Search Results: Rare Books (Bibliographies) from Wykeham Books

Faber and Faber, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 452 pp, plates, ills. An "excellent study" according to John Feather in A Dictionary of Book History. From the blurb: "Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed form of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Dr. Capp's fascinating book is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the… Read More

Faber and Faber, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 452 pp, plates, ills. An "excellent study" according to John Feather in A Dictionary of Book History. From the blurb: "Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed form of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Dr. Capp's fascinating book is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the… Read More

Faber and Faber, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 452 pp, plates, ills. An "excellent study" according to John Feather in A Dictionary of Book History. From the blurb: "Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed form of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Dr. Capp's fascinating book is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the… Read More

Faber and Faber, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 452 pp, plates, ills. An "excellent study" according to John Feather in A Dictionary of Book History. From the blurb: "Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed form of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Dr. Capp's fascinating book is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the… Read More

Faber and Faber, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. 452 pp, plates, ills. An "excellent study" according to John Feather in A Dictionary of Book History. From the blurb: "Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed form of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Dr. Capp's fascinating book is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the… Read More

Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, London, sale dates: 13-14 June 1979 and 11-12 June, 1980. 2 vols, boards, small 4to,. 256 and 169 pp, numerous plates, some coloured. 553 lots. Lots are collated, provenances given, and many lots are extensively annotated. From the introduction to the Catalogue : "The collection is primarily of English literature, with emphasis on the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The few excursions outside that range are exceptional books and manuscripts. Almost all that Houghton acquired is of superlative quality and interest, frequently the kind of item that causes one to be astonished that it should even exist. For example, of just over seventy-five Short-title Catalogue books appearing in the first part of the sale, more than a dozen are either unique, or the only known perfect copy, or the only one yet remaining in private hands. Among many notable manuscripts are long runs of letters and manuscripts of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning...There are also… Read More

Burt Franklin, New York, 1970 reprint of second edition, 1854. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 593 pp. Approximately 1,750 entries. Includes details of books circulated privately and not sold to the public. Very Good.

Burt Franklin, New York, 1970 reprint of second edition, 1854. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 593 pp. Approximately 1,750 entries. Includes details of books circulated privately and not sold to the public. Covers a little rubbed, pencil notes on ront endpapers, otherwise Good.

Burt Franklin, New York, 1970 reprint of second edition, 1854. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 593 pp. Approximately 1,750 entries. Includes details of books circulated privately and not sold to the public. Near Fine.

Burt Franklin, New York, 1970 reprint of second edition, 1854. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 593 pp. Approximately 1,750 entries. Includes details of books circulated privately and not sold to the public. Spine slightly rubbed, otherwise near Very Good.

Burt Franklin, New York, 1970 reprint of second edition, 1854. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 593 pp. Approximately 1,750 entries. Includes details of books circulated privately and not sold to the public. Old price-sticker on front pastedown endpaper, Good.

Gale Research Co., Detroit, new edition, 1967 reprinting with additional material the 1864 edition published by H. G. Bohn.. 8 vols, cloth, spines decorated. 8vo, 23 cm,. over 3,300 pp. Approximately 50,000 entries. Still one of the most useful references for old books published in the British isles. An attractive reprint edition. "Arranged alphabetically by author, with many title and catchword entries. Lists about 50,000 works, giving for each: author, title, place, date, size, with occasional notes as to rarity, value, editions, reprints, etc., and often records of prices at various 19th-century sales. While the prices shown are now only of historical interest, and there are some inaccuracies, the work remains useful for other information. The title and catchword entries are sometimes helpful in verifying citations not easily located in other catalogs." - Balay An ex-library set with small numbers on the spines, library labels and dockets on the front endpapers and stamps on the… Read More

Burt Franklin, New York, 1970 reprint of second edition, 1854. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 593 pp. Approximately 1,750 entries. Includes details of books circulated privately and not sold to the public. A trifle rubbed, otherwise near Very Good.

Burt Franklin, New York, 1970 reprint of second edition, 1854. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 593 pp. Approximately 1,750 entries. Includes details of books circulated privately and not sold to the public. Very Good.

Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, first edition, 1937. Cloth, title-page in red and black, 8vo,. vii, 349, [3] pp. The standard bibliography on breviaries. Part I : Breviarum Romanum Part II : Orden (Canonici Regulares, Ordines Monastici, Ordines Mendicantium, Ordines Militares) Part III : Diozesen. Indexes by title, date, publisher or printer, and place of publication. Booklabels of J R Abbey and Lloyd Kenyon on the front pastedown endpaper, signed and dated by Kenyon in pencil on the front free endpaper, which also carries the small stamp "Bibliothek H. Klemm", old waterstaining to lower edge of textblock and many lower margins, with minor staining also to fore-edge of textblock and accasional fore-edge margins, agetoned, spine ends a trifle rubbed, otherwise Good.

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, first edition, 1940. Cloth, printed paper spine-label, small 4to. xvii, 124 pp. A very thorough bibliographical catalogue of Pepys collection of shorthand books, which includes many of the rarest works. Untrimmed fore-edges duststained, endpapers faintly foxed, otherwise a Near Fine unopened copy in a faintly spotted dustwrapper.

bey Jacob Bauer, Nürnberg, first edition, 1770-1772. 4 vols in 2, original boards,. 40, 328, [30], 334 + [6], 351, [6], 328, [4] pp. Bauer's 1770-72 catalogue of rare books, the four parts as first issued in 2 volumes, with volume 2 including Westphal, Andreas, Epistola I-[II] ad fratrem Christianum Westphalium, qua libri publica auctoritate combusti recensentur atque exhibentur, with a separate title page. 1. Theil. Von A-F. 1770 2. Theil. Von G-L. -1771.3. Theil. Von M-R. - 1771.; 4. Theil. Von S-Z. -1772. (Three supplements - not present here - followed between 1774 and 1791). First edition of this bibliographical catalogue of "rare books" (although Petzholdt commented, reasonably enough, that given the many thousands of entries they were not all as rare as Bauer (a bookseller), might indicate with his copious use of 'rarus, rarissimus' etc. Dibdin was more enthusiastic, writing in Bibliomania: "I will close., by exhorting the reader to seize hold of a work… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th-25th June, 1974. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 154 pp, numerous plates (including some folding). Lots 2542-2829. From the introduction: "The second sale of English books printed before 1641 from the Bibliotheca Phillippica includes four works intimately associated with three Tudor and Stuart kings. Henry VIII's Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum, 1521, is the work that earned him the title of Fidei Defensor', borne by all his successors; the copy described below is of particular interest for its contemporary notes in a northern humanistic hand (lot 2596). The copy of his letter to Luther printed by Pynson in 1526 is one of the small number known in the publisher's (or presentation) binding by John Reynes stamped with twin panels of the arms of Christ and those of the King (lot 2597). The main achievement of Edward VIs short reign was the version of the Book of Common Prayer that bears his… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th and 26th November, 1974. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 170, [2] pp, numerous plates (including some folding). Lots 3086-3388. Among the highlights noted were the following: Thomas Ravenscroft's Pammelia, 1609 and Other Collections of Music; Chapman's Bussv d'Ambois, 1608; Dekker's the Magnificent Entertainment, 1604; the First and Second Shakespeare Folios; and a Prompt Copy of Shirley's the Maides Revenge, 1639; Anglieri's the Decades of the Newe World, 1555, and de Novo Orbe, 1612; Sir Richard Whitbourne's Discovery of New-Found-Land, 1620; and Thomas James's A Strange and Dangerous Voyage, 1633; Robert Recorde's The Whetstone of Witte, 1557; the First English Treatise on Algebra; Hugh Rhodes, Stans Puer ad Mensam, J. Redman, Before 1540, the Only Known Copy; Whittinton's Vulgaria, Wynkyn de Worde, the 1524 and 1533 Editions; Fitzherbert's The Booke of Husbandrye, c. 1555, the Only… Read More

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th & 25th November, 1975. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 86 pp, one plate, several facs. Lots 3557-3864. Among the highlights noted were the following: Literature, including Nicholas Breton, Englands Selected Characters, 1643; John Donne, Biathanatos, c. 1646; Abraham Cowley, the Mistresse, 1647; Richard Brome, Lachrymae Musarum, 1650; John Evelyn's Translation of Chrysostom, the Golden Book, 1659, and Robert Armin, the Valiant Welshman, 1663 Travel and Navigation, including Richard Boothby, a Breife Discovery of Madagascar, 1646 and J. A. Colom, Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea, 1679 Americana, including Edward Johnson's a History of New-England, 1654 and John Locke's Copy of John Josselyn, an Account of Two Voyages to New-England, 1674; Miscellaneous Subjects, including Cressy Dymock, an Invention of Engines of Motion, 1651; John Dury, the Reformed Librarie-Keeper, 1650; John Hill, a Penny Post, 1659; a Discourse of the… Read More