112.

Wroth, Lawrence C.

THE WAY OF A SHIP: AN ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE OF NAVIGATION SCIENCE ALONG WITH SOME AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ART OF NAVIGATION 1519-1802.

Foreword by John B. Hattendorf
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2011. 6.25 x 10 inches. hardcover. 204 pages. Foreword by John B. Hattendorf. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its original publication, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University has issued a new edition of Lawrence C. Wroth's Way of a Ship (1937), the foundational bibliographic essay on the literature of navigation science, along with a reprint of Some American Contributions to the Art of Navigation..... READ MORE about THE WAY OF A SHIP: AN ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE OF NAVIGATION SCIENCE ALONG WITH SOME AMERICAN...

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117.

Vander Meulen, David.

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ALEXANDER POPE.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2014. 6 x 9 inches. paperback pamphlet. 27 pages. David L. Vander Meulen's Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope has come to be regarded as a classic statement of the purposes and methods of descriptive bibliography. Initially presented as the 1987 Engelhard Lecture and subsequently published by the Library of Congress, Where Angels Fear to Tread is now published in a new edition..... READ MORE about WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ALEXANDER POPE

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119.

Hagstrom, Jack W.C. and George Bixby.

THOM GUNN, A BIBLIOGRAPHY: VOLUME 1 - 1940-1978.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 200 pages. Volume 1. First edition, second printing. This is a descriptive bibliography of Thom Gunn's writings, with full collations of first editions and details of reprints and new editions. In addition to listing books, pamphlets, and broadsides by Thom Gunn, it also includes those edited by him or containing first book appearances of poems or prose by him. It also lists his..... READ MORE about THOM GUNN, A BIBLIOGRAPHY: VOLUME 1 - 1940-1978

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121.

Felcone, Joseph J.

PRINTING IN NEW JERSEY 1754-1800: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 2012. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 544 pages. The first permanent printing office in New Jersey was established in 1754 by James Parker. Laws, proceedings of the assembly, and proclamations of the royal governors all came from Parker's press, as did numerous works for the fledgling College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). Other printers soon saw opportunity in New Jersey, so that by 1800, forty-four individuals had..... READ MORE about PRINTING IN NEW JERSEY 1754-1800: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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123.

(Kipling, Rudyard). Richards, David Alan.

RUDYARD KIPLING: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 504 pages, plus 446 on CD-ROM. This new bibliography of Rudyard Kipling, the first English-language author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is the first to appear in fifty years and the first to incorporate modern standards of collation, binding cloth description, publication dates and prices, and dust jacket description. It fully describes 480 first editions..... READ MORE about RUDYARD KIPLING: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

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125.

(Huxley, Aldous). Bromer, David J.

AUN APRENDO: A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY.

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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128.

Gauz, Valeria (editor).

PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN BOOKS IN THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY 1537-1839.

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 1800. For..... READ MORE about PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN BOOKS IN THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY 1537-1839

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