Two catalogues (24.5 cm), as issued, in publisher’s pictorial wrappers, glassine jackets (fragmentary). - The final two (of nine) catalogues edited by Nicolas Rauch for Fritz R. Roth. Catalogue 9, item 2 (18,000 Swiss francs) is an illuminated prayer book in Dutch for the Diocese of Utrecht, apparently produced in Bruges for export (now University of Chicago, Ms 347; see Peter W. Parshall, ‘A Dutch manuscript of ca. 1480 from an atelier in Bruges’ in Scriptorium, volume 23, 1969, pp.333-337). ¶ Excellent copies.
[Stock catalogues; numbered series: 8] Catalogue de très beaux livres : voyages, histoire naturelle : calligraphie et typographie : modes et costumes
Lausanne, F. Roth & Cie, 1945
(24.5 cm), 194 (2) pp., illustrations (some in 4 or 2 colours). 427 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, glassine jacket (fragment). - The penultimate catalogue edited by Nicolas Rauch for Fritz Roth. Le Livre à Lausanne: Cinq siècles d’édition et d’imprimerie 1493-1993 (Lausanne 1993), pp.332-335. ¶ Excellent copy.
[Stock catalogues; numbered series: 9] Catalogue de très beaux livres : manuscrits à miniatures : incunables, livres du XVIe siècle : très belles reliures
Lausanne, F. Roth & Cie, 1946
(24.5 cm), 297 pp., 2 folding plates (inserted after pp.186, 188), illustrations (some in 4 or 2 colours). 395 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers, glassine jacket. - “Ce catalog a été établi par M. Nicolas Rauch” (colophon). ¶ Excellent copy.