Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

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: John Ramridge, d. 1568; Thomas Harding, 1516-1572; Henry Joliffe, d. 1573 Christian Coppens, Reading in Exile: The Libraries of John Ramridge (d.1568), Thomas Harding (d. 1572) & Henry Joliffe (d. 1573), Recusants in Louvain, Cambridge, 1993, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers Thomas Cranmer, 1489-1556 David G. Selwyn, The Library of Thomas Cranmer, Oxford, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1996, 4to., publisher's green boards, backed by tan cloth Edward Edwards, Lives of The Founders of the British Museum with Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570‐1870, (London, Trübner, 1870), reprint New York, Burt Franklin, 1969, 4to., maroon buckram Henry VIII, King of England 1491-1547 James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and his wives, London, British Library, 2004, 4to., publisher's crimson cloth, dust jacket John Dee, 1527-1608 James O. Halliwell, ed., The private diary of Dr. John Dee, and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts : from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge, (London, 1842), reprint [Whitefish, MT], Kessinger Publishing Company, [199-], fol., publisher's wrappers John Lumley, Baron Lumley, 1534?-1609 Sears Jayne & Francis R. Johnson, ed., The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, London, British Museum, 1956, 4to., publisher's red cloth William Drummond, 1585-1649 Robert H. MacDonald, The library of Drummond of Hawthornden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1971, fol., publisher's green cloth gilt, dust jacket John Dee, 1527-1608 Julian Roberts & Andrew G. Watson, ed., John Dee's Library Catalogue, London, Bibliographical Society, 1990, fol., publisher's blue cloth Edmund Geste, 1514?-1577 David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and His Books: Reconstructing the Library of a Cambridge Don and an Elizabethan Bishop, London, The Biographical Society, 2017, 4to., publisher's blue simulated cloth Sir Simonds D'Ewes, 1602-1650 Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, London, British Museum, 1966, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt Andrew Perne, 1519?-1589 David McKitterick, ed., Andrew Perne: Quatercentenary Studies (Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monograph, 11), Cambridge, Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 1991, 4to., publisher's wrappers John Argentine, 1442?‐1508 Dennis E. Rhodes, John Argentine, Provost of King's (c. 1442‐1508): His Life and his Library, Amsterdam, Menno Hertzberger & Co., 1967, 8vo., publisher's blue printed boards Robert Cotton, 1571-1631 Colin G.C. Tite, The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton (The Panizzi Lectures 1993), London, British Library, 1994, 8vo., publisher's printed blue wrappers Robert Cotton, 1571-1631 Colin G.C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use, London, The British Library, 2003, 4to., publisher's black cloth gilt Robert Cotton, 1571-1631 Christopher John Wright, ed., Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy, London, British Library, 1997, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket Monarchy Thomas Anthony Birrell, English Monarchs and Their Books: From Henry VII to Charles II (The Panizzi Lectures 1986), London, British Library, 1987, 8vo., publisher's blue printed wrappers Monarchy Scot McKendrick, John Lowden & Kathleen Doyle, ed., Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, London, British Library, 2011, fol. Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 George F. Barwick, A book bound for Mary Queen of Scots : being a description of the binding of a copy of the Geographia of Ptolemy printed at Rome, 1490, with notes on other books bearing Queen Mary's insignia (Bibliographical Society, Illustrated Monographs, 9), London, Printed at the Chiswick press, 1901, fol., publisher's half cloth over brown printed boards, bookplate of William P. Wreden (1910-1995) Henry VIII, King of England 1491-1547 Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7: The Libraries of King Henry VIII, edited by James P. Carley, London, British Library in association with the British Academy, 2000, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt Sold as a group, not subject to return.

View 1 of Lot 195: Books and readers - Book collectors - Britain - 16-17C

books and readers - book collectors - britain - 16-17c

Lot Comprises: James Westfall Thompson, Ancient Libraries, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1940, 8vo., publisher's beige cloth Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2001, 8vo., publisher's cloth with dust jacket Olof Pedersén, Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East 1500‐300 B.C., Bethesda, CDL Press, 1998, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers Clarence Eugene Boyd, Public Libraries and Literary Culture in Ancient Rome, (Chicago 1915), reprint Mansfield Center, CT, Martino Publishing, 2005, 4to., publisher's brick colored cloth Charles Lemuel Nichols, The library of Rameses the Great: paper read at a meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes… Boston, April 15, 1908, Berkeley, Peacock Press, 1964, 8vo., publisher's printed brown wrapper Rudolph Blum, Kallimachos: the Alexandrian Library and the origins of bibliography (translated by Hans H. Wellisch), Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket Mostafa El-Abbadi & Omnia Mounir Fathallah, ed., What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria?, Leiden, Brill, 2008, 4to., publisher's printed boards Luciano Canfora, The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World [translation of La biblioteca scomparsa, published Palermo, 1987], London, 1989, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket Edward Alexander Parsons, The Alexandrian Library, glory of the Hellenic world: its rise, antiquities, and destructions, Amsterdam, London & New York, Elsevier Press, 1952, 4to., publisher's blue cloth Library of Caesarea Maritima Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea, Cambridge & London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket Phanarion Konstatinos Staikos, The library of the Oecumenical Patriarchate in the Phanar, Athens, [printed and bound at Lithographic Press of P.T. Ballidis] 1994, 4to., publisher's red paper boards Sold as a group, not subject to return.

View 1 of Lot 260: Books and readers - Libraries - Histories, Catalogues - Ancient World

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