(23.5 cm), 58 (2) pp., frontispiece (pl.I), 7 leaves of plates (pls.II-VIII), text illustrations. 430 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue 52 was the first catalogue issued by the firm Martin Breslauer from London. Martin Breslauer (1871-1940) had established his bookselling business in 1898 and issued catalogues from addresses in Berlin under this name from c. 1905 (no. 1) to 1937 (no. 51), when the business was relocated in London. There, Breslauer resumed issuing catalogues in 1939 with no. 52 (trading from 43, Bedford Court Mansions, Bedford Avenue, London W.C.1). His son, Bernard H. Breslauer, took over the firm after Martin’s death in 1940. The binding reproduced on the frontispiece (Order of St Michel, Le livre de statuts, c. 1550) is now British Library, Henry Davis Gift, 398 (Mirjam Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, I, p.182, no. 22). ¶ Edges of cover light-stained.

(23.5 cm), (2) 65 (1) pp. 1187 items; priced. Publisher’s self-wrappers. - This was the last catalogue of Martin Breslauer: on 16 October 1940, an aerial bomb dropped near the family flat in Bedford Court Mansions, and he died a few hours later, aged 69, of a heart attack caused by the shock. A label issued by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association is tipped to the upper cover (concerning the requirement that American customers remit in Dollars). ¶ Date stamp on cover of the California Academy of Sciences (October 14 1940).

(23.5 cm), 44 pp., illustrations. 622 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue 54 was issued from 78, Stamford Court, Goldhawk Road, London W6, and was the first to be published following the death of Martin Breslauer (October 1940), and to have B.H. Breslauer’s name on the inside cover. Item 614 is a large collection about the book thief Guglielmo Libri, comprising 122 publications and 18 autograph letters (£100); item 622 is a collection entitled “Forgery in Literature”, 312 works in 200 bound volumes and 75 in original wrappers (£480). ¶ Loosely inserted is a memorial pamphlet “Martin Breslauer 1871-1940” with tipped-in photograph.

(23.5 cm), 46 (2) pp., 4 leaves of plates (pls.I-VIII; IX on lower wrapper). 792 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Extracted from a binding.

(23.5 cm), (2) 26 pp. 530 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(23.5 cm), (2) 52 pp., 2 leaves of plates (pls.I-IV; “frontispiece” on wrapper). Self-wrappers. - The illustrations accompany a collection of engraved ornament, more than 900 prints preserved in two portfolios (item 333, £280). ¶ Wrapper chipped.

(23.5 cm), (2) 50 pp., illustrations (on wrappers). 839 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - The catalogue opens with “A small group of incunabula, entirely unrecorded, or not to be found in the British Museum or in the U.S.A.” (items 1-5); item 42a is a collection of sixteen publications of the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1629-1789, specimens of the exotic types available at the press. ¶ Extracted from a binding; text on 3 pp. shaved by binder’s knife, elsewhere satisfactory margins. Occasional marks in pen and blue pencil.

(23.5 cm), 62 pp., 1 plate (pls.I-II; pls.III-IV on lower wrapper). 1093 items. Self-wrappers. ¶ Extracted from a binding.

(23.5 cm), 76 pp., frontispiece (pl.I), 3 leaves of plates (pls.II-VII), illustrations. 484 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Item 1 (£600) is the Huth manuscript of “Mirrour of Mans Salvacioune” (apparently bought at the Harmsworth sale, Sotheby’s, 15 October 1945, lot 2100; returned to the market in the Foyle sale, Christie’s, 11 July 2000, lot 76, where acquired for the Toshiyuki Takamiya Collection). The collection on literary forgery (Catalogue 54, item 622) is re-offered as items 101-464. ¶ Extracted from a binding.

(23.5 cm), 34 (2) pp., including plates I-III (on covers), text illustrations. 484 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - Includes (item 42, £105) the three-volume 1518-1519 Aldine Pontanus, in uniform Venetian morocco bindings, which had been acquired for £65 in the Dyson Perrins sale. The copy returned to the market in the Estelle Doheny sale, part IV, Christie’s 17-18 October 1988, and was re-purchased by B.H. Breslauer ($19,000). ¶ Wrappers not entirely fresh.

(23.5 cm), 52 pp. 1144 items; priced. Self-wrappers. ¶ Extracted from a binding.

(24 cm), 20 pp., 3 illustrations (on wrappers). 392 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - Contains the large collection of drawings and prints by Bernhard Rode, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, and Johann Wilhelm Meil, assembled by the Berlin lawyer Wilhelm Dorn (£1100). Besterman’s books are said to have been “relinquished upon his removal to Paris as Director of the World Bibliographical and Library Center of UNESCO”.

(23.5 cm), 26 (2) pp., including plates I-III (on wrappers), text illustrations. 229 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(23.5 cm), 46 (2) pp., including plates I-III (on wrappers). 860 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(24.5 cm), 42 (2) pp., folding frontispiece (pl.I) and 6 leaves of plates (pls.II-XIII), illustrations (49 altogether). 101 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - Includes (item 71, £800) a manuscript of Pontano’s “De Conjugali Amore” from the Aragon library in Naples (later in Abbey’s collection; A.R.A. Hobson, French and Italian collectors and their bindings: illustrated from examples in the library of J.R. Abbey, 1953, no. 55; sold Sotheby’s, 1 December 1970, lot 2889); and (item 92, £420) a late 14th century Bolognese Martyrology and rule of St. Benedict (now Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.829). ¶ Cover dust-soiled.

(24.5 cm), 32 pp., folding frontispiece (pl.II), 4 leaves of plates (pls.III-X; pls.I, XI-XII on wrappers), illustrations (30 altogether). 102 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 81, £360) Grolier’s copy of the 1505 Aldine Pontanus (now British Library, Henry Davis Gift, 722); also (item 28, £780) the eight-volume Aldine Cicero Opera 1550-1552, uniformly bound in dark green Venetian morocco ornamented by the device of Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, from the library of the 5th Baron Vernon. The set was re-offered in Breslauer’s Catalogue 71, item 22; when it again failed to sell, it was broken: the Epistolae familiares was offered in Catalogue 74, item 44 (£100); and De philosophia (two volumes) was sold hors catalogue (now British Library, Henry Davis Gift, 809-810). ¶ Wrappers not entirely fresh.

(23.5 cm), 72 pp. 1259 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(21.5 cm), 16 pp., 1 illustration. 89 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(21.5 cm), 24 pp. 249 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - Includes (item 22, £200) a set of the twenty large engravings by Chinese court artists of the Yuan Ming-Yuan Summer Palaces and Gardens of the Chinese Emperor Ch’ien Lung (1786).

(23.5 cm), 36 pp., 4 leaves of plates (pls.II-IX; pls.I, X-XI on wrappers), illustrations. 200 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 1, £400) a holograph manuscript of three essays by Addison for the Spectator (now Harvard University, Houghton Library, Ms Eng. 772); and (item 70, £145) a 15th century English register of legal writs (apparently sold to W.A. Foyle; his sale by Christies, 11 July 2000, lot 74; now Huntington Library, Mss HM 62471).

(23.5 cm), 28 pp., 2 illustrations (on wrappers). 437 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(23.5 cm), 32 pp. 497 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - The “Prefatory note” is description of the Landau library, and account of its disposal through auction sales conducted in Geneva, London, Zurich, and Florence, and “the major portion of the library… by private treaty to a selected number of booksellers and collectors”.

(23.5 cm), 38 pp., 3 leaves of plates (pls.II-VII; pls.I, VIII-IX on wrappers), illustrations. 263 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes autograph manuscripts of Heinrich Heine (his last poem, “Die Passionsblume”, item 3) and Schopenhauer (preface to Ueber den Willen in der natur, item 10).

(23.5 cm), 32 pp., including plates I-III (on wrappers), illustrations (15 altogether). 190 items. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Edges of wrapper frayed, small losses.

(23.5 cm), 40 pp. 779 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(23.5 cm), 24 pp., including plates I-III (on wrappers), illustrations. 210 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 110, £850) a French 14th century manuscript Bible (now Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 239).

(23.5 cm), 36 pp., illustrations (including plates I-III on wrappers). 252 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 119, £180) the only known copy of a French version of De duobus amantibus printed by Jean de Vingle (now Bibliothèque nationale de France; CIBN P-383, GW M3355220).

(23.5 cm), (2) 38 pp. 593 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(23.5 cm), 32 pp., 2 leaves of plates (plates II-V; plates I, VI-VII on wrappers), illustrations. 198 items; priced. - The first item (£4800) is a Book of Hours illuminated in the atelier of the Maître de Boucicaut, beautifully preserved in its original blind-stamped binding, from the Landau, H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence, and Eric Millar collections (re-appeared on the market at Sotheby’s 2 December 1986, lot 56, £198,000 to Bruce Ferrini).

(23.5 cm), 56 pp., 4 leaves of plates (pls.II-IX; pls.I, X-XI on wrappers), illustrations. 160 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 68, £480) Pacioli’s Divina proportione 1509 with the first quire in proof state (”before the title on a1 recto was printed”). ¶ Inscription in pencil on lower wrapper.

(23.5 cm), 28 pp., including plates I-III (on wrappers), text illustrations. 283 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

(23.5 cm), 40 pp., 1 illustration (cover). 635 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 629, £250) an eleven-page holograph manuscript of Melanchthon’s memorandum on serfdom (now Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS GER 77).

(23.5 cm), 36 pp., 3 illustrations (on covers). 480 items; priced. - Includes (item 26, “sold”) Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s copy of Tycho Brahe’s De Mundi aetherei 1603 (from the Powis Castle sale, Sotheby’s, 31 January 1955, lot 57, £58); also “A collection of type specimens of the last sixty years” (items 238-365).

(23.5 cm), 28 pp., 2 leaves of plates (pls.II-V; pls.I, VI-VII on wrappers), text illustrations. 91 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 5, £425) the Foligno Cicero c. 1471 (sold to Albert Ehrman; presented by John Ehrman to the Bodleian Library in 1978, where now shelfmark Broxb. 19.1); also (item 39, £200) the visitor’s book of the natural history museum of Levinus Vincent in Haarlem from 1705-1737.

(23.5 cm), 28 pp., 2 illustrations (on wrappers). 442 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

(24 cm), 64 pp., 12 leaves of plates (pls.II-XXV; pls.I, XXVI-XXVII on covers), illustrations (69 altogether). 230 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 62, £285) a copy of Sabellico, Histoire Vinitiane, 1544, bound for Cardinal Granvelle (from the Lucien-Graux sale, Paris, 26 January 1957, lot 118; now Musée de Mariemont, Inv. Ac.71/14); and a calligraphic letter on vellum (item 102, £330) from King James I to the Emperor of Japan, dated 10 January 1611 (now in the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, Bell 1611 oJa). Also offered is a remarkable enamel and silver-gilt binding (item 148, £450) by Georg Strauch of Nuremberg, from the collection of William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon (1841-1918), then Gumuchian & Cie (Catalogue XII, 1929, no. 173), Grace Whitney Hoff (1862-1938), and Lucien Graux (1878-1944); it re-appeared recently in Christie’s as the property of “A Private Collector, London, and then by descent” (3 June 2014, lot 373, £17,500).

(23.5 cm), 20 pp., 2 leaves of plates (pls.II-V; pls.I, VI-VII on covers), text illustrations. 105 + 1 items. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Contains (item 105 bis) a set of Cochin’s engravings of the Victoires et Conquêtes de l’Empereur de la Chine (1769-1774), accompanied by folded sheets of Chinese text, “preserved between 2 Chinese wooden boards, in a Chinese quilted cloth envelope” (cf. Breslauer’s Catalogue 95, item 70, for another set in proof impressions).

(23.5 cm), 38 (2) pp., including plates I-III (on covers), text illustrations. 486 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

(23.5 cm), 144 pp., folding frontispiece (pl.I, printed in colours; verso blank) and 23 plates (pls.II-XLVII, with XVIII-XIX on a folding leaf; pls.I, XLVIII-XLIX on covers), illustrations (114 altogether, of which 3 in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Contains a memoir of Wilfred Merton (1888-1957), Managing Director of Emery Walker, Printers and Engravers, and the compiler’s reflections on the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the firm of Martin Breslauer. “Circumstances, notably World War II, compelled [Merton] to part at intervals with some of his treasures” (from a memoir in The Book Collector, Spring 1958, pp.7-8). The first 41 items are illuminated and text manuscripts, c. 750-1916; the most remarkable are the 12th Century Fountains Abbey “Liber Ezechialis” in a Romanesque binding (item 6, £1200; now British Library, Henry Davis Gift, 80); the “Ordo ad consecrandum” for Jeanne d’Evreaux, third wife of Charles IV, conducted 11 May 1326 (item 19; sold to H.P. Kraus, his Catalogue 88, 1958, item 23; now University of Illinois Library, MS 0124); an Hours of the Virgin (Use of Le Mans) illuminated c. 1470 in the atelier of Maître François (item 33, £3800); and the Giraldi-Guicciardini Hours, illuminated by Attavante (item 34, £2400). Catalogue noticed in The Book Collector, Summer 1958, pp.126-127. ¶ Inscribed in ink “To Hellmuth Feisenberger with the compiler’s confraternal greetings”. Cover lightly spotted.

(23.5 cm), 64 pp., folding frontispiece (printed recto & verso), 5 leaves of plates (pls.II-XI; pls.I, XII-XIII on covers), illustrations. 527 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 6) the 1669 Elzevier Bible bound by Albertus Magnus (now British Library, Henry Davis Gift, 718); a manuscript copy, made by a scribe of San Miniato in 1493 (item 35), of a relation of a pilgrimage undertaken in 1384-1385 by several Florentine patricians (now in Princeton University Library, Ms 98); a binding (item 53) ornamented by the device of the printers Charles and Arnoul L’Angelier (returned to the market, and offered in Breslauer’s Catalogue 104, item 155). Among Merton’s modern press books (items 117-315) is the five-volume Doves Press Bible 1903-1905, enriched by trial sheets, specimen pages, and a drawing by Emery Walker (item 170, £220).

(23. 5 cm), 144 pp., 12 leaves of plates (pls.II-XXV; pls.I, XXVI-XXVII on covers), illustrations. 504 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Reproduced in colour on the upper wrapper is a Gradual leaf illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti for the Church of Santa Felicita in Florence (item 17, £1250); reproduced on the first of the plates is the Fairfax Murray–Dyson Perrins manuscript of the statutes of the “Schuola di Purificatione della Virgine Maria e di Sancto Zenobio” in Florence, dated 1444 (item 12, £1000; sold in 1960 to Lathrop C. Harper, Inc.). Also offered is a huge thesis broadside (195 × 98 cm) for “Leonardus Martellini in Collegio Ptolaemeo Accademicus Innominatus”, printed on yellow silk, with an engraving by Arnold van Westerhout, dated 1707 (item 250).

(23.5 cm), 48 pp., 6 leaves of plates (pls.II-XIII; pls I, XIV-XV on wrappers), illustrations. 360 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Reproduced in colour on the upper wrapper is the Montboissier Hours, illuminated c. 1470 by Maître François (returned to the market, Sotheby’s, 6 July 2006, lot 85, £78,000).

(23.5 cm), 52 pp., folding frontispiece (pls.II-IV), 9 leaves of plates (pls.V-XXIIA; pls.I, XXII-XXIII on covers), illustrations. 166 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers (printed in colour). - Includes (item 9, 2800) an 11th century manuscript of St. Augustine’s “Speculum De Scriptura Sacra” from the Benedictine Abbey Michaelsburg-Siegberg (sold at Sotheby’s, 10 December 1962, lot 156; J.R. Abbey collection, his sale 1 December 1970, lot 2863). Breslauer had purchased a second manuscript (”Tractatus X in epistolam Joannis I”) with the same provenance from the same source – Von Hutten, Schloss Steinbach bei Lohr; it was sold hors catalogue to the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (”Bavaria buys Ms. in London for £13,500”, in The Times, London, 12 April 1961, p.14).

(23.5 cm), 94 pp., folding frontispiece (pls.II-IV), 5 leaves of plates (pls.V-XIV; pls.I, XV-XVI on covers) illustrations. 355 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Reproduced in colour on the cover is a manuscript Passion of Christ, in Dutch, illuminated c. 1490 by Masters of the Leiden printer Hugo Janszoon van Woerden (item 1, £2400; returned to the market in 1993 with Jörn Günther Rare Books).

(23.5 cm), 104 pp., folding frontispiece printed in colour (pl.II; pls.I, III-IV on covers), illustrations. 743 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The frontispiece reproduces a watercolour by William Blake, “A Breach in a City the Morning after the Battle” (item 18, £2850; now Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Two other versions of this subject are known; see Joseph Viscomi, “A Breach in a City the Morning after the Battle: Lost or Found?” in Blake / An Illustrated Quarterly, volume 28 (1994), pp.44-61, who argues that this is the one exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1784.

(30 cm), 127 pp., illustrations (cover in colour). 153 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Wrapper abraded at foot of spine, unimportant marks of use, generally an excellent copy.

(30 cm), 48 pp., 4 p. of plates, illustrations. 583 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Numeral in ink on title-page; covers slightly dust-soiled.

(30 cm), 99 pp., illustrations (cover in colour). 182 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Inscription in ink on upper wrapper; otherwise a clean copy

(30 cm), 188 pp., “extra” plates I-VII (3 folded), illustrations (cover in colour). 365 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Few trivial defects; overall, an excellent copy.

(30 cm), 316 pp., one leaf of colour plates (”frontispiece” I-II), 12 leaves of folding, black & white “extra” plates I-XIII (XIII on verso of XII), illustrations. 365 items. Price-list inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

(30 cm), 184 pp., 12 leaves of colour plates (I-XXIV; XXV-XVI on cover), illustrations. 118 items. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “This catalogue is published in honour of the centenary of the birth of Martin Breslauer” (title-page verso). ¶ Price list in photocopy. Very good copy.

(30 cm), 155 (1) pp., 10 leaves of colour plates (numbered II-XXI; plates I, XXII-XIII on covers), text illustrations. 140 items. Price list inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

Two volumes (31 cm), I: 184 pp., 10 leaves of colour plates (numbered II-XXI; plates I, XXII-XXIII on covers), text illustrations. 125 items. Price list loosely inserted. II: pp.[185]-416, 12 leaves of colour plates (numbered XXV-XLVIII; XXIV, XLIX-L on covers), illustrations. Items 126-275. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Limited editions of 650 and 500 copies respectively. ¶ Lower margin of Price list (I) abraded. Excellent copies.

(30 cm), 88 pp., text illustrations. 100 items. Price list inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. “Edition limited to 520 copies” (prospectus). ¶ Fine copy.

(30 cm), 124 pp., 2 folded colour plates (A-B), text illustrations. 136 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

(30 cm), 322 pp., folding colour frontispiece, text illustrations (title-page in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “Edition limited to 520 copies” (prospectus).

(30 cm), 146 pp., folding colour frontispiece, 11 leaves of colour plates (II-XXI, of which II-II are folding and printed rectos only; plates I, XXII-XXIII on covers), text illustrations (title-page in colour). 92 items. Price list inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

(30 cm), 306 pp., [4] p. of folding colour illustrations between pp.204-205, illustrations (many in colour). 137 items. Price-list inserted. Publisher’s cloth binding, colour illustration mounted on upper cover. - “A new catalogue of more than ordinary splendour” (The Book Collector, volume 38, 1989, p.268). “Limited to 450 copies” (colophon).

(30 cm), 486 pp., profusely illustrated in colour (some folding) and black & white. 406 items. Price list inserted. Errata sheet inserted. Publisher’s cloth binding. - “Describing 281 English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese bindings, of which some 130 are by known ateliers and bookbinders” (publisher’s advertisement). Preface by Paul Needham, “underlining the importance of dealers’ catalogues as part of the historical literature of bookbinding” (from a review of Catalogue 110, in The Book Collector, Winter 1992, pp.519-521). “Limited to 500 copies” (colophon).

(30 cm), 186 pp., text illustrations (some in colour). 214 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

(21.5 cm), 12 pp., 3 illustrations. 96 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(23 cm), 20 pp. Items numbered 1094-1469. Self-wrappers. ¶ Extracted from a binding.

(23 cm), 18 pp. 393 items. Self-wrappers. ¶ Extracted from a binding.

(23 cm), 28 pp. 582 items. Self-wrappers. - Item 582 is a rhyming Latin schoolbook, Memoriale pro pueris, printed at Paris by Antoine Denidel, c. 1495-1500 (cf. GW 11059-11060). Breslauer acquired it in Sotheby’s, 19 December 1949, lot 46; it entered the collection of Otto L. Shaw (1908-1976; see his “Early Parisian Printing” in The Book Collector, Autumn 1964, p.331 and plate 3), returned to the market with Antiquariaat Forum in 2006, and is now Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, 07035.

(33.5 × 21 cm), 5 leaves, paginated [1]-10. 127 items; priced. Stapled in upper left corner. - Reproduced from typescript. ¶ Folded in thirds.

(33.5 × 21 cm), 4 leaves, paginated [1]-8. 218 items; priced. Stapled in upper left corner. - Reproduced from typescript. ¶ Folded in thirds.

(33.5 × 21 cm), 6 leaves, paginated [1]-12. 361 items; priced. Stapled in upper left corner. - Reproduced from typescript. ¶ Folded in thirds.

(33.5 × 21 cm), 5 leaves, paginated [1]-10. Items 361-488; priced. Stapled in upper left corner. - Reproduced from typescript. Item 488 is Giambattista Bodoni’s first type specimen, Fregi e Majuscole of 1771, bound unusually with 55 leaves of additional type-specimens without title-page or numeration. It may be the copy now in Harvard University, Houghton Library, TypTS 725.71.224 (C). ¶ Folded in thirds.

(33.5 × 21 cm), 5 leaves, paginated [1]-10. Items 489-572; priced. Stapled in upper left corner. - Reproduced from typescript.

(23.5 cm), 24 pp. 315 items; priced. Self-wrappers. ¶ Pencilled numeral on cover.

(30 cm), 32 pp., 2 leaves of plates (pls.I-IV; pls.V-VI on lower wrapper), illustrations. 242 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Reproduced on the upper wrapper is a miniature “The Martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul” attributed to the School of Ghirlandaio (item 55, £200), one from a group of six in the Holford sale, Sotheby’s, 12 July 1927, lot 27.

(30 cm), 34 (2) pp., 4 leaves of plates (pls.I-VIII; pls.IX-X on lower wrapper), illustrations. 209 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 47) a binding decorated with the device of Charles L’Angelier; a Venetian binding (item 5) with owners initials P.D.P.T.; and two bindings (items 128-129) by Thérèse Moncey.

(30 cm), 88 pp., 14 leaves of plates (pls.I-XXVIII), illustrations. 416 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

(24 cm), 36 pp., illustrations (in colour on cover). 28 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Two of these twenty-eight items are still the only recorded copies: a broadside indulgence in favour of the Augustinians of Crema (item 3), [Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, c. 1486-87] (GW 0305410N); and (item 18) Thomas Aquinas, De vitiis et virtutibus numero quaternario procedens, sive Quaternarius, Paris: Laurent Philippe, [c. 1493] (GW M4659410; now Yale University Beinecke Library). Illustrated on the cover (item 11, $7200) is a coloured copy of a Missale Lugdunense, Lyon: Petrus Ungarus, 16 April 1500 (GW M24507).

(30 cm), 72 pp., 12 leaves of plates (pls.I-XXIV; pls.XXV-XXVI on lower wrapper), illustrations. 321 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 31) a leaf from the Missal of Pope Clement VII, illuminated by Vincenzo Raimondi (acquired at Sotheby’s, 10 December 1963, lot 103; re-appeared in the market at Christie’s, 20 June 1990, lot 21, and now Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, NMB 2339).

(30 cm), 40 pp., 4 leaves of plates (pls.I-VIII), illustrations. 225 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Published in connection with the International Antiquarian Book Fair, New York, 3-5 April 1975.

(30 cm), 56 pp., illustrations. 201 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Tipped-in: a printed sheet headed “Some of the Books, Autographs & Manuscripts which we plan to exhibit at the first Chicago International Antiquarian Book Fair… July 21-23, 1976” (14 items, no prices).

(30 cm), 52 pp., illustrations (in colour on cover). 89 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Reproduced on the cover is Koberger’s 1493 (ninth) German Bible, from the library of Charles Butler (1821-1910) of Warren Wood.

(21.5 cm), [8] pp., 3 illustrations. Self-wrappers. - This manuscript had passed in quick succession through the collections of Landau-Finaly (Sotheby’s, 12 July 1948, lot 59), Eric Millar, Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence, to Breslauer. A nearly-identical description was published in Breslauer Catalogue 80, with the same illustrations. The manuscript returned to the market in Sotheby’s, 2 December 1986, lot 56, and was seen thereafter in the hands of Bruce Ferrini and Maruzen.

(23 cm), [24] pp., illustrations. 58 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - The first item ($175,000) is a copy of Luther’s 1522 “September Testament”, the first printed Protestant Bible, “certainly one of the last, if not the last [copy], remaining in private hands”. Also presented (item 3, $75,000) is Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parsival ([Strasbourg: Mentelin] 1477) and Titurel (idem 1477). ¶ Numeral in ink on cover; two annotations in text. Corner of lower wrapper torn.