(25.5 cm), 94 (2) pp., illustrations (some printed in red & black). 50 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - This was the third catalogue issued by Kraus in America (nos. 1-18 were issued in Vienna).

(28 cm), (2) 50 pp., 4 p. of black & white plates (pls.I-IV), text illustrations. 127 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (pp.1-3) “Notes on the history of Old Books and Manuscripts”, Volume VII, No. 1, June 1950: “The Cancionero of Pedro Fernandez de Velasco… A newly discovered Spanish XVth century codex”, by D.W. McPheeters, Columbia University (the Neapolitan manuscript is item 1 in the Catalogue, price $4800).

(32 cm), (8) 94 pp., 40 p. of plates (pls.1-40), text illustrations. 50 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Copies were also issued cloth-bound. ¶ Contemporary typescript index loosely inserted. Catalogue number (56) added to upper cover in ink.

(26 cm), 139 (1) pp. 674 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Wrapper dust-soiled. Occasional pencil annotation.

(25 cm), 116 pp. 682 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Wrapper dust-soiled. Staples rusted.

(31 cm), (2) 67 pp., [20] p. of plates (pls.1-20), text illustrations. 50 items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Original plain glassine jacket now very deteriorated. Loosely inserted: “Rare Books on the history of Old Books and Manuscripts”, Volume VII, No. 2, November 1952: “The Emperor Maximilian’s armories: a recently discovered early XVIth-century codex with watercolors by Joerg Koelderer” ([4] pp.).

(25 cm), (4) 98 (2) pp. 654 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - With an introductory note by Denis I. Duveen. ¶ Wrapper spotted, dust-soiled.

(26 cm), 63 (1) pp., [3] p. of black & white plates, text illustrations. 203 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contents: Fortifications, tournaments, duelling (nos. 1-142); Horsemanship and hunting (nos. 143-175); Military periodicals (nos. 176-203); Military prints and drawings (nos. 177-203). ¶ Pencil annotation in a few margins. Wrappers not entirely fresh.

(28 cm), (8) 187 (1) pp., illustrations. 527 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Lower corner bumped; short tears in upper wrapper. Occasional pencil annotation.

(36 cm), 99 (1) pp., illustrations (2 colour and 35 tipped-in half-tones; 24 line-cuts). 100 items; priced. Publisher’s boards. - “Limited edition of 600 copies, 300 of these for distribution to clients and friends, and 300 for sale” (colophon). A “part II” issued as catalogue 131 in 1971. ¶ Covers strongly sunned. Loosely inserted: Rare Books: Notes on the history of Old Books and Manuscripts”, Volume VII, No. 4, May 1954: “The first book of a living author ever printed: ‘Johannes Brunner’s’ Grammathica rhythmica” by Hans Nachod ([4] pp.).

(30 cm), (4) 127 (1) pp., illustrations (5 colour, 107 half-tones, 50 linecuts). 121 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Loosely inserted: “Rare Books: Notes on the history of Old Books and Manuscripts”, Volume VIII, No. 1, June 1955: “A recently discovered architectural sketchbook of an intimate assistant of Bramante in the construction office of St. Peter’s in Rome” by Hans Nachod (10 [2] pp.). Covers lightly dust-soiled.

(24 cm), (2) 155 (3) pp., illustrations. 307 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - More than 200 incunables are offered. ¶ Fore-edges spotted.

(25 cm), 203 (1) pp., illustrations. 410 items; priced. “Census of copies recorded in the Union Catalogue, Library of Congress” ([4] pp., loosely inserted). Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contents: German speaking central Europe. The Netherlands. England. Eastern Europe. “Part II, to be published later on, will cover France, Italy and Spain” (title-page verso).

(25 cm), (2) 69 pp., 16 p. of plates (pls.I-XVI), text illustrations. 50 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(25 cm), (4) 121 (3) pp., 21 p. of plates (pls.I-XXI), text illustrations. [163] items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(31 cm), (8) 124 pp., 72 illustrations (some mounted, some folding). Publisher’s boards. - Books from the collections of Charles Gillet of Lausanne and Maurice Loncle of Paris.

(25 cm), 78 pp., 39 p. of plates (pls.I-XXXIX, one folding), text illustrations. 131 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(25 cm), (8) 104 pp., 45 p. of plates (pls.I-XLV), text illustrations. 175 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(25 cm), (2) 83 (1) pp. 229 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(25 cm), (6) 196 pp. (some folding), illustrations (some in colour). 288 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(31 cm), (4) 148 pp., including 1 colour and 2 folding illustrations. [97] items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s cloth binding.

(35.5 cm), (8) 167 (5) pp., including 14 colour and 1 tipped-in half-tone illustration. 42 items. Photocopy of Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s cloth binding. - Item 1, the Shuckburgh copy of the Gutenberg Bible, is priced $2,500,000. “This catalogue, which I am sending to my friends and clients, is the fulfilment of the most extravagant dream of an antiquarian bookseller. It is the culmination of many years of planning and working. Never before in this 20th century has so formidable an assemblage of great printed books been displayed and offered for sale in a catalogue; perhaps it never can be done again” (from “A personal postscript”, subscribed H.P.K.). “Part I” was issued as Catalogue 69 in 1954.

(27 cm), 47 (1) pp., illustrations. 133 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. The “Lloyd Triestino” atlas was purchased by Kraus from George Harry Beans (1894-1978). “The oeuvre of Wolfgang Lazius of Vienna is also one of the outstanding features of this collection. Present are two maps (nos. 28 and 30) which are the only copies recorded” (from Catalogue preface). A few maps were sold separately in Kraus Catalogue 124 (1969).

(28 cm), 82 (2) pp., illustrations. 207 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(28 cm), (2) 105 (1) pp., illustrations. 257 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(28 cm), 112 pp., illustrations. 207 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “The Sotheby sales of 1974 having ended at letter G, the emphasis was consequently on the later part of the alphabet, with both bought-in lots and one or two lots apparently once knocked down to other booksellers making their reappearance a decade later” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Winter 1984, p.515).

(28 cm), 72 pp., illustrations. 205 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(28 cm), 117 (3) pp., illustrations. 250 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Colour of wrapper has bled onto the title-page.

(27 cm), 122 (2) pp., folding frontispiece, text illustrations. 254 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(28 cm), (2) 100 (2) pp., illustrations. 228 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), (2) 100 pp., illustrations. 205 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Pencil annotations on title-page.

(28 cm), 125 (3) pp., colour frontispiece, [6] p. of colour plates (pls.I-VI), black & white text illustrations. 194 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(28 cm), (2) 106 (4) pp., illustrations. 186 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(28 cm), (2) 109 (1) pp., illustrations. 157 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(28 cm), 142 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 126 items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(25.5 cm), 84 pp., illustrations. 146 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Inserted leaf “The largest collection of incunabula in private hands”.

(25.5 cm), 170 pp., illustrations. 667 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The first in a series of catalogues disposing of Hans P. Kraus’s private library of bibliographical reference books, for the most part shelved at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Further parts were issued as Catalogue 187: Bibliography and reference books after 1900 (1991) and Catalogue 190: Catalogus catalogorum (predominantly post-1900), with a Supplement to parts I and II (1992).

(25.5 cm), 115 (1) pp., illustrations. 173 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(25.5 cm), 143 (1) pp., illustrations. 1073 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Ink annotations on title-page.

(25 cm), 132 pp., illustrations. 167 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(25 cm), 141 (1) pp., illustrations. 647 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Part I was published under title Catalogue 184: From Trithemius to Proctor; Part II was published under title Catalogue 187: Bibliography and reference books after 1900. ¶ Pencil annotations on title-page and in a few margins.

(27 cm), 122 (6) pp., colour frontispiece, 3 p. of colour plat4es (pls.I-III), black & white text illustrations. 197 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(28 cm), (2) 112 pp., illustrations. 187 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(30 cm), (4) 123 (1) pp., illustrations (17 colour, mostly mounted). 60 items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s cloth binding. - Descriptions by David Brafman, Kit Currie, Roland Folter, Joshua Lipton.

(19.5 × 10 cm), 107 (9) pp., illustrations. 223 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Contains a concordance to Alphonse Willems, Les Elzevier: Histoire et annales typographiques (Brussels 1880), subject and provenance indices.

(27 cm), (2) 133 (1) pp., illustrations. 265 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Pencil annotations on title-page.

(27 cm), (2) 115 (1) pp., illustrations. 204 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 88 (2) pp., [4] p. of colour plates, black & white text illustrations. 168 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Lower corner of upper cover coffee-stained; several spots on fore-edges.

(27 cm), (2) 89 (5) pp., illustrations. 169 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), (2) 120 pp., illustrations. 204 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), (2) 117 (1) pp., [4] p. of colour plates, black & white text illustrations. 217 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Pencil annotations in one margin.

(27 cm), (2) 126 pp., [4] p. of colour plates, black & white text illustrations. 249 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 135 (1) pp., illustrations. 227 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 80 pp., illustrations. 103 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), x, 84 (6) pp., colour frontispiece, black & white text illustrations. 52 items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher's printed wrappers. - Catalogue by David Brafman.

(27 cm), 142 pp., illustrations. 258 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 94 pp., colour frontispiece, [4] p. of plates, black & white illustrations. 130 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 200 (2) pp., text illustrations (some in colour). 185 items; priced. Insertion: “Two Leaves from a Blockbook” ([2] pp.). Publisher’s printed wrappers. - 138 incunables with two block-book leaves. “Few if any other firms could accumulate such a collection or present it with such formidable skill… This is a notable addition to the previous great Kraus catalogues of early printing” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Spring 1999, p.132).

(27 cm), 104 pp., illustrations. 218 items; priced. Insertion: “Addendum to Catalogue 210” (”Due to a technical error, the provenances for all books in this catalogue were omitted”). Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contents: Part 1. Classical texts; Part 2. Commentary, history & bibliography.

(27 cm), 129 (3) pp., [8] p. of colour plates, black & white illustrations. 238 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 116 pp., illustrations. 208 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 121 (3) pp., [6] p. of colour plates, black & white text illustrations. 217 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 131 (1) pp., [8] p. of colour plates, black & white text illustrations. 247 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 138 (2) pp., illustrations. 260 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 128 pp., [4] p. of colour plates, black & white text illustrations. 246 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contents: Architecture & archaeology; Bibliography; Fables & folk-tales; Horses & hunting; Ireland; Judaica & Hebraica; Law; Manuscripts & documents; Philosophy; Press books; Theology.

(27 cm), 138 (2) pp., illustrations. 249 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contents: Aldine Press; Bibliography; Bodoni Press; Classics; Economics; Festivities & fireworks; Gastronomy; Germany & Switzerland; Humanism; Numismatics; Spain & Portugal; Sports & games.

(27 cm), 122 (2) pp., illustrations. 209 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 101 (1) pp. 434 items; priced. Errata sheet loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 143 (1) pp., [12] p. of colour plates (pls.I-XII), black & white text illustrations. 271 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 133 (1) pp., illustrations. 229 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 151 (1) pp., [4] p. of colour plates (pls.I-IV), black & white text illustrations. 201 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(27 cm), 106 pp., [4] p. of colour plates (pls.I-IV), black & white text illustrations. 200 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes “one major piece, the unique Wynkyn de Worde Proprytees and medicynes of horses, ingeniously back-dated from ‘c. 1525’ to 1497-8 by Christie’s at the Fitzwilliam sale, where Kraus out-bid the British Library” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Winter 2002, pp.537-538). After a sojourn in New York it was acquired by the British Library, which celebrated the purchase on 28 June 2004 with a lecture by Professor George Keiser of Kansas State University followed by a reception. Cf. Margaret Lane Ford, “A new addition to the corpus of English incunabula: Wynkyn de Worde’s ‘Proprytees & Medicynes of Hors’ (c. 1497-98)” in The Library, volume 7 (2001), pp.3-9.

(27.5 cm), [174] pp. (foliated 1-86 [1]). 211 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Reproduced typescript (printed on rectos only). ¶ Wrapper dust-soiled.

(28 cm), [8] pp., 59 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

Two volumes (28 cm), [8; 8] pp., items numbered 1-122; 123-244. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address labels, postage meter stamps.

(28 cm), [8] pp. 50 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(28 cm), [8] pp. 111 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(28 cm), [8] pp. 132 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(28 cm), [8] pp. 130 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(28 cm), [8] pp. 133 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(28 cm), [8] pp. 121 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(28 cm), [8] pp. 121 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(28 cm), [12] pp. 173 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(36 cm), 164 pp., including 51 tipped-in colour plates and 125 half-tone illustrations, folding plate. 45 items. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - “The present work is indeed my magnum opus, as everyone looking through its pages will agree. Furthermore, I believe no comparable catalogue was ever issued in the past” (from the Preface, subscripted by H.P.K.). ¶ Several short tears in dust jacket. Loosely inserted is a photocopy of the Price list, “Items remaining for sale”, dated by hand “8/2/76”.

(30 cm), 264 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Counterpart to “In Retrospect: A Catalogue of 100 outstanding manuscripts sold in the last four decades”. “We considered only books printed before 1700, and we gave preference to those which were sold before they had a chance to appear in one of our catalogues” (from the Preface).

(21.5 cm), [folding sheet (unfolded 21.5 × 60 cm). 54 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers.

(28 cm), [8] pp. 46 items. Publisher’s printed self-wrappers. - List of books on exhibition, including purchases at the Schäfer sale. ¶ Address label, postage meter stamp.

(29.5 cm), [14] pp. 31 items. Publisher’s self-wrappers. - Stapled A4 sheets.