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    Sale 8509

    THE HELMUT N. FRIEDLAENDER LIBRARY, PART II

    New York, East

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    24 April 2001

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    Lot 548

    [PRINTERS]. A collection of reference work relating to printers, comprising: GOLDSMID, Edmund. Bibliotheca Curiosa. A Complete Catalogue of all the Publications of the Elzevier Presses. Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1885. 3 volumes bound in one, 8o. Later buckram, original wrappers bound in. -- BARKER, Nicolas. The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning 1478-1978. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 2o. Original cloth; dust jacket. -- FLETCHER, Harry George III. New Aldine Studies. Documentary Essays on the Life and Work of Aldus Manutius. San Francisco: Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1988. 8o. Original cloth. -- BARKER, Nicolas. Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Sandy Hook: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985. 2o. Original cloth; slipcase. -- Another edition. New York: Fordham University Press, 1992. 2o. Original cloth. -- SCHREIBER, Fred. Simon de Colines. Provo: Friends of Bringham Young University, 1995. 4o. Original quarter morocco. -- A Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection at UCLA. Los Angeles, 1989-1994. 6 volumes, 8o. Original wrappers. (12)

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    USD 2,350

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    USD 1,500 - USD 2,000

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    [PRINTERS]. A collection of reference work relating to printers, comprising: GOLDSMID, Edmund. Bibliotheca Curiosa. A Complete Catalogue of all the Publications of the Elzevier Presses. Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1885. 3 volumes bound in one, 8o. Later buckram, original wrappers bound in. -- BARKER, Nicolas. The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning 1478-1978. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 2o. Original cloth; dust jacket. -- FLETCHER, Harry George III. New Aldine Studies. Documentary Essays on the Life and Work of Aldus Manutius. San Francisco: Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1988. 8o. Original cloth. -- BARKER, Nicolas. Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Sandy Hook: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985. 2o. Original cloth; slipcase. -- Another edition. New York: Fordham University Press, 1992. 2o. Original cloth. -- SCHREIBER, Fred. Simon de Colines. Provo: Friends of Bringham Young University, 1995. 4o. Original quarter morocco. -- A Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection at UCLA. Los Angeles, 1989-1994. 6 volumes, 8o. Original wrappers. (12)

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    Saleroom Notice

    This lot includes De Vinne. Aldus Pius Manutius, bringing the count up to 13.


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