(O?Byrne, James)
Nineteenth century art and architecture. The library of James O?Byrne.
London, Christie 22 July 1987.: 1987
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The extensive library of books on architecture and related topics put together by James O?Byrne (1835-1897), a Liverpool-based architect who had come under the influence of John Ruskin (his very extensive collection of titles by Ruskin is lot 186 in the sale). 4to. 56 + (8)pp. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink.
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Robert Weir Schultz architect and his work for the Marquesses of Bute. An essay.
A very good monograph on the architect Robert Weir Schultz (1860-1951) and his work for two successive Marquesses of Bute. Printed for private circulation, evidently at the expense of the 6th Marquess of Bute, owner of the Mount Stuart estate at the time when Gavin Stamp was writing. 8vo. 80pp, 20 photo plates, text ills. Original printed wrappers. One-hundred houses for one-hundred European architects of the XX century.
Descriptions and illustrations of one house lived in by each of one hundred celebrated European architects of the twentieth century, with accompanying biographical notes. James Stirling is represented by his 1967 conversion of his Edwardian terraced house in North London. First edition (there were subsequent reissues). Oblong small 4to. 238 + (24)pp, many photo ills. Original wrappers. Les maitres ornemantistes. Dessinateurs, peintres, architects, sculpteurs et graveurs. Ecoles français, italiens, allemands et des Pays-Bas (flamands et hollandais).
Still a necessary work of reference, not least because of the information that its author provides about volumes or suites of engravings that he had seen in private collections known to him. Large 8vo. 1 vol text, 1 vol plates, containing in all xvi+560pp and 180 litho plates. Contemporary quarter morocco, marbled boards (the binding rubbed and worn, with a small split to one joint of the first volume, but the volumes nonetheless soundly bound). Domestic architecture : containing a history of the science, and the principles of designing public edifices, private dwelling-houses, country mansions and suburban villas . also, some observations on rural residences, their characteristic situation and scenery (etc).
A substantial volume which provided its readers with a wide selection of alternative designs for houses and villas, in styles ranging from Egyptian and Pompeian to Tudor and Anglo-Italian. It reflects the eclecticism of the period rather better than other architectural publications of the time, and its extensive text is revealing about the philosophy and objectives of English domestic architecture in the 1840s, not least in that Brown, like the generality of architects specialising in this type of building at this date, was not much interested in designing in the Gothic Revival style. Although Brown had some sort of architectural practice, his career commencing with a design exhibited at the Royal Academy as far back as 1804, his main claim to fame is his authorship of this book ; he also taught architectural drawing, and he was interested in landscape gardening, to which he devotes the last part of the book. 4to. xii (including engraved portrait frontispiece) + 342pp, 63 engraved plates, (4)pp publisher?s adverts. Publisher?s gilt-stamped cloth, neatly rebacked. An old stain at the blank lower margin of the portrait frontispiece, but otherwise a good copy, in better than usual condition for this title. George Atkinson?s copy. British artists in Rome 1700-1800.
Catalogue of the excellent exhibition on this theme held at Kenwood June-August 1974. It brings together a good deal of information on expatriate Britons in Rome which is not brought together as conveniently in other publications. Small oblong 4to. (96)pp, inc. (8) photo ills. Publisher?s pictorial wrappers. The British as art collectors from the Tudors to the present.
Well-illustrated survey of British art collectors and their collections. Collectors of eighteenth century and nineteenth century catalogues of country house art collections will view with envy the illustration on p.322 of three of the well-stocked bookshelves in the private library of one of the authors. Large 4to. 352pp, 329 photo ills (mostly colour). Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper. Signed by James Stourton on title leaf. Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick. A biographical dictionary of bookplates from the workshop of Ralph Beilby, Thomas Bewick and Robert Bewick 1760-1849.
A scholarly illustrated guide to the bookplates produced by Thomas Bewick and associates, and also a biographical resource on the bookplates? owners. Tattersfield?s entries on the various individuals offer a wealth of information for the researcher and a slice of social history; there is is also a useful bibliography. 8vo. xi+(1)+352+(2)pp, inc portrait frontis, text ills throughout. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper. Writings on architecture civil and military c. 1460 to 1640. A checklist of printed editions.
Seeking to remedy the absence of any acceptable list of older architectural literature John Bury and Paul Breman have produced this excellent checklist, providing the reader with some 280 author entries, providing details of some 1800 editions, old and new, of 365 architectural titles of the period. It remains a check list only, so users will have to go elsewhere for collations and other bibliographical information, but the inclusion by the authors of modern facsimile reprints, modern critical editions and some related monographs, makes it of real assistance not merely to rare book librarians and to antiquarian booksellers but to any one seriously interested in the history of architecture. 8vo. 122pp. Publisher?s printed wrappers. (Catalogues Jan 1970 – Sep 2001)
A virtually complete set of the printed catalogues issued over a thirty year period by the antiquarian bookseller Paul Breman (1931-2008). Breman, having previously worked as a cataloguer for E.P.Goldschmidt and for Ben Weinreb, had then gone into partnership with Weinreb for a brief period, but was able to launch his own firm in 1970 with his share of the proceeds of the sale of much of the Weinreb and Breman stock to the University of Texas. His principal speciality as a bookseller was in sixteenth-eighteenth century books on architecture, art, perspective and fortification published on the European continent, but he was also interested in avant garde books of the twentieth century and in black literature (of which he made a pioneer collection), and his catalogue notes on all these subjects were well-informed and incisively expressed.His published catalogues fell into three series, separately numbered and in distinct formats. The numbering of Catalogues 1-44, issued between January 1970 and February 1994, and of Catalogues 144- 172, issued between February 1989 and September 2001, is straightforward, but the numbering of a third series of his catalogues, issued between 1979 and 1988, is perplexing and was doubtless intended by Breman to tease his customers and fellow members of the book trade. The basic explanation for the numbering sequence of this series is that Catalogue 179 was the first (and last) catalogue in this format issued in the year 1979, just as the final catalogue in the series, Catalogue 188, was the first (and last) catalogue in this format issued in 1988, while Catalogue 381 was the third catalogue in this format issued in 1981, but for some unaccountable reason Catalogue 280, which ought on this basis to have been the second catalogue issued in 1980, was actually issued in November 1981 and should really have been numbered 281.The varying formats and complex numbering of Breman?s catalogues have militated against the survival of complete sets of them, and this is probably the completest set currently available outside institutional collections. 8vo. (90) (ex 92 ?) catalogues, comprising : (a) Catalogues 1-48, slim upright format, issued between Jan 1970 and Feb 1994 (complete for period); (b) Catalogues 179, 180, 181, 280, 381, 183, 283, 184, 186, 286, 187, 287, 188, upright format, issued in this sequence between 1979 and 1988 (complete for period); (c) Catalogues 144-172 (lacking 162 (Posters of the Weimar Republic) and 169 (Food and Drink)), all in oblong format except for 161 and 172 which are in upright format, issued between Feb 1989 and Sep 2001. All the catalogues are in original wrappers and are contained in two drop-back cloth boxes. An accompanying leaflet advertises Catalogues 173-5, not issued in printed form but made available by Breman on the internet. (Catalogues)
These catalogues, issued by Paul Grinke respectively in the 1970s and between 2006 and 2011, represent the entirety of his catalogue output as a London-based bookseller before and after his years as a bookseller in Suffolk and Norfolk and the subsequent period in which he headed the art and architecture department at the Quaritch firm. The catalogues issued by him in the 1970s - regrettably for posterity printed without dates of publication - offer an astonishingly impressive range of English eighteenth century literature and other eighteenth-century books on art, architecture and antiquarian topics generally. Also of particular note are Catalogues 7 and 10, respectively offering seventeenth century and eighteenth century books from the libraries of the antiquaries Philip Morant and Thomas Astle. Oblong 8vo and 8vo. Catalogues 1-16 (First Series, complete) and 1-4 (New Series, complete). Original printed wrappers, preserved in drop-back box. These are offered together with Paul Grinke, Supplementary List, London, Spring 1976, stapled as issued; Paul Grinke, A Catalogue of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts relating to the county of Suffolk, Eye, 1984, original printed wrappers ; Paul Grinke and Paul Breman, Russian Art and Architecture, London, nd, stapled as issued; Grinke & Rodgers, Catalogue 1, Books on Art and Architecture,1700-1850, 1969, original printed wrappers; and 5 lists of books issued by Paul Grinke 2006-2016, stapled at upper right-hand corner Nineteenth century art and architecture. The library of James O?Byrne.
The extensive library of books on architecture and related topics put together by James O?Byrne (1835-1897), a Liverpool-based architect who had come under the influence of John Ruskin (his very extensive collection of titles by Ruskin is lot 186 in the sale). 4to. 56 + (8)pp. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink. The Dublin Builder.
A volume containing the issues for 1860 and 1861 of the periodical The Dublin Builder, founded in 1859 and more familiar under its later name The Irish Builder, adopted in 1867. The periodical, modelled on the English periodical The Builder but featuring news and comment about recently erected buildings in Ireland, was initially published monthly, but became a fortnightly with effect from 1 January 1861. Each issue carries an issue number in addition to a volume number, and as there had been 12 issues in the periodical?s first volume for 1859, the issue numbers for vol.II are 13-24 and those for vol.III, now fortnightly, are 25-48. All volumes of The Dublin Builder and The Irish Builder are extremely rare in the book trade today. 4to. Vols II and III, comprising the issues for 1 Jan 1860 - 15 Dec 1861, paginated 169-716, with 2 unnumbered pp after p.650, but lacking pp 475-6 and 489-90), with (12) additional litho plates (some double-page), and also text ills (some full-page). Contemporary cloth. The volume also includes the issues for 15 Jun 1862, 1 Aug 1862, 1 Sep - 15 Oct 1862, 1-15 Dec 1862, and 1 Jan 1863. The library of the late M. F.d.C. consisting of printed books and manuscripts on art & architecture including fortification ; sciences ; (and) a highly important, extensive collection of Savonaroliana. Auction sale . Monday, 19 June 1995.
Catalogue of the significant library of books on art and architecture (and on Savonarola) put together by Massimiliano Favia del Core (1927-1994), and sold by auction at Lugano in 1995. Favia del Core had married an heiress of the Borromeo Arese family, and it transpired years later that some of the books offered in the sale derived from the ancestral Borromeo collection and should not have been in Favia del Core?s possession. Folio. (158)pp, (8) colour olates, text ills. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink. Catalogue of printed books . the property of the Society of Writers to the Signet.
These two sales held in 1978-9, following a series of earlier sales held between 1959-64, offered the entirety of the Signet Library?s remaining books other than those relating to Scotland and the law. They offered between them an astonishing range of books on literature, history, travel, art and architecture, and so on, printed both in the British Isles and in all the major countries of Western Europe. A curiosity of the sale was that the books were lotted simply by shelf, making it necessary for booksellers interested in particular titles not merely to buy all the books on a particular shelf, regardless of their relevance or merit, but also to locate plate volumes which had been separately shelved because they were of different dimensions to their accompanying text volumes. Square 4to. The B.Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd and E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd copies of each sale catalogue bound together, partly priced and marked in the respective hands of Jacques Vellekoop, Ben Weinreb and Hugh Pagan. Cloth. Ecclesiae Bristolianae ; being views with letter-press descriptions of the churches of Bristol : engraved in the best line manner, from drawings by John Willis.
Willis, John (draughtsman) Engraved perspective views of the exteriors of Bristol Cathedral, St.Mary Redclyffe, the Mayor?s Chapel, and all twenty-two of the parish churches in Bristol and its suburbs as they existed in the 1830s. Twenty-three of the twenty-six plates in the present publication had previously been issued by another Bristol publisher, George Davey, in the 1830s, but this reissue of them by John Chilcott has three additional plates and has the major advantage that it contains accompanying text leaves with brief histories and descriptions of the churches concerned. A printed leaf at the end of the volume gives details of eight further churches built between 1841 and 1849, ?since the plates of the preceding churches were engraved? 4to. Printed title leaf, 4 + 4+ 2 + (46)pp, (26) engraved plates. Publisher?s cloth, neatly rebacked. Title leaf and first two plates spotted, a little light spotting elsewhere.- $232
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Architects books & libraries. A collection of essays . edited and with a prologue by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey.
Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière (ed) Essays relating to an exhibition of architectural books with significant early annotations acquired in recent years for Queen?s University, Kingston, Ontario. Folio. x + 46pp. Original printed wrappers. Gavin Stamp?s copy, with his booklabel. Signed on title leaf by Du Prey, also an ink presentation inscription from Du Prey to Stamp.- $26
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Victorian architectural competitions. An index to British and Irish architectural competitions in The Builder 1843-1900.
Harper, Roger H. An exhaustive index to over 2500 architectural competitions and the architects who competed in them, providing a mass of information previously unobtainable without making a week-by-week search through the columns of The Builder. 8vo. xxxviii+416pp. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrappe.- $64
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Dictionnaire des amateurs français au XViie siècle.
Bonnaffé, Edmond Modern scholarship would today do this better, but Bonnaffe manages to bring together much miscellaneous information about French collectors of paintings, sculpture and other works of art in the 17th century. 8vo. xvi+353+(1)pp. Publisher?s cloth.- $19
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Rural architecture : [First] (Second) series of designs for rustic, peasants?, and ornamental cottages, lodges, and villas, in various styles of architecture . second edition, with considerable additions (bound with) Cottage architecture; being a supplement to the First (Second) Series of Goodwin?s Rural architecture, lately published.
Goodwin, Francis A reissue under the new title Rural Architecture of the author?s Domestic Architecture, published in two volumes in 1833-4, with added designs at the end of each volume, in both cases prefixed by a Cottage Architecture title leaf. Francis Goodwin (1784-1835) had built up a significant architectural practice in the West Midlands, Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, specialising in churches and municipal public buildings, but his finances were shaky and by the early 1830s he was seeking commissions to design houses, gate lodges and cottages. The present volumes are designed to show off his abilities in this field, which they do very effectively, and feature buildings of this nature that he had very recently designed for a number of Irish Protestant landowners, and also a gate lodge which he had designed for E.J.Littleton (afterwards Lord Hatherton) at Teddesley Hall, Staffordshire. Goodwin was a skilful self-publicist and the second volume contains an introduction, apparently written for Goodwin by the architectural critic W.H.Leeds, in which there is a glowing write-up of Goodwin?s executed design for Manchester Town Hall. Sadly, Goodwin?s architectural career was brought to an abrupt halt by his sudden death on 30 August 1835, but the volumes were sufficiently impressive that new editions of them were issued in 1843 and 1850. The complicated bibliographical history of these volumes is set out by the compilers of the British Architectural Library catalogue (their no.1247). It is necessary to explain that in the present catalogue description the word {First] has been placed within square brackets because the publishers have in this copy inadvertently used the Second Series title leaf for both volumes, as in the Avery Library copy noted in the BAL Catalogue. It should also be recorded that the plates of both volumes are printed in black and white, whereas in some copies the plates of vol.I are printed in sepia. 4to. 2 vols. Engraved frontispiece, (6) (ex viii, no half-title leaf) + (28)pp, (41) engraved plates (numbered 1-40 with two plates numbered 40), followed by (Cottage Architecture) 4+ 4pp, 9 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece, (14) (ex xvi, no half-title leaf) + (54)pp, (41) engraved plates (numbered 1-39 and 41, with two plates numbered 38), followed by (Cottage Architecture) 4 + 4 + (6)pp (last group of pages numbered 71-75 + (1 blank)), 7 engraved plates. Publisher?s cloth, first volume neatly recased. Contemporary ink ownership inscriptions of John Worlledge, Ingham, Suffolk. Early twentieth century bookplates of George Vernon. Some offsetting from plates on facing leaves, and also some browning and spotting, chiefly in outer margins. George Atkinson?s copy.- $510
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Thomas Farnolls Pritchard of Shrewsbury architect and ?inventor of cast iron bridges?.
(Pritchard) Ionides, Julia Excellent study of the Shrewsbury-based architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard (1723-1777), with discussions of all his known or attributable architectural commissions, and facsimile reproductions of the designs in his surviving ?Drawing Book? 8vo. (6) + 307 + (13) + 28 + (94)pp, many photo text ills. Publisher?s pictorial cloth.- $32
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Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Staatliche Museen Berlin. Kunstbibliothek. Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostumbibliothek.
Nienholdt, Eva, & Wagner-Neumann, Gretel (eds) Catalogue of the great collection of books on costume formed by Freiherr Franz von Lipperheide (1838-1906), given by him to the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, and with subsequent additions now the finest specialist costume library in existence. Folio. 2 vols. xix+(5)+593+(1)pp ; ix+(5)+pp595-1166+(2)pp. With 221 ills in all. Publisher?s cloth, a little worn and bumped.- $129
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Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries 1641-1700. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
Wing, Donald (compiler) Large 4to. 3 vols. xx + 622pp ; xvii + (1) + 690pp; xxvii + (1) + 766pp. Publisher?s cloth.- $684
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Robert Weir Schultz architect and his work for the Marquesses of Bute. An essay.
(Schultz) Stamp, Gavin A very good monograph on the architect Robert Weir Schultz (1860-1951) and his work for two successive Marquesses of Bute. Printed for private circulation, evidently at the expense of the 6th Marquess of Bute, owner of the Mount Stuart estate at the time when Gavin Stamp was writing. 8vo. 80pp, 20 photo plates, text ills. Original printed wrappers.- $52
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One-hundred houses for one-hundred European architects of the XX century.
Acerboni, Francesca (and others) Descriptions and illustrations of one house lived in by each of one hundred celebrated European architects of the twentieth century, with accompanying biographical notes. James Stirling is represented by his 1967 conversion of his Edwardian terraced house in North London. First edition (there were subsequent reissues). Oblong small 4to. 238 + (24)pp, many photo ills. Original wrappers.- $32
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Les maitres ornemantistes. Dessinateurs, peintres, architects, sculpteurs et graveurs. Ecoles français, italiens, allemands et des Pays-Bas (flamands et hollandais).
Guilmard, D(ésiréº Still a necessary work of reference, not least because of the information that its author provides about volumes or suites of engravings that he had seen in private collections known to him. Large 8vo. 1 vol text, 1 vol plates, containing in all xvi+560pp and 180 litho plates. Contemporary quarter morocco, marbled boards (the binding rubbed and worn, with a small split to one joint of the first volume, but the volumes nonetheless soundly bound).- $290
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Domestic architecture : containing a history of the science, and the principles of designing public edifices, private dwelling-houses, country mansions and suburban villas . also, some observations on rural residences, their characteristic situation and scenery (etc).
Brown, Richard A substantial volume which provided its readers with a wide selection of alternative designs for houses and villas, in styles ranging from Egyptian and Pompeian to Tudor and Anglo-Italian. It reflects the eclecticism of the period rather better than other architectural publications of the time, and its extensive text is revealing about the philosophy and objectives of English domestic architecture in the 1840s, not least in that Brown, like the generality of architects specialising in this type of building at this date, was not much interested in designing in the Gothic Revival style. Although Brown had some sort of architectural practice, his career commencing with a design exhibited at the Royal Academy as far back as 1804, his main claim to fame is his authorship of this book ; he also taught architectural drawing, and he was interested in landscape gardening, to which he devotes the last part of the book. 4to. xii (including engraved portrait frontispiece) + 342pp, 63 engraved plates, (4)pp publisher?s adverts. Publisher?s gilt-stamped cloth, neatly rebacked. An old stain at the blank lower margin of the portrait frontispiece, but otherwise a good copy, in better than usual condition for this title. George Atkinson?s copy.- $619
- $619
British artists in Rome 1700-1800.
(Rome) Catalogue of the excellent exhibition on this theme held at Kenwood June-August 1974. It brings together a good deal of information on expatriate Britons in Rome which is not brought together as conveniently in other publications. Small oblong 4to. (96)pp, inc. (8) photo ills. Publisher?s pictorial wrappers.- $13
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The British as art collectors from the Tudors to the present.
Stourton, James, & Sebag-Montefiore, Charles Well-illustrated survey of British art collectors and their collections. Collectors of eighteenth century and nineteenth century catalogues of country house art collections will view with envy the illustration on p.322 of three of the well-stocked bookshelves in the private library of one of the authors. Large 4to. 352pp, 329 photo ills (mostly colour). Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper. Signed by James Stourton on title leaf.- $77
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Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick. A biographical dictionary of bookplates from the workshop of Ralph Beilby, Thomas Bewick and Robert Bewick 1760-1849.
Tattersfield, Nigel A scholarly illustrated guide to the bookplates produced by Thomas Bewick and associates, and also a biographical resource on the bookplates? owners. Tattersfield?s entries on the various individuals offer a wealth of information for the researcher and a slice of social history; there is is also a useful bibliography. 8vo. xi+(1)+352+(2)pp, inc portrait frontis, text ills throughout. Publisher?s cloth, in dustwrapper.- $77
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Writings on architecture civil and military c. 1460 to 1640. A checklist of printed editions.
Bury, John & Breman, Paul (compilers) Seeking to remedy the absence of any acceptable list of older architectural literature John Bury and Paul Breman have produced this excellent checklist, providing the reader with some 280 author entries, providing details of some 1800 editions, old and new, of 365 architectural titles of the period. It remains a check list only, so users will have to go elsewhere for collations and other bibliographical information, but the inclusion by the authors of modern facsimile reprints, modern critical editions and some related monographs, makes it of real assistance not merely to rare book librarians and to antiquarian booksellers but to any one seriously interested in the history of architecture. 8vo. 122pp. Publisher?s printed wrappers.- $39
- $39
(Catalogues Jan 1970 – Sep 2001)
Paul Breman Ltd A virtually complete set of the printed catalogues issued over a thirty year period by the antiquarian bookseller Paul Breman (1931-2008). Breman, having previously worked as a cataloguer for E.P.Goldschmidt and for Ben Weinreb, had then gone into partnership with Weinreb for a brief period, but was able to launch his own firm in 1970 with his share of the proceeds of the sale of much of the Weinreb and Breman stock to the University of Texas. His principal speciality as a bookseller was in sixteenth-eighteenth century books on architecture, art, perspective and fortification published on the European continent, but he was also interested in avant garde books of the twentieth century and in black literature (of which he made a pioneer collection), and his catalogue notes on all these subjects were well-informed and incisively expressed.His published catalogues fell into three series, separately numbered and in distinct formats. The numbering of Catalogues 1-44, issued between January 1970 and February 1994, and of Catalogues 144- 172, issued between February 1989 and September 2001, is straightforward, but the numbering of a third series of his catalogues, issued between 1979 and 1988, is perplexing and was doubtless intended by Breman to tease his customers and fellow members of the book trade. The basic explanation for the numbering sequence of this series is that Catalogue 179 was the first (and last) catalogue in this format issued in the year 1979, just as the final catalogue in the series, Catalogue 188, was the first (and last) catalogue in this format issued in 1988, while Catalogue 381 was the third catalogue in this format issued in 1981, but for some unaccountable reason Catalogue 280, which ought on this basis to have been the second catalogue issued in 1980, was actually issued in November 1981 and should really have been numbered 281.The varying formats and complex numbering of Breman?s catalogues have militated against the survival of complete sets of them, and this is probably the completest set currently available outside institutional collections. 8vo. (90) (ex 92 ?) catalogues, comprising : (a) Catalogues 1-48, slim upright format, issued between Jan 1970 and Feb 1994 (complete for period); (b) Catalogues 179, 180, 181, 280, 381, 183, 283, 184, 186, 286, 187, 287, 188, upright format, issued in this sequence between 1979 and 1988 (complete for period); (c) Catalogues 144-172 (lacking 162 (Posters of the Weimar Republic) and 169 (Food and Drink)), all in oblong format except for 161 and 172 which are in upright format, issued between Feb 1989 and Sep 2001. All the catalogues are in original wrappers and are contained in two drop-back cloth boxes. An accompanying leaflet advertises Catalogues 173-5, not issued in printed form but made available by Breman on the internet.- $1,096
- $1,096
(Catalogues)
Grinke, Paul (bookseller) These catalogues, issued by Paul Grinke respectively in the 1970s and between 2006 and 2011, represent the entirety of his catalogue output as a London-based bookseller before and after his years as a bookseller in Suffolk and Norfolk and the subsequent period in which he headed the art and architecture department at the Quaritch firm. The catalogues issued by him in the 1970s - regrettably for posterity printed without dates of publication - offer an astonishingly impressive range of English eighteenth century literature and other eighteenth-century books on art, architecture and antiquarian topics generally. Also of particular note are Catalogues 7 and 10, respectively offering seventeenth century and eighteenth century books from the libraries of the antiquaries Philip Morant and Thomas Astle. Oblong 8vo and 8vo. Catalogues 1-16 (First Series, complete) and 1-4 (New Series, complete). Original printed wrappers, preserved in drop-back box. These are offered together with Paul Grinke, Supplementary List, London, Spring 1976, stapled as issued; Paul Grinke, A Catalogue of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts relating to the county of Suffolk, Eye, 1984, original printed wrappers ; Paul Grinke and Paul Breman, Russian Art and Architecture, London, nd, stapled as issued; Grinke & Rodgers, Catalogue 1, Books on Art and Architecture,1700-1850, 1969, original printed wrappers; and 5 lists of books issued by Paul Grinke 2006-2016, stapled at upper right-hand corner- $510
- $510
The Dublin Builder.
Dublin Builder A volume containing the issues for 1860 and 1861 of the periodical The Dublin Builder, founded in 1859 and more familiar under its later name The Irish Builder, adopted in 1867. The periodical, modelled on the English periodical The Builder but featuring news and comment about recently erected buildings in Ireland, was initially published monthly, but became a fortnightly with effect from 1 January 1861. Each issue carries an issue number in addition to a volume number, and as there had been 12 issues in the periodical?s first volume for 1859, the issue numbers for vol.II are 13-24 and those for vol.III, now fortnightly, are 25-48. All volumes of The Dublin Builder and The Irish Builder are extremely rare in the book trade today. 4to. Vols II and III, comprising the issues for 1 Jan 1860 - 15 Dec 1861, paginated 169-716, with 2 unnumbered pp after p.650, but lacking pp 475-6 and 489-90), with (12) additional litho plates (some double-page), and also text ills (some full-page). Contemporary cloth. The volume also includes the issues for 15 Jun 1862, 1 Aug 1862, 1 Sep - 15 Oct 1862, 1-15 Dec 1862, and 1 Jan 1863.- $310
- $310
The library of the late M. F.d.C. consisting of printed books and manuscripts on art & architecture including fortification ; sciences ; (and) a highly important, extensive collection of Savonaroliana. Auction sale . Monday, 19 June 1995.
(Favia del Core, Massimiliano) Catalogue of the significant library of books on art and architecture (and on Savonarola) put together by Massimiliano Favia del Core (1927-1994), and sold by auction at Lugano in 1995. Favia del Core had married an heiress of the Borromeo Arese family, and it transpired years later that some of the books offered in the sale derived from the ancestral Borromeo collection and should not have been in Favia del Core?s possession. Folio. (158)pp, (8) colour olates, text ills. Recent cloth. Priced and annotated in ink.- $110
- $110
Catalogue of printed books . the property of the Society of Writers to the Signet.
(Signet Library, Edinburgh) These two sales held in 1978-9, following a series of earlier sales held between 1959-64, offered the entirety of the Signet Library?s remaining books other than those relating to Scotland and the law. They offered between them an astonishing range of books on literature, history, travel, art and architecture, and so on, printed both in the British Isles and in all the major countries of Western Europe. A curiosity of the sale was that the books were lotted simply by shelf, making it necessary for booksellers interested in particular titles not merely to buy all the books on a particular shelf, regardless of their relevance or merit, but also to locate plate volumes which had been separately shelved because they were of different dimensions to their accompanying text volumes. Square 4to. The B.Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd and E.P.Goldschmidt Ltd copies of each sale catalogue bound together, partly priced and marked in the respective hands of Jacques Vellekoop, Ben Weinreb and Hugh Pagan. Cloth.- $84
- $84
