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Manual del librero hispano-americano. Bibliografía general española e hispano-americana desde la invención de la imprenta hasta nuestros tiempos con el valor comercial de los impresos descritos. Segundo edición § Manual del librero hispano americano. Índice alfabético de títulos, materias, correcciones, conexiones y adiciones, Empures § Manual del librero hispano americano. Addenda & corrigenda o volumen complementario del Tomo primero: A1-21526
Barcelona (latterly, Empuries & Oxford; Barcelona), Librería Palau (lattterly: Palacete Palau Dulcet / Dolphin; Editorial Palau & Dulcet), 1948-1977; 1981-1987; 1990Thirty-six volumes (26.5 cm), comprising the bibliography (items 1-381897, in 28 volumes), index (A-Z y Apendice, in 7 volumes), and addenda (A: 1-21526*, in one volume), uniformly bound in collector’s quarter-morocco (except addenda, as issued in the publisher’s printed wrappers). - A monumental work of bibliographical scholarship, the result of more than fifty years work by a single man, indispensable to anyone whose interests embrace the Hispanic world. A memoir of Antonio Palau subscribed “Hijos de Antonio Palau y Dulcet” appears in volume VIII (pp.495-497); among preliminaries of volume XIX (1967) is Miguel Palau y Claveras, “Antonio Palau y Dulcet: mi maestro”, reprinted from El Libro Español, October 1967, retaining the original pagination (pp.795-805). Volume XXVIII reprints the “Diccionario Geográfico-tipografico” with additions and corrections that had come to the notice of the editors since 1948. ¶ Faint waterstain in upper margins of volume VII; otherwise in perfect state of preservation. -
Printed books 1468-1700 in the Hispanic Society of America
New York, Hispanic Society of America, 1965(26 cm), xlii, 614 pp., frontispiece and 7 plates. Publisher's cloth. - The library of Hispanica assembled by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), a revision of the previous catalogues Printed books 1468-1600 (New York 1929) and Printed books 1601-1700 (New York 1938), now combined in a single alphabet, and including later accessions. Miss Penney began her career at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, joining the Hispanic Society of America at the end of 1918, and taking charge of the Society’s huge collection of rare books and manuscripts on the death of Professor A.D. Savage. She also published a superlative bibliography, The Book called Celestina in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America (I954), and Album of selected bookbindings (1967); she left unfinished a number of studies, including a bibliography of the Antwerp printer Martin Nutius. "A solid memorial to a devoted scholar-collector" (from a review by John Carter, in The Times Literary Supplement, 3 February 1966, p.92). Cf. Theodore S. Beardsley, "Clara Louisa Penney (1888-1970): Necrology" in Hispanic Review, volume 39 (1971), pp.349-356. ¶ Corner bumped. Good copy. -
Tesoros de España. Ten centuries of Spanish books (catalogue of an exhibition held at the New York Public Library, New York, 12 October-30 December 1985)
New York, New York Public Library, 1985(28 cm), 440 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 141 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - A loan exhibition, featuring (no. 103) the substantial fragment of Francisco Pacheco’s “Libro de retratos… de ilustres… varones” (1599), a spectacular album of chalk portrait drawings, from the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid. Text in Spanish and English. ¶ Few annotations in pencil. Very good copy.
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