Published library catalogues (5 resultados)

Cloth, 8vo, viii, 184 pp. Over 700 entries. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part One: Published Library Catalogues In Various Subject Fields. General Catalogues; Auction Sales Catalogues; The Book Industries; Philosophy and Religion; The Social Sciences; Science and Technology; The Arts and Architecture; Literature; History and Biography; Music; Geography. Part Two: Key To Published Library Catalogues. ; Key; Bibliography; Index. Good.…

2 vols, cloth, cover devices, large 8vo, Unpaginated, plates and illustrations throughout. 502 lots. Elegantly produced catalogues of a splendid collection on science, navigation and travel, especially rich in English books of the 16th and 17th centuries. It had been intended that Sotheby's would go on to catalogue and sell the remainder of Horblit's collection but in fact only the 2 sales reflected here took place; most of the remaining books being either sold to H P Kraus or donated to Harvard. The background is discussed, and a possible explanation given, in Basbanes' " A Gentle Madness". Catalogues arranged by author, with subject, chronological and selective provenance indexes. Among the lots catalogued here were the following: Finé The rules. touching the use and practice of the common almanackes, London, [?1558]; Firmin De Beauval Opusculum repertorii pronosticon in mutationes aeris, Venice, 1485; Fitzgerald Salt-water sweetened, London, 1683; Flores Arte de navegar, Madrid, 1673; Foster Miscellanies, London, 1659; Fourneer Hydrographie, Paris, 1643; Freud Die Traumdeutung, Leipzig & Vienna, 1900; Fuchs De historia stirpium, Basel, 1542, with original colouring; Galilei Il saggiatore, Rome, 1623, presentation copy; Galilei Dialogo, Florence, 1632, uncut and unopened; Galilei Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, Leiden, 1638; Gallucci Speculum uranicum, Venice, 1593; Gallucci Ruota perpetua per trovare le congiontioni et oppositioni del sole e della luna, Venice, [1595], broadside; Garcia De Cespedes Libro de instrumentos nuevos de geometria, Madrid, 1606; Garcia De Palacio Instruction nauthica, Mexico, 1587; Garcie The rutter of the sea, London, [?1555]; Gauss Disquisitiones arithmeticae, Leipzig, 1801; Gellibrand A discourse mathematical on the Variation of the magneticall needle, London, 1635; Gemma Frisius De radio astronomico & geometrico, Antwerp, 1545; Gilbert De magnete, London, 1600, presentation copy; Girault Globe du monde, Langres, 1592; Girava Dos Mbros de cosmografia, Milan, 1556; Goddard A method of reaching extreme altitudes, Washington, 1919; Goos De zee-atlas, Amsterdam, 1666, large paper copy; Grafton A brief treatise conteyning many proper tables, London, 1579. Boards a little marked and scuffed, otherwise Good. Part 1 annotated with pencilled prices; list of prices realized and buyers' names for Part 2 laid in.…

2 vols, cloth, cover devices, large 8vo, Unpaginated, plates and illustrations throughout. 502 lots. Elegantly produced catalogues of a splendid collection on science, navigation and travel, especially rich in English books of the 16th and 17th centuries. It had been intended that Sotheby's would go on to catalogue and sell the remainder of Horblit's collection but in fact only the 2 sales reflected here took place; most of the remaining books being either sold to H P Kraus or donated to Harvard. The background is discussed, and a possible explanation given, in Basbanes' " A Gentle Madness". Catalogues arranged by author, with subject, chronological and selective provenance indexes. Among the lots catalogued here were the following: Finé The rules. touching the use and practice of the common almanackes, London, [?1558]; Firmin De Beauval Opusculum repertorii pronosticon in mutationes aeris, Venice, 1485; Fitzgerald Salt-water sweetened, London, 1683; Flores Arte de navegar, Madrid, 1673; Foster Miscellanies, London, 1659; Fourneer Hydrographie, Paris, 1643; Freud Die Traumdeutung, Leipzig & Vienna, 1900; Fuchs De historia stirpium, Basel, 1542, with original colouring; Galilei Il saggiatore, Rome, 1623, presentation copy; Galilei Dialogo, Florence, 1632, uncut and unopened; Galilei Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, Leiden, 1638; Gallucci Speculum uranicum, Venice, 1593; Gallucci Ruota perpetua per trovare le congiontioni et oppositioni del sole e della luna, Venice, [1595], broadside; Garcia De Cespedes Libro de instrumentos nuevos de geometria, Madrid, 1606; Garcia De Palacio Instruction nauthica, Mexico, 1587; Garcie The rutter of the sea, London, [?1555]; Gauss Disquisitiones arithmeticae, Leipzig, 1801; Gellibrand A discourse mathematical on the Variation of the magneticall needle, London, 1635; Gemma Frisius De radio astronomico & geometrico, Antwerp, 1545; Gilbert De magnete, London, 1600, presentation copy; Girault Globe du monde, Langres, 1592; Girava Dos Mbros de cosmografia, Milan, 1556; Goddard A method of reaching extreme altitudes, Washington, 1919; Goos De zee-atlas, Amsterdam, 1666, large paper copy; Grafton A brief treatise conteyning many proper tables, London, 1579. Lists of prices realized and buyers' names laid in stapled to front free endpapers (staples rusted, sheets folded), otherwise Near Very Good.…

2 vols, cloth, cover devices, large 8vo, Unpaginated, plates and illustrations throughout. 502 lots. Elegantly produced catalogues of a splendid collection on science, navigation and travel, especially rich in English books of the 16th and 17th centuries. It had been intended that Sotheby's would go on to catalogue and sell the remainder of Horblit's collection but in fact only the 2 sales reflected here took place; most of the remaining books being either sold to H P Kraus or donated to Harvard. The background is discussed, and a possible explanation given, in Basbanes' " A Gentle Madness". Catalogues arranged by author, with subject, chronological and selective provenance indexes. Among the lots catalogued here were the following: Finé The rules. touching the use and practice of the common almanackes, London, [?1558]; Firmin De Beauval Opusculum repertorii pronosticon in mutationes aeris, Venice, 1485; Fitzgerald Salt-water sweetened, London, 1683; Flores Arte de navegar, Madrid, 1673; Foster Miscellanies, London, 1659; Fourneer Hydrographie, Paris, 1643; Freud Die Traumdeutung, Leipzig & Vienna, 1900; Fuchs De historia stirpium, Basel, 1542, with original colouring; Galilei Il saggiatore, Rome, 1623, presentation copy; Galilei Dialogo, Florence, 1632, uncut and unopened; Galilei Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, Leiden, 1638; Gallucci Speculum uranicum, Venice, 1593; Gallucci Ruota perpetua per trovare le congiontioni et oppositioni del sole e della luna, Venice, [1595], broadside; Garcia De Cespedes Libro de instrumentos nuevos de geometria, Madrid, 1606; Garcia De Palacio Instruction nauthica, Mexico, 1587; Garcie The rutter of the sea, London, [?1555]; Gauss Disquisitiones arithmeticae, Leipzig, 1801; Gellibrand A discourse mathematical on the Variation of the magneticall needle, London, 1635; Gemma Frisius De radio astronomico & geometrico, Antwerp, 1545; Gilbert De magnete, London, 1600, presentation copy; Girault Globe du monde, Langres, 1592; Girava Dos Mbros de cosmografia, Milan, 1556; Goddard A method of reaching extreme altitudes, Washington, 1919; Goos De zee-atlas, Amsterdam, 1666, large paper copy; Grafton A brief treatise conteyning many proper tables, London, 1579. Very Good.…

Gr.-8vo. 4 Bl., 258 S., 1 Bl. (Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen u. Bibliographie, Sonderh. 17). Hlwd m. eingebundenem OUmschl. Texte in Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch und Russisch. - Mit handschriftlichem Besitzvermerk von Wieland Schmidt. Sprache: Englisch.