Sales catalogue 55: Martin Breslauer

Date:
1942
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/27/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 55: Martin Breslauer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (On application). went No. 54. No. 56. No. 57. {| Bibliographical and other Works of Reference on the Decorative Arts (including extensive sections on Architecture, Bookbindings, Calligraphy, Lace-Pattern Books, Textiles, Ornaments and Goldsmiths’ Works, Pottery and Porcelain). | Lives and Works of Artists (528 items, including large assemblages of works on Diirer, Goya, Primitive and Anonymous Masters, Rembrandt, &c.). Books on Books, Collecting and Bibliography (Autograph Collecting, Cookery Books, Gastronomy, Chess, Costumes and Festivals, The Dance of Death, Facsimiles of Rare and Unique Books, Gutenberg, Illustrated Books of the 15th and 16th Centuries, Incunabula, Macaronic Literature, &c., Miniature Books, Monograms, Mottoes, Devices, Visiting and Con- gratulatory Cards). | Art Sale Catalogues. ‘j Varia & Addenda. 1187 items 1M all. The Gentle Science of Book Collecting: Bibliophily & Bibliomania : “| The Art of Forming a Library. { Collectors and Collections. §| The Bookseller. {| Auction Sale Catalogues, 1663-1939. ‘4 Imaginary Libraries. {| The Gentle Science of Art Collecting. { Books and Criminality (being a Rogue’s Gallery of Book Thieves and Murderers for the Sake of Books and comprising a unique collection illustrative of Forgery in Literature, offered as a whole, and the most extensive collection ever offered for sale on the “ Affaire Libri’’). 621 (and 429) 1tems. (In Preparation). Catalogus Catalogorum: That is: A Priced and Annotated List of a very extensive Collection of Book Sale Catalogues of bibliographical importance and historical interest, including such of libraries formed by famous men. With additional sections of valuable booksellers’ and art sale catalogues. History and Bibliography of the Periodical Press, comprising a copy of the earliest printed account of a contemporary event (1470), books on censorship, Indices Librorum Prohibitorum, Liberty of the Press, and a Supplement describing a unique collection of pamphlets con- cerning literary, political and learned disputes. Ca. 800 items.
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