENSIS, SIVE BIBLIOTHECAE PUBLICAE MANCUNIENSIS AB HUMFREDO CHETHAM ARMIGERO...

Price: $175.00  other currencies  Order nr. 53440

(Clark, J.W.).

FASCICULUS IOANNI WILLIS CLARK, DICATUS.

Cambridge: University Press, 1909. tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 584 pages. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Contains 32 essays offered in tribute to this great scholar including The Catalogue of the Library of the Augusinian Friars by James, an essay by F. Madan, A Paradox on Beauty by Edmund Gosse, a bibliography of the writings of Clark and many others. Covers rubbed. Bookplate. Foxing of preliminary pages. READ MORE about FASCICULUS IOANNI WILLIS CLARK, DICATUS

Price: $70.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2772

Clarke, Marian G. M.

DAVID WATKINSON'S LIBRARY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN HARTFORD CONNECTICUT, 1866-1966.

Hartford, Conn: Trinity College Press, 1966. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. xii, 177 pages. David Watkinson's Library narrates the founding and history of the David Watkinson Library from 1866 to 1966. When David Watkinson died in 1857, the major provisions for the establishment of the library were contained in his will. Watkinson had determined one hundred thousand dollars would be invested and managed by the board of trustees to establish connections with the Connecticut Historical..... READ MORE about DAVID WATKINSON'S LIBRARY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN HARTFORD CONNECTICUT, 1866-1966

Price: $17.50  other currencies  Order nr. 105706

(Corporation of London).

CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE OF THE CIRCULATING PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON.

London: (Corporation of London), 1863. 8vo. original cloth. vi, 154+(1) pages. A catalogue from the London Library with entries on subjects such as British and Irish history, voyages and travel, classical and miscellaneou literature, ecclesiastical history and antiquities and more. Index of authors and subjects. Covers detached, front board mising and spine covering lacking. Text block broken in two parts. Ex Mercantile LIbrary with markings. READ MORE about CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE OF THE CIRCULATING PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 70411

Dainotti, V[irginie] Carini.

BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE VITTORIO EMANUELE AL COLLEGIO ROMANO.

Volume 1.
Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1956. small 8vo. sewn stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. xi, 208, (4) pages, with 8 additional pages of plates. Volume 1. Difficult early years of the Biblioteca Nazionale, from the idea of a national library in the decade following unification, the organization of monastic holdings into the "Vittorio Emanuele" and subsequent mismanagement thereof, to the official Inquest of 1880-81 and its aftermath. Partially unopened. Dust jacket soiled, chipped. READ MORE about BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE VITTORIO EMANUELE AL COLLEGIO ROMANO

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 51298

Danton, J. Periam.

UNITED STATES INFLUENCE ON NORWEGIAN LIBRARIANSHIP, 1890-1940.

Volume 2, No. 1 of the University of California Publications in Librarianship.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1957. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 91 pages. Volume 2, No. 1 of the University of California Publications in Librarianship. With a preface, appendix, index, and a map. Edges tanned. READ MORE about UNITED STATES INFLUENCE ON NORWEGIAN LIBRARIANSHIP, 1890-1940

Price: $16.00  other currencies  Order nr. 101833