Books On Books: Library Collections from The Owl at the Bridge

Contents: General Works, Extending Beyond a Single Country: A. Catalogues and Special Lists, p. 1; Serials and Periodicals, p. 7; National Catalogues and Regional Inventories, Arranged According to Country, p. 9; Individual Libraries in an Alphabetical Listing by Cities or Names of Institutional or Private Owners, p. 18; Miscellaneous Sales Catalogues, Arranged According to City, p. 71; Addenda, p.… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents include Short-Title Catalogue of Emblem Books; Index of Printers, Booksellers, and Publishers; Indexes to Places of Publication; Chronological Indexes. vii, [2], 105 pages; 26.5 cm. Printed cream paper covers; minor shelfwear (essentially unused); Very Good+. Stock#ofc0876.

"Catalogue of an exhibition held in the King's Library, British Library Reference Division, 9 August - 22 October 1978." "Published in the U.S.A. by The Sandstone Press, New York." 96 pages, portrait frontispiece; 24.5 cm. Decorative paper covers; Fine. Stock#ofc0874.

Two volumes paged consecutively: xxviii, 258; [iii], 259-550 pages; 28.5 cm. Bound in maroon publisher's cloth with gold lettering; As New. Stock#ofc0867.

xxii, 229 pages; 25.5 cm. Printed wraps; slight shelfwear; Very Good. Includes a one-sheet presentation note with the compiler's ink inscription to Sam Hough.

Issue dedicated to H. Adrian Smith, Brown Class of 1930, whose gift of books on magic forms the heart of this issue and sizeable shelving footage in the Brown Library. xvi, 156 pages, illustrations; printed wraps; Very Good. Stock#ofc0852,

Contents: Report on the Harvard University Library; Strauch, Sources of Emerson's "Song of Nature"; Porritt, The Radcliffe College Library after Seventy-five Years; Brown, Scientific Drawings of Count Rumford at Harvard; Bates, Charlotte Brontë and the Kay-Shuttleworths, with a New Brontë Letter; An Allusion in Milton's Elegia tertia; Additional Letters of Sydney Smith; Audio-Visual Education at the Harvard School of… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents: Smith, "That Hideous Miskate of Poor Clemens's"; Gummere, Classical Element in Early New England Almanacs; Shipton, John Langdon Sibley, Librarian; Osborn, Development of Library Resources at Harvard: Problems and Potentialities; Watts, The Swiss Editions of the Encyclopédie; An Unpublished Letter of Saint-Simon to Cardinal Gualterio; Non-Book Materials in the Harvard Library; A New Wordsworth Letter: Lyrical Ballads and… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents include Catalogue gravé; Oeuvres de jeunesse, Caprices d'architecture et d'ornement, premières études antiques; Les Antiquités de Rome et de l'Italie; Les Vues pittoresques de Rome; Études décoratives; Illustrations des oeuvres polémiques, planches de reproduction, etc.Table de Concordance des Éditions; Index. Facsimile reprint; one of 100 copies printed. 75 pages; 23 cm. Green covers; Fine, As new.… Ler mais sobre este item

Opere Latine; Testimonianze sulla Biblioteca del Petrarca; Opere Volgari; Commenti, Compianti e Antica Biografia Petrarchesca; Petrarchisti e Imitatori; Codici Miniati; Francesco Petrarca... a cura di G. C.; Indice dei Nomi; Indice delle Tavole Foreword signed Antonietta Morandini. Exhibition catalogue, 93 pages, 20 plates (4 color); 21.5 cm. Printed green wraps; slight ageing; Very Good. Stock#ofc0808.

"When the Petrarch collection came to the [Cornell] University Library in 1905 it numbered 3,550 volumes... It now [1916] contains more than 4,000 volumes. Besides the long series of editions and translations of Petrarch's works and the multitudinous commentaries upon them, it is rich in biographies of the poet, and in works concerning his influence upon the revival of… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents: The Sinclair Lewis Exhibition by Robert Nikirk; Sinclair Lewis Revisited by Alfred Kazin; Memories of Sinclair Lewis by Frederick Manfred; Sinclair Lewis in Retrospect by Sheldon N. Grebstein; Sinclair Lewis: An Exhibition at the Grolier Club by Daniel D. Chabris; The Pre-Victorian Gothic Revival: An Exhibition at the Grolier Club by Joan M. Friedman. 109 pages, plates; pictorial… Ler mais sobre este item

Works by & about Hearn, including editions in Japanese, manuscripts, and visual media. vi, 60 pages; 22.5 cm.; stapled in tan pictorial paper covers; very slight toning to spine; Very Good. With "Lafcadio Hearn / Catalog 81 / Fall 1979 Winter", catalogue issued by Jerrold G. Stanoff, Los Angeles; 190 items; typescript stapled into brown pictorial wraps; Very… Ler mais sobre este item

"Contributi alla Biblioteca Bibliografica Italica diretta da Marino Parenti, 15." The catalogue proper is preceded with "Cenni sui sistemi planetari fino a Galileo", pages 9-41. Number 370 of 666 copies. 393, [1] pages; indexes, illustrations; 25.5 cm. Softcover; Very Good; dust jacket has small chips at top of spine & rear bottom; cardboard slipcase still effective… Ler mais sobre este item

Essays (vol. I): Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Bibliographical Survey. Printing in the 15th and 16th Centuries as represented in the Hunt Collection. With a Note on the 17th Century; Wilfrid Blunt, Illustration of Early Botanical Works; Paul Bigelow Sears, Dawn-time of Modern Husbandry; John Farquhar Fulton, Medical Aspects of Early Botanical Books; Harold William Rickett, Botany from 840 to 1700 A.D.;… Ler mais sobre este item

"This is the fifth in a series of book catalogues of pre-19th century holdings in the National Library of Medicine" (Preface). "This catalogue lists about 13,300 books printed between 1601 and 1700. Included are monographs, dissertations and corresponding program disputations, broadsides, pamphlets, and serials" (Introduction). xiv, 1315 pages; 23 cm. Bound in publisher's grey cloth, black… Ler mais sobre este item

Bibliography of approximately 1300 books and monographs on contemporary Italy (1945-1985). Subjects include politics, society, economics, ecology & environment, the Mezzogiorno, women, education, media, science, society, arts, language, literature; author and subject indexes. viii, 106 pages; 23 cm. Paper covers; Fine; unused. Stock#ofc0744.

"Designed and Printed by Lawton Kennedy." Pamphlet, [36] pages, 14 black & white plus two color illustrations; 26 cm. Pictorial paper covers; sewn into library-cardboard protective covers; library markings not too intrusive; Very Good. Stock#ofc0745.

"In our anxiety to get quickly to the heart of a book many of us skip altogether or postpone the reading of its Introduction. The purpose of this Foreword is to make sure that the Introduction by Mr. Kebabian is read and recognized as a fine synopsis of the collection of books, maps, and manuscripts on navigation and navigators… Ler mais sobre este item

"Entries in this edition... are arranged alphabetically by city within a state or province. Each page has a running title indicating the name of the state or province and entry numbers found on that page... All data included have been taken directly from the questionnaires... numbers in the index refer to individual entries... 178 pages; 28 cm.… Ler mais sobre este item