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Bibliografia degli antichi cataloghi a stampa di biblioteche italiane : secoli XVII e XVIII (Contributi alla Biblioteca Bibliografica Italica diretta da Marino Parenti, 5)
Florence, Sansoni Antiquariato, 1954(25.5 cm), 132 (4) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers, original card slipcase. - List of institutional and private library catalogues, organised by city and then by owner. ¶ Copy numbered 47 (of 666). Slipcase damaged, otherwise an excellent, unmarked copy. -
Bookbindings from the library of Jean Grolier : a loan exhibition (held at the British Museum, 23 September-31 October 1965)
London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1965(22.5 cm), xx, 76 pp., frontispiece (in colour), 128 plates, 11 plates reproducing rubbings of 282 different tools. Publisher’s skivertex binding. - Exhibition catalogue commemorating the fourth centenary of Grolier’s death, featuring 138 volumes, all that could be traced in British and Irish libraries (counting each volume of a multi-volume work separately, including one empty binding, and one of doubtful provenance). Nixon here identifies a binder hitherto known as the “Entrelac Binder” as Claude de Picques, well-known as the Royal Binder to Henri II; 84 of the 138 bindings in the exhibition are assigned to de Picques. Nixon’s careful study and reproductions of the individual tools used by different workshops, together with his observations about the binding shops that worked for Grolier, give this catalogue an enduring utility. ¶ Excellent copy. -
The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden
Edinburgh, University Press, 1971(28.5 cm), xii (2), 245 (1) pp., [10] leaves of plates. 1405 catalogue entries. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Biography of the Scottish poet William Drummond (1585-1649), with a catalogue of his library (about one-third is now in Edinburgh University Library). ¶ Fine copy. -
Two Renaissance book hunters : The letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis. Translated from the Latin and annotated (Records of civilization, sources and studies; no. 91)
New York, Columbia University Press, 1974(23.5 cm), x, (2) 393 (1) pp. Publisher’s cloth (no dust jacket issued). - A selection of 92 letters from the voluminous correspondence of Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) and Niccolò Niccoli (c. 1364-1437), documenting a single phase of Poggio’s interest and activity – the recovery of lost Greek and Latin texts. There is a brief historical introduction and 155 pages of historical and bibliographical commentary. ¶ As new. -
Les reliures aux armoiries de Pierre Ernest de Mansfeld… avec la collaboration de Pavlína Hamanová et Howard M. Nixon; avant-propos de Jacques Guignard
Luxembourg, Éditions de l'Imprimerie Saint-Paul, 1978(35 cm), 121 (3) pp., numerous illustrations (19 in colour, mounted). Publisher’s brown cloth, the upper cover blocked in gilt, red & black; printed dust jacket. - Account of a small group of splendidly bound books (33 works in 18 volumes, plus 1 fake by Louis Hagué) acquired in 1555-1556 by the Governor of Luxembourg, Peter Ernst, Fürst von Mansfeld (1517-1604), while he was incarcerated at Vincennes. Howard Nixon’s contribution, in English, attributes the bindings to a single Parisian craftsman, whom he calls the “Mansfeld Binder”, and provides a survey of Parisian shops practising gold-tooling in the mid-sixteenth century, and an outline of Jean Grolier’s collecting career. ¶ Copy 415 of 800 printed “sur papier crème Darwin de 200 grammes”. Excellent, unmarked copy. -
Library catalogues of the English Renaissance (St. Paul's bibliographies; 8)
Godalming, St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1983(22.5 cm), xiv, 224 pp. Publisher’s cloth. - A descriptive list of 848 English libraries of the period 1500-1640, culled from original wills, probate inventories and other sources. The probate registries of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge yielded more than 250 lists of books owned by fellows of colleges (1506-1621). The author records unpublished lists of books belonging to Cardinal Pole, Sir John Harington, Anthony Babington, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Camden, and Sir Henry Spelman, not to mention eight unpublished booksellers’ inventories, including two of about 1520. Reprint of the previous edition (Berkeley & London 1956), with a new preface and notes. “This is certainly a book that should be read by anyone planning to visit or use an ancient library” (from a review of this reprint by Colin Davies, in The Times Literary Supplement, 8 July 1983, p.738). ¶ As new. -
Bibliotheca palatina (catalogue of an exhibition held in the Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg, 8 July-2 November 1986; Heidelberger Bibliotheksschriften; 24)
Heidelberg, Editions Braus, 1986Two volumes (29 cm), xvi, 552 pp.; (6) pp., 322 colour plates. Uniform publisher’s pictorial boards. - Exhibition of books and manuscripts organised in celebration of the 600th anniversary of Heidelberg University. Founded in the 1430s and greatly enlarged by the Elector Elector Ottheinrich in the 1550s, the Bibliotheca Palatina was captured during the Thirty Years’ War, and later incorporated in the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana. For this exhibition over 600 volumes have been temporarily returned from Rome and sixteen other libraries to their former home. The catalogue offers detailed discussions of every object in the show. ¶ Fine copy. -
Renaissance book collecting : Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their books and bindings
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999(30.5 cm), xix, 275 pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth, printed dust jacket. - A revision of the author’s 1991 Lyell lectures, supplying concise accounts of Grolier’s library (usefully complemented by Nixon’s list of Grolier bindings, slightly expanded, arranged chronologically and by workshop) and of Mendoza’s library (perhaps 2000 titles, of which Hobson has identified 1200). These narratives are complemented by a chapter on bookbinders active in Venice during the seven years (1539-1546) Mendoza was resident: the “Mendoza binder” (working in Venice as early as 1518, in close connection with the Greek community in Venice, free-lance and for the Manuzio-Torresano partnership); the “Fugger binder”; the “Cicero binder”; Anthoni Lodewijk; the “Agnese binder” (Bartolomeo di Giovanni da Fino?); and the “Emblematic binder”. Lists of bindings associated with each of these shop are appended. First edition (reprinted in 2012 as paperback, with all illustrations in black & white). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
Mind of the collector : private library catalogues in the collection of the Grolier Club : an exhibition organized to mark the visit of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie to New York : September 23-29, 2007
New York, Grolier Club, 2007(21 × 10 cm), 23 (1), pp. [71] catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - For Jean Grolier & His Friends: 125 Years of Grolier Club Exhibitions and Publications, 1884-2009 (New York 2009), P488. ¶ 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. -
On ten new Groliers : Jean Grolier's first library and his ownership marks before 1540
New York, Grolier Club, 2013(22.5 cm), 62 pp., including 16 p. of plates (most in colour). Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Revised text of a lecture delivered at the Grolier Club, New York, 25 January 2012. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy.
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