Booksellers' catalogues: Bibliographies, collection catalogues, studiesThere are 5 items
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A descriptive checklist of book catalogues separately printed in America, 1693-1800
Worcester, MA, American Antiquarian Society, 1981(24.5 cm), xxxi, 207 pp. Publisher’s cloth (no dust jacket issued). - “This checklist describes printed catalogues of books separately issued in America prior to 1801 by booksellers, publishers, book auctioneers, circulating libraries, social libraries, college libraries, and private libraries” (Introduction). Winans includes 278 extant catalogues that he was able to locate in libraries, 8 others not extant but for which he found substantial evidence that they had been printed, 138 entries for unlocated catalogues, and references to another 265. The auctioneers, printers, and owners of books sold are listed for book auction catalogues, which makes Winans’s index a more useful guide to the eighteenth-century entries in George L. McKay’s American Book Auction Catalogues, 1713-1934: A Union List (New York 1937) than McKay’s own index. It “should be made mandatory reading for historians of American 18th-century culture” (from a review by Edwin Wolf 2nd, in The Book Collector, Spring 1984, pp.103-105). ¶ Fine copy. -
Répertoire des catalogues de ventes de livres imprimés. I: Catalogues belge, appartenant à la Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er (Collection du Centre National de l'Archéologie et d'Histoire du Livre) § II: Catalogues français § III: Catalogues britanniques § IV: Catalogues néerlandais § V: Catalogues allemands § VI: Catalogues provenant de divers pays
Brussels, Fl. Tulkens, 1982-2003Six volumes (28 cm), I (1982): xi pp., 890 columns. II (1985): vii pp., 985 columns. III (1988): vii pp., 1018 columns. IV (1992): vii pp., 570 columns. V (1997): vii pp., 1158 columns. VI (2003): vii pp., 849 columns. Uniform publisher’s red cloth. - The volumes in this series list the auction sale catalogues and booksellers’ catalogues held by the Royal Library in Brussels, organised by country of origin. The owners of the collections are named, if identified in the sale catalogue. ¶ Fine set with minimal traces of use and no marks of ownership. -
Real books imagined, imaginary catalogue realized: for a bookseller and his friends
Amsterdam, [Gerits], 1990(28.5 cm), [14] pp. Cover sheet (stapled). - Handlist for the exhibition “Materials for the Study of Publishing History”, a display of 85 early catalogues of publishers and booksellers, contracts and related documents between authors and publishers, etc., in the Houghton Library in June 1980. Offprint from Voor Anton Gerits. Ter gelegenheid van zijn 60ste verjaardag en zijn 40-jarig jubileum als antiquaar (Amsterdam 1990), pp.68-79. ¶ Presentation copy from the author, with his annotations in the text. Good copy. -
Catalogues de libraires et d’éditeurs 1811-1924 : Inventaire
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003(24.5 cm), 246 (2) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Checklist of the collection of bookseller and publisher catalogues in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. “Inventaire des catalogues conservés dans le fonds spécifique de la BNF regroupant au total environ 190,000 documents. Pour la période considérée, recense quelque 6,000 libraires ou éditeurs en France ou dans le monde. Pour chacun d’eux, présentés dans l’ordre alphabétique: nom, lieu d’activité, format des documents inventoriés, état des collections” (publisher’s advertisement). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
From Almeloveen to Whittington : book & manuscript catalogues 1545-1995 : from the collection of George Ong (catalogue for an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, New York, 24 January-9 March 2007)
New York, Grolier Club, 2007(23 cm), 72 (2) pp., illustrations. 87 catalogue entries. Publisher’s decorative wrappers, printed lettering piece applied to spine. - Introduction by the collector and descriptions of 87 items. 1000 copies printed. For Jean Grolier & His Friends: 125 Years of Grolier Club Exhibitions and Publications, 1884-2009 (New York 2009), P482. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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