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
An exhibition of modern English and French bindings from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey.
London The Arts Council 1949 8vo (24.5 cm), 32 pp. Printed wrappers. Printed at the Curwen Press. 131 bindings are described, 16 plates.
Soft cover Near Fine
Bibliographical Catalogue of First Editions Proof Copies & Manuscripts of Books by Lord Byron Exhibited at the Fourth Exhibition Held by the First Edition Club January 1925
The First Edition Club 1925 4to (25 cm), XVII, 97 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt, deckled edges (end-papers little browned, blind stamp 'Library of Kenneth C. Harfitt’, bookplate of F. S. Ferguson). Limited to 500 copies, this is no. 397. Printed at the Curwen Press for the First Edition Club. Prefatory note by A. J. A. Symons. It was hoped that the catalogue (mostly from collections of T. J. Wise and John Murray) may have permanent value as a definitive bibliography of Byron's books.
Hardcover Fine
Biblioteca Marucelliana di Firenze. Quinta Mostra. Bruno Cicognani
Florence Biblioteca Marucelliana 1980 8vo (21 cm), 52 pp. Printed wrappers. The catalog of an exhibition in May-June 1980 of documents and books related to Bruno Cicognani (1879 - 1871), an Italian writer and playwright.
Soft cover Near Fine
Biblioteca Marucelliana di Firenze. Sesta Mostra. Carlo Collodi
Florence Biblioteca Marucelliana 1981 8vo (21 cm), 80 pp. Printed wrappers. The catalog of an exhibition in November-December 1981 of documents and books related to Carlo Collodi (1826 - 1890), an Italian writer, the author of "The Adventures of Pinocchio".
Soft cover Near Fine
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. Mostra Antologica di G.B. Bodoni
Milan Allegretti 1972 8vo (24.5 cm), 86 pp, plates. Printed wrappers (end-papers little stained). The catalogue of an exhibition held in Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense 18-31 January 1973 devoted to the work of the great Italian typographer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813).
Soft cover Near Fine
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. Mostra Antologica di G.B. Bodoni
Milan Allegretti 1972 8vo (24.5 cm), 86 pp, plates. Printed wrappers (end-papers little stained). The catalogue of an exhibition held in Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense 18-31 January 1973 devoted to the work of the great Italian typographer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813).
Soft cover Near Fine
Bimillenario Virgiliano: Mostra di manoscritti e di antiche edizioni delle opere di Virgilio
Perugia Biblioteche Umbre 1980 8vo (21.5 cm), 40 pp. Printed wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition of editions of Virgil. 108 entries from renaissance manuscripts to and incunabula to 19th century.
Soft cover 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.
Soft cover 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.
Soft cover Fine
Catalogue of exhibitions of British coloured books, 1738-1898 including a selection from the Royal Library at Windsor graciously loaned by Her Majesty the Queen
British Printing Machinery Association 1980 8vo (25 cm), 142 pp, plates in color. Printed wrappers and dust jacket. Beautifully printed catalogue of an exhibition of British colored books (actually of 10 exhibitions at various libraries). A preface by Brian Baumfield and an introductory essay by Ruari McLean.
Soft cover Fine
Catalogue of Private Press and other Printed Books including the Collection of Masonic Books The Property of the late E. M. Dring
London Bloomsbury Book Auction 1991 8vo (21 cm), 82 pp. Printed wrappers. Partially priced. The catalogue of a sale held 27 June 1991. 449 items.
Soft cover Fine
Charles Dickens: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of His Death
Victoria & Albert Museum 1970 4to (27.5 cm), [14], 126 pp, 89 illustrations on 60 plates. Laminated wrappers (wrappers little rubbed at extremities and stained, some blemishes to lamination). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held in the Victoria & Albert Museum June-September. 1970.
Soft cover Very Good
Cristina di Svezia: Mostra di documenti vaticani
Rome Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 1966 8vo (21 cm), 64 pp, 4 plates. Beautifully printed catalog of an exhibition dedicated to the Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626 - 1689), who after abdication in 1654 lived mostly in Rome. 177 items including documents, letters, coins, medals, manuscripts and bindings.
Soft cover Fine
Das Relações entre Portugal e a Pérsia 1500-1758: Catálogo Bibliográfico da Exposição Comemorativa do XXV Centenário da Monarquia no Irão
Lisbon Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian 1972 4to (29 cm), XXXI, 375 pp, 6 plates in color, folding map, illustrations in the text. Calf backed cloth boards, spine gilt, red leather label with the title, top edge painted red. Printed wrappers bound in. Fine copy in elegant binding of a bibliographical catalogue commemorating 25th Centenary of the monarchy in Iran.
Hardcover Fine
De Vijfhonderdste Verjaring van de Boekdrukkunst in de Nederlanden
Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I 1973 4to (25.5 cm), XXIV, 585, [3] pp, plates. Printed wrappers (wrappers little rubbed at extremities, corners bumped). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held in Brussels 11 September 0 27 October 1973. 242 entries.
Soft cover Very Good
Drink uit deze bron. Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, geïnspireerd humanist en toegewijd tekstuitgever
Amsterdam Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica 2004 4to (26 cm), 68 pp. Printed wrappers. "Drink from this source. Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, inspired humanist and dedicated text publisher", the catalogue of an exhibition in Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam. The preface by Franz A. Janssen.
Soft cover 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
Experiment Bucheinband aktuell. Eine Ausstellung in der Galerie Handwerk München in Zusammenarbeit mit der Typographischen Gesellschaft München anläßlich ihres hundertjährigen Bestehens und der Buchbinder-Innung München-Oberbayern
1990 8vo (24.5 cm), 56 pp, folding plate. Publisher's wrappers in blue envelope cover. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition "Experimental book covers" held at the Galerie Handwerk, Munich 18 October - 14 November 1990.
Soft cover Near Fine
Historia del conocimiento matemático. Libros antiguos de la Biblioteca Complutense
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2001 8vo (20 cm), 173 pp. The catalogue of exhibitions of mathematical books from the library of Complutense University.
Soft cover New
I libri esposti nella Biblioteca Vaticana
Vatican City Tipografia del Senato 1964 16mo (15.5 cm), 36 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine copy of the catalogue of an exhibition of highlights from Vatican library. 114 items including the antique, medieval and renaissance manuscripts, charts, maps and atlases, incunabula and early printed books, books written and printed in Hebrew, Persian, Arab, Slavonic, Chinese and other languages.
Soft cover Fine
Illuminated and Calligraphic Manuscripts: An Exhibition Held at the Fogg Art Museum and Houghton Library, February 14-April 1, 1955
Cambridge, MA 1955 4to (28 cm), 45 pp, 80 plates. Printed wrappers (light shelfwear, few pencil notes in the text). Inscribed to John Rowlson by a book collector, curator, and art historian Philip Hofer (1898-1984), who in 1938 founded the Department of Prints and Graphics at Harvard University. The exhibition included about half of the illuminated and calligraphic manuscript then in Harvard, mostly collected by Hofer. Introduction by Hanns Swarzenski.
Soft cover Near Fine
Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27 - March 13 [1949], organized by the Walters Art Gallery in cooperation with the Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore The Walters Art Gallery 1949 4to (28 cm), frontispiece printed in color, XIV, 85 pp, LXXX pp of plates. 233 manuscripts were exhibited in one of the first major medieval manuscript exhibitions in America undertaken primarily with a view to widen the public experience in the field.
Hardcover Fine
Kniga dlya znatoka i cenitelya. Bibliofilskie izdaniya vtoroj poloviny XIX-pervoj poloviny XX veka
Moscow Pashkov Dom 2018 4to (26 cm), 124 pp. Printed wrappers. In Russian. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Russian State Library of bibliophile editions of the second half of 19th - beginning of 20t century. An introduction and 3 sections: books printed in less than 100 copies, books printed 100 - 300 copies and book printed over 300 copies. 80 items.
Soft cover Fine
Knizhnaya kunstkamera v Ermitazhe
St. Petersburg The Hermitage Publishers 2009 4to (26.5 cm), 216 pp. Publishers laminated boards with the flap. In Russian. The catalogue of an exhibition 'Chamber of book curiosities in the Hermitage museum'. 1 April - 7 June, 2009. Miniature and giant books, printed and manuscripts, books with longest pages, unusual paper and bindings, books with movable parts, art books, games etc. In Russian with the summary in English.
Hardcover New
Kostbare Handschriften: Jubiläumsausstellung zur 400-Jahr-Feier d. Julius-Maximilians-Univ. Würzburg im Jahre 1982. Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
Reichert 1982 4to (28 cm), 164 pp. Laminated wrappers (wrappers little frayed at the top). "Precious Manuscripts", the catalogue of the exhibition to celebrate 400th anniversary of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. 72 items described fro papyri to the end of the 16th century.
Soft cover Very Good
Krieg: Viel Ehr - Viel Elend. Ausstellung zum 40. Jahrestag der Zerstörung Augsburgs
Augsburg 1984 8vo (24 cm), 159 pp. Printed wrappers (minor shelf-wear). 188 entries.
Soft cover Near Fine
Le livre arménien de la Renaissance aux Lumières : une culture en diaspora
Bibliothèque Mazarine / Ed. des Cendres 2012 4to (27 cm), 190 pp. Publisher's board (minimal shelf-wear, collector's blind stamp on the title). Catalogue of an exhibition of Armenian books held in the Bibliothèque Mazarine on 26 October - 30 November, 2012. Une histoire de l'importante production d'ouvrages en langue arménienne du premier imprimé à Venise en 1512 aux grands ateliers du XVIIIe siècle. Elle relate la dispersion géographique des imprimeries (Paris, Amsterdam, Madras, Constantinople, etc.) et la manière dont la culture et la langue arménienne ont pu se maintenir et se diffuser par ce biais.
Hardcover Fine
Le Livre et l'Estampe. LXI 2015, no 183-184 : Voyages dans ma bibliothèque
Brussels La Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique 2015 8vo (22.5 cm), 305 pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition "Voyages dans ma bibliothèque" held at the Royal Library of Belgium 3 April - 30 May 2015. 151 entries.
Soft cover Fine
Le mouvement symboliste
Bruxelles Editions de la Connaissance 1957 8vo (22 cm), 140 pp, 20 plates. Printed wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition, Bruxelles, Palais des Beraux-Arts, 31 January - 3 March 1957.
Soft cover Fine
L. Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz: An Exhibition of His Published Writings in Commemoration of the Centenary of His Birth, May 15, 1856
New York Columbia University Libraries 1956 8vo (21 cm), 50 pp. Printed wrappers. 112 items described.
Soft cover Fine
Libros antiguos de física en la biblioteca histórica de la Universidad Complutense
Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2003 4to (27 cm), 127 pp. Laminates wrappers with flaps. Catalogue of an exhibition held in Madrid 11 February - 6 April 2003. 287 items.
Soft cover Fine
Livres de Pierre Lecuire
Bibliotheque nationale de France 2001 4to (30 cm), 240 pp. Laminated wrappers. Inscribed on the title to a to Belgian bibliophile Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens. The catalogue of an exhibition "Livres de Pierre Lecuire" at the Bibliotheque nationale de France 9 October 2001 - 13 January 2002.
Soft cover Fine
Max Ernst. Estampes et Livres Illustrés
Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 1975 Square 8vo (21 cm), XIV, 13 pp, plates. Printed wrappers. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. 194 items.
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Mostra della miniatura gotica Italiana
Florence Societa ""Leonardo da Vinci" 1937 16mo (14.5 cm), 16 pp. Printed wrappers (paper little browned). The catalogue of an exhibition of Italian gothic miniatures held in Florence 21 January - 10 February 1937. 94 items.
Soft cover Very Good
Mostra delle biblioteche italiane. Acquisti e doni degli ultimi dieci anni. 27 Maggio - 30 Giugno 1934-XII
Tipografia Cuggiani Rome 1934 8vo (21 cm), XI, 234 pp, plates (2 folding printed in color). Printed wrappers (wrappers stained). The catalogue of an exhibition of recent acquisitions of Italian libraries held in Rome in May-June, 1934. 1082 items were exhibited including manuscripts, restored works, musics, incunabula, maps, drawings and prints, autographs, old and modern printed books and bindings.
Soft cover Near Fine
Mostra del Libro Emiliano della R. Biblioteca Estense di Modena (Maggio - Giugno 1928)
R. Sovrintendenza Bibliografica della Emilia 1928 16mo (15.5 cm), 168 pp. Printed wrappers (little rubbed). The catalogue of an exhibition of highlights from the Biblioteca Estense. 596 items including manuscripts, printed books (including first printed books in many towns of Emilia), bindings and music.
Soft cover Very Good
Mostra Iconografica Gonzaghesca. Catalogo delle Opere
Mantua 1937 8vo (22 cm), XXIV, 122, [10] pp, 28 leaves of plates, folding genealogical table loosely inserted. Publisher's boards. The catalog of an exhibition held in Palazzo Ducale in Mantua 16 May - 19 September 1937. Iconography of the House of Gonzaga, an Italian princely family that ruled Mantua.
Hardcover Very Good
Mostra storica della scienza italiana. Novembre 1957 - Gennaio 1958
Milan Amilcare Pizzi 1957 8vo (23.5 cm), XXXII, 114 pp, 121 illustrations on unpaginated plates. Printed wrappers (paper little browned). The catalogue of an exhibition of Italian scientific books and artifacts from medieval time to Enrico Fermi.
Soft cover Very Good
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
Nederlandse handboekbinders- en boekbandontwerpersgroep. Boekbanden in textiel
Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek 1988 4to (29 cm), 52 pp. Printed wrappers (corners little creased). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of the cloth hand-made bookbindings by the Dutch Bookbinder's Designers Group. 94 entries.
Soft cover Very Good
Officina Bodoni Verona 1923-1964. Catalogue raisonné des livres imprimé sur les presses à bois
Verona Stamperia Valdonega 1965 8vo (25 cm), 64 pp, 9 plates. Printed wrappers. 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
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
Oprawy Polskie: Wystawa zorganizowana przez Bibliotekę Narodową i Oddział Warszawski Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Książki. Warszawa, XI-XII 1987
Warszawa Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Książki 1987 8vo (21 cm), 108 pp, 4 ff of plates in printed in color. Printed wrappers. In Polish. The catalogue of an exhibition of Polish bindings organized by the Polish National Library and Warsaw branch of Polish bibliophile society Nov.-Dec. 1987. 226 bindings from 1170 to 1986 described, 30 b&w and 8 color illustrations.
Soft cover Fine
Orientalische Buchkunst in Gotha: Ausstellung zum 350 jahrigen Jubiläum der Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek Gotha, Spiegelsaal, 11. September 1997 bis 14. Dezember 1997
Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek Gotha 1997 Oblong 8vo (23 x 24 cm), 251 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps, errata loosely inserted. The catalogue of the exhibition: "Oriental Book Art in Gotha: Exhibition on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Gotha Research and State Library", September 11-- December 14, 1997.
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Osmanli Padisah Fermanlari. Imperial Ottoman Fermans. Exhibition Catalogue 19 September 1986-18 January 1987. Edited by Aysegül Nadir
Istanbul Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism 1987 4to (30.5 cm), xii,173 pp. Publisher's boards and dat jacket. In Turkish & English. The catalogue of an exhibition at theMuseun of Turkish and Isclamic arts Islamic Arts 19 September 1986 -- 18 January 1987. 70 imperial decrees called 'fermans' are described and illustrated.
Hardcover Fine
Printed by Hague and Gill: a checklist prepared in conjunction with the exhibit A Responsible Workman observing Eric Gill's centenary
Los Angeles UCLA Library 1982 8vo (25 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers sunned). Catalogue of an exhibition at the UCLA Library 26 April-16 July 1982.
Soft cover Near Fine
Printing and the Mind of Man: A Descriptive Catalogue Illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization During Five Centuries. Compiled and edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir, assisted by Nicholas Barker, H.A. Feisenberger, Howard Nixon, and S.H. Steinberg. With an introductory essay by Denys Hay
London Cassell and Co. 1967 4to (32 cm), XXXVI, 280 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed at extremities). The invention of printing with movable type, by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz in the fifth decade of the fifteenth century, was crucial to the whole evolution of western civilization. The printing press furnished the means of repeatable precision of text and the capacity for the mass circulation. This volume contains full descriptions of books, which for ideas they brought to the world are of prime importance to the mind of man. New concepts in philosophy, religion, politics, economics, jurisprudence, and education, new ideas in historiography and linguistics, in the art and architecture, new discoveries in natural history, geography, sciences, medicine and technology: under 424 entries is the essential documentation of their first appearance in print.
Hardcover Fine
Printing and the Mind of Man: Catalogue of the Exhibitions at the British Museum and at Earls Court, London 16-27 July 1963
Messrs F W Bridges & Sons 1963 8vo (23.5 cm), 166 pp, 32 plates and 16 plates. Printed wrappers (about 30 pages and a plate at the beginning water damaged at the top, underlinings in the second part). Two catalogues published together: "Catalogue of a display of printing mechanisms and printed materials, arranged to illustrate the history of Western civilization" and "Printing and the mind of man, an exhibition of fine printing in the King's Library of the British Museum, July-September 1963, published by the Trustees of the British Museum". The second exhibition became a milestone in the book world. There were exhibited 193 printed books which for ideas they brought were of prime importance to the mind of man and crucial to the whole evolution of western civilization. Expanded catalogue, referred as PMM, was published in1967.
Soft cover Good
Printing and the Mind of Man: Catalogue of the Exhibitions at the British Museum and at Earls Court, London 16-27 July 1963
Messrs F W Bridges & Sons 1963 8vo (23.5 cm), 166 pp, 32 plates and 16 plates. Printed wrappers (wrappers stained). Two catalogues published together: "Catalogue of a display of printing mechanisms and printed materials, arranged to illustrate the history of Western civilization" and "Printing and the mind of man, an exhibition of fine printing in the King's Library of the British Museum, July-September 1963, published by the Trustees of the British Museum". The second exhibition became a milestone in the book world. There were exhibited 193 printed books which for ideas they brought were of prime importance to the mind of man and crucial to the whole evolution of western civilization. Expanded catalogue, referred as PMM, was published in1967.
Soft cover Good
