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Washinton, George Autograph letter signed (“Go: Washington”) as commander of the Continental Army, 2 pages (241 x 198 mm) on the first leaf of a bifolium of laid paper (watermarked Posthorn | GR), Philadelphia, 28 December 1778; faint seal stain, central vertical crease neatly reinforced. Accompanied by the original full-sheet address wrapper (343 x 255 mm; watermarked Dove and Olive Branch | WMT) directed in a clerical hand to “The Honble. | Benjamin Franklin Esqr | Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States | Versailles,” clerical file docket (“General Washingtons”), fragment of red wax seal; worn with loss and repair at fold creases. Please note: the unusual separate address leaf has preserved the letter in remarkably fresh condition. Morocco folding-case gilt, chemises, by Papuchyan H & H Bindery. The commander of the Continental Army introduces Lafayette to the fledgling nation’s Minister to France: “It is with pleasure that I embrace the oppertunity of introducing to your personal acquaintance a Gentn whose merit cannot have left him unknown to you by reputation.” In addition to being Washington’s most explicit expression of his fatherly affection for Lafayette, this letter is also an epitome of the three elements that combined to win American Independence: military capability, diplomatic acumen, and French assistance. “The Marquis de la fayette having served with distinction as Major General in the army of the United States, two Campaigns—has been determined by the prospect of an European War to return to his native Country. “It is with pleasure that I embrace the oppertunity of introducing to your personal acquaintance a Gentn whose merit cannot have left him unknown to you by reputation. “The generous motives which first induced him to cross the Atlantic—The tribute which he paid to gallantry at Brandy-wine—his success in Jersey before he had recovered of his Wound, in an affair where he commanded Militia against British Grenadiers—the brilliant retreat by which he eluded a combined manoeuvre of the whole British force in the last Campaign—his services in the enterprize against Rhode Island—are such proofs of his Zeal, Military ardour & talents as have endeared him to America, and must greatly recommend him to his Prince. “Coming with so many titles to claim your esteem—it were needless for any other purpose than to endulge my own feelings to add that I have a very particular friendship for him—and that whatever services you may have it in your power to render him will confer an obligation on one who has the honor to be with the greatest respect, esteem & regard Sir—Yr Most Obedt H. Ser.” George Washington and Lafayette first met in Philadelphia on 31 July 1777, with very different paths bringing them together at the Pennsylvania State House. Washington had served with distinction, though not always with success, as commander in chief of the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War. During that conflict, he was plagued by many of the same problems that would occur during the Revolution: insufficient troops, poor supply, erratic pay, challenges to his authority, and a sometimes-interfering civilian government. During the first eighteen months of his command of the Continental Army, the American general had endured the siege of Boston, the evacuation of New York, and the catastrophic loss of Fort Washington. Only his brilliant leadership in the New Jersey campaign during the winter of 1776–1777, including the daring midnight crossing of the Delaware River, sustained the Americans’ revolution long enough for it to be joined by the young French captain and adventurer. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was only nineteen years old, an orphan, and one of the wealthiest aristocrats in Europe when his imagination was fired by stories of the nascent American Revolution that he heard related by the Duke of Gloucester, brother of George III. In early 1777, Lafayette resigned his place in the French Army and secretly contracted with the American ministers then in Paris, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee, to assume a commission as a major general serving under Washington. He purchased an outfitted his own ship for the journey, La Victoire, and sailed for the United States in April 1777. Lafayette was initially received coldly at Philadelphia; unbeknownst to him, Deane had been intemperate with his patronage, and Congress had been overrun with European soldiers of fortune seeking command positions, whose letters of introduction had been larded by Deane with guarantees of rank and promises of the most generous compensation. Shortly, however, Congress recognized the diplomatic benefit of keeping the youthful but influential Marquis contented, and he was commissioned a major general on 31 July, just four days after his arrival in Philadelphia. Henry Laurens, a congressional delegate from South Carolina, explained to his business manager, John Lewis Gervais, the reasons that Congress granted a commission to Lafayette: “He required no pension, no Special Command; the honour of fighting near General Washington & having rank in the army was he coveted except opportunities to shew his Zeal for the glorious cause of American Freedom. …” The day that he was commissioned, Lafayette met Washington and the next, while conducting a joint review of troops, “The general invited him to establish himself in his household, and from that moment he looked upon it as his own; it was with such simplicity that two friends were united whose attachment and confidence were cemented by the greatest of causes” (from Lafayette’s Memoir of 1779, written, as was the contemporary manner, in the third person). Still, the Congress viewed Lafayette’s appointment as strictly honorary, a position that Washington seemed at first to agree with. Both Washington’s own attitude and the prevailing congressional perspective towards Lafayette’s fitness for a field command seemed to shift after the Battle of Brandywine, 11 September 1777. The Continentals had chosen Brandywine Creek as the point to make their first defensive stand against the British advance on Philadelphia. Poor reconnaissance and unfamiliarity with the battle terrain forced Washington to withdraw in an engagement that left both sides with significant casualties. But when Washington earlier had tried to rally his troops, Lafayette was by his side, dismounting at one point to assist the scattering infantry in fixing their bayonets. In what his one-time mentor Jonathan Kalb cynically termed “an excellent bit of good fortune,” Lafayette sustained a bloody but uncomplicated wound in the leg. The Marquis was one of just two wounded that Washington mentioned by name in the account of the battle that he sent a midnight to the Continental Congress. Word of his valor spread through the colonies and especially broadcast by the President of Congress, Henry Laurens, who now counted Lafayette “as a friend, a Countryman, & a Member of So Carolina.” While recuperating at a Moravian community near Bethlehem, Lafayette renewed his petition for a field command in a letter, 14 October 1777, so candid that when it was returned to him after Washington’s death, he attempted to redact some of his more critical comments about the Continental Congress. The letter avers that he was addressing Washington “with all the confidence of a son, of a friend, as you favoured me with those two so precious titles. …” Writing not “to my general, but to my father and friend,” the orphaned Lafayette put his future in America entirely in the childless Washington’s hands. And when Washington next broached the topic of Lafayette’s commission with the Congress, 1 November 1777, he was no longer seeking direction from the legislature, but instead delicately and cunningly providing it: “it appears to me, from a consideration of his illustrious and important connections—the attachment which he has manifested to our cause, and the consequences, which his return in disgust might produce, that it will be advisable to gratify him in his wishes. … Besides, he is sensible—discreet in his manners—had made great proficiency in our Language, and from the disposition he discovered at the Battle of Brandy Wine, possesses a large share of bravery and Military ardor.” Shortly after Lafayette rejoined General Washington at his headquarters, he led a skirmish expedition against a corps of Hessians attached to Cornwallis’s troops and put the larger force to flight. Lafayette could no longer be denied: on 1 December 1777 Congress resolved “That General Washington be informed, it is highly agreeable to Congress that the Marquis de la Fayette be appointed to command a division of the continental army.” Washington confirmed the appointment in his General Orders of 4 December, placing the Frenchman in command of a division of Virginia light troops with full authority as a major general. Lafayette’s transition to a formal officer of the line could not have come at a more helpful moment for Washington. The Continental Army was just entering the brutal winter encampment at Valley Forge, while Washington was personally facing one of the most sinister challenges to his military authority, the Conway Cabal. Lafayette’s support during these two crises never wavered, but soon the circumstances of the two men were reversed. Lafayette was forced to abandon an ill-conceived invasion of Canada to rally its French citizens against the British, and it was Washington’s turn to offer comfort and support. On 1 May 1778, word reached Valley Forge that the historic Franco-American treaty of amity and commerce had been negotiated and signed in Paris some three months earlier. That day Lafayette wrote to Laurens and President of Congress, noting—accurately, if immodestly—“I am myself fit to receive as well as to offer congratulations in this happy circumstance.” He expanded on this theme in his Memoir of 1779: “By leaving France with such éclat, M. De Lafayette had served the revolution. One part of French society became interested in it, and the other was at least more aware of it. If a spirit of emulation made the people of the court wish for war, the rest of the country supported the young rebel, shared his interests, and followed his progress.” Washington’s trust in Lafayette continued to increase during the 1778 campaign. He was given charge of the only substantial force deployed from Valley Forge encampment, when he led a reconnaissance force of 2,200 towards the British positions in Philadelphia in mid-May. His position was discovered, and on 20 May he cleverly avoided capture by a much larger force at Barren Hill, Pennsylvania (now known as Lafayette Hill). Late in June, when the British withdrew from Philadelphia to New York City, Lafayette was again Washington’s choice to lead the Americans against the Redcoats as they retreated through New Jersey. After seeing action at Barren Hill and the Battle on Monmouth, Lafayette was deputed to Newport to serve as a liaison between the French naval squadron under the command of the Comte d’Estaing and the American troops directed by General Sullivan. Poor weather rendered the French ships of little use, but Lafayette was instrumental in keeping both sides of the new alliance on good terms. It was about this time that Washington wrote to Gouverneur Morris, then representing New York in the Continental Congress, “I do most devoutly wish that we had not a single Foreigner among us, except the Marquis de la Fayette, who acts upon very different principles than those which govern the rest.” As the armies prepared to take up winter camps, Lafayette wrote to the President of Congress, requesting leave to return to France in order to “present myself before the king, and know in what manner he judges proper to employ my services”—the Franco-American alliance having made war between France and Great Britain inevitable. In late October, Congress granted Lafayette leave to go to France and return “at such time as shall be most convenient to him”; the delegates also resolved that Benjamin Franklin, recently appointed minister plenipotentiary to the Court of France, should “be directed to cause an elegant sword, with proper devices, to be made and presented, in the name of the United States, to the Marquis de la Fayette.” Lafayette immediately left for Boston but developed a severe illness that forced him rest at Fishkill for nearly a month before resuming his journey. When Lafayette departed Boston on the frigate Alliance on 11 January 1779 (arriving in Brest on February 6), he carried this letter of introduction to Franklin. It was accompanied by a second letter to Lafayette himself, in which Washington explained “I cannot forbear indulging my friendship by adding to the many honorable testimonies you have received from Congress, the inclosed letter from myself to our minister at your court—I have there endeavoured to give him an idea of the value this country sets upon you; and the interest I take in your happiness cannot but make me desire you may be equally dear to your own.” In his letter to Franklin, Washington provided the diplomat not only a very thorough summary of Lafayette’s military career, but a clear articulation of his own “very particular friendship” with the Marquis. Franklin became Lafayette’s closest American friend in Paris. When on Christmas Eve later that year Lafayette’s wife, Adrienne de Noailles (who had corresponded with Franklin while her husband was in America), gave birth to their first child, Lafayette sent Franklin a hurried note at 2:00 in the morning: “The Boy shall be call’d George, and you will easely gess that he bears that Name as a tribute of Respect and love for my dear friend Gal. Washington.” Washington consented to be the boy’s godfather. Lafayette would return to America three times, in 1781 (when he played a pivotal role at the decisive siege of Yorktown), 1784 (when he saw Washington for the final time), and in 1824 (when he made a triumphant tour of the United States). But the present letter embodies the spirit of his first visit, when he captured the heart of a nation—and the heart of that nation’s leader. The bond between Washington and Lafayette and the nations they helped to make was perhaps best expressed by President John Quincy Adams in a farewell address for Lafayette delivered at Washington, 7 September 1825: “We shall look upon you as always belonging to us, during the whole of your life, and as belonging to our childreThe Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, ed. Edward G. Lengel, 18: 521–22. University of Virginia Press, 2008 Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, ed. Stanley J. Idzerda, et al. 5 vols. Cornell University Press, 1977–83 A Son and His Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington (exhibition catalogue). The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 2006 David A. Clary. Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution. New York: Bantam Books, 2007 James R. Gaines. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions. New York: Norton, 2007 Harlow Giles Ungar. Lafayette. Hoboken: Wiley, 2002n after us. You are ours by that more than patriotic self-devotion with which you flew to the aid of our fathers at the crisis of our Fate; ours in that unshaken gratitude for your services which is a precious portion of our inheritance; ours by that tie of love, stronger than death, which has linked your name for the endless ages of time with the name of Washington.” REFERENCES The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, ed. Edward G. Lengel, 18: 521–22. University of Virginia Press, 2008 Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, ed. Stanley J. Idzerda, et al. 5 vols. Cornell University Press, 1977–1983 A Son and His Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington (exhibition catalogue). The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 2006 David A. Clary. Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution. New York: Bantam Books, 2007 James R. Gaines. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions. New York: Norton, 2007 Harlow Giles Ungar. Lafayette. Hoboken: Wiley, 2002 PROVENANCE Benjamin Franklin (original recipient, February 1779) — William Temple Franklin (bequest of his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin) — George Fox (Philadelphia physician and intimate friend of William Temple Franklin, who left the balance of his grandfather’s papers at Fox’s estate, Champlost) — Mary Dickinson Fox (bequest of her father) — Alfred Hunt (penciled note signed on address leaf, “Presented to me by Miss Mary D. Fox Sep 8, 1867”) — Thomas F. Madigan (autograph dealer, presumably acquired from Hunt’s estate and described in the October 1933 issue of Madigan’s catalogue The Autograph Album) — Helen Fahnestock Hubbard (presumably acquired from Madigan; her sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 27 March 1956, lot 149) — The Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 26 April 1978, lot 291, sold to) — Robert L. McNeil Jr., of Philadelphia — Jay T. Snider (acquired from the McNeil estate through the offices of Joe Rubinfine American Historical Autographs)

View 1 of Lot 2: Washington, George | An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of three of the most consequential figures of the American Revolution: George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin

washington, george | an extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of three of the most consequential figures of the american revolution: george washington, the marquis de lafayette, and benjamin franklin

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Lot Comprises: Marshall Brooks, Brief Illustrated History of the Bookshelf, Delhi, NY, Birch Brooks Press, 1998, 8vo., publisher's green simulated cloth, backed by tan cloth John Willis Clark, The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, University Press, 1901 John Willis Clark, The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, University Press, 1902 William E. Gladstone, On Books and the Housing of Them, New York, M.F. Mansfield, 1898, 8vo., publisher's printed grey boards backed with red cloth, one of 500 copies Henry Petroski, The Book on the bookshelf, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, 4to., publisher's simulated leather backed boards, dust jacket Lydia Pyne, Bookshelf, New York & London, Bloomsbury, 2016, small 8vo., publisher's black printed paper covers Siena, Libreria Piccolomini nel Duomo Gyde Vanier Gilbert Shepherd, Pintorichio and Raphael in the Piccolomini Library in Siena, 1494-1508 (Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1993), Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International, 1995, 4to., wrappers San Lorenzo de El Escorial George Kubler, Building the Escorial, Princeton, 1982, fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket Stephen J. Campbell, The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Paintings and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2004, large 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket Candida Höfer, Great Libraries, introductory essay by Umberto Eco, Munich, 2005, 4to., publisher's grey paper over boards with pictorial dust jacket André Masson,The pictorial catalogue : mural decoration in libraries : the Lyell Lectures, Oxford 1972-1973 (translated by David Gerard), Oxford, Clarendon, 1981, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket Thomas Schlientz, The Library : a portfolio of views of early libraries from the collection of Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., presented on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Detroit Public Library and the Conference of the American Library Association, Detroit, Gale Research, 1965, agenda format 8vo. and folio (plates) Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Early Modern Rome, 1341‐1667: Proceedings of a Conference held in Rome, May 13‐15, 2010 (The Association of American College and University Programs in Italy), ed. Portia Prebys [includes Dalma Frascarelli, "Luogo del Sapere: La construzione e la decorazione della Biblioteca Vaticana nella politica culturale di Sisto V"], Ferrara, Edisai, 2012, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Geoffrey Little, Library Architecture at Yale (Yale Library Studies), New Haven, 2009, 4to., publisher's paper wrappers Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Stephen Parks, ed., The Beinecke Library of Yale University, New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2003, fol., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket Monique Chatenet, La Cour de France au XVIe siècle: Vie sociale et architecture, Paris, 2002, fol., publisher's printed colored wrappers Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph Marquis de Laborde, De l'organisation des bibliothèques dans Paris : Huitième lettre, Étude sur la construction des Bibliothèques, Paris, 1845, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers Sylvie Béguin, et al., Cheminées et frises peintes du Château d'Ecouen, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux / Musée national de la Renaissance, 1995, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers Myriam Bacha & Christian Hottin, ed., Les Bibliothèques parisiennes: Architecture et décor, Paris, Action artistique de la ville de Paris, 2002, fol., publisher's brown cloth gilt, dust jacket André Masson, Le décor des bibliothèques du moyen âge à la Révolution, Geneva, Droz, 1972, 4to., publisher's printed white cloth Bibliothèque du Chapitre de Noyon André Masson, La "Librairie" du chapitre de Noyon et l'architecture des bibliothèques franc̜aises à la fin du Moyen-Age (reprinted from Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, 2ème année, no. 2, Février 1957), Paris, 1957, 8vo., pamphlet Wolfgang Liebenwein, Studiolo: storia e tipologia di uno spazio culturale, translation by Alessandro Califano, Modena, Panini, 1988, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Maria Ida Catalano, Il pavimento della Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana, Florence, Cantini, 1992, fol., publisher's printed wrappers Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Alessandro Zuccari, I pittori di Sisto V, Rome, Palombi, 1992, fol., publisher's blue cloth gilt James F. O'Gorman, The architecture of the monastic library in Italy, 1300-1600 : catalogue with introductory essay, New York, New York University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1972, fol., publisher's green cloth gilt, inscription from author to Rudolf Hirsch, Christmas 1972, Hirsch's signature on endleaf Sold as a group, not subject to return.

View 1 of Lot 256: Books and readers - Libraries - Architecture, decoration, and shelving of books

books and readers - libraries - architecture, decoration, and shelving of books

Lot Comprises: Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust jacket James W.P. Campbell, The Library: A World History, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013, fol., publisher's black paper boards, dust jacket John Cotton Dana & Henry W. Kent, Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, (Chicago, 1906), reprint Metuchen, Scarecrow, 1967, 8vo., publisher's ecru cloth, stamp of Leeds College of Commerce Edward Edwards, Libraries and founders of libraries : from ancient times to the beginning of the nineteenth century, (London, 1865), reprint Amsterdam, Gerard Th. van Heusden 1968, 4to., blue cloth gilt Alfred Hessel, A History of Libraries (translated, with supplementary material, by Reuben Peiss), New Brunswick, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1955, 8vo., publisher's green cloth Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970, fol., publisher's green cloth, dust jacket Elmer D. Johnson, A History of Libraries in the Western World, New York & London, 1965, 8vo., publisher's black cloth Fred Lerner, The Story of Libraries from the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age, New York, Continuum, 1998, 8vo., dust jacket Albert Predeek, A History of Libraries in Great Britain and North America (translated by Lawrence S. Thompson), Chicago, American Library Association, 1947, 4to., publisher's brick red cloth, first edition Konstantinos Staikos, The Great Libraries from Antiquity to Renaissance (3000 BC to AD 1600), New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press & London, British Library, 2000, fol., publisher's red cloth gilt, dust jacket Alfred Hessel, The Memory of Mankind: The Story of Libraries since the Dawn of History (revised by Reuben Peiss; edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann), New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2001, fol., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket Thomas Hendrickson, Ancient libraries and Renaissance humanism : the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius, Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2017, 4to., publisher's painted boards Justus Lipsius, A Brief Outline of the History of Libraries, translated from the second edition (Antwerp, The Plantin Press, John Moretus, 1607), the last from the hand of the author, by John Cotton Dana, Chicago, McClurg, 1907, 8vo., beige cloth over marbled boards Johannes Lomeier, A Seventeenth‐century View of European Libraries: Lomeier's "De Bibliothecis" chapter X, translated, with an introduction and notes, by John Warwick Montgomery (University of California publications in librarianship, 3), Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1962, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers Karl Christ, The Handbook of Medieval Library History (translated and edited by Theophil M. Otto), Metuchen, NJ & London, Scarecrow, 1984, 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt John Willis Clark, Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods, (Cambridge, 1894), reprint Chicago, Argonaut Inc Publishers, 1968, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth James Westfall Thompson, The Medieval Library, (Chicago 1939), reprint New York & London, Hafner Publishing Company, 1965, thick 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt, dust jacket Marc Baratin & Christian Jacob, Le pouvoir des bibliothèques : la mémoire des livres en Occident, Paris, A. Michel, 1996, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers Theodore Wesley Koch, Bibliothécaires d'Antan [translated from the English, by Abel Doysié] Paris, Honoré Champion, 1922, 8vo., blue printed wrappers, Occidental College bookplate André Masson & Denis Pallier, Les bibliothèques (Que sais‐je?), Paris, 1986, 8vo., pocket book, publisher's printed wrappers Guglielmo Cavallo, ed., Le biblioteche nel mondo antico e medievale, Bari, 1997, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers Sold as a group, not subject to return.

View 1 of Lot 258: Books and readers - Libraries - Histories, Catalogues

books and readers - libraries - histories, catalogues

Lot Comprises: Colin Clair, Christopher Plantin, London, Cassell, 1960, 4to., publisher's brown cloth, dust jacket Stéphane Cordier, Christophe Plantin: Architypographe du Roy, Andenne, Rémy Magermans, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers Adrien Jean Joseph Delen, Christophe Plantin, Imprimeur de l'humanisme, Brussels, Office de publicité, 1944, pamphlet, publisher's red printed wrappers Max Rooses, Christophe Plantin, imprimeur anversois, Antwerp, J. Maes, 1881, large fol., contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, plain edges Vicente Bécares Botas,Arias Montano y Plantino: el libro flamenco en la España de Felipe II, León, Universidad de León, 1999, 4to., publisher's green cloth Karen L. Bowen, Christopher Plantin's Books of Hours: Illustration and Production, Leiden & Boston, Brill, 1997, 4to., publisher's blue cloth Karen L. Bowen & Dirk Imhof, Christopher Plantin and engraved book illustrations in sixteenth-century Europe, Cambridge, University Press, 2008, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket An Account of Calligraphy & Printing in the Sixteenth Century from Dialogues Attributed to Christopher Plantin, Printed and published by him at Antwerp, in 1567… Foreword by Stanley Morison, Cambridge, MA, [Harvard University Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts], 1940, 8vo. Francine de Nave & Leon Voet, Plantin‐Moretus Museum, Antwerp (Musea Nostra), Brussels, Credit Communal, 1989, fol., publisher's colored printed wrappers Léon Voet, The Making of Books in the Renaissance as told by the Archives of the Plantin‐Moretus Museum, New York, American Friends of PMM, 1966, 8vo., pamphlet, publisher's yellow printed wrappers, one of 200 copies, bookplate of John De Pol Léon Voet, The golden compasses: a history and evaluation of the printing and publishing activities of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp, Amsterdam, Van Gendt, 1968, 2 vols., publisher's green cloth gilt, dust jacket Léon Voet,The Plantin Press (1555-1589), Amsterdam, Van Hoeve, 1980-1983, 6 vols., publisher's blue cloth, slip cases Charles Ruelens & A. de Backer, Annales plantiniennes depuis la fondation de l'Imprimerie plantinienne à Anvers jusqu'a la mort de Chr. Plantin, 1555-1589, (Paris, 1866), reprint New York, Burt Franklin, 1967, 4to., publisher's maroon cloth, plain edges Claude Sorgeloos, Labore et Constantia, 1589‐1989, A Collection of 510 Editions Issued by Christopher Plantin from 1555 till 1589, Brussels, Eric Speeckaert, 1990, 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt Jan Moretus, 1543-1610 Dirk Imhof, Jan Moretus and the Continuation of the Plantin Press: A Bibliography of the Works Published and Printed by Jan Moretus I in Antwerp (1589‐1610), Leiden, Brill, HES & De Graaf, 2014, 4to., 2vol., publisher's blue cloth Sold as a group, not subject to return.

View 1 of Lot 90: Book production - Printing - Netherlands & Belgium, 1501-1600 - Plantin

book production - printing - netherlands & belgium, 1501-1600 - plantin

Lot Comprises: Foley family library, Ruxley Lodge Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman, Anatomy of an Auction: Rare Books at Ruxley Lodge 1919, London, The Book Collector, 1990, 8vo., publisher's wrappers Sotheby's Frank Karslake, Notes from Sotheby's, Being a Compilation of 2,032 Notes from Catalogues of Book‐sales Which Have Taken Place in the Rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Between the Years 1885‐ 1909, London, 1909, 4to., publisher's green cloth, bookplate of Donald & Mary Hyde John Lawler, Book Auctions in England in the Seventeenth Century (1676‐1700), with a Chronological List of the Book Auctions of the Period, London, Elliot Stock, 1898, publisher's green cloth gilt Robin Myers, Michael Harris & Giles Mandelbrote, ed., Under the Hammer: Book Auctions Since the Seventeenth Century, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2002, 8vo., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket Philomneste Junior (pseud. of Pierre Gustave Brunet), Livres payés en vente publique 1,000 fr. et au dessus, depuis 1866 jusqu'à ce jour, Aperçu sur la vente Perkins à Londres, Bordeaux, 1877, 8vo., green cloth, original printer wrappers bound in, number 255 of edition of 275 copies, bookplate of Barnet Kottler Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France Françoise Blechet, Les ventes publiques de livres en France 1630‐1750 : Répertoire des catalogues conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale, Oxford, 1991, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers London, British Library Alfred William Pollard, List of catalogues of English book sales, 1676-1900, now in the British Museum (London 1915), reprint Mansfield, CT, Martino, [n.d.] A.N.L. Munby & Lenore Coral, British Book Sale Catalogues, 1676‐1800: A Union List, London, Mansell, 1977, fol., publisher's orange cloth gilt George L. McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 1713‐ 1934 (Including Supplements of 1946 and 1948), A Union List (New York 1937), reprint Mansfield Centre, CT, Martino Fine Books, [1990] New York, Grolier Club Michael North, French Book Sale Catalogues in the Grolier Club Library, 1643‐1830, New York, Grolier Club, 2004 George Ong, From Almeloveen to Whittington : book & manuscript catalogues, 1545-1995 : from the collection of George Ong, New York, 2006, 4to., publisher's beige printed dust jacket Sold as a group, not subject to return.

View 1 of Lot 166: Book distribution - Auctions - Bibliographies, Studies

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