Book Collecting from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

London: James Nisbet & Co. 16mo (17 cm), front. portrait interleaved with tissue paper, 63, [1] pp. Publisher's white and brown cloth, gilt-letter paper label (corner of the label chipped off, foxing to 2 leaves at the beginning). An essay on book collecting by the Scottish minister John Watson (1850-1907), who published under pen-name of Ian MacLaren.

Champ Vallon Editions, 2015 8vo (24 cm), 276, [10] pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). Ce livre passionnant révèle un pan méconnu de la culture du premier XVIIe siècle : la part de Byzance dans l'univers mental et intellectuel des lettrés et des savants, et cela à partir du portrait d'un érudit : Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) fut, en effet,… Read more about this item

The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press, 2022 4 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm), 512 pp. Printed wrappers. Included studies "Two Tales of Piracy" by Peter W. M. Blayney; "John Day's Production of Woodcut Prints from John Foxe's Acts and Monuments" by Mark Rankin; "The Charlemont Library, the Sotheby Warehouse Fire of 1865, and the Vexed Provenance of British Library… Read more about this item

The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press, 2021 4 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm), 588 pp. Printed wrappers. Included studies "The Texts of King Lear" by Duncan Salkeld; "The Library of James Marsh, DD (1593-?1645), with 'Shackspeers playes' and 'Donnes Poem'" by Ben Higgins; "The Descent of Some Chester Libraries" by "Sylvanus Morgan's Library: Books for an Aspirational Heraldic Painter" by… Read more about this item

The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press, 2020 4 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm), 566 pp. Printed wrappers. Included studies "Danfrie Reconsidered. Philippe Danfrie's (d. 1606) Civilité Types" by Hendrik D. L. Vervliet; "The Thomas Mans, their Books, and Jesus College Librarianship" by Ralph Hanna; "A New Source for the History of Eighteenth-Century Bookselling: The Journal of Stephen Armitage" by Patrick… Read more about this item

Simon & Schuster, 2009 8vo (20 cm), [10], 259, [3] pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). "Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels, such as The Last Picture Show to the reinvention of the "Western" on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Here at last is… Read more about this item

Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1680 In-12, engr. title, [6] ff, 210, [4] pp. Later vellum, spine titled in red & black, silk bookmark (without index sometimes present, half-title and title with small dents to fore-edge). First edition. The initial chapters provide a history of libraries in antiquity and the Middle Ages. The second part serves as a guide to significant contemporary… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 2021 8vo (24 cm), VIII, 333 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal--that is, to bring together copies of every book, on… Read more about this item

Ossolineum, 2017 2 volumes 8vo (24 cm), 288 pp; 320 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps. In Polish with abstracts in English. Papers delivered at the conference "Early printed books and their owners" held in Ossolineum Library 29.09-01,10, 2016. The first volume contains articles on provenance in the collections of the largest Polish libraries and studies of incunabula. The second volume… Read more about this item

La Bibliotheque Royale Belgique, 2010 4to (30 cm), 320 pp. Laminated boards (bookplate and collector's blind stamp on the title). Catalogue of the exhibition devoted to 100 anniversary of the Societe Royale des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique held at the Royal library in Brussels 17 September - 30 October 2010. 179 entries including medieval manuscripts, incunabula and early printed… Read more about this item

George Allen & Unwin, 1964 8vo (22 cm), 296 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities, collector's blind stamp and label on the front free endpaper, tipped in bookplate). The book is a comprehensive survey of the development of the English library from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period to the nineteenth century. Author Raymond Irwin… Read more about this item

University of Chicago Press, 2013 4to (31.5 cm), 328 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (collector's blind stamp on half-title). "A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, to the ancient ruins of… Read more about this item

Brussels: La Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, 2016 8vo (22.5 cm), 115 pp. Printed wrappers. Contents include Jacques Hellemans "Livre, presse et imprimerie dans les Pays-Bas espagnols (1581-1713)"; René Plisnier "L'abbé Norbert-Louis Michot et sa bibliothèque. Une première approche"; Gilbert Stevens "Les éditions sur grands papier des ouvrages de J.-H. Rosny".

Brussels: La Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, 2013 8vo (22.5 cm), 139 pp. Printed wrappers. Contents include Stéphan Pascau "L'épopée du Balai (1761)"; R. Plisnier "Quelques bibliothèques de collectionneurs hainuyers au 19e siècle"; Hervé Renard "Le livre animé"; Pierre Istace "Deux dessins originaux de Félicien Rops pour Le Théâtre érotique de la rue de la Santé".

Brussels: La Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, 2015 8vo (22.5 cm), 305 pp. Printed wrappers and dust jacket. Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition "Voyages dans ma bibliothèque" held at the Royal Library of Belgium 3 April - 30 May 2015. 151 entries.

Spring Books, 1975 4to (31.5 cm), 280 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities). Very well written history of the book authored by Alan G. Thomas (1911-1992), an esteemed English bookseller and bibliophile. This comprehensive work includes chapters on manuscripts, incunabula, bindings, the Bible, herbals and color-plate books, books on architecture, private press books, fakes and… Read more about this item

Allitera Verlag, 2015 4to (28 cm), 168 pp. Publisher's laminated boards (bookplate and collector's blind stamp on the title). "Among the private collections of books which form part of the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, the library of the Nuremberg physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) takes pride of place. It is not only the largest surviving private… Read more about this item

Poznanskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciol Nauk, 2011 8vo (23 cm), 268 pp. Laminated boards (bookplate and collector's blind stamp on the title). In Polish. A collection of studies of a library of Andrzej Opaliński (1540-1593), a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman who, from 1574, was the Great Crown Marshal of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Included an attempt of reconstruction of the library, articles on manuscripts… Read more about this item

The Private Libraries Association, 1998 8vo (21.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers. For contents see scan.

The Bibliographical Soceiety and Oxford University Press, 2012 4 volumes 8vo (23.5 cm), IV, 510 pp. Printed wrappers, cloth backed publisher's folder, contents loosely inserted. Included studies "Brought to Book: Bibliography, Book History and the Study of Literature" by Paul Eggert; "A Birth Girdle Printed by Wynkyn de Worde" by Joseph J. Gwara, Mary Morse; "The Origins of the Book… Read more about this item