Search Results: Books on Books: Library collections from The Owl at the Bridge

Gainesville, Fla. UP [1994]. First Edition. A large and interesting and fully indexed catalogue of 945 books, 604 manuscripts, 37 maps, and 62 prints, drawings and paintings, built over a long relationship between Walter Beinecke and the Motts. Hard Cover. xi, 414 pages, index, plates; 29 cm. Color pictorial dj; new from publisher. Stock#21060x/h.

"Contributi alla Biblioteca Bibliografica Italica diretta da Marino Parenti, 15." The catalogue proper is preceded with "Cenni sui sistemi planetari fino a Galileo", pages 9-41. Number 370 of 666 copies. 393, [1] pages; indexes, illustrations; 25.5 cm. Softcover; Very Good; dust jacket has small chips at top of spine & rear bottom; cardboard slipcase still effective although its bottom seam has parted. Stock#ofc0794.

Reproduced from typescript. xxxi, 484 pages; 27 cm.; black cloth, spine stamped in silver; minor shelfwear; VG. Stock#ofc0125.

"This is a list of books printed 1471-1700 that were in the Library at the end of June 1971 but are not represented in any of its printed catalogues." Typescript reproduced; 67 pages, Index; 27.5 cm.; black binder's cloth; Fine. Stock#ofc0252.

Shenval Press, London, 1963. Periodical. Contents include (Spring) Foxon, Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745; Munby, Joseph Hunter and Sir Thomas Phillipps; Poston, Bibliotheca Medici; Handover, T. B. Reed; (Summer) Carter, Hawkshaw Rides Again; Taylor, H. Bradley Martin; Juel-Jensen, Sir Philip Sidney; (Autumn) Barber, The Books and Patronage of Learning of a 15th-Century Prince; Cottrell, H. Bradley Martin. The Ornithological Collection; Tracy, Richard Savage; (Winter) Thomas, Portrait of a Bibliophile X: Ralph Willett; Pollard & Munby, Did Mr Cavendish Burn His Caxtons?; Foxon, John Cleland and the Publication of 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'; Index. 559 p., advertising, plates, 22 cm.; decorative paper covers; VG+. Four numbers + Index. Individual numbers may be had for $20. 32922.

"As the collection of The Bakken makes abundantly clear, the idea that electricity has therapeutic value was based on a great deal of experimental work. ...The history of electrotherapy can be divided into four main periods, all well-represented not only in The Bakken's library but also by the collection of electro-medical instruments..." "The Bakken has developed a unique collecting theme, built a multifaceted library collection, and established a wide range of programs to inform users about the materials and to stimulate their use. These achievements enhance the traditions of scientific and electrical rare book collecting and place The Bakken among the prestigious great collectors of the world." xvii, 512 pages, illustrations, 4 color plates; 28.5 cm. Bound in red cloth with black & gold spine & front-cover labels; minor shelfwear; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0721.

Issue dedicated to H. Adrian Smith, Brown Class of 1930, whose gift of books on magic forms the heart of this issue and sizeable shelving footage in the Brown Library. xvi, 156 pages, illustrations; printed wraps; Very Good. Stock#ofc0852,

Includes John Shroeder, 'Jubilee Chapters in the History of Graduate Education at Brown University'; John Hay, 'The Nature Writer's Dilemma'; Leicester Bradner, 'Kipling's Horatian Odes'; Robert K. Martin, 'Cummings, Crane, and The Bridge'; Susan V. Donaldson, 'A Frieze of Broken Clowns: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts'; Albert J. Salvan, 'The Émile Zola Holdings in the Brown University Libraries'; Sunand T. Joshi & Marc A. Michaud, 'The Prose and Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith'; John Edward Ingram, 'The Harry Lyman Koopman Papers'. Periodical. 101 pages; 23.5 cm. Cream wraps stamped in red & blue; fine. stock#2013/h.

Providence, Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1971. Soft Cover. vi, 55 p., ill., facsims., map, ports.; 27 cm. Catalogue, by Adams and Black, of an exhibition shown in the John Carter Brown Library beginning in April 1971. "Address by Herman W. Liebert delivered at the 28th annual meeting of the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library April 30, 1971," pp. [1]-16. "Printed at the Stinehour Press, illustrations by the Meriden Gravure Company" --Colophon. Stock#34885x. Vg/ paper.

"English writer on the arts and sciences; a founding member of the Royal Society; now chiefly valued for the light which his letters and his diary (kept from 1641 to 1706) cast on the social, political and intellectual history of his times" (Wikipedia). "Comprising a collection of works by John Evelyn, Mary Evelyn and John Evelyn, Junior; with a selection of books containing contributions by John Evelyn, and an autograph letter from Evelyn to Pepys." 103 items; paper slightly browned; stapled in red-printed paper covers (map on rear cover); Very Good. Stock#ofc0475.

"This is the fifth in a series of book catalogues of pre-19th century holdings in the National Library of Medicine" (Preface). "This catalogue lists about 13,300 books printed between 1601 and 1700. Included are monographs, dissertations and corresponding program disputations, broadsides, pamphlets, and serials" (Introduction). xiv, 1315 pages; 23 cm. Bound in publisher's grey cloth, black spine lettering; no dust jacket, as issued. Near Fine. Stock#ofc0758 & 34856.

"When the Petrarch collection came to the [Cornell] University Library in 1905 it numbered 3,550 volumes... It now [1916] contains more than 4,000 volumes. Besides the long series of editions and translations of Petrarch's works and the multitudinous commentaries upon them, it is rich in biographies of the poet, and in works concerning his influence upon the revival of classical learning and his relations with his friends and contemporaries. The iconography of Petrarch and Laura is also richly represented..." (Introduction, by George William Harris). xxiv, 547 pages, frontispiece with guardsheet; 27 cm. Bound in dark blue covers with gold spine lettering, top edge gilt; no dust jacket, as issued; ex-Forbes Library (Northampton MA) with bookplate & other markings (rear cover scratched, front cover streaked, library mark at top of spine), slight shelfwear; binding firm; withal Good. Stock#ofc0810.

413 pages. En Français. Limited edition facsimile of the original edition: Catalogue des Livres Rares et Précieux Composant la Bibliothèque de M. Ruggieri. Paris, Adolphe Labitte, Libraire de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1873. New edition from Martino Fine Books, with alphabetical index arranged by author, title, royal subjects, type of event. Stock#ofc0063x.

Essays (vol. I): Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Bibliographical Survey. Printing in the 15th and 16th Centuries as represented in the Hunt Collection. With a Note on the 17th Century; Wilfrid Blunt, Illustration of Early Botanical Works; Paul Bigelow Sears, Dawn-time of Modern Husbandry; John Farquhar Fulton, Medical Aspects of Early Botanical Books; Harold William Rickett, Botany from 840 to 1700 A.D.; (vol. II) Gordon Dunthorne, Eighteenth-Century Botanical Prints in Color; John Scott Lennox Gilmour, Gardening Books of the Eighteenth Century; William Thomas Stearn, Botanical Gardens and Botanical Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Allan Stevenson, A Bibliographical Method for the Description of Botanical Books. Three parts in two volumes: I: 1150-1700, lxxxiv, 517 pages, 25 plates; II: 1701-1800 in two parts: ccxliv pages, 9 plates; ix, 655 pages, 9 plates; 23.5 cm. Bound in maroon cloth with gold spine lettering; new. Stock#ofc0759/h & 44237.

Providence, Rhode Island, Friends of the Library of Brown University, 1947. [Akerman-Standard Press]. [. Soft Cover. [32] p., 7 facsims.; 23.5 cm. 83 entries. Cover title: Some Colonial Poets. Stock#100267. Vg /stapled in printed brown paper wrappers.

Bibliography of approximately 1300 books and monographs on contemporary Italy (1945-1985). Subjects include politics, society, economics, ecology & environment, the Mezzogiorno, women, education, media, science, society, arts, language, literature; author and subject indexes. viii, 106 pages; 23 cm. Paper covers; Fine; unused. Stock#ofc0744.

xxii, 229 pages; 25.5 cm. Printed wraps; slight shelfwear; Very Good. Includes a one-sheet presentation note with the compiler's ink inscription to Sam Hough.

NY, Random House, 2001. Hard Cover. xii, 370 p., [4] p. of plates, color illus., index; 24 cm. "Since the 1950s, our country’s greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in which Nicholson Baker pleads the case for saving our recorded heritage in its original form while telling the story of how and why our greatest research libraries betrayed the public trust by auctioning off or pulping irreplaceable collections. The players include the Library of Congress, the CIA, NASA, microfilm lobbyists, newspaper dealers, and a colorful array of librarians and digital futurists, as well as Baker himself — who eventually discovers that the only way… Read More

354 pp. Pristine condition. Catalog of the private collection of antiquarian book dealer A. S. W. Rosenbach (1876-1952). Reprint of the 1933 first edition. Limited to 150 copies. Many illustrations; 816 books described. Arranged chronologically, each work is collated and annotated. Plates in black-and-white. Stock#ofc0062.

Typed exhibition list, 12 pages, stapled; Good. Stock#ofc0505.