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Catalogue of valuable and extensive library, the property of the late Sir Robert Leighton. The first portion: private press books, bibliography and other modern books … including runs of books from the Ashendene, Beaumont, Bremer, Caradoc, Cranach, Cresset, Cuala, Daniel, Doves, Essex House, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, Kelmscott, Lee Priory, Shakespeare Head and Vale Presses, including many copies printed on vellum; fine bindings by the Doves and Gregynog Press Binderies, and other leading craftsmen of the last seventy years; a collection of designs for the Doves Bindery by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson § The second portion: fine bindings, early printed books and a few manuscripts [Contents:] …including French and Italian Renaissance bindings, including examples for P.L. Farnese and Sir William Pickering; two bindings by Jakob Krause; John Stanbridge, Vulgaria Stanbrigi, Wynkyn de Worde, N.D.; books from the Aldine, Elzevir, Baskerville and Strawberry Hill Presses; English and Continental embroidered bindings; Restoration bindings by the Samuel Mearne bindery, the Queen’s Binders, Alexander Cleeve, Roger Bartlett and Richard Balley; 18th century bindings for Elkanah Settle and by Moore of Cambridge, Richard Montagu, Wier, Stagemeier and Welcher, and the Edwards of Halifax bindery; French bindings for Mme. de Pompadour, and by A.M. Padeloup le jeune and N.D. Derome le jeune, and Voltaire’s Henriade, Didot, 1819, bound for presentation to Louis XVIII; fore-edge paintings; an inlaid Philadelphia binding; a Greek silver binding, c. 1812; a binding by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson; Whittaker’s Magna Carta, 1816, printed in gold; five bindings by Roger Payne (catalogues for auctions conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 9-11 May 1960 and 18 October 1960)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1960...’s printed wrappers. - The top price (£380) was paid by Douglas for a......’s printed wrappers. - Top price in the first session was paid by......years; a collection of designs for the Doves Bindery by T.J. Cobden-......(catalogue for and auctions conducted by Sotheby &......price (£380) was paid by Douglas for a binding by Katherine Adams (on......). A collection of about 250 designs for details of bindings by Cobden-... -
Continental books, manuscripts and music : Including Boccaccio, Decamerone, ninth edition, Venice, 1484 bound with Masuccio Novellino, Venice 1484; Homer, Odyssea, in a contemporary Parisian binding for Thomas Maioli, Paris, 1538; Roswitha, Opera, Nuremburg, 1501; and other incunabula and early printed books including an extensive collection of German bibles dating from 1483; an important collection of letters, printed and manuscript poems by C.P. Cavafy; an early letter by Napoleon to his mother; Toulouse-Lautrec’s Latin dictionary; autograph manuscript of the first movement of Schumann’s ‘Phantasie’ Op. 17; autograph manuscript of Massenet’s ‘Hérodiade’; with letters and manuscripts by Andersen, Baudelaire, Bolívar, Céline, Queen Christina, Fichte, Frederick the Great (series), Freud, Goethe (series), Guillotin, Hegel, Heine, Hesse, Marie Antoinette, Maria Theresa, Munch, Napoleon (series), Pasteur, Schiele, Charlotte von Schiller, Voltaire (including a sketch from the life by Hubert), Wilhelm II and Zola; J.S. Bach, Berg, Bernstein, Brahms, Britten, Casella, Chopin, Delibes, Donizetti, Elgar, Ellington, Falla, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Mayr, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganni, Puccini, Ravel, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Spohr, Richard Strauss, Verdi, Wagner and Hugo Wolf (catalogue of an auction conducted by Sotheby's London, 22-23 November 1984)
London, Sotheby's, 1984.... ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No Price list.......by Baptista de Tortis), was bought for £50,000 by Yale; see Laurence C.... -
Catalogue of the celebrated collection, the property of C.E. Kenney, F.B.A., F.R.I.C.S. (parts 2-8 only, lacking part 1)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1965-1968...982 plates (lot 807); the highest price of the second day was paid by Loeb....... ¶ Good, unmarked copy. No Price list.Catalogue of the celebrated......, builder’s and cabinet maker’s price books, fortifications, scientific....... ¶ Good, unmarked copy. No Price List.Catalogue of the celebrated......history, part II: L-Z (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby &......wrappers. - Dawson paid £2700 for a six-volume set of Merian’s......of the second day was paid by Loeb for the 1513 Strasbourg Ptolemy (lot......Academie, 1640 and Advertisement for men inclyned to plantations in......in London, by Sotheby & Co., 25-26 March 1968);(24.5 cm), 123 (1) pp., [... -
The Madonna with the sleeping Christ Child
Rome, c. 1650...François Macé de Lépinay for his endorsement of the attribution... ..., 7 July 2010, lot 213 (hammer price including buyer’s premium: £34,......’, Paris, 26 June 2008, lot 31 (hammer price including buyer’s premium €144,......, 25 January 2007, lot 47 (hammer price with buyer’s premium: $168,000)......., 28 January 2005, lot 509 (hammer price with buyer’s premium $168,000).......François Macé de Lépinay for his endorsement of the attribution......commissions, the most notable being for the churches of San Francesco di......1640s a series of fifteen paintings for the Benedictine church of San......many may have been held in stock for sale to pilgrims. A post-mortem......et du 19ème Siècle’, Paris, 26 June 2008, lot 31 (hammer price....... Avignon, Musée Calvet, Inv. 827.5.26 (49 × 37.8 cm); Giovan Battista... -
Valuable collection of illustrated books and books illustrating the art of printing formed by the late W.R. Jeudwine (sold by order of the executors) [other title:] The first portion 15th and 16th centuries § Valuable collection of illustrated books and books illustrating the art of printing formed by the late W.R. Jeudwine (sold by order of the executors) [other title:] The second portion: the 17th to the 20th century (catalogues for auctions conducted by Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, 18 September 1984 and 29 November 1984)
London, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1984...Jeudwine (1920-1984), utilised for his uncompleted survey Art and... ...’s printed wrappers. - The highest price (£16,500) was paid by the American......’); the same buyer paid the same price, this time with Breslauer as....... ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No price list.Valuable collection of......15th and 16th centuries (catalogue for Sale 24 conducted by Bloomsbury......American collector George Abrams for Sebastian Brant’s edition of......edges, was bought by Pierre Berès for £13,200 against Quaritch (reappeared......time with Breslauer as underbidder, for Fulvio’s Illustrium imagines (... -
Breve compendio dal Theatro Orteliano. Contenendo la delineatione de tutti li Regioni principali, del Mondo, stampate in tauole piccole, & Illustrate con breui declarationi. La postrema editione in molti luoghi emendata & con alcune tauole nuoue augmentata [translated by Giovanni Paulet]
Antwerp, Johann Baptist Vrients, 1502 (i.e. 1602)...of Cesi’s library compiled for his widow, Isabella Salviati, and......by the bookseller Hermann Scheus) for the sale of the library, concluded......library: about twenty were reserved for Cardinal Francesco Barberini (six... ...employed in 1561–1563 on bindings for Pope Pius iv.1 The cartouche has......been observed on other books bound for Cesi.2......di Federico Cesi’) compiled for his widow, Isabella Salviati, and......by the bookseller Hermann Scheus) for the sale of the library, concluded......and thirty-two new maps, while the latest combined forty-five old with sixty-... -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series:] 4 § 9 § 11 § 14 § 16 [Stock catalogues, hors série] Divers livres rares du 15e au 20e siècle § Divers livres rares de 1538 à 1962 § Description brève de quelques livres précieux du XVe au XXe siècle [Stock catalogues, unnumbered series] Livres anciens et modernes (ten catalogues) § [Stock catalogues, unnumbered series] Nouvelles acquisitions (twelve catalogues) [Stock catalogues, unnumbered series] Textes Français § Littérature [Stock catalogues: Book fair lists] 1995-2001 (six lists) [Stock catalogues, series issued with Librairie Giraud-Badin] 1995-2001 (four catalogues) [Stock catalogues, series issued with Librairie Denise Weil] 1997 (two catalogues) [Stock catalogues, series issued with Librairie Thomas-Scheler] undated (one catalogue) [Stock catalogues, series issued with Librairie Monsieur Le Prince] undated (one catalogue)
Paris, Librairie Robert D. Valette, Pierre et Michel Dreyfus / Librairie Valette, 1978-2007...(some in colour). 114 items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’......(some in colour). 65 items. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’......série] Livres anciens et modernes;(26.5 cm), [28] pp. 21 items; priced.... -
Architecture, cent cinquante livres rares des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles § Architecture et beaux livres anciens (catalogues of portions of the collection of Fernand Pouillon, sold in Hôtel Drouot, Paris, and in Hôtel Hermitage, Monte Carlo, with the expertise of Claude Guérin and Dominique Courvoisier, by Ader, Picard, Tajan, 3 May 1985 and 1 July 1986)
Paris / Monte Carlo, Ader, Picard, Tajan, 1985-1986...books which had been utilised for facsimile reproductions issued by... ...lots. Errata sheet loosely inserted. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’......, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (catalogue for an auction conducted by Ader,......et beaux livres anciens (catalogue for an auction conducted by Ader,... -
Opus epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami denuo recognitum et auctum per P.S. Allen
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956-1963...by Oxford University Press in 1956 (price £12), uniformly bound in yellow-... -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series:] 11-20 § 22-29
London, Hugh K. Elliott, 1960-1969.... Self-wrappers. - Includes (item 333, price $2730) Newton’s Analysis 1711.......[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 26] Science : Medicine : Technology;(21.... -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series:] 33 § 34 § 35 § 37 § 38 § 40 § 41 § 42 § 43 [Stock catalogues, hors série] Libri antichi e rari [Stock lists, lettered series: D] Libri antichi e rari : Fonti di storia dell'arte : Guide di città : Lista D
Milan, Libreria antiquaria Mediolanum, [2009?]-2015...Carlo Lasino, Ritratti (item 179, price on request).[Stock catalogues,... -
Catalogue of the library of the late Edward Gordon Duff, Esq., 293, Woodstock, Road, Oxford, sometime Sandars Reader in bibliography in the University of Cambridge (sold by order of his executors) : The first portion : the collection of early stamped bindings § The second portion : the general library comprising rare works of early English literature; incunabula; bibliography; interesting English, Scotch and Continental bindings (catalogues for auctions conducted by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 16-19 March 1925)
London, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1925...high total of £8099. The top price, £601, was paid for a 13th century....... The top price, £601, was paid for a 13th century vellum manuscript of... -
Parisian bindings for Paolo Giordano Orsini (1541-1585)
...Giordano during his first and only visit to Paris, in May-September 1556,......in the List below), they were bound for the fifteen-year-old Paolo Giordano......exceptions of two volume (nos. 5, 26 in the List below), they were bound......(nos. 2-3 Bandello, 5 Bembo, 26 Rondelet, 28 Speroni) and two remboî... ...la photographie”) [link] [fixed-price catalogue issued by an as yet......la photographie.”) [link] [fixed-price catalogue issued by as yet......doubt commissioned during his only visit to France in 1556.”) [RBH......in Italy, and were taken to France for binding.5Working partly from......Binder C” on account of its work for the English bibliophile Thomas......trimmed with silk. That taste for varied and brilliant colours......, these are quite unusual preferences for bookbindings, and suggest strong......book was printed in 1522, the latest in 1554, which suggests that the......published by Gancia (p.36); the latest date found is “1865” (p.53)]●......published by Gancia (p.36); the latest date found is “1865” (p.53).......bookbinders.10 Surprisingly, 26 entries are for books in Latin. By......a vellum binding with his arms (no. 26), is not recognisable in the......., London, 12-13 August 1872, lot 26 (“ruled with red lines, a most......of Arthur Kay, Esq., London, 26-29 May 1930, lot 414 (upper covers... -
Inventario. Disegni esposti, 1: (1E.-899 E.) § 2: (900E.-1795E.)
Florence, Leo S. Olschki Editore / J. Paul Getty Trust, 1986-1987...), pp.862-864. Publisher’s retail price €254 (www.olschki.it/libro/......collection and as the foundation for a complete collection catalogue. In... -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series:] 60 § 66
Beverly Hills, Harry Levinson, [1966-1992?]...… It is offered for sale en bloc. Price on request”. This is the library......twentieth century… It is offered for sale en bloc. Price on request”.... -
Bindings with the device of Jean Bogard
...in this narrow period 1564-1576, for the purposes of display and sale on... ...le volume. Les dos est refait, les coins sont restaurés.”)Colin, op. cit.......Left Device used for Bogard’s 1556 edition of......Left Device used for Bogard’s 1563 edition of Gallicae......1. For the likely purposes of so-called “......difficiliora (Lyon: Jean Ausoult for Guillaume Rouillé, 1554)provenance●......le volume. Les dos est refait, les coins sont restaurés.”)Colin, op. cit.... -
A Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library : Books printed before 1641 (compiled by F.N.L. Poynter) § [2:] Books printed from 1641 to 1850, A-E (compiled by F.N.L. Poynter) § [3:] Books printed from 1841-1850, F-L (compiled by H.R. Denham) § [4:] Books printed from 1641-1850, M-R (compiled by H.J.M. Symons and H.R. Denham)
London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library / Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1995...for a separate catalogue (Robin Price, An annotated catalogue of medical......acquired in 1962 and reserved for a separate catalogue (Robin Price,......Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: books and... -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series:] 1-17 § 19 § 20 [Stock catalogues, hors série] Language § Berlin 2000 § Berlin 2001 § Rome 2004 § A Collection of Venetian presentation books
London, Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books, 1998-2015...), [28] pp., illustrations. 40 items. Price list loosely inserted (£68,000).......’s self-wrappers. - Issued for the Rome International Book Fair,... -
Gesammelte Schriften der Frau Herzoginn Julie von Giovane gebornen Reichsfreyinn von Mudersbach, Sternkreuz-Ordensdame, Ehrenmitgliedes der k. Akademie der schönen Wissenschaften, Künste und Alterthümer zu Stockholm [edited by Joseph Edlen von Retzer]
Vienna, Ignaz Alberti, 1793...(no other woman was to be elected for 106 years), in 1797 she published a......Maria Carolina to Vienna, where the latest work in the collection, her ‘......, Universitätsbibliothek, Misc. 0.26 (lacking ‘Lettres sur l’é... -
Engraved plan, elevation, and sections of the Cathedral of Bologna (Metropolitana di San Pietro), drawn by Flaminio Minozzi, engraved by Lorenzo Capponi, and dedicated to Cardinal Vincenzo Malvezzi
[Bologna], Lorenzo Capponi, 1760...structure had been underway already for more than a century, when Benedict... ...a sketchbook from Flaminio’s visit to Rome in 1765); also Le......structure had been underway already for more than a century, when......sections of the church were drawn for Lorenzo Capponi by Flaminio......Malvezzi’s catafalque, produced for a description of the funeral......–1763, is nowhere corroborated. For Minozzi, see Hugh Macandrew,......(Ferrara 2008), pp.17–37 (esp. p.26) and figs. 13–14 (reproducing...
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