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Die Maltechnik des Codex Aureus aus Echternach. Ein Meisterwerk im Wandel
Nürnberg Germanisches Nationalmuseum 2009 4to (27.5 cm), 180 pp. Laminated boards.
Hardcover As New
Litteris confirmentur. Lo escrito en Asturias en la Edad Media
Caja De Asturias 2006 4to (33.5 cm), 352 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.
Hardcover Fine
Bibliographie des oeuvres théologiques, littéraires, historiques et juridiques de Théodore de Bèze : Publiée avec la collaboration d'Alain Dufour
Genève Librairie E. Droz 1960 8vo (25 cm), X, 244 pp. Cloth backed boards with the front wrapper tipped in. 407 editions of works of French protestant theologian Theodore Beza (1519-1605) are described. Some are illustrated with facsimiles of title-page. Works attributed to Beza listed in an Appendix.
Hardcover Near Fine
A Gypsy Bibliography
Liverpool 1909 8vo (24.5 cm), [4] pp, 139 leaves. Cont. cloth, title gilt on the spine, original wrappers bound in (tears to leaves 132 - 133, name in manuscript on the title, numerous additions in manuscript). Provisional issue of the Gypsy bibliography privately printed for the Members of The Gypsy Lore Society. The text printed in one narrow column recto only. The complete bibliography describing ca 4500 items was published by Bernard Quaritch in 1914.
Hardcover Very Good
The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris
Cary Graphic Arts Press 2012 8vo (23 cm), 288, (2) pp. Printed wrappers. From the blurb: "Simon de Colines was one of the greatest typographers, printers and publishers of the Renaissance. He has nevertheless been unfairly neglected. Apart from a pair of scholarly bibliographies, published a century apart, this is the first book-length study of his work.As Robert Bringhurst writes in his introduction to this volume, "Colines as much as anyone built the semiotic structure of the book as we now know it, with its chapter headings and subheads, page numbers and running heads, tables of contents, indices, and source notes. He also cut lucid and beautiful type at a crucial moment: when the Latin and Greek alphabets were still engaged in their historic metamorphosis from manuscript to metal..."
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Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia (ca.1681) - Defter-i-Mufassal-i Eyalet-i Kamanice. Part 1 - text, Translation and Commentary, Pt 2 - Fac. 2 vol. Set
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 2004 2 volumes 4to (28 cm), 1072 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt. From the publisher's description: "Ottoman survey registers are recognized as unparalleled sources on the demographic, economic, and linguistic characteristics of the regions for which they were made. The register for Kamaniçe (the region of Podolia and the city of Kam'janec', which the Ottomans conquered in 1672) is the only surviving survey register of Ukrainian lands. The full text of the defter is given in transcription in the first part, with a facsimile edition given in the second part. All narrative documents are translated in appendices, while narrative segments of the registry portion of the defter are translated in the notes. Commentary includes extensive notes and an introduction. The Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia provides important new information on the Ottomans and their subjects living in Ukrainian territory. Interpretive maps keyed to the register and indices and glossaries are included."
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The Architectural Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Series 2): Volume 2 2-2, Parts 1 & 2 (The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Series)
Yale University Press 1995 2 volumes 4to (31 cm), XXX, 326 pp, 4 plates; XII, PP. 327-750. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "This two-volume set is a comprehensive catalogue of the architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a key figure in the birth of the architectural profession in the United States. All Latrobe's architectural projects are considered in detail, and each project is illustrated with his surviving drawings. Among the works discussed are the U.S. Capitol, the Bank of Pennsylvania, the Baltimore Cathedral, the Virginia State Penitentiary, the Stephen Decatur house, and numerous other commissions for public and private buildings. The volumes also analyze Latrobe's style of architectural drawing, trace the evolution of his technique, and place his graphic legacy in the contexts of his own architectural work and international currents at the end of the eighteenth century. The Architectural Drawings represents the final publication of the Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an editorial project launched more than two decades ago under the direction of editor-in-chief Edward C. Carter II. The series as a whole also includes volumes on Latrobe's correspondence, journals, engineering drawings, and watercolor views of American scenes."
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War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans
Harvard University Press 2004 8vo (21.5 cm), VIII, 300pp, plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: " In Nazi eyes, the Soviet Union was the "wild east," a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This conflict brought death and destruction to thousands of Soviet civilians, and has been held as a prime example of ordinary German soldiers participating in the Nazi regime's annihilation policies. Ben Shepherd enters the heated debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht in a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of its anti-partisan campaign in the Soviet Union. He investigates how anti-partisan warfare was conducted, not by the generals, but by the far more numerous, average Germans serving as officers in the field. What shaped their behavior was more complex than Nazi ideology alone. The influence of German society, as well as of party and army, together with officers' grueling yet diverse experience of their environment and enemy, made them perceive the anti-partisan war in varied ways. Reactions ranged from extreme brutality to relative restraint; some sought less to terrorize the native population than to try to win it over. The emerging picture does not dilute the suffering the Wehrmacht's eastern war inflicted. It shows, however, that properly judging ordinary Germans' role in that war is more complicated than is indicated by either wholesale condemnation or wholesale exoneration. This valuable study offers a nuanced discussion of the diversity of behaviors within the German army, as well as providing a compelling exploration of the war and counterinsurgency operations on the eastern front. "
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Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus': Translated and with an Introduction by Simon Franklin (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications)
Harvard University Press 2011 8vo (23 cm), CXV, 213 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "The authors included in this volume, Ilarion, Klim Smoljatic, and Kirill of Turov, are remarkable for both their personal and literary achievements. Appointed in 1051 by Prince Jaroslav the Wise, Ilarion was the first of only two recorded "native" metropolitans of Kiev. His Sermon on Law and Grace constitutes the finest piece of eleventh-century Rus' rhetorical literature. Klim Smoljatic, the second "native" metropolitan of Rus' (from 1147), is the author of the controversial Epistle to Foma,, which addresses the debate over the proper nature and limits of Christian learning. Finally, the twelfth-century monk Kirill of Turov is best known for his collection of allegorical lessons and some of the most accomplished sermons of Kievan Rus'. The volume contains the first complete translations of the Epistle to Foma and the lessons and sermons of Kirill, as well as an entirely new rendering of the Sermon on Law and Grace. Simon Franklin prefaces the texts with a substantial introduction that places each of the three authors in their historical context and examines the literary qualities as well as textual complexities of these outstanding works of Rus' literature."
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The First Jesuits
Harvard University Press 1993 8vo (23.5 cm), XIV, 457 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "John W. O’Malley gives us the most comprehensive account ever written of the Society of Jesus in its founding years, one that heightens and transforms our understanding of the Jesuits in history and today. Following the Society from 1540 through 1565, O’Malley shows how this sense of mission evolved. He looks at everything - the Jesuits’ teaching, their preaching, their casuistry, their work with orphans and prostitutes, their attitudes toward Jews and “New Christians,” and their relationship to the Reformation. All are taken in by the sweep of O’Malley’s story as he details the Society’s manifold activities in Europe, Brazil, and India."
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Spanish Music in the Twentieth Century
Harvard University Press 1993 8vo (24 cm), [8], 261 pp. Publisher's cloth. From the publisher's description: "From the exhilarating impact of Isaac Albeniz at the beginning of the century to today's complex and adventurous avant-garde, this complete interpretive history introduces twentieth-century Spanish music to English-speaking readers. With graceful authority, Tomas Marco, award-winning composer, critic, and bright light of Spanish music since the 1960s, covers the entire spectrum of composers and their works: trends and movements, critical and popular reception, national institutions, influences from Europe and beyond, and the effect of such historic events as the Spanish Civil War and the death of Franco. Marco's penetrating aesthetic critiques are threaded throughout each phase of this rich account. Marco provides detailed coverage of the key figures, induding a chapter devoted entirely to Manuel de Falla - Spain's most celebrated twentieth-century composer - and a panoramic survey of recent arrivals on the contemporary music scene. This lively history fills a long-felt need and fills it superbly, with the knowledge and insights of a major figure in the musical world."
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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press 2009 8vo (23.5 cm), XXIV, 776 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the publisher's description: "In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia - a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe’s development - ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia’s legacy is far more complex. Though now a fading memory in Europe’s heartland, the true story of Prussia offers a remarkable glimpse into the dynamic rise of modern Europe."
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Aux armes, citoyens! Naissance et fonctions du bellicisme révolutionnaire (L'Univers historique)
Editions Du Seuil 2010 8vo (24 cm), 400 pp. Laminated wrappers.
Soft cover New
A Phonetic Description of the Ukrainian Language (Harvard Ukranian Research Institute, Monograph Series)
Harvard University Press 1979 8vo (24 cm), front., IX, 212, [2] pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
Österreichisch-Ukrainische Begegnungen
VNTL-Klasyka 2013 4to (27 cm), 276 pp. Hardcover. The second edition. In German and Ukrainian.
Hardcover New
De bibliotheek bij nacht: De liefde voor boeken en de kunst van het verzamelen
Ambo 2008 8vo (23 cm), 336 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket.
Hardcover New
Emanuel Querido 1871-1943: een leven met boeken
Querido 2015 8vo (22.5 cm), 400 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.
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Boekenvrienden Solidariteit: Turbulente jaren van een exiluitgeverij
Biblion 1999 8vo (24.5 cm), 150 pp. Laminated boards.
Hardcover As New
Waardevol oud papier: Feestbundel bij het tienjarig bestaan van Bubb Kuyper Veilingen Boeken en Grafiek, 1986-1996
Bubb Kuyper 1996 8vo (24.5 cm), 341 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.
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ABC-XYZapf: Fünfzig Jahre Alphabet-Design. Gesammelte Beiträge über Fachliches und Persönliches für Hermann Zapf
Bund Deutscher Buchkünstler, Offenbach ; The Wynkyn de Worde Society, London 1989 4to (28 cm), 254 pp, 26 pp plates in color, 2 tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's cloth gilt. The German edition of ABC-XYZapf: Fifty years in alphabet design. Contributions among others by Giovanni Mardersteig, Max Caflisch, Will Carter, Hans Schmoller and Adrian Wilson.
Hardcover Fine
Hermann Zapf & His Design Philosophy: Selected articles and lectures on calligraphy and contemporary developments in type design, with illustrations and bibliographical notes, and a complete list of his typefaces
Society of Typographic Arts 1987 4to (30.5 cm), front., 255 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The book includes selected articles and lectures by the prominent designer Hermann Zapf on calligraphy, type design and typography, and a catalog of his typefaces. The author covers a wide range of creative and practical issues related to the development and application of a typeface in the past, the present and the future. Introduction by Carl Zahn.
Hardcover Fine
Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford [ Vol. 1-3, complete set ]
Oxford Claredon Press 1969 3 volumes 4to (28 cm), front., XVI, 108 pp, 66 plates; front., XII, 161 pp, 88 plates; front, XIII, 167 pp, 120 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust-jackets. Vol. 1: German, Dutch, Flemish, French and Spanish Schools (1969); Vol. 2: Italian School (1970); Vol. 3: British, Irish, and Icelandic Schools, with addenda to volumes 1 and 2 (1973). From the publisher's description: "The Bodleian library collections of Western illuminated manuscripts are among the richest in the world, but only a small proportion of them have ever been published or studied for their illumination alone. Here for the first time they are all arranged chronologically and by country of origin. Post-medieval manuscripts are included if they are illuminated. Nearly 450 illustrations supplement the text of the first volume containing some 900 MSS.". The second volume lists over a 1000 manuscripts. The text is supplemented by over 600 illustrations. Vol. 3 contains descriptions of insular MSS, the collection second only to the British Library. Vol. 1 in mint conditions, vol. 2 & 3 ex-library copies with stamps verso titles, dust jackets little frayed ext extremities and stained.
Hardcover Fine
German Renaissance Title-Borders
London Bibliographical Society 1929 4to (28.5 cm),VII, 20 pp, 86 plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards, teg, deckled edges (binding little rubbed and stained, some foxing to plates). Facsimiles and Illustrations by the Bibliographical Society, No. I. A short essay followed by facsimile of 87 title-pages by major German renaissance artists.
Hardcover Near Fine
Illustrations in Roll and Codex: A Study of the Origin and Method of Text Illustration
Princeton Princeton University Press 1970 4to (30.5 cm), X, 261 pp, 56 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "First published a quarter of a century ago, this book immediately became a classic in its field. It presents a fresh approach to the whole complex of early book illumination. The author is the first to discuss in systematic and comprehensive manner the problem of how miniature and text are related to each other. By solving essential questions or suggesting possible solutions, he opens new vistas to the student of early book illumination. He formulates new terms, which should prove very fruitful tools for an analysis of illustration methods. He also revitalize ideas of great 19th century scholars by carefully scrutinizing their theories." Studies in Manuscript Illumination Series, Vol. 2.
Hardcover Fine
The Illustrations of the Liturgical Homilies of Gregory Nazianzenus
Princeton Princeton University Press 1969 4to (30.5 cm), front., XIII, 269 pp, 112 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "The first systematic study of illuminations for Byzantine homilitic literature, this book demonstrates the dramatic impact of Byzantine liturgy on art. Such was the eloquence of Gregory Nazianzenus that even five hundred years after his death, lavishly illustrated manuscripts containing all of the homilies of this fourth-century Patriarch of Constantinople were still being produced. By the beginning of the eleventh century a new, abbreviated edition was widely circulated, containing 16 homilies considered most appropriate to supplement gospel lections. Of this liturgical edition 36 illustrated copies are extant. They are discussed here and listed in a catalogue raisonné. The illustrations make available several hundred miniatures hitherto inaccesable." Studies in Manuscript Illumination Series, Vol. 6.
Hardcover Fine
English Manuscripts in the Century After the Norman Conquest
Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1960 Folio (38 cm), XIV, 67 pp, 29 plates. Publisher's cloth. The principal aim of this book, based on the Lyell lectures, 1952-3, is "to describe the changes during the century after the Norman Conquest in the script of manuscripts written in England... At this time English writing and illumination cease to be essentially Caroline and Romanesque and become essentially Gothic " (from the Introduction).
Hardcover Fine
English uncial
Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1960 Folio (38 cm), [10], 28, [2] pp, 40 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little dusted and frayed at extremities). From the publisher's description: "This collection of facsimiles contributes a little-known but fascinating page to English history in the Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon culture. Most of the manuscript reproduced were written in Bede's monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow; they include the oldest and the best manuscript of "the Ecclesiastical History of the English People" and Codex Amiatinus, which has been described as 'perhaps the finest book in the world'. In his introduction Dr. Lowe discusses the origins, development and significance of English Uncial hand."
Hardcover Fine
I Manoscritti Della Raccolta Durazzo
Genova Sagep Editrice 1979 4to (27.5 cm), 400 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little sunned). The first attempt to present in its entity the collection of manuscripts formed by Giacomo Filippo Durazzo (1729 - 1812), a notable Genuan politician, scientist and bibliophile. 299 medieval and renaissance manuscripts are described, the most important are illustrated.
Hardcover Fine
Incunabula typographia: A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century (1460-1500) in the Library of Henry Walters
Baltimore 1906 4to (26 cm), front., VII, 522, [2] pp. Publisher's calf, faux thongs on covers, top edge gilt, spine and front cover gilt. Printed in black and red on hand made paper in Florence, bound by Legatoria Tartagli (stamp on the rear end-paper). In 1902 an American art collector Henry Walters (1848-1931) acquired from Florentine bookseller Leo Olschki a spectacular collection of 1200 incunabula. This is a catalogue of this collection finely printed and bound in Florence. Fine copy.
Hardcover Fine
Bibliotheca Medii Aevi manuscripta. Pars prima - Pars altera
München Jacques Rosenthal 1925 2 volumes 4to (27.5 cm), VIII, 106, [2] pp, 21 plates; V, 128 pp, 21 plates. Cont. cloth gilt-lettered on spines and front covers, in a slip-case. Fine copy of Jacques Rosenthal catalogues 83 and 90 from the golden age of Munich antiquarian bookselling. 200 manuscripts described including Evangeliarum (X-XI c.), Ambrosius (IX c.), Anselmus Laudunensis (XII c.), Augustinus (XI c.), Bible (XII c.), Evangeliarum (IX-X c.), Homiliarum (IX c.), Justinianus' Institutiones (XIII c.), Paulus Venetus (XV c.), Pontificale Ambrosianum (XI c.), Septenarium (XIII c.), Biblia Pauperum (XV c.), Chroniques de France (XIV c.)Evangelia (X c.), Giselbertus Autissiodorensis (XIIc.), Hugucio Pisanus (XIII c.).
Hardcover Fine
L'Epistolario Miniato Di Giovanni Da Gaibana [2 Volume Set]
Vicenza Neri Pozza 1968 2 volumes 4to (29 cm), [12], 127 pp, 24 pp of plates; [104] ff. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets, in slip-case. A study and a facsimile of the Epistolario (1259) written by Giovanni da Gaibana, a scribe and possibly an illuminator, who worked in Padua in the second half of 13th c. The Epistolario is one of the most remarkable works of an Italo-Byzantine tradition of Gothic illumination in Italy.
Hardcover Fine
Heures de Turin: 45 feuillets à peintures provenant des Très belles Heures de Jean de France, duc de Berry
Torino Bottega d' Erasmo 1960 Folio (35.5 cm), XXX, 27 pp, 45 plates. Publisher's cloth. The second edition (the first 1904) of the facsimile of Turin Hours with the preface by Albert Chatelet.
Hardcover Fine
La Miniature du XIIe Siecle à L'Abbaye de Citeaux d'apres les Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Dijon
Dijon Librairie L. Venot 1926 4to (33.5 cm), 84 pp, 52 plates. Leather backed cloth boards, original wrappers bound in (binding rubbed, paper browned and little brittle at extremities).
Hardcover Very Good
La Miniature Byzantine
Paris & Bruxelles Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire 1926 Folio (36.5 cm), XIII, 112 pp, 72 pp. Uncut in publisher's wrappers (little foxing to few pages).
Soft cover Fine
Les Livres d'Heure. Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Planches
Paris 1927 Portfolio (35 cm), 14 pp, 130 plates. Cloth backed folder with ties (folder rubbed and stained). Plates volume only of the study of Book of hours in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Hardcover Near Fine
Les Psautiers manuscrits latins des Bibliothèques publiques de France. Planches
Paris 1940 Portfolio (35 cm), XIII pp, 140 plates. Cloth backed folder with ties (folder rubbed and stained, cloth cracked on folds). Plates volume only of the study of manuscript Psalters in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Hardcover Near Fine
Physiologus. Nach einer Handschrift des XI Jahrhunderts
Wien Aus der kaiserlich-königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei 1851 4to (26.5 cm), 46 pp, 5 chromolithographic plates. Cont. cloth backed marbled boards (binding little rubbed, paper slightly browned, inscription dated 1857 on the title). Printed on thick paper.
Hardcover Near Fine
Essai de Bibliographie Charitable
New York Burt Franklin 1968 8vo (23.5 cm), [8], 450 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered spine. Facsimile reprint of the 1891 edition. Bibliography of works on charity including literature, theory, legislation, history. The second devoted to social issues: childhood, blindness and deafness, madness, beggars, hospitals and hospices, protection of the interest of the poor. 2181 editions described.
Hardcover Fine
Books from British Private Presses. Tentoonstelling georganiseerd in het kader van de Britse Week door de Universiteit van Amsterdam en de British Council in het Maagdenhuis van 8 tot 29 mei 1965
Amsterdam 1965 8vo (24 cm), 52 pp. Printed wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition in University of Amsterdam of books from British private presses. 75 books were exhibited including books printed by Strawberry Hill Press, Danie Press, Kelmscott Press, Eragny Press, Valle Press, Doves Press, Golden Cockerel Press.
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A Bibliography of the Village Press 1903-1938: Including an Account of the Genesis of the Press by Frederick W. Goudy and a Portion of the 1903 Diary of Will Ransom, Co-Founder
Oak Knoll Books 1981 8vo (23.5 cm), [10], 20, [7] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Reprint of the 1938 edition. From the blurb: "The bibliography documents the career of The Village Press with meticulous detail and insight. In a short memoir at the beginning of the book, Frederic W. Goudy gives an account of the vicissitudes of a printer's life. The brief section from the diary of Will Ransom, co-founder of the press, gives some idea of the magnitude of the initial problems that were encountered. Despite these difficulties, they were still able to produce books that were an able tribute to William Morris, in many ways Goudy's chief inspiration in book design."
Hardcover Fine
The Binding of Books: An essay in the history of gold-tooled bindings
London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1894 8vo (21.5 cm), XVI, 224 pp, 12 plates. Publisher's cloth, gild-lettered spine and front cover, fore- and bottom-edge untrimmed (binding little rubbed, end-papers browned, a bookplate mounted on the front paste-down). Printed on thick paper. A history of book-binding by English poet, architect, typographer, designer and art historian Herbert Percy Horne (1864-1916). Included chapters dedicated to the craft of bookbinding, early Italian bindings, French bindings and English bindings.
Hardcover Near Fine
Wegbereiders. Van moderne boektypografie in Nederland
Buitenkant 1988 Oblong 8vo (21.5 x 16 cm), 125 pp. Publisher's boards.
Hardcover Fine
Between Boards: New Thoughts on Old Books
Modoc Press 1989 8vo (23 cm), XV, 221 pp. Laminated wrappers (bottom corned of the front cover slightly creased). A sequel to the "Old & Rare: Thirty years in the book business" (1974).
Soft cover Near Fine
Composing Sticks & Mortar Boards
Rutgers University Press 1941 8vo (23.5 cm), [14], 97 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards. "In this little book about college printing, Mr. Miers has outlined a useful set of instructions as to what the well-dressed catalog and related publications, will and will not wear." (From the Introduction by P. J. Conckwrite.)
Hardcover Fine
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: Report of the First Decade, 1934-1944
University of California Press 1946 8vo (21 cm), VII, 77 pp. Printed wrappers. 11 accounts of the founder, the beginning of the library, its various collections and their growth in the first decade of University direction. The introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Soft cover Fine
A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books Published During 1924 Orginized by The Bibliographical Society
London Bibliographical Society 1925 8vo (21.5 cm), 14 pp including printed wrappers. Inserted 4 pp booklet "Catalogue of a Small Collection of Modern French Books Shown in Connection with The Bibliographical Society Exhibition of Books Published During 1924". Paper lightly browned.
Soft cover Near Fine
Early Lithographed Books: A Study of the Design and Production of Improper Books in the Age of the Hand Press. With a Catalogue
Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association 1990 4to (26 cm), 374 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine and the front cover (spine sunned, edges little foxed). "This book is about books produced by lithography in Europe in the age of the hand press. The period it covers corresponds roughly with the first half of the nineteenth century, but since the hand press continued to be used for lithography long after this, even on a commercial basis, I have allowed myself some chronological licence. To my knowledge very little of any consequence has been published about such books by those who wrote on lithographic subjects at the time, and nothing at all since then. This book's main aim, therefore, is to introduce a little-known area of book design and production; but I hope that it will also contribute to our understanding of the overall picture of printing and publishing history." (from the Introduction.) A catalogue includes over 400 items.
Hardcover Fine
En francais dans le texte: Dix siecles de lumieres par le livre
Bibliotheque nationale 1990 4to (31 cm), 384 pp. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth and dust jacket. "Au fil du dernier millénaire, le français est devenu progressivement langue des idées, idiome véhiculaire pour les savants, penseurs, idéologues, poètes, écrivains ou artistes. L'invention, la créativité qui sont le fait de Montaigne, Pascal, Leibniz, Pasteur, Simenon, Beckett... sont affectées, au minimum, d'un dénominateur commun, à chercher du côté des mots sinon des notions. En français dans le texte est donc un hommage, mais nullement chauvin, à la culture d'une certaine nation dans sa modalité linguistique. Ce panorama, qui embrasse ' 400 œuvres, est le fruit d'un choix réfléchi à plusieurs. Il ne prétend ni à l'exhaustivité ni à une objectivité chimérique. La période couverte s'étend des Serments de Strasbourg (842), premier texte conservé en langue romane, jusqu'au début des années 1960. Pour la plupart, les livres choisis matérialisent une découverte, une innovation, un apport inédit dans les domaines du savoir et de l'expression : Descartes, Condorcet et Tocqueville cheminent ainsi avec Rabelais, Céline et Queneau. D'autres trouvent ici leur place par leur qualité de miroir d'une époque, d'une sensibilité, ou par leur dimension mythologique : l'indémodable Madame de La Fayette, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Breton." (Résumé)
Hardcover Fine
The Letter as a Work of Art: Observations and confrontations with contemporaneous expressions of art from roman times to the present day 1851-1951
Lettergieterij "Amsterdam" vorheen N. Tetterode 1951 Folio (37 cm), VIII, 264 pp. Publisher's gilt and blind-stamped cloth (first few leaves lightly foxed). The volume published on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the Typefoundry "Amsterdam". "Observations on the history of the aesthetic element in the letter elucidated by confrontations of the most beautiful products of typographic art with more or less contemporaneous works from other fields of art to demonstrate the unity of style throughout the ages." (From the Preface.)
Hardcover Near Fine
Northanger Abbey
Baltimore The Limited Editions Club by The Garamond Press 1971 4to (28 cm), XI, [2], 210, [4] pp, 10 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered morocco label on the spine, in slip-case. Designed by Richard Ellis, an introduction by Sylvia Townsend Warner and illustrations by Clarke Hutton. Limited to 1500 copies, this is no. 541 signed by the artist.
Hardcover Fine Signed by Illustrator(s)
Sons and Lovers
The Limited Editions Club 1971 4to (27.5 cm), X, [4], 443, [3] pp, 12 plates. Publisher's cloth, paper spine label, slipcase. Designed by Bert Clarke, an Introduction by Robert Gorham Davis and Illustrations by Sheila Robinson. Limited to 2000 copies, this is no. 200 signed by the artist at the colophon.
Hardcover Fine Signed by Illustrator(s)
The Prince and the Pauper
The Limited Editions Club by The Westerham Press 1964 4to (27.5 cm), 221, [3] pp, 12 plates, 1 mounted illustration. Publisher's mauve velvet and grey cloth, paper spine label, slipcase. An Introduction Edward Wegenknecht and illustrations by Clarke Hutton. Limited to 1500 copies, this is no. 291 signed by the artist. The Westerham Press was founded by Rowley Atterbury (1920-2011) in 1950. It was described as "one of the last survivors from the great days of British printing".
Hardcover Fine Signed by Illustrator(s)
The Satyricon of Petronius
The Limited Editions Club 1964 4to (28.5 cm), XXIII, 346, [2] pp. Publisher's vellum backed cloth boards, front cover gilt, gill-lettered spine, slipcase. Printed in 2 colors. Designed by Robert A. Dothard. Translation by William Burnaby, an Introduction by Gilbert Bagnani, illustrations by Antonio Sotomayer. Limited to 1500 copies, this is no. 100 signed by the artist. The book was printed by A. Colish, Inc., Mount Vernon. The monthly letter of LEC, no. 367 loosely inserted.
Hardcover Fine Signed by Illustrator(s)
The Art of Love
The Limited Editions Club 1971 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 117, [3] pp, 10 plates. Publisher's vellum, gilt front cover, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. Translation and an Introduction by B. P. Moore, illustrations by Eric Fraser. Designed by Robert L. Dothard and printed by A. Colish, Inc., Mount Vernon. Limited to 1500 copies, this is no. 172 signed by the artist.
Hardcover Fine Signed by Illustrator(s)
L'Allegro / Il Penseroso: With the paintings by William Blake
The Limited Editions Club 1954 4to (26 cm), 43 pp, 44, [2] pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered covers and spine, marbled end-papers, slipcase. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Printed dos-á-dos. The illustrations of William Blake have been reproduced from the original drawings from the Pierpont Morgan Library. A note upon the paintings by Chauncey Brewster Tinker and a note upon the poems by W. P. Trent. Limited to 1500 copies, this is no. 623 signed by the artist.
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The Gehenna Press: the Work of Fifty Years, 1942-1992
Dallas and Northampton The Bridwell Library & The Gehenna Press 1992 4to (28 cm), [4], 237, [2] pp. Printed wrappers. The Gehenna Press was established in 1942 by sculptor and graphic artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). The award-winning press went on to publish approximately 200 books in nearly 60 years, finally ceasing operation shortly after Baskin's death in 2000. The book is the catalogue of an exhibition in the Bridwell Library curated by Lisa Unger Baskin, containing an assessment of the work of the press by Colin Frankin, a bibliography of the books of the Gehenna Press by Hosea Baskin, and notes on the books by the printer, Leonard Baskin.
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First Birthday Book: 33 LD Baldy Eagle Marks by Artist-Designer Friends of Baldy for Whimsey and other forms of Ephemera
Westmoreland Hills, Maryland LD's Press of the Bald Eagle 1960 12mo (19 cm), 37 ff. Wrappers with a label mounted on the front cover.
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
Stamperia Valdenega for The Limited Editions Club 1976 4to (30.5 cm), XXXII, 217, [3] pp, 8 plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards, gilt-lettered morocco label on the spine, slipcase. The LEC Monthly Letter no. 496 loosely inserted. An introduction by Kenneth Clark. The format was planned by Martino Mardersteig, who supervised the composition, printing and binding at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. The white laid paper was specially produced for this volume by Cartiere Enrico Magnani in Pescia. The paper on boards was printed from an original woodblock. Limited to 2000 copies, this is copy no. 1125 signed by Martino Mardersteig.
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The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
Belknap Press 2010 4to (27 cm), 1088 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays - designed and written to serve scholars, students, and the general reader alike - show how the Classical tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to government, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban planning, legal theory to popular culture. At once authoritative and accessible, learned and entertaining, comprehensive and surprising, and accompanied by an extensive selection of illustrations, this guide illuminates the vitality of the Classical tradition that still surrounds us today."
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Altniederländische Malerei. Vol. 1-2
Dumont Buchverlag 2006 2 volumes 4to (32 cm), 566 pp, 316 pp, 513 b&w and 48 color illustrations. Edited by Jochen Sander and Stephan Kemperdick well published and profoundly illustrated classical monograph of Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S.
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The Hellenistic Pottery from Sardis: The Finds through 1994 (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs)
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis 2004 4to (28.5cm), XXII, 234 pp, 144 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered spine and front board. From the publisher's description: "Hellenistic art in Asia Minor is characterized by diverse cultural influences, both indigenous and Greek. This work presents a comprehensive catalogue of the Hellenistic pottery found at Sardis by two archaeological expeditions. The main catalogue includes over 750 items from the current excavations; in addition, material from some 50 Hellenistic tombs excavated in the early twentieth century is published in its entirety for the first time. The early Hellenistic material consists of imports from Greek cities and close local imitations, along with purely Lydian wares typical of the "late Lydian" phase that followed the Persian conquest. By the late Hellenistic period, Sardis boasts a full range of Greek shapes and styles; indeed, the influence of new conquerors, the Romans, was felt as well. Thus the ceramic finds from Sardis reflect the changing fortunes of the city, bearing witness to the tenacity of indigenous customs and the influences of foreign powers."
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The Diariusz podrozny of Pylyp Orlyk, 1727-1731
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 1988 4to (29 cm), XXVII, 867 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "This continuation of Pylyp Orlyk's Diariusz Podrozny encompasses the dramatic years 1727-1731. From his honorary" confinement in Ottoman Thessalonica, the Ukrainian Hetman-in-exile tried to influence on his behalf the European powers whose representatives were gathered at the Congress of Suissons. To this end, Pylyp Orlyk managed to use the services of France, England, the Netherlands, and especially Sweden and Holstein, who served as his intermediaries with Russia. Of special interest are Orlyk's entries for 1729-1730. It was at this time that Pylyp's son Hryhor quit his military service with King August 11 of Saxony - Poland and became an important player in France's relations with the East. Father and son met in Thessalonica in 1730 and henceforth cooperated in furthering their respective political ventures. The preface by Omeljan Pritsak places the Diariusz within the context of Orlyk's vision of the Ukraine's past, present, and future." Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Texts, Vol VI.
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Jennifer Bartlett: Early Plate Work
Addison Gallery of American Art & Yale University Press 2006 4to (31.5 cm), 125 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "In 1968 artist Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) began painting in what would become her celebrated and trademark style - colored dots on gridded steel plates and canvas. Focusing on the single and multi-plate pieces that began in 1968 and culminated in 1976 when Bartlett sprang onto the art scene with her pivotal Rhapsody painting (The Museum of Modern Art, New York), this important book analyzes for the first time the significant role these formative and long-overlooked works played in her artistic development. Analytical and lyrical, Bartlett's early plate work reflects her transformation of the prevailing Minimalist aesthetic into something distinctly her own. With beautiful color illustrations of this body of work - -many of which have never before been published or exhibited - the book charts Bartlett's fascinating progression from mathematically precise dot paintings to rigorously structured patterned pieces to more freehand and expressive painterly pieces. In the process, the importance of these works to the artist's career and to the history of contemporary art is discovered."
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Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917
Yale University Press 1999 8vo (24 cm), VIII, 198 pp. Laminated boards. From the publisher's description: "This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive analysis of the political culture of the Russian Revolution. Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii examine the diverse ways that language and other symbols - including flags and emblems, public rituals, songs, and codes of dress - were used to identify competing sides and to create new meanings in the political struggles of 1917. The Revolution was in many ways a battle to control these systems of symbolic meaning, the authors find. The party or faction that could master the complexities of the lexicon of the revolution was well on its way to mastering the revolution itself. The book explores how key words and symbols took on different meanings in various social and political contexts. 'Democracy', 'the people', or 'the working class', for example, could define a wide range of identities and moral worlds in 1917. In addition to such ambiguities, cultural tensions further complicated the revolutionary struggles. Figes and Kolonitskii consider the fundamental clash between the Western political discourse of the socialist parties and the traditional political culture of the Russian masses. They show how the particular conditions and perceptions that coloured Russian politics in 1917 led to the emergence of the cult of the revolutionary leader and the culture of the Terror. Orlando Figes was Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of 'Peasant Russia', 'Civil War' and 'A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924'. Boris Kolonitskii was Senior Researcher at the Institute of History of the Academcy of Sciences in St. Petersburg."
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God's War: A New History of the Crusades
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 1024 pp, 31 illustrations on unpaginated plates. Laminated wrappers. From the publisher's description: "God's War offers a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades. From 1096 to 1500, European Christians fought to recreate the Middle East, Muslim Spain, and the pagan Baltic in the image of their God. The Crusades are perhaps both the most familiar and most misunderstood phenomena of the medieval world, and here Christopher Tyerman seeks to recreate, from the ground up, the centuries of violence committed as an act of religious devotion. The result is a stunning reinterpretation of the Crusades, revealed as both bloody political acts and a manifestation of a growing Christian communal identity. Tyerman uncovers a system of belief bound by aggression, paranoia, and wishful thinking, and a culture founded on war as an expression of worship, social discipline, and Christian charity. Drawing on all of the most recent scholarship, and told with great verve and authority, "God's War" is the definitive account of a fascinating and horrifying story that continues to haunt our contemporary world."
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Celsus: On Medicine, Vol. 1, Books 1 - 4 (Loeb Classical Library, No. 292)
Harvard University Press 1971 12mo (18 cm), xiv, 500, 8 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (little shelf-wear). "A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (1437 CE), of a general encyclopedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the 8 books on medicine (De Medicina). Book I: after an excellent survey of Greek schools (Dogmatic, Methodic, Empiric) of medicine come sensible dietetics or health preservation which will always be applicable. Book II: deals with prognosis, diagnosis of symptoms (which he stresses strongly), and general therapeutics. Book III: internal ailments: fevers and general diseases. Book IV: local bodily diseases. Next come two pharmacological books, Book V: treatment by drugs of general diseases; and Book VI: of local diseases. Book VII and Book VIII deal with surgery; these books contain accounts of many operations, including amputation. Celsus was not a professional doctor of medicine or a surgeon, but a practical layman whose On Medicine, written in a clear and neat style, for lay readers, is partly a result of his medical treatment of his household (slaves included) and partly a presentation of information gained from many Greek authorities. From no other source can we learn so much of the condition of medical science up to his own time. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Celsus is in three volumes." (from the publisher's synopsis)
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The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha: Translated by the Author and James Brasfield (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications)
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 1999 8vo (23 cm), 160 pp. Printed wrappers. From the publisher's description: "Oleh Lysheha is considered the "poets' poet" of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has steadily grown to legendary proportions. His work is informed by transcendentalism and Zen-like introspection, with meditations on the essence of the human experience and man's place in nature. 'The Collected Poems' here include facing-page English and Ukrainian versions of selected poems and a play, "Friend Li Po. Brother Tu Fu." It represents a rare example of translations that are as beautiful as the original poetry and poems that anyone interested in the written word will appreciate."
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The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality
Harvard University Press 2007 8vo (21 cm), XXII, 372 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until very recently, the standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War II was a good soldier, distinct from Hitler's rapacious SS troops, and not an accomplice to the massacres of civilians. Wolfram Wette, a preeminent German military historian, explodes the myth of a "clean" Wehrmacht with devastating clarity."
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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Icons of America)
Yale University Press 2010 8vo (20.5 cm), X, 256 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "A tough, evenhanded investigation of changing public perceptions of the Alger Hiss case and why it has served as a litmus test of American political loyalties for sixty years. Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers’s shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948 - that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage. In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post - Cold War era."
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On Painting
Yale University Press 1966 8vo (20.5 cm), 141 pp. Laminated wrappers. Alberti’s Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. John R. Spencer's translation of Della Pittura is based on all the known manuscripts and is edited with an Introduction and Notes.
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Hemingway
Harvard University Press 1995 8vo (23.5 cm), 702 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created. But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. Lynn explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured Hemingway’s work and eroded his life. Masterfully written, Hemingway brings to life the writer whose desperate struggle to exorcise his demons produced some of the greatest American fiction of this century."
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Wellsprings (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature)
Harvard University Press 2008 12mo (18.5 cm), [6], 202 pp. Cloth backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: "When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa - Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual - answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays."
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Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors
Harvard University Press 2006 8vo (21.5 cm), [8], 373 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? A pre-eminent American historian addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity. This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behaviour."
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Selected Contributions of Ukrainian Scholars to Economics
Harvard University Press 1985 8vo (23.5 cm), XIV, 230 pp. Publisher's cloth. Included articles: "Tuhan-Baranovsky’s Theories of Markets, Accumulation and Industrialization: Their Influence on the Development of Economic Thought and Modern Historiographic Research" by Sergio Amato; "Slutsky and Metaeconomics" by Leon Smolinski; "An Assessment of the Work of the Demographer M. V. Ptukha" byRalph S. Clem; "Roman Rosdoisky’s Reconsideration of the Traditional Marxist Debate on the Schemes of Reproduction on New Methodological Grounds" by Manfred A. Turban; "Selected Contributions of Kiev Scholars to Mathematical Economics" by F. I. Kushnirsky; "Academic Economics in the Nineteenth-Century Ukraine" by I. S. Koropeckyj.
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Pseudo-Melesko: A Ukrainian Apocryphal Parliamentary Speech of 1615-1618
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 1984 8vo (23.5 cm), 168 pp. Publisher's cloth. A bibliographical, biographical, textological and linguistic study of the so-called Melesko Speech, a remarcable Ukrainian or White-Rusian satire or parody of the late sixteenth or seventeenth century.
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Louis XIV face à l'Europe du Nord
Racine 2005 8vo (23 cm), 340 pp. Laminated wrappers and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Pendant un règne, impressionnant par sa durée, dense en guerres, fécond en extensions territoriales, Louis XIV finit par coaliser l'ensemble des puissances nordiques, de l'Ouest et de l'Est, contre son royaume. Ses agressions répétées, souvent sous le couvert de subterfuges juridiques, sa volonté implacable de terroriser et d'humilier des adversaires encore extraordinairement divisés au milieu du siècle, cimentèrent des alliances chaque fois plus solides, moins versatiles et, faut-il le préciser, plus intrépides par rapport au colosse français. Mais tout essai de compréhension du face à face entre l'Europe du Nord et la France doit y mêler étroitement l'Espagne, car, en raison de leur position géographique, les Pays-Bas espagnols, et en partie la principauté épiscopale de Liège, qui relevait de l'Empire, furent par excellence " le champ de bataille " de l'Europe. Pivots de la fronde anti-française, hérauts des libertés contre la tentation réelle ou supposée de " monarchie universelle " qui animait Louis XIV, l'Angleterre et les Provinces-Unies furent le centre d'une contre-culture démocratique et parlementaire à l'absolutisme louis-quatorzien qui fascinait, y compris en Scandinavie, et continuera à éblouir tant de têtes couronnées sur le continent au XVIIIe siècle. Ces régimes de gouvernements atypiques se développèrent concurremment à un environnement intellectuel et philosophique original, en tout cas sans équivalent pour l'époque : le Siècle des Lumières émergeait dans le dernier quart du XVIIe siècle en Europe du Nord-Ouest."
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Le bon mari : Une histoire politique des hommes et des femmes (1780-1804)
Fayard 2010 8vo (23.5 cm), 396 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "Le Bon Mari est le titre d’un conte de Marmontel, écrivain des Lumières, dont le héros vertueux convertit sa jeune femme mondaine aux bienfaits d’une vie conjugale placée sous le signe du bien commun. Ce « bon mari » préfigure le citoyen révolutionnaire, à la fois fils de famille que la Révolution émancipe de la puissance paternelle et pater familias ayant capacité à parler et à voter au nom des plus « faibles » : les femmes, les enfants et les domestiques. L’autorité familiale, qui dans la société d’Ancien Régime était réservée à l’aîné des mâles en ligne verticale, passe avec la Révolution à l’individu-citoyen, chef d’une famille recentrée autour du foyer conjugal, dans lequel la femme est invitée à se convertir aux opinions, intérêts et valeurs de son mari. C’est par ce lien politique entre les époux que sont préservées, dans la théorie républicaine, l’unité et la représentation de la nation. Les conséquences de cette évolution, moins spectaculaire que d’autres conquêtes révolutionnaires, furent immenses sur les droits des hommes et des femmes, puisque nos représentations actuelles de la citoyenneté en découlent. Anne Verjus retrace, dans la théorie et dans la pratique, l’histoire de cette émancipation décisive qui place l’union conjugale au fondement de la construction de la société politique moderne. Anne Verjus est chercheure en histoire politique au CNRS (laboratoire Triangle de l'Université de Lyon). Ses travaux portent sur le droit de vote des femmes et la pensée politique du genre. Elle a publié en 2002 Le Cens de la famille. Les femmes et le vote, 1789-1848 (Belin)."
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Knotting Sequence
New Rochelle, New York The Elizabeth Press 1977 8vo (23.5 cm), 68 pp. Printed wrappers. A book of poetry by British novelist and poet Martin Booth (1944-2004). Limited edition of 500 copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega.
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Direadh I, II and III
Frenich Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton 1974 4to (30.5 cm), 54 pp. Publisher's morocco backed paper boards, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. Fine copy of a book of poetry by Scottish poet and journalist, Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid. Limited edition of 200 copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. This is copy no. 13 signed by the author.
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Pictura Loquens: Livres illustrés dans les anciens Pays-Bas et à Liège du XVe au XVIIIe siècle
Société royale des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique 2018 8vo (22.5 cm), 360 pp. Printer wrappers and dust jacket. Volumes 188-189 of the "Le livre et l'estampe" is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 10 February - 31 mars 2019 and devoted to illustrated books in the Netherlands and in Liège from the 15th to the 18th centuries. 160 books, drawings and prints from collections of members of the Société royale des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique were exhibited. Texts by Claude Sorgeloos, Ralph Dekoninck, Dirk Imhof, Rosa De Marco and Sophie Glansdorff.
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Les Grecs, les Arabes et nous : Enquête sur l'islamophobie savante
Fayard 2009 8vo (23.5 cm), 374 pp. Laminated wrappers.
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L'opinion publique à la fin du moyen âge : D'après la chronique de Charles VI du religieux de Saint- Denis
Perrin 2002 8vo (23 cm), 270 pp. Laminated wrappers.
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The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting
George Braziller 1990 4to (29.5 cm), 320 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "During the 15th century, some of the most glorious manuscript illuminations were produced in the Dutch artistic centers of Utrecht, Haarlem and Delft. In this book scholars from The Netherlands and The USA place Dutch manuscript painting in its historical context, and present new information on these strikingly beautiful works. Now, for the first time, we may distinguish the artistic styles of centers, and discover new attributions for a number of well-known illuminations." 108 color plates, 20 black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, codicological data/
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Cimelio Tipografico Pittorico Offerto Agli Augustissimi Genitori del Re Di Roma. The "Cimelio" of Bodoni: The work and its printer in essays
Verona Stamperia Valdonega 1991 2 volumes folio (39 cm), [85] ff; 76 pp. Crimson morocco, spine and boards gilt, blue morocco gilt-lettered label, all edges gilt and matching crimson boards gilt, matching crimson slipcase (the label of the first volume little scratched, a small stain on the front of the slipcase). Limited to 400 copies, this is copy no. 197. The birth of the son of Napoleon and Marie Louise in 1811 provided the great italian typographer Giambattista Bodoni with the opportunity of producing one of his last masterpieces: "Cimelio Tipografico Pittorico Offerto Agli Augustissimi Genitori del Re Di Roma". The remarkable typographical enterprise printed as a gift in one copy contains 40 compositions in verse, printed in 40 different typefaces, and, alongside each of them, 40 miniatures specially commissioned and colored by the Parmesan artist Antonio Pasini. This edition, designed and realized by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, consist of two volumes: a facsimile, for which Bodoni's texts were printed in flat bed letterpress with the frames and miniatures printed in nine color offser, on specially made papers by Cartiere Magnani, Pescia. The second volume includes commentaries "Description and history of the unicum" by Corrado Mingardi, "Typography in England and France in the age of Giambattista Bodoni" by James Mosley, "The Cimelio and its library" by Bernard Chevalilier, "A Bodoni chronology" by Corrado Mingardi and Technical note on producing this beautiful facsimile by its designer a and printer Martino Mardersteig.
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Monumenta Palaeographica Vindobonensia. Denkmäler der Schreibkunst aus der Handschriftensammlung des Habsburg-Lothringischen Erzhauses. Lieferung 1 und 2 [complete set]
Leipzig Karl W. Hiersemann 1910 2 folders folio (41 cm), booklet [4], 68 pp, 26 chromolithographic plates; [4], 73, [3] pp, plates 27-46. Cloth portfolios (folders little foxed). 2 manuscripts are described in each part. In the first part included what is now ÖNB Cod. 2160 (the Vienna Hilarius papyrus codex) and ÖNB Cod. 2160 (Charlemagne's psalter). The second part contains ÖNB Cod. 16 ( 5th - 6th century greek MS) and ÖNB Cod. 958 (9th century Sacramentary).
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Bibliotheca Curiosa: A Complete Catalogue of all the Publications of the Elzevier Presses at Leyden, Amsterdam, the Hague, and Utrecht, with introduction, notes, and an appendix containing a list of all works, whether forgeries or anonymous publications, generally attributed to these presses. In three volumes [complete]
Edinburg Privately printed 1885 3 volumes in one 8vo (22.5 cm), [4], IV, 126 pp; 155 pp; 85 pp. Cont. cloth, black gilt-lettered leather label, original wrappers (common to all volumes) are bound in (biding little dusted, wrappers little soiled, foxing to end-papers. From the library of Edward and Edit Heron-Allen (heraldic bookplate mounted on the front pastdown and the library of Howard Granville Hanrott (bookplate mounted on the back of the front wrapper). Large paper copy on thick paper (of which 75 seems were printed from the limited edition of 350). An alphabetical catalogue of works published or printed by the Elzeviers produced by Scottish historian Edmund Marsden Goldsmid (1849-1894). An appendix contains a list of forgeries bearing the imprint of Elzeviers. "The present catalogue contains every work which I have been able to ascertain was printed by Elzevier. Those who desire greater details are referred to the pages of Willems." (From the Introduction.)
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Wystawa Lwowskich Drukow Ukrainskich XVI - XVIII ww
L'viv Dilo 1928 8vo (23.5 cm), 8 pp. Uncut in printed wrappers. In Polish. The catalog of an exhibition of books printed in L'viv in Cyrillic script from the Ukrainian national museum. The exhibition was a part of commemoration 100 anniversary of the Ossolineum library.
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BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art, Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art, 1991, Volume 1/4
The J. Getty Trust, The Getty Information Institute, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique 1991 4to (28.5 cm), XXY, 1119 pp. Publisher's cloth. ISSN 1150-1588. BHA covers the current literature of European art from late Antiquity to the present and American art from the European discoveries to the present.
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Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des Baux-Arts. Esthétique et Histoire de l'Art, Archéologie, Architecture, Sculpture, Peinture, Gravure, Arts industriels, etc., etc. Premiere-deuxieme livraison [all published]
Paris Firmin-Didot 1874 2 volumes 4to (27 cm), XII, 144 pp; VIII, PP. 145-288. Printed wrappers, untrimmed (wrappers frayed at extremities and little stained, top corner of the front wrapper of the first part dog-eared, back wrapper of the second part missing, internally a clean copy). "A classified bibliography, never completed. Lengthy bibliographical and critical notes. Intended as a complement to Brunet's Manuel du librairie." (Arntzen-Rainwater). Besterman, Art P. 9; Arntzen-Rainwater A54.
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La letteratura artistica. Contributi alla bibliografia delle fonti della storia dell'arte. Appendice di Otto Kurz
Florence La Nuova Italia 1937 4to (25.5 cm), 40 pp. Uncut in printed wrappers (wrappers little frayed at extremities). Bibliographical supplement to the first Italian edition of the classic history of art literature by Julius Schlosser-Magnino.
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Rarae Litterae: Iniziali Decorate in Catasti Biellesi
Edizioni L'Artistica Savigliano 1996 8vo (21 cm), 70 pp. Printed wrappers. Copy no. XXVI from 330 printed. a gift from the author to Belgian bibliophile Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens. 40 illustrations.
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L'oeil typographique offert aux hommes de lettres
Paris Editions des Cendres 2004 8vo (22 cm), [4], 34 pp, folding plate, 4 pp booklet loosely inserted. Limited to 425 copies, this is copy no. 41. A facsimile of an edition published in 1839 by Firmin Didod with an intoduction by Marc Koptlov and Chronologie de Nicolas Cirier by Didier Barrière. « Ainsi, notre enquête se montrerait donc singulièrement et paradoxalement pauvre en résultats si nous n'avions la chance (chance qui n'en est pas une puisque c'est précisément là où nous voulions en venir) de trouver, parmi les fous littéraires, un typographe. Nicolas-Louis-Marie-Dominique Cirier, né à Dun (Meuse), le 27 février 1792, était, depuis une dizaine d'années, correcteur à l'Imprimerie alors Royale, lorsque, à la suite d'une injustice sur la nature de laquelle il est difficile de nous faire une opinion, il donna sa démission.Cirier accusait Pierre Lebrun, poète et membre de l'Institut, d'être responsable de ses malheurs; cet académicien qui écrivait Le sort le plus obscur est encor le plus beau était, en effet, directeur de l'Imprimerie Royale… » (Raymond Queneau, « Délire typographique », dans Bâtons, chiffres et lettres, Gallimard, 1950).
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Ornementation typographique et bibliographie historique. Actes du Colloque de Mons (26-28 août 1987)
Mons-Bruxelles Université de Mons 1988 8vo (24 cm), 161, [7] pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket. 13 papers. "Le contributions visent en premier lieu le classement méthodique des ornements typographiques, en particulier des lettrines, dans les ouvrages imprimés jusqu'en 1800 environ. Les études de ce type scrutent les graphismes pour en dégager les grands traits d'une évolution technique et esthétique."
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Museo Bodoniano. Convegno e Mostra Bodoniana
Parma Biblioteca Palatina 1958 8vo (25 cm), 93 pp, 8 plates. Printed wrappers. The catalogue of an Bodonian exhibition published by Il Comitato Provvisorio per il Museo Bodoniano, established in 1957. The Museo Bodoniano was opened in 1963, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the death of the great typographer.
Soft cover Fine
Officina Bodoni Verona 1923-1964. Catalogus van de boeken, op de handpers gedrukt
Brussel 's-Gravenhage 1965 8vo (25 cm), 64 pp, 5 plates. Printed wrappers. Loosely inserted a leaf 'Booken Gezet en Gedrukt in de Stamperia Valdonega, Verona in Samenwerking met de Officina Bodoni'. The catalogue of an exhibition in the Royal Library of Belgium 16 January - 13 February 1965 and in the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague 10 March - 3 April 1965. Limited to 600 copies. 123 books printed to the date by Officina Bodoni, operated by Giovanni Mardersteig from 1923, are described. An introduction by Luc Indestege. Also included Giovanni Mardersteig's "Credo" in Italian.
Soft cover Fine
SCHELER (Lucien)...
Bruxelles Biblioteca Wittockiana 1987 8vo (25 cm), IX, 228 pp. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by Lucien Scheler to a to Belgian bibliophile Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens. The catalogue of an exhibition of works of or about Lucien Scheler (1902 -1999), a French author, poet, publisher and bookseller, who participated in the literary resistance against Nazism. Preface by Jean Toulet, the catalogue by Antoine Coron. The exhibition was held at the Biblioteca Wittockiana 15 Mai - June 27, 1987.
Soft cover Fine Inscribed by Author(s)
Catalogue des écrits, gravures et dessins condamnés depuis 1814 jusqu'au 1er janvier 1850 suivi de la liste des individus condamnés pour délits de presse
Paris Pillet fils ainé 1850 12mo (17.5 cm), [4], IV, 202, [2] pp. Cont. morocco backed marbled boards (binding little rubbed, some foxing inside). 604 books, periodicals, prints and drawings are described divided chronologically into 4 parts.
Hardcover Near Fine
Dissertations Bibliographiques
Paris Jules Gay 1864 12mo (18.5 cm), [8], 364 pp. Cont. calf backed cloth boards, spine gilt, raised bands, marbled end-papers (corners little scuffed). Limited to 260 copies, this is copy no. 226 on papier vergé. A collection of papers of French writer and journalist Paul Lacroix (1806-1884). Included: "La farce de Pathelin et ses suites", "La Prénostication de maistre Albert Songecreux Biscain", "Une lettre fausse de Rabelais", "Un poëte savoyard à la suite de la Pleïade", "Le véritable auteur du Moyen de parvenir", "Le Comte de Permission", "Les manuscrits de l'abbé de Choisy", "Les bibliographes de Molière", "A propos d'un exemplaire du Tartuffe, de Molière", "La bibliothèque de Molière". Brunet, Supl. I, 739.
Hardcover Fine
Darwin und Foucault: Genealogie und Geschichte im Zeitalter der Biologie
Suhrkamp Verlag AG 2009 8vo (20.5 cm), 456 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket (dj little rubbed). From the publisher's description: "This book embarks on an experiment: two aggressive »acids« of modern theory are combined in a laboratory beaker to observe how the mixture reacts. Both Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault represent lines of thought that radically broke with tradition while calling into question not only the difference between the natural world and culture, but also the assumed inherent nature of things. Everything evaporates under this genealogical lens that investigates the origins of previous forms. In the process, it exposes that things have no inherent »identity« or »nature«, even that the very idea of a stable order within the natural world is preposterous. Both Darwin and Foucault represent a variation of historical thought that, according to the theory presented in this book, undermines the comfortable, stable certainties offered by both biologism and cultural studies. It reveals that Darwin paradoxically understood the natural world as historical, while Foucault bypassed the supposedly insurmountable divide between the natural world and culture as a matter of course. A little known fact is that Foucault based his anti-cultural thought on one of Darwin's lectures. Here, Phillip Sarasin traces this progression in detail for the first time, calling upon some never-before used sources to do so. The result is a highly interesting dialog between two theorists that remarkably influenced their respective realms, yet have hardly been examined in a common context."
Hardcover Fine
Der Vesuv: Geschichte eines Berges
Klaus Wagenbach 2007 8vo (24.5 cm), 212, [12] pp. Printed boards. From the publisher's description: "Die faszinierende Geschichte eines Berges, der seit Jahrhunderten Angst und Schrecken verbreitet und zugleich eine unwiderstehliche Anziehungskraft ausübt verfasst von einem der besten Kenner des Golfs von Neapel. Unter den rund 500 aktiven Vulkanen der Erde hat der Vesuv eine einzigartige Geschichte. Sie beginnt mit dem Ausbruch des Jahres 79 n. Chr., der Pompeji und Herculaneum begraben hat. Seither hat der »majestätische Verbrecher« (Gerhart Hauptmann) die Menschen zum Nachdenken über die dunklen Seiten der Natur gebracht. Der Vesuv ist die Geburtsstätte der modernen Vulkanologie und der am häufigsten besuchte Berg der Welt. Der Massenverkehr kam mit »Funiculì Funiculà«, der vielbesungenen Seilbahn, an deren Stelle heute Bus und Auto getreten sind. Seit 1944 ruht der Vulkan. Rund drei Millionen Menschen leben heute in seinem Schatten. Alles ist unter Kontrolle, versichern die Wissenschaftler. Für den Ernstfall sind Evakuierungspläne ausgearbeitet. Und im Dom von Neapel fließt das Blut von San Gennaro. Eine mitreißend erzählte Kulturgeschichte der Natur."
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