Search Results: Books on Books: Bookseller Catalogs from The Owl at the Bridge

With a brief history of the firm's beginnings. "During the past 100 years, over 800 catalogues have been issued, many of a specialist nature which now rank as bibliographies, and we have endeavoured with the present catalogue to maintain this standard. / The success of a Firm depends to no small extent on the loyalty of its staff and in this connection we have been more than fortunate. / It has been our privilege to count as our friends a countless host of Collectors and Bookdealers across the years and we look forward to a similar cordial relationship in the future." Bookseller catalogue, 123 items, illus. incl. color, 179 pages, index; paper covers; edges of front cover stained; Good. Stock#ofc0413.

20 pages. Bookseller's mailer catalog, complete with return order card. List of 200 books about Donatello, published from 1386 to 1986. Pristine except for 2 numbers written in blue ink on front cover. Stock#ofc0076.

Four bookseller catalogues. Reese: 58, 329 items, a few photos; 91, 244 items, a few photos; 136, 100 items, illus. Rostenberg, 1776, 251 items, index. All have paper covers; all Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0298.

Bookseller catalogue listing 80 items by and about Daniel Defoe and his times. Stapled in pictorial wraps; Good with ink marks on cover. Stock#ofc0273.

Three bookseller catalogs from William Reese Co.: no. 60, American Travel, 390 items. "This catalogue is devoted to narratives of travel, mostly in North America in the nineteenth century, and even more specifically, mostly in what is now the United States between 1800 and 1875. Within that frame the narratives run from East to West. There are a good number of middle western and southern narratives in particular. ...entries begin as early as Josselyn in 1672 and Hennepin in 1697 and run to the early 20th century. Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean are also represented, with a few bold travellers in South America and the Pacific." No. 107, Travels East of the Mississippi, 471 items; "...includes a wide variety of travel accounts from Canada to the Caribbean." No. 148, European Travellers in America, 346 items; list of frequently cited references at end. "This catalogue is made up entirely of books by European travellers who visited America. While there is considerable geographical and… Read More

Two catalogues from bookseller Michael Heaston. VI, 244 items; VIII, 300 items, a few illus. Both in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0304.

Two bookseller catalogues listing a total of 963 artists' monographs alphabetically by artist, from Alechinsky and Alessi to Zille and Zurbaran. Stapled in paper covers; Good. Stock#ofc0404.

Seven bookseller catalogues listing materials on music, musicians, liturgies, and musical literature. Bel Canto Books, 1230 items; Leamington, 200 items, illus.; Lubrano, 173 items, illus.; Salloch 237, 444 items, a few illus.; Salloch 301, Early American Music, 106 items, index, illus.; Salloch 302, Musical Miscellany, 314 items, a few illus.; Salloch 387, 410 items including opera, autographs, reference, bibliography, history, musicology. All in paper covers; all Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0326.

Bookseller's catalog; 64 pages, 138 items, illus.; printed paper covers; some marking; Good. Stock#ofc0217.

336 items, b&w illus.; Very Good in paper covers. Stock#ofc0212.

Eight book catalogues from D&E Lake of Toronto listing books on Canada and North America. #45, 95 items; #48, 328 items; #50, 91 items; #52, 105 items; #55, 180 items; #80, 422 items; #97, 347 items; #99, 322 items; all stapled in paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0310.

Bookseller catalogue dedicated to the literature, history, and society of the 1960s. 449 items; stapled in red pictorial covers; Good+. Stock#ofc0319.

Hadley, MA, Ken Lopez, [1995]. Soft Cover. [56] p. 23 cm. 558 items. Nicely annotated, imformative catalog by a specialist. Stock# 39,757. Vg/ paper.

Contents: Americana, 1-45; West Indies, 46-51; Maps of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, 52-57; Early Ptolemaic Maps, 58-64; 1613 Mercator / Hondius Atlas, 65; World Maps, 66-71; Collapsible Globe, 72. Bookseller's catalogue; ca. 104 pages, 72 entries, illustrated in color, 24 cm. Good; softcover. Stock#48189.

"Children's Books For the Collector." 40 pages, illustrated, 2401 listings, 26.5 cm. Softcover; VG. Stock#48208.

Florentine bookseller's catalogue devoted to Collodi the author and Collodi the town. Contents: Le avventure di Pinocchio: Edizioni integrali; Traduzioni; Riduzioni, elaborazioni; Curiosità; Pinocchiedi e Pinocchiate; Opere di Collodi: Edizioni singole; scritti sparsi in antologie; Scritti su periodici, strenne etc.; Scritti su Collodi; Addenda: Pinocchiedi e Pinocchiate; Indici, pages 75-78. 78, [2] pages, illustrations, 21 cm. Paper covers slightly worn; Very Good. Stock#ofc0774.

"Offered for Sale at the Book Shop of David Magee..." "This omnium gatherum of Grabhorn Press books... an accumulation from many sources... is by no means complete, but it does offer a wide variety of titles... each reflecting the art and genius of the brothers Grabhorn... nearly all are beautiful examples of the printer's craft..." 63 pages; 30 cm. Cover edges chipped & wrinkled; Very Good. Accompanied by Parke-Bernet Galleries Sale 2263, Fine Press Books: The Grabhorn Press and Other California Examples; Modern American Literature; French XVIII Century Illustration: Mrs. Robert M. Strong Jr., Kenneth Meyer [et alia], catalogue of 17 March 1964. Stock#ofc0694.

"Bradford Morrow's catalogue of Harry Valentine's John Steinbeck Collection is an event of signal importance for Steinbeck collectors throughout the United States and abroad. Seldom does a collection of such magnitude become available to provide collectors, dealers, librarians and Steinbeck scholars the opportunity to acquire desired titles and supporting material for personal and institutional libraries. ...The number of previously unrecorded items described here along with the extensive annotations for selected items makes this catalogue a valued companion volume to the [Goldstone and Payne] Bibliography." (Foreword by Payne). 154 pages, 700 items, illustrations; 24 cm. Paper covers; spine darkened; near Fine. Stock#ofc0816.

Chicago, Lawrence, Spring, 1980. A catalog of many significant book illustrators. 558 entries, illustrated; 21.5 cm. Stock#48196.

Austin, TX, W. Thomas Taylor, 1986. . Soft Cover. [33] p., 23 cm. 135 items. Cover title. A miscellany of fine and curious books. Stock# 39,807. Fine/ paper.