MARTINO
PUBLISHING
Haebler-Heawood
Haebler, Konrad. BIBLIOGRAFIA
IBERICA DEL SIGLO XV. $75.
Cloth. Octavo.
Two Volumes bound in one. Vii.385 + ix.258. La Haya & C. 1903-1917. ISBN 1-57898-235-9.
Bibliografia Iberica remains to this day the
standard work on early printed books in Spain and Portugal. In all, 1500 early
printed books are described. There are
also useful indexes of printers. Besterman 5174. Sheehy (1986) AA1094.
Haebler, Konrad. THE EARLY
PRINTERS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. $65.
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. [vii].151.
[lxv.] 153-167. London: Bibliographical Society, 1897.
Haebler believed that the history of
the introduction of printing into the Iberian Penisula had yet to be written,
but that the materials existed for doing so. His is an effort to create such
a history.
Haebler's work is a bibliography of Iberian incunabula and early printed books
through 1502. His work begins with an extended historical essay on the evolution
of printing in Spain and Portugal, and concludes with a bibliography of issues
of the press there.
In all 600 books are described, with occasional notes and cross- references
to Hain and other standard works.
This study was No. IV of the Bibliographical Societie's Illustrated Monographs.
It was printed at the Chiswick Press. To our knowledge it has not been reprinted.
Konrad Haebler is one of the best-known bibliographers of his era, having written
standard works on European incunabula and the history of early bindings. His
works are still considered important today. Includes 33 illustrations of woodcuts
and early devices. Besterman 5174.
Haebler, Konrad. ROLLEN-UND
PLATTENSTEMPEL DES XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS. $125.
Hardbound.
Cloth. Large Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. XI. 518;480. Ten Illustrations.
Leipzig: Bibliothekswissenschaftlicher Arbetien: 1928-1929.
Blind-stamped panels are designs impressed on the leather
of a cover of a book by means of a single engraved wood or metal panel stamp
bearing a complete design. Panel stamps came into wider use in the later 13th
century, chiefly in the Netherlands. As
printing spread in the late 15th century the production of large numbers of
books called for quicker binding. This led to the use of panel stamps and roll
tools as a means of adding decoration to the covers. In France, large historiated
panels that could effectively embellish a whole octavo or quarto board were
used during the period 1488-1528. Similar stamps were much used in Germany,
particularly on pigskin covers. Haebler's work is the standard reference of
these panel stamps and roll tools. Thousand of rolls and stamps are descrbed,
as are their users and manufactures. This two volumes set is very difficult
to find, though once reprinted in the 1960s. Not in Besterman.
Hafen,
Leroy R. THE
OVERLAND MAIL 1849-1869. $65.
Cloth.
Octavo. xiv, 361 pages. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926.Illustrated
including folding color map.
Carl
Wheat describes this book as the "…definitive study of an important phase
of early western social and political development…" Hafen is the well
known author of a dozen or so histories of the American West, and served as
historian of the State Historical Society and Natural History Society of Colorado.
Hafen provides a history of the Pony Express, the Butterfield Overland mail,
and other overland mails, as well as ocean mail to the Pacific. There are also
chapters on pioneer monthly mails to the inter-mountain route, the Stage Coach
mail, the Indian Peril, the fight for a daily mail on the Central Route, mail
service to the Pike's Peak region, and others. There is also a bibliography
of books cited, and a folding color map of the overland mail. Strictly limited
to 150 hand numbered copies. Howes H-11. Paher 751. Flake 3775. Wheat,
Gold Rush.
Hagen, Hermann August. BIBLIOTHECA ENTOMOLOGICA.
Die Litteratur über das Ganze Gebiet der Entomologie, bis zum Jahre 1862.
$120.
Cloth. Two Volumes bound in one. Oversized Octavo. pp.xxi.566 + [ii].542.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1862-1863.
William Kirby and William Spence, both beetle collectors, brought Entomology,
the study of insects, to the forefront of respectable science during the period
of 1815-1826 with their publication of four books titled Introduction to Entomology.
Kirby has been called the "Father of Entomology" in England and was
probably one of the most famous entomologists of all time. He was a minister
for 58 years and extensively studied insects during that time. He wrote many
entomological papers, and he knew personally or corresponded with most of the
important entomologists of the time. He met William Spence in 1808, and together
they published the first volume of their famous treatise in 1815, the first
popular book on insects in English. He described numerous new species of beetles
from North America. His collections now reside n the British Museum (Natural
History) and the Linnean Society.
Hagen's bibliography is one of the most exhaustive works listed in Besterman.
In all about 22,500 works are cited. Though once reprinted, Hagen's reference
is extremely hard to find. We found no copies for sale on the internet. Besterman
2031
Hain,
Ludwig. REPERTORIUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM. $225.
ISBN
1-888262-19-2 (SET) 8vo. For volumes bound in two, 598; 568; 560; 552 pp. Stuttgart &
Paris, 1826-1838.
Hain’s
Repertorium “is the basic bibliography to which anyone working on fifteenth
century books refers to or is referred to.” Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography
124. That the Repertorium has become the foundation for all work on early
printing is due to its method. Wherever possible, Hain printed the beginning
and end (the incipit and the explicit), line by line, of every work.
Hall, Trevor H. A
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON CONJURING IN ENGLISH FROM 1580 TO 1850. $45.
Cloth,
8vo. 18 Illustrations. 96 pp. Minneapolis: Carl Waring Jones, 1957. ISBN 1-57898-091-7.
Hall’s
work remains to this date one of the standard works on the subject. The arrangement
of the bibliography is alphabetical. In all 323 items are described. Each item
contains full author and title information, collation, place of publication
and date.
Halter, Ernest J.
COLLECTING FIRST EDITIONS OF FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT: CONTRIBUTIONS TO A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
$65.
Cloth. 8vo. Pp.xx. 195.
Chicago: Privately printed for Subscribers only, 1949.
This
is the most important of the several bibliographies of the life and work of
FDR. More importantly, this is a guide
for those who collect the works of FDR. The authors included all books, pamphlets
and leaflets of more than two pages in length dealing wholly or principally
with FDR’s life or death, his acts and services, his character, personality,
his utterances or writings, his wife, mother, children, ancestry or possessions.
They also include books wherein Roosevelt’s name appears in the title or sub-title.
In all 950 items are included. The
arrangement of the books is alphabetical. Most importantly, most entries have
a valuable annotation discussing the history and significance of the item. It
seems safe to say that this is an indispensable guide for any collector of Rooseveltiana.
The original edition was privately printed for subscribers only. Less than 100 copies were printed. To our knowledge it has not been reprinted.
Besterman 5456.
Harley, George
W. NOTES
ON THE PORO IN LIBERIA & MASKS AS AGENTS OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN NORTHEAST
LIBERIA. $95.
Cloth. Quarto. v, 40pp of text
containing 1 page of drawings of masks and dancers & xiv, 45 pages of text
followed by 15 pages of photographs of 135 mask, dancers, and masking paraphernalia.
Cambridge: Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology,
Vol. XIC, No.2, 1941 & Vol. XXXII, No. 2, 1959
This
new reprint edition comprises two of Harley's seminal studies on the Poro Society
and on marks and masking traditions in Liberia. The Notes on the Poro of Liberia
is a landmark study dealing with the functioning of the Poro as an integral
part of the lives of various peoples in Liberia and the kinds of masks used
in different regions. A very wide range of representative masks is shown in
the photographs Masks as Agents of Social Control In Northeast Liberia is a
brilliant and scholarly, yet highly readable, study on the subject that includes
an abundance of photographs of many masks. These two works are bound together
in a handsome cloth cover in an edition limited to 200 hand-numbered copies.
Hazard, Nicolas Auguste & Delteil,
Loys. Catalogue Raisonné
de l'Oeuvre Lithographie de Honoré Daumier. $125.00
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.viii. 844. Orrouy/Oise [France]: N.A. Hazard.
1904
Daumier, Honoré (1808-79). French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor.
In his lifetime he was known chiefly as a political and social satirist, but
since his death recognition of his qualities as a painter has grown.
In 1830, after learning the still fairly new process of lithography, he began
to contribute political cartoons to the anti-government weekly Caricature. He
was an ardant Republican and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in 1832
for his attacks on Louis-Philippe, whom he represented as `Gargantua swallowing
bags of gold extorted from the people'. On the suppression of political satire
in 1835 he began to work for Charivari and turned to satire of social life,
but at the time of the 1848 revolution he returned to political subjects. He
is said to have made more than 4,000 lithographs, wishing each time that the
one he had just made could be his last. In the last years of his life he was
almost blind and was saved from destitution by Corot.
The original edition of this catalogue was printed in 1904 in an edition of
800 copies. It is scarce on the market. It has never been reprinted. This catalogue
remains a basic work, including 3958 lithographs by this artist. The authors
provide dimensions in millimeters, information about inscriptions and states.
There are also useful descriptions. Riggs page 209. A standard work.
Healey, George Harris; Cynthia Morgan St John & Victor Emanuel.
THE CORNELL WORDSWORTH COLLECTION A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTED
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MR. VICTOR EMANUEL CORNELL 1919. $95.
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.xiii.458. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University
Press, 1957.
Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an early leader of romanticism in English poetry,
and ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature.
He has probably been the most voluminously studied of all the Romantic poets.
The books and manuscripts catalogued in this collection had its beginning in
the St. John Collection of Wordsworth, which was acquired in 1925 by Mr. Victor
Emanuel and presented to Cornell University.
The collection represents forty years of sustained attention on the subject
of Wordsworth and his publications. In all approximately 3500 items are included.
The Catalogue is divided into five parts. Parts I & II describe the printed
editions of his work. The detail provided by each description is exceptional.
For each item the following is provided: Full title, Publisher, date, special
imprint, FULL COLLATION, pagination, contents, issue points and frequent annotations
regarding exceptional features. The collations alone are quite valuable, as
is the discussion of issue points. Besterman 6572.
Heartman, Charles F; James R Canny. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FIRST PRINTINGS
OF THE WRITINGS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. $65.
Together With A Record Of First And Contemporary Later Printings of His Contributions
To Annuals, Anthologies, Periodicals And Newspapers Issued During His Lifetime,
Also Some Spurious Poeana And Fakes.
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp. 295. The Book Farm: Hattiesburg, Mississippi,
1943. Revised edition.
"Unquestionably one of American's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe [1809-1849]
was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience-the
"inner world" of dreams, hallucination, and imagination. He wrote
fiction, poetry, and criticism and was a magazine editor.
Poe's critics interpret this pattern to represent the search for the individual
by going deep into himself and his ultimate arrival at the umplumbed mystery
of his inner self." The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography.
Heartman's bibliography is still valuable because of its treatment of Poe's
periodical publications. The author also treats some spurious Poeana and some
fakes that appeared in the marketplace after World War I. This revised edition
describes 750 items.
The author provides full collation and extensive discussion of each title, including
issue points and extended annotations. A very useful reference. Besterman 4881.
Heath, Thomas Little. APOLLONIUS OF PERGA TREATISE ON CONIC SECTIONS:
EDITED IN MODERN NOTATION. $65.
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. clxx, 254 p. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University
Press, 1896.
Very little is known about the life of Apollonius, the last great mathematician
of antiquity. He was born at Perga in Pamphylia, southern Asia Minor, during
the reign [247-222 b.c.] of Ptolemy Euergetes, King of Egypt. When he was quite
young, Apllonius went to study at the school in Alexandria established by Euclid.
Apollnius's fame in antiquity was based on his work on conics. His treatise
on this subject consisted of eight books, of which seven have survived. Like
most of the well-known Greek mathematicians, Apollonius was also a talented
astronomer.
The Conics was written book by book over a long period of time. The general
preface to the work is given n Book 1. The first four books are an elementary
introduction. These books are thus an extension of the earlier conics by other
mathematicians such as Euclid. Since most of these results were already well
known, one might expect Apollonius's presentation to be more concise and to
attempt a greater logic and generality. Beginning with Book V, more advanced
topics are taken up. Book V is perhaps the best of the latter four.
Heath's work is the standard English translation of Apollonius's principal work,
and contains modern mathematical notation.
Heath, Thomas L.. [With] Leonard Euler. DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA:
A STUDY IN THE HISTORY OF GREEK ALGEBRA. With a Supplement Containing an Account
of Fermat's Theorems and Problems Connected with Diophantine Analysis and Some
Solutions of Diophantine Problems by Euler. $65
Powell's Bookstore and Martino Publishing, 2003. Chicago and Mansfield Center,
Conn.: Reprint of 1910 Cambridge University Press, Second edition. Cloth, [vi]
387 pp.
Heawood, Edward. WATERMARKS, MAINLY OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES.
$195.00
Cloth. Quarto. pp. 3p. 1., 11-154, 533 plates. Paper Publications Society:
Hilversum, Holland, 1969.
Martino Publishing is pleased to announce the publication Heawood's Watermarks
by Krown & Spellman, Booksellers of Culver City, California. The title is
available from either Krown and Spellman [krownspl@pacbell.net] [Telephone 310-842-9433]
or Martino Publishing.
Heawood's Watermarks was originally issued in 1950 as the first of the Paper
Publications Society's Monumenta and has proven to be one of the Society's most
popular volumes. This no doubt has to do with the fact that it was the largest
published collection of post-Briquet watermarks. This being so, the Society
decided to make it available again in reprint.
A completely revised edition was out of the question, but it proved possible
to supply the reader with the corrected text and plates of the 1957 reprint
together with a fairly substantial list of corrigenda and addenda.
Krown and Spellman is pleased to offer this expanded edition in reprint form.
Heawood's work is very hard to find. Repeated searches have found no copies
available for the last year or so.
Arntzen & Rainwater N77. Published by arrangement.