1 - 102 BIBLIOGRAPHY and TYPOGRAPHY
- Lower hinge weak; trifle foxed. Rebacked; binding (sl.) worn/ rubbed.
= One of 50 LARGE PAPER copies of the second edition. Leaf D6 uncancelled. Rare.
= The French 'Printing and the mind of man'. A splendid production.
Bücher die die Welt verändern. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1969, 788,(2), ills., limp rexine.
= German translation of the 'Printing and the mind of man'.
AND 2 others, i.a. a proof(?) or pre-print of the Printing and the Mind of Man. A descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilization during five centuries. Ed. J. Carter and P.H. Muir (255p. only).
- Vol. 3 upper joint split; box dustsoiled and defective (sides splitting).
= Comprises: I-II. Facsimile ed. of the manuscript; III. L. RETI, Engelstalig commentaar (180p.); IV-V. IDEM, Transcriptie en vertaling in het Engels van de codex Madrid I/ II ((5),532; (5),330p.).
- Wrappers yellowed and foxed. Contents fine. = Facsimile reprint of the ed. Nürnberg, 1511.
AND 1 other facsimile: WITTEMBERGER HEILIGTHUMSBUCH (Munich, 1884, 2nd ed., printed in 500 numb. copies, num. ills. after L. CRANACH THE OLDER, orig. embossed calf. Top of spine dam. and corners sl. worn).
= Facsimile after the original 1454 edition, with the accomp. booklet: 114p., (full-p.) col. ills., orig. pict. wr., 4to.
- Slipcase sl. dustsoiled. Otherwise fine.
= The New Graphic Art was the first graphic design overview published as an ideological program, completely set in the Swiss typeset Univers. It describes and shows modern(ist) design up to the end of the 1950's.
- Binding trifle stained, otherwise fine.
= Lists books in French, English and Latin published on the Near and Middle East since the beginning of printing.
Oberlé, G. Les fastes de Bacchus et de Comus ou Histoire du boire et du manger en Europe, de l'antiquité à nos jours, à travers les livres. Paris, Belfond, 1989, 642,(5)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to.
- Mint. = Standard catalogue containing 1181 entries, with extensive notes.
Trobas, K. Grundlagen der Papierrestaurierung. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1987, XV,(1),354p., num. ills., orig. cl. w. (partly sl. discoloured) dustwr. - AND 4 other bibliographical/ historical works, incl. P.J. BUIJNSTERS, Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse bibliofilie (Nijm., 2010, num. (photogr.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo. Mint).
- Lacks 8 plates; a few plates (finger)soiled; a few scattered libr. stamps in upper blank margin.
= Interesting publication, showing a wide range of letter designs and their development from the 11th-17th cent. (7 plates to the early 20th cent.) for religious and legal documents and books and for commercial use and poster designs.
Modelboek voor het vervaardigen van sierlijke Schrijf-, Model- en Kunstletters benevens ornamenten voor Plafond, Muurversiering en Schilden ten dienste van Ververs, Steenhouwers (...) Graveurs, Lithographen enz. Amst., Gebr. E. & M. Cohen, n.d. (±1880), 4 parts in 1 vol., (64) leaves w. various types of letters and ornaments, later boards w. orig. identical frontwr. laid down on frontcover and backcover, obl. 8vo.
- Without title-p. Occas. fingersoiling in margins/ lower corner.
- Wr. sl. yellowed as usual.
Hernad, B. and Maur, K. von. Papiergesänge. Buchkunst im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Munich, Prestel, 1992, 311,(1)p., richly illustrated, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. Graphic Design in America. A Visual History. Minneapolis/ New York, Walker Art, Harry N. Abrams, 1989, 264p., richly illustrated, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 3 others.
- Trifle discoloured slipcase, otherwise very fine.
= The rare, often lacking, commentary vol. of the sumptuous facsimile edition (Frankf. a.M., 1974-1979) of this magnificent medieval songbook. It is the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illuminated in Zurich in the early 14th century, for the Manesse (or Manegg) family, at that time the most wealthy family of Zurich.
Voronova, T. and Sterligov, A. Western European Illuminated Manuscripts 8th to 16th centuries. London, Greenwich Editions, 2003, 255p., num. col. ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., folio.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; a few ballpoint annots. and corrections in text. Dustwr. sl. dam. (repaired w. tape). Otherwise fine.
= Text vol. by C. OPSOMER and W.T. STEARN (ed.).
Platearius, M. Le livre des simples médecins. French transl. G. Malandin. Paris, Ozalid and Textes cardinaux, 1986, 361,(4)p., 117 full-p. col. plates, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 4to.
= After the MS 12322 in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
AND 10 others similar, i.a. MEDICINA ANTIQUA (Graz, 1996, col. gilt facs. lvs., orig. cl., slipcase) and J.G. MAYER and K. GOEHL (ed.)., Kräuterbuch der Klostermedizin (Leipsic, 2003, full-p. col. ills., orig. boards).
- Slipcase w. two punched holes to give room to the clasps. Fine copy.
= One of 42 copies printed on Arches fort and with a suite of the "décomposition" colour plates of plate XVIII (11 plates in total). Signed by the president of the Société des Bibliophiles de Belgique and printed on the name of "Edouard Hochstadter". Zotter 45. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
= "An illuminated passover compendium from mid-14th-century Catalonia in the collections of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester with a commentary and a cycle of poems."
AND 3 others, i.a. A. HAMILTON a.o., Europe and the Arab World. Five centuries of Books (...) (Oxford, 1994, num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
= Reprint of the ed. London, 1928.
ÁND 4 others, i.a. HELLINGA FESTSCHRIFT/ FEESTBUNDEL/ MÉLANGES (...) (Amst., 1980, plates, orig. giltlettered cl.); FLORILÈGE DU LIVRE FRANÇAIS IMPRIMÉ AUX PAYS-BAS (n.pl., 1954, ills., printed in 200 numb. copies, orig. giltlettered cl., folio) and K.F. BAUER, Aventur und Kunst. Eine Chronik des Buchdruckgewerbes von der Erfindung der beweglichen Letter bis zur Gegenwart (Frankf. a.M., 1940, richly illustrated, orig. boards w. vellumpaper backstrip, folio. Vellumpaper over spine dam.).
- Lacks the "Aanhangsel. Naamlijst der Nederlandsche geschiedschrijvers". A few lvs. w. traces of paper (tickets) w. sl. offsetting. Binding sl. worn; joints starting; letterpiece sl. dam.
= Still of value and sought after. From the libraries of J.W. Six and H.O. Feith (their resp. bookplate and owner's entry on upper endpaper).
- All (near) fine.