Cohn, Albert M.  GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE WORK EXECUTED DURING THE YEARS 1806-1877.  $75.

Colas, Rene.    BIBLIOGRAPHIE  GENERALE  DU  COSTUME  ET DE LA MODE. $90.

Colman, Samuel ;  Clarence Arthur Coan. Proportional Form;
Futher Studies In The Science Of Beauty, Being Supplemental To Those Set Forth In "Nature's Harmonic Unity," $55.00

Oversized octavo.  xx, 265 p. illus., plates, diagrs. New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons,  1920

Samuel Colman was born in Portland, Maine in 1832. His father was a fine-arts bookseller and publisher who moved to New York City while Samuel, Jr. was a boy. His store on Broadway became a center for artists and literary types. In New York, Colman studied painting under Hudson River artist Asher B. Durand. At age 18 he showed his first painting, "Morning", at the National Academy of Design; in 1860 he was already an associate, and by 1862 he had become a full academician. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the Maryland Historical Society, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From 1860 to 1862 and from 1871 to 1875, Colman traveled to France, Italy, Spain and Morocco, studying and painting. His oils before 1870 are characterized by a lucid style indicative of an affinity for watercolor, which he also used. His later work shows the influence of the barbizon painters in bucolic, unpopulated scenes, broadly executed. Colman was a many faceted man: etcher, collector and authority on oriental art and porcelains. He did some interior design and worked for Louis Comfort Tiffany and John Lafarge in the 1880's. He wrote two books on art, Nature's Harmonic Unity, and Proportional Form. Samuel Coleman died in New York in 1920.

Colyer, Frank. Old Instruments Used for Extracting Teeth. $75.00

Oversized octavo. 245 p. illus. New York, Staples Press, 1952.

This is one of the few works on the history of instruments used for extracting teeth. The treatment is historical and is divided into chapters, which include:

Introduction, Pelicans, Elevators, Keys, Modified Forms of the Key, Screws, Forceps, Instruments for the Perpendicular Extraction of Teeth, Combined Instruments. The book also contains illustrations for 283 old instruments. Quite scarce.

CONCISE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY Fourth edition Complete to 1970. $45.One volume. Stout Quarto. xiii, 1536 pages. Fourth edition complete to 1970. It contains concise versions of all 18,110 biographies contained in the original work and eight supplement volumes. New to this edition is a 170 pages listing of all subjects by occupation. This tome contains over 1500 pages of biographies and is a handy substitution for the 20 or more volumes of the full legth edition.

Condit, Blackford . THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE:Extending From Earliest Saxon Translations to The Present Anglo-American Revision, With Special Reference To The Protestant Religion And The English Language. $85.00

  Octavo.English.  Second edition, Book xix, 507 p. ill., port. ; New York : A.S. Barnes, 1896.
  Second expanded and revised edition of this history of the English Bible.  Chapters on:

 Saxon and English Translations before Wycliffe, 597-1324

--Wycliffe and the Wycholffite Versions. A.d. 1380

--Tyndale and His Translations of the New Testament 1525

--Coverdale’s Bible 1535

--Matthewe’s Bible 1537

--Bibles of the Largest Volume, 1540

--The Genevan Bible, 1560

--The Bishop’s Bible, 1568

--Rheims New Testament 1582

--Douay Bible, 1609

--The Authorized Version, 1611

Conway, Sir Martin. NO MAN'S LAND A HISTORY OF SPITSBERGEN FROM ITS DISCOVERY IN 1595 TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF THE COUNTRY. $85.

Cooper , Kishkuman [E. Cecil McGavin] . THE SEX LIFE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. $75.00

Oversized octavo. 379 pages. New York, Vantage Press, 1963.

Reprint of this cult classic on the purported sex life of Brigham young during the earliest days of the Mormon Movement.  The original is very scarce and very pricey. A basic Mormon Book.

Cook Jr., William Burt. CATALOGUE OF THE EGYPTOLOGICAL LIBRARY…OF THE LATE CHARLES E. WILBOUR.  $80.

8vo., 795 pp. Brooklyn, 1924.  ISBN 1-888262-30-3.In intimate association with many of the great archeologists of his time, Charles E. Wilbour was able through gift and purchase to amass one of the finest collections of books on Egyptology. The books are fully described, in many cases giving the entire table of contents of a book. A handy and important reference. The perfect companion to Hilmy's The Literature of Egypt.

Copeland, Ralph. CATALOGUE OF THE CRAWFORD LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY EDINBURGH. $110.00

Cloth. Quarto. pp.viii.499. Edinburgh: Published by Authority for Her Majesty's Government, 1890.This almost impossible to find catalogue describes about 10,000 books on astronomy. Included are books from the earliest period up until the date of publication. The catalogue contains substantial collations with plates-counts for many citations. There are also 18 cross-referenced subject headings.
The library of Charles Babbage forms the core of this magnificent collection, which is especially strong in all areas related to comets.
This extremely rare catalogue has never been reprinted. Almost all extant copies of the original are very brittle due to the paper used for printing. The catalogue is an alphabetical one, arranged chiefly according to the authors' names. Immediately following the author is title, number of volumes, number of plates, maps, etc., size, and finally the dimensions. Besterman 588.

Copinger, Walter Arthur. THE BIBLE AND ITS TRANSMISSION BEING AN HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL VIEW OF THE HEBREW AND GREEK TEXTS, AND THE GREEK, LATIN AND OTHER VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE (BOTH MS. AND PRINTED) PRIOR TO THE REFORMATION. $70.00

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. viii p. 2 ., 340 p. front. XXVII facsim. London, H. Sotheran & co., 1897The author has attempted to bring together in one volume the bibliographical details regarding the transmission of the bible. The object was to give a general idea of the condition of the texts and the mode of their transmission, to specify the printed editions of the whole Bible, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, in every age, and the vernacular versions prior to the Reformation.
Chapters include:
1. On the Hebrew Text
2. On Translation Generally
3. On the Greek Text of the New Testament
4. The Old Latin Text and the Vulgate
5. Other Latin Translations from the Hebrew
6. On the Various Translations and Versions Prior to the Reformation.
This work remains a standard work to this day. In all approximately 1000 bibles are covered in very considerable detail. Besterman 759.

Copinger, W.A. & Konrad Burger. SUPPLEMENT TO HAIN'S REPERTORIUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM OR COLLECTIONS TOWARDS A NEW EDITION OF THAT WORK. $225.00

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.xvi.511 + [vi].454 + [v]315.xiii.317-670. London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1895-1902.Hain's Repertorium is the basic bibliography to which anyone working on fifteen-century books refers or is referred to. Yet Hain's work is not definitive. Despite Hain's staggering achievement, his work is not definitive.
The major revision to Hain is Copinger's Supplement to Hain's Repetorium. Copinger's revision is divided into 2 parts. The first part contains nearly 7000 corrections of and additions to the collations of works described or mentioned by Hain.
The second part, divided into two volumes, contains nearly 6000 volumes printed in the fifteenth century but not mentioned by Hain. Copinger follows Hain's abbreviations and method for the most part. Konrad Burger provides an index for both printers and presses, and to Hain. He also provides an addenda to Copinger's Supplement. A Standard Work. Besterman 5030.

Copinger, Walter Arthur. INCUNABULA MEDICA: Or the First Half Century of the Latin Bible Being a Bibliographical Account of the Various Editions of the Latin Bible Between 1450 and 1500 with an Appendix Containing a Chronological List of the Editions of the Sixteenth Century. $125.00

Quarto. English Book. Vii.226. ix-x + 54 Illustrations. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1892.

One of the more difficult bibliographies to locate on themarket. An extremely useful bibliography of Latin Bibles published from 1450 to 1500, with extensive annotations by Copinger. Describes in detail 138 rare bibles published before 1500 plus an additional listing of 438 sixteenth century Latin Bibles. Includes 54 full page illustrations of facsimile pages from Latin Bibles. Besterman 758.

Cordier, Henri. ESSAI D'UNE BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES OUVRAGES PUBLIÉS EN CHINE PAR LES EUROPÉENS AU XVIIE ET AU XVIIIE SIÈCLE. $45.

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp. [ii].52. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901.Cordier describes 196 published by Europeans in China from the 17th to the 18th century. This would include all the early missionary works.
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits), with Matteo Ricci as its chief representative, entered China in 1583 rom its base in the Portuguese colony of Macao. The strategy of Ricci and his colleagues was to identify with the Chinese elite, who would in turn, they felt, influence the rest of China. The Jesuits dressed like Confucian scholars-the top of the social hierarchy. They avoided any criticism of Confucius, the patron saint of the scholars, and observed all appropriate amenities when visiting the literati.
They prepared maps, practiced astronomy, constructed and repaired clocks they gave to the emperor, and they wrote treatises that explained Christianity in terms of a Confucian world-view. The missionaries needed to be deliberately ostentatious about their learning to convince the Chinese of their expertise in European learning, so they would emboss their European books with gold covers. In all 196 works are described, with notes.
This catalogue is quite scarce. We could find only one copy for sale on the interest. Besterman 1338.

Cordier, Henri. BIBLIOTHECA INDOSINICA.  $175. 

Cordier, Henri.  BIBLIOTHECA SINICA.  $225.

Cordier, Henri.  BIBLIOTHECA JAPONICA.  $60.

Coues, Elliot (Compiler).  ORNITHOLOGICAL   BIBLIOGRAPHY.  $95.           

Cowan, Robert Ernest. Introd. By Henry R. Wagner. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 1510-1906.  $55.                

 8vo. xxxvii, 279, [64] pp. California, 1914 (Revised 1952).  ISBN 1-57898-009-7. Our reprint of this bibliography of California history is copied from the 1952 edition of the original which contains a new introduction by Wagner and additional notes by Cowan. The bibliography describes 2,500 books, each with full collations. Nearly all the works cited have useful annotations. This work remains a standard on this most important state, and this edition is preferable to the later edition, which omits all works on the pacific coast. There is a chronological index, as well as a title and subject index. Besterman 1085.

Cowan, Robert Ernest & Clark, William Andrews, , Cora Edgerton Sanders Harrison Post , Alfred W Pollard . The Library Of William Andrews Clark, Jr. The Kelmscott And Doves Presses. $60.

Oversized octavo. xxxviii, 123 p., 1 l. San Francisco. Printed by J.H. Nash, 1921. In the introduction, Clark claims that his collection, which forms the basis of this catalogue, includes all the publications of the Kelmscott and Doves Press.  The collations and arrangement of the bibliography was made by Clark's librarian, Robert Ernest Cowan, a famous bibliographer in his own right, and author many other works relating to bibliography.
Alfred Pollard, another name familiar to students of bibliography, wrote an extensive introduction to the bibliography, providing considerable information about William Morris and the history and practical management of both the Kelmscott and Doves Press.
The arrangement of the bibliography is chronological, beginning with the first book issued by Kelmscott in 1891.  Cowan provides full author/title, colophon information, size, binding, contents, collation and a discussion of the illustrations.  References are also provided. Besterman 5128.  125 titles are expertly described.  Original edition limited to 150 copies.  Not previously available in reprint.

Cowan, Robert Ernest & Cowan, Robert Granniss. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA 1510-1930.  $75.

Cloth,the volumes  8vo.v, 337;[ii], 339-705; [iii], 705-825 pp. San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1933.  ISBN 1-57898-037-2. This important work is the most extensive bibliography devoted entirely to California. In all, 5,000 books on California are treated.

Cowley, J D. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABRIDGMENT, DIGESTS, DICTIONARIES AND INDEXES OF ENGLISH LAW TO THE YEAR 1800. $ 75.00 [out of Print]

London: Quaritch, 1932.Reprint. Oversized Octavo. xcv, 196 p. illus. (tables) 39 facsims. (incl. front.). The aim of this bibliography is to record, as far as possible, all printed editions of abridgments, digests, dictionaries and indexes of English law in general from the earliest times to the year 1800 and to illustrate the development of the alphabetical system of digest making. The work is divided into four sections: I. Abridgments and indexes of the statutes. II. Abridgments of common law & equity. III. Common Law indexes IV. Dictionaries & legal encycolpaedias. Each section is preceded by a thorough discussion of each type of work, as well as a discussion of important books and authors for each. About one hundred pages are devoted to the historical introduction. Originally published by Quaritch for the Selden Society. Besterman 2678 citing 330 works. Bookseller Inventory #1144

Cox, Edward Godfrey. REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL.  $195.

Earl of Crawford [James Ludovic Lindsay Crawford]. GRAND ET PETITS Voyages of De Bry Collations & Notes. $95.

Cloth. Quarto. [iv]vii.217. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1884.In 1590, when De Bry was 62, he and his two sons began a huge book project. They gathered up every available picture and description from the new voyages of exploration. By 1634 the family had used them to create 30 books filled with hundreds of stunning and exotic copper-plate illustrations.
The De Brys redrew pictures and expanded the stories that went with them. They didn't know how to draw American Indians, so they made them look Graeco-Roman. They mixed up cultural details -- like putting Indians from opposite hemispheres in the same picture.
Still, these are the most detailed reports of the 16th-century Americas we have. Each volume of the De Bry series was accompanied by graphic illustrations of the events, many made from first hand observations. These very rare prints are some of the earliest authentic images of the New World, for previous accounts either contained no illustrations or their images were crude and mostly imaginary. Thus, De Bry's prints provide an important contemporary view of the history of the nascent days of European conquest and settlement in America.
In 1884 Bibliotheca Lindesiana published the most authoritative bibliography of De Bry's voyages. In it are included complete collations of all editions of Debry's voyages, including illustrations and maps.
This title is notoriously scarce. As far as we can determine it has not been reprinted. Nor could we find auction-records nor copies available on the internet. A truly scarce work. Besterman 1032.

Cresswell, Donald H. The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress. 125.00

Hardbound. Oblong Quarto. xvii, 455 p. illus. Washington; [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975.

This annotated catalogue of prints and drawings from 1765-1790 gathers all the images to be found in the Library of Congress relating to the American Revolution. "Mr. Cresswell's painstaking compilation is multiplied in value by the decision of the Library of Congress to illustrate it on a generous scale. Both the compiler and the publisher deserve congratulations for creating a pictorial sourcebook of the American Revolution. At best, only a few other volumes can qualify for the same usefulness in opening before us, in pictures, a decisive chapter in our past." From the introduction. Over 900 images are reproduced. Includes indexes for Titles, subject, artists, persons, and publishers. Inventory # 1260

Criswell, Elijah Harry. LEWIS & CLARK: LINGUISTIC PIONEERS. $75.

Cloth. Oversize Octavo. ccxi, 102 pp. Columbia: University of Missouri Studies Volume XV, 1940.This important and hard to find scholarly history of the Lewis & Clark Expedition is an essential part of any collection of books on the Corps of Discovery. The book …"attempts to present the results of an examination of the vocabularies found in the extensive journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. For the purpose of distinguishing what is truly American in our language, these vocabularies are perhaps no less significant, though in a different way, than the vocabulary of the typically American author Mark Twain. They are amazingly rich in terms actually used by the hardy backwoodsmen who carried the torch of civilization across the American continent and made it the home of a nation."-From the Preface. Included is a general history of the expedition, a description of the organization, equipment and land explored, material on zoological and botanical words encountered. We found a recent a copy of the original edition on the internet for $1500. To our knowledge the book has not been reprinted before. Our edition will be limited to 175 hand numbered copies.

Cundall, Frank.  BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE   WEST   INDIES. $45.

Cuthbertson, Stuart and J. C. Ewers. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN FUR TRADE. $65.

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.ii.191 U.S. Department of the Interior, 1939.The fur trade in North America began almost as soon as Europeans began their explorations of the North American mainland. The Fur Trade flourished for about 250 years after the arrival of the Europeans. This period of time can be roughly divided into three sections, the "French Era" from 1600 to 1760, the "British Era" from 1760 to 1816, and the "American Era" from 1816 to 1850. By 1850, the fur trade had mostly come to an end.
The fur trade slowly collapsed. The trade had only worked when the Indians had control of the land. The fur trade did not die entirely from a lack of furs. Furs had become hard to find at a number of times during the fur trade era. The lack of Indians available to assist with trapping and maintaining the trading system was perhaps as important. The change in fashion to the silk hat in Europe was the final blow.
There is remarkably little material published on the bibliography of the American Fur Trade. This bibliography is one of the few book length efforts to treat the subject, and includes 2000 itmes. Cuthbertson's work is also one of the few bibliographies cited in The Plains and the Rockies. Besterman 2394
This rare work is published in mimeograph sheets for distribution to institutions and interested parties.

Cutright, Paul Russell. A HISTORY OF THE LEWIS & CLARK JOURNAL. $75.

Cloth. Octavo. 311pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. It is safe to say that there is no more important history of the publications of the Lewis & Clark Journals than Cutright's classic account. Several of the members of the Expedition published accounts of their explorations. Lewis & Clark later published an official account. In this important work, Cutright provides an in depth and scholarly analysis of all these journals, their progression from manuscripts to publications, the various editions of each journal, and the circumstances surrounding publication, as well as fascinating accounts of long lost manuscripts, and extremely rare journals borrowed and never returned. Our edition is strictly limited to 150 hand numbered copies. Published by arrangement with the University of Oklahoma Press

Czaplicka, Marie Antoinette. The Turks Of Central Asia In History And At The Present Day. $55.00

Octavo. English 242 p. fold. map. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1918