London (latterly Cheltenham), Richard von Hünersdorff, 1970-2016
Twenty-five volumes (various sizes), as issued, in publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Unmarked copies, with minimal traces of use and no marks of ownership.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 5] Pietro Aretino
London, Richard von Hünersdorff, 1975
(15 × 14 cm), [64] pp., illustrations. 85 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A catalogue of early books by or about Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), pseudo-Aretine literature, and bibliographies; introduction by Christopher Cairns. Franz Bayer & Karl Ludwig Leonhardt, Selten und Gesucht: Bibliographien und ausgewählte Nachschlagewerke zur erotischen Literatur (Stuttgart 1993), 206. ¶ Unmarked copy.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 6] Medicine Science Geography. A Selection of Books, Manuscripts and Some Autograph Letters from the 15th to the 20th Centuries
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 7] The Italian contribution : a selection of books and some manuscripts from six centuries comprising works by Italian authors and editors in any language, translations of influential texts into Italian, studies of Italian subjects, fine books from Italian presses, all listed in alphabetical order
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 9] History & geography : a selection of books and manuscripts from six centuries including Americana, archaeology, art & architecture, cartography, ethnography, humanism, Judaica, natural science, navigation, the Orient, philology, Slavica, travels & voyages
London, Richard von Hünersdorff, 1981
(25 × 18.5 cm), 110 pp., illustrations. 200 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes the printed catalogue of the cartographical collection of Prince Alexander Labanoff (Paris 1823) and Marsigli’s Description du Danube (The Hague 1744). ¶ Unmarked copy.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 10] America : books, manuscripts and historical documents relating mostly to the geography and history of Latin America : voyages and travels of discovery and exploration, Pre-Columbian civilisations, Indian linguistics and ethnography, the struggles for national independence
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 11] Language. Literature. Learning. A selection of books and manuscripts from the 15th to the 20th centuries including Americana, Archaeology, Bibliography, Biography, books from Famous presses, Calligraphy, the Classics, Dictionaries, Grammars & Encyclopaedias, Ethnology, Hebraica & Judaica, Humanism, the Orient, Philosophy & Religion arranged in alphabetical order
London, Richard von Hünersdorff, 1986
(29.5 × 21 cm), 105 (3) pp., illustrations. 480 items. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes collections of Cervantes and of Borges. ¶ Unmarked copy.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 19] Military art : chivalry & allied subjects : a selection of books, manuscripts, prints and paintings
London, Richard von Hünersdorff, [2004]
(25 × 17.5 cm), 136] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 228 items. price list (dated 2004) loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “The pick of all this splendour was [item 52] a manuscript treatise ‘Incornincia il trattato di manescalcaria’, compiled originally by a fourteenth-century Florentine farrier, Dino Dini, here in a copy of c. 1600 made by a contemporary Italian artist, showing soldiers at work and play, the latter a form of croquet” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Autumn 2005, pp.421-422). This manuscript had been offered by Bernard Rosenthal, Catalogue 15 (1964), item 38. ¶ Occasional annotation in pencil.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 20] Las Indias : books, manuscripts & historical documents, maps, drawings, photographs and prints relating to Middle and South America
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 22] Talleyrand : Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1754-1838 : a collection of books, prints, autographs, drawings & manuscripts spanning a life in diplomacy
London, Richard von Hünersdorff, 2012
(21 × 23 cm), [232] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 257 items. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue of a collection offered for sale en bloc. Preface by Nicolas Barker. ¶ Unmarked copy.