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Choulant, Ludwig. HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANATOMIC ILLUSTRATION.  $85.

8vo. Xxvii, 435pp. Illustrated. Cloth. New York, 1945. Reprint 1993. ISBN 1-888262-41-9.Through originally published in Leipzig in 1852, Choulant’s work remains a standard work on the subject of early anatomic illustration in books. Extensive bio- bibliographic information on the most prominent engravers and illustrators from the 15th century to the 18th century.

Chubb, Thomas & J W Skells & H Beharrell. THE PRINTED MAPS IN THE ATLASES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1579-1870. $95.00

Oversized Octavo.  Xvii.479 pages. Profusely illustrated. London: Homeland Association, 1927 1830 pages. This work is believed to be the first attempt at a comprehensive description of the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland.  The arrangement is chronological, the various editions or reprints being placed immediately after the first issue.  Cross-references to the editions or reprints are given under the date of publication; with a reference to the number they bear.
Chubb also provides biographical notes on the mapmakers, engravers and publishers.  There are numerous reproductions of the titles pages as well as of actual maps.  In all 7500 maps are described.  Besterman 2637.
Though reprinted several times, copies are uncommon on the out of print market.  Still a useful work.  Illustrated with 219 black and white facsimiles of maps and charts.

 

[Church Catalogue]. Cole, George Watson (Compiler). THE   E.D. CHURCH LIBRARY.   A Catalogue of Books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America: Forming part of the library of E.D. Church. $250.

8vo. Five vols. 2,635 pp. Illustrated. Cloth. New York, 1907. Reprint 2005. ISBN 1-57898-518-8. A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery & Early History of North & South America. The foremost reference work on early Americana. It is a monumental work which includes 1,385 entries of books about America, arranged chronologically from the earliest period to 1884, with author and title index. Gives for each book: full title, collation, and important historical and bibliographical annotations. Sheehy DB3.

 

[Church Catalogue]. Cole, George Watson (Compiler). THE E.D. CHURCH LIBRARY. $250.

8vo. Five vols. 2,635 pp. Illustrated. Cloth. New York, 1907. Reprint 1995. ISBN 1-57898-022-4.

A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery & Early History of North & South America . The foremost reference work on early Americana. It is a monumental work which includes 1,385 entries of books about America, arranged chronologically from the earliest period to 1884, with author and title index. Gives for each book: full title, collation, and important historical and bibliographical annotations. Sheehy DB3.

 

Churchill, W. A. Watermarks In Paper In Holland, England, France, Etc. In The XVII and XVIII Centuries And Their Interconnection. $145.00

Hardbound. Quarto. 94 p. cdxxxii p. incl. front., illus. [96 pp. text + 432 pp. illustrations]. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1935

A standard work. The extensive introduction contains an alphabetical List of Dutch papermakers, a list of French paper-makers who worked for the Dutch market, and a list of British paper-makers and mills. At the end a survey of particulars concerning the watermarks in question. The corpus of the work is systematically arranged according to motives and contains 578 full size reproductions of watermarks. Bookseller Inventory # 1266

 

 

Cicognara, Leopoldo. CATALOGO RAGIONATO DEI LIBRI D’ARTE E D’ANTICHITÀ POSSEDUTI DAL CONTE CICOGNARA.    $85.

Cloth. Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. Pp.xiv.415 + [iii]. 333. lxxvii. Pisa, 1821. This is the “catalogue of the vast library on archaeology and art history collected by Cicognara, himself a notable art historian.  It is tantamount to a bibliography of the pre-1820 literature on these subjects, owing to the detailed bibliographical and critical notes to the 4,800 works, and is still frequently consulted and quoted.” Breslauer & Folter #121. Cicognara’s collection is now in the Vatican.  Included are chapters on copper and wood engravings, theatrical architecture, sculpture, fete books, costumes, emblems, mythology, roman baths, biblical illustration, music, as well as other topics. The bibliographical descriptions include frequent annotations by the author. The original edition is quite scarce.  Though reprinted several times, the title is not in print. Besterman 465.

Clark, D. Thomas. TRAVELS IN THE OLD SOUTH: A BIBLIOGRAPHY three Volumes 1527-1783. $150.

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. Vol. I; pp.xix.332. Vol. II; xv.292. Vol. III; xviii.406. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956 & 1959. The preparation of this bibliography extended over a period of twelve years. This volume attempts to evaluate the major portion of the travelers' accounts that pertain to the old frontier and the colonial South.
Volume One covers Spanish Travel in the South from 1527-1750. In all 331 books are described. Volume Two covers the expanding South from 1750-1825 and the Ohio Valley and the Cotton Frontier. An additional 239 volumes are described in the second volume. Volume Three covers the Ante Bellum South from 1825-1860, and includes an additional 506 books.
For each volume Clark provides a full title, pagination, size, location of copy, and, most importantly, very extensive annotations and appraisals for each title. It is the latter that give the bibliography its importance.
This bibliography remains a standard work to this day. Our new edition contains three volumes bound in one. Reprinted by arrangement with the University of Oklahoma Press. Besterman 6349.

 

Clark, Edited by Thomas D. TRAVELS IN THE NEW SOUTH A BIBLIOGRAPHY.  $85.

Cloth. Octavo. Two volumes bound in one.  Pp.xvi.267 +  pp.xiii.304.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1962 . With the publication of these two volumes, the University of Oklahoma Press’s six volume series of bibliographies of Southern Travel is complete. Volume I of the Series on the New South describes 508 books on the postwar period from 1865-1900.  The descriptions are quite extensive and the annotations are extremely useful. Many annotations cover a page or more of text. Volume II describes 627 travel books from 1900-1955.  The two volumes together comprise one of the most useful bibliographies on travels to the South and should be considered standard references in any bookseller’s library. Taken together these books deal with every phase of Southern life from 1865 on. From them the student may glean a comprehensive view of Southern society—social, economic, cultural and political—during these years.  Besterman 6350.

 

 

Clarke, W. Sidney & Adolphe Blind. THE  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF CONJURING AND KINDRED DECEPTIONS. $40.

Cloth, Octavo. pp. 84. London, 1920. ISBN 1-57898-096-8.Particulars are given on about 2,500 publications. This is by far the most comprehensive work listed in Besterman, though work has been done in this field since 1965, the last edition of Besterman.

 

 

Clarke, S. A. Pioneer Days of Oregon History. $95.00

Hardbound. Cloth. Octavo. 2 volumes in one. Frontispiece, plates, ports. Cleveland, The Arthur Clark Company, 1905.

The Oregon Country was originally claimed by the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, and Spain. The U.S. based its claim on Robert Gray's discovery of the Columbia River in 1792 and on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Great Britain based its claim on British explorations of the Columbia River. Spain's claim was based on the fact that they had explored the Pacific coast in the late 1700s. Russia based its claim off the settlements it had stretching from Alaska into Oregon. France and Spain had divided their western, 18th-century territorial claims along the 42nd parallel. France's loss at the end of the Seven Years' War effectively ended its claim to the area. Spain gave up its claims piecemeal, at the convention in 1790 that followed the seizure of Nootka Sound and relinquishing any remaining claims to territory north of the 42nd parallel to the United States as part of the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819. Russia gave up its claims in separate treaties with the United States in 1824 and with Britain in 1825. Meanwhile, the United States and Britain negotiated the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 that extended the boundary between their territories west along the 49th parallel to the Rocky Mountains. The two countries agreed to "joint occupancy" of the land west of the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. In the early 1840s, some Oregonians claimed to have established a provisional republic, with a 3-person executive branch and a chief executive. A certain faction of Oregonian politicians hoped to continue Oregon's political evolution into an independent nation, but pressure to join the United States would prevail by 1848.[1] Early settlement After the Lewis and Clark Expedition, fur traders, such as Jedediah Smith and Jim Beckwourth, now known as mountain men, were searching the Rocky Mountains for beaver pelts. These trappers adopted Native American ways and many of them married native women. They used Native American trails in the Rockies which went to California and Oregon. The North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, British fur companies, penetrated Oregon Country from the north, via Athabasca Pass. At the same time, John Jacob Astor founded the Pacific Fur Company, which established a fur-trading post at Astoria, Oregon in 1811, beginning an era of competition between American and British fur trading in the region. After the War of 1812, the Hudson's Bay Company took control of the Pacific Northwest's fur trade. The arrival of a British warship on the Columbia River in 1813 prompted the Astorians to salvage what they could by selling the entire Pacific Fur Company to their British rival. Under British control, Astoria was renamed Fort George.[2] John McLoughlin, appointed head or Chief Factor of the region in 1824, moved its regional headquarters to Fort Vancouver, which became the de facto political center of the Pacific Northwest until the Oregon Treaty in 1846. In the 1820s Americans began to migrate to this land beyond the Rocky Mountains, with large migrations beginning in the 1840s over the Oregon Trail. As Eastern United States churches started to hear news of the Oregon Country, some of them decided to send missionaries to convert the Indians. Jason Lee, a methodist minister from New York, was the first of these Oregon missionaries. He built a mission school for Indians in the Willamette Valley. Clark's is one of the best and still best history of the Pioneer days in Oregon. Bookseller Inventory # 1282

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Clark, John Willis. THE CARE OF BOOKS: AN ESSAY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARIES AND THEIR FITTINGS, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. $95
Oversized Octavo. Xviii, 330pp. Frontispiece illustration, 156 illustrations of plates portraits, plans, tables, …Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901 . Clark attempts to trace the methods used through out the ages to preserve, to use and to make accessible  printed books or manuscript.  He is mostly concerned with the position, the size and the arrangement of the rooms that housed these treasures and with the progressive development of fittings, catalogues and other appliances that facilitated the access and use of the books.
There is not much written on this subject, and Clark's work remains a standard text in the field.  There are chapters on Assyrian Record Rooms, libraries in western antiquity, Christian libraries, monastic collections, Italian libraries, the wall system, suppression of the monasteries, Vatican libraries, and private libraries. Includes 156 illustrations

 

 

 

Claussen, Martin P. and Friis, Herman R.  DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG OF MAPS PRODUCED BY CONGRESS 1817-1843.  $40.

 8vo., 104 pp. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1941.  ISBN 1-57898-005-4. Claussen and Friis’ Descriptive Catalog of Maps lists 503 maps that are scattered throughout v. 1-429 of the Congressional Series from the 15^th through the 27^th Congresses (1817-1843). Entries are arranged chronologically by Congress with an index to topic. There are also indexes to place-names that appear in titles, names of persons, governmental agencies, and institutions involved in compiling the maps. Besterman 6247. Sheehy CL264. Ristow 73

 

 

Clizbee, Azalea  (Compiled by). CATALOGUE OF THE WYMBERLEY JONES DE RENNE GEORGIA LIBRARY.    $195.

8vo. Three vols. 1,396 pp. Wormsloe, 1931.  ISBN 1-888262-70-2 (v.1); 1-888262-71-0(v.2); 1-888262-72-9 (v.3); 1-888262-73-7 (Set). The De Renne Library possesses by far the most important existing collection of historical and literary material relating to Georgia as a Colony and a State. Practically all known early works are represented, books of description and travel, exploration and settlement; official Colonial and State publications. In all, over 6,500 books and manuscripts are meticulously described with full collations, descriptions, notes and annotations.

Cobham, Claude Delaval. EXCERPTA CYPRIA: Materials for a History of Cyprus An Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus. $90.

Cloth. Large Octavo. iii, 523 pages. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 1908. In 1570 the Ottoman Turks invaded the island. The capital Nicosia withstood a siege of 45 days before falling to the conqueror. Only the wonderfully fortified and valiantly defended Famagusta resisted with success, despite being besieged by 200,000 enemy troops and defended by only 8000 Venetians and Greeks. During the 11 months of the siege, the Turks attacked the city with 163,000 shells. The Turks lost 80,000 men before the walls, and failed to conquer the city, which finally capitulated in August 1571 when not a single grain of wheat or handful of gunpowder was left. Despite the agreement made for the safe departure of the remaining defenders of the city, they were all slaughtered, and their Leader Mark Antony Bragadin, was tortured savagely and died while being flayed alive. Then followed three centuries of Ottoman rule, characterized mainly by the almost complete spiritual and cultural isolation of Cyprus from Europe. As a small and relatively out-off province of the Ottoman Empire, Cyprus was left to fall into a state of economic, social and cultural decline. Almost the entire population, including the church leaders, could neither read nor write. During the Ottoman occupation there were several revolutionary movements. Some were nationalistic (their aim was liberation from the Turkish yoke), while others were social in nature, (aiming at better living conditions). In 1878, following a deal with Sultan Abdul Hamit, Cyprus was handed over to Great Britain. This, among much else, meant that Cyprus became linked once more with Europe (economically, socially, culturally). Although the English Colonial period was a time of harsh exploitation of the Cypriot people, it must not be forgotten that it was during this period that the foundations were laid for a state of law which functioned in all sectors.
Excerpt Cypria is a collection of papers printed between 1892 and 1895 as a supplement to the Owl, a newspaper published at Nicosia. Some of these are quite rare and difficult to find. Cobham collected and translated these papers as part of an effort to provide materials for a history of Cyprus. The historical materials comprise 478 pages. At the end of the book is "An Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus" [Fifth Edition], listing about a thousand titles on the subject. Besterman 1550

Cohen, Bernard & Elliott, Clark. A Second Supplement to the Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of The Works Of Sir Isaac Newton and Related Material...$ 50.00

Original edition. Book xxviii, 95 p. : ill., facsims., port. Cambridge, Mass.: Burndy Library, 2002 . This second supplement adds 217 works to the 606 works described in the first volume. Included are not only the works of Newton himself, but works edited by him and works about him. Also included are biographies, portraits, medals and coins relating to Newton. The published catalogue of the collection remains a standard work in the field. Each item is meticulously described. Bindings are described, and there are notes on the historical significance of each title. Annotations are quite extensive and useful.

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