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Kallendorf, Craig W. & Wells, Maria. ALDINE PRESS BOOKS AT THE HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. $85.

Original edition.Trade Paper. Large Octavo. 400pp. Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Center, 1998.

Aldus Manutius (c. 1450-1515) came to Venice in 1490 and published his first book, a Greek grammar by Constantine Lascaris, in 1494-1495. Active throughout the sixteenth century, the Aldine Press revolutionized the production, accessibility, and use of the book. Most of its early publications were of Greek texts, including a folio edition of the works of Aristotle and first editions of more than ninety other Greek texts, but from the beginning the press also published many important Latin and Italian authors in a variety of fields. Aldus introduced a number of innovations that helped shape the development of the modern book, including italic type and the smaller pocket-sized volume. The Ransom Center collection of Aldine books represents one of the largest holdings of this material in the United States. Many of the books, almost three hundred of them, are of unusual interest for their exceptional bindings, handpainted illuminations, and famous owners. This descriptive catalogue contains full descriptions of each book, including records of its early owners and how they used their books. This work will be of interest to a wide variety of individual readers-historians of the book, bibliographers, literary and cultural historians, book collectors, and antiquarian booksellers-and to university libraries. Craig W. Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. Maria X. Wells is Adjunct Professor of French and Italian and Curator of Italian Collections at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Now out of print, this title is available only from Martino Fine Books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karpinski, Louis Charles. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF MICHIGAN, 1804-1880, WITH A SERIES OF OVER ONE HUNDRED REPRODUCTIONS OF MAPS CONSTITUTING AN HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE GREAT LAKES AND MICHIGAN & HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE GREAT LAKES AND MICHIGAN: TO ACCOMPANY THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF MICHIGAN.
$110.00

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. pp.539 + Atlas volume. Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission, 1931.
Kapinski's classic work is much more than just a bibliography of the printed maps of Michigan. The story of the printed map of Michigan is to a large extent also the story of the printed map of the states. Consequently the cartography begins with Mercator's 1587 world map, the first printed map to show the Great Lakes. Useful notes explain how Ortelius made this lake of Mercator over into an arm of the Arctic Ocean.
The arrangement is chronological by map publication. In all about 1000 printed items are described, including atlases of the region.
Our edition also reprints the hard to find atlas that accompanied the original publication of Karpinski's work. An Atlas to Accompany the Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, originally published in 1931 but bound separately, is included in our edition. The atlas contains 100 printed maps arranged in chronological order. The bibliography contains a comprehensive index.
Karpinski's bibliography and accompanying atlas are not often found together, but are included in this reprint edition. Besterman 3903. Keyguide to Information Sources in Cartography #101.

 

Karpinski, Louis Charles (Translated by). Robert of Chester's Latin Translation Of The Algebra Of Al-Khowarizmi / With An Introduction, Critical Notes And An English Version By Louis Charles Karpinski. $ 60.00

Hardbound. Octavo. English Book vii, 164, [6] p. : ill. New York: Macmillan; London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1915.
This monograph impresses the reader as being an exceedingly thorough study. It exhibits the modern trend toward a more searching and more critical study of historical material. Its scope is comprehensive. It is much more than a reprint of Robertof Chester's Latin translation from the Arabic, accompanied by a translation into English. It contains in outline the development of algebra before the time of Al-Khowarizmi, an account of Al-Khowarizmi's Algebra and Arithmetic, and their bearing upon the development of mathematics. Much biographical detail is gleaned from out-of-the-way sources, pertaining to Al-Khowarizmi, Robert of Chester and other medieval writers who prepared translations of, or were directly influenced by, the algebra of the great Mohammedan. Robert of Chester's Latin translation was made in the twelfth century. The different extant manuscripts are compared and the deviations from the text of Scheybl, which is followed in this edition, are given in foot-notes with a minutia that seems almost excessive. A Latin glossary assists the reader in making out the medieval Latin. Added interest is secured by photographic reproductions of pages from the three most complete manuscripts of Robert of Chester's translation. Neither time nor expense has been spared in making the monograph a minute, yet attractive study of the earliest translation into Latin of the famous Arabic text.

 

 

 

Kayser, Gabriel. BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'OUVRAGES AYANT TRAIT À L'AFRIQUE EN GÉNÉRAL DANS SES RAPPORTS AVEC L'EXPLORATION & LA CIVILISATION DE CES CONTRÉES. $50.00

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.xv.176. Bruxelles: Gabriel Kayser, 1887.
In the early 19th century, Europeans began penetrating the inland of Africa. The main problem they faced was malaria. The African Association sent Mungo Park, a Scottish doctor, to discover more about River Niger. Between 1795-1797, Park traveled up River Gambia to reach the upper Niger. At Segu, he saw it flowing eastwards. Between 1805-1806, Park was sent by the British government to find if River Niger reached the sea. Park sailed about 1000 km down the Niger but he drowned at the Bussa rapids.
In 1822, Major Laing, an Englishman, discovered River Niger's source. During 1822-1825, Clapperton, Denham and Oudney, sent by the British government, explored further. They crossed the desert from Tripoli and reached Lake Chad in 1823. Denham discovered River Benue. Oudney died in January 1824. At Sokoto, Clapperton learnt that River Niger's outlet was in the Gulf of Guinea. Clapperton and Richard Lander took another journey in 1825 from Badagri, near Lagos, to Sokoto. But Clapperton died there and Lander returned home. In 1830, Richard Lander and his brother John journeyed from Badagri to Bussa. They sailed downriver and discovered River Niger's delta at the oil rivers. This completed the Niger's exploration and made it a possible inland trade route.
Between 1827-1828, Rene Caillie, a Frenchman, traveled from the Guinea coast to Timbuktu and then across the Sahara to Tangier. In 1850-1855, Dr. Barth, a German employed by the British government, journeyed from Tripoli and explored the region between Lake Chad and Timbuktu. In 1854, William Baikie's British expedition successfully navigated the Niger, using quinine against malaria. Next, European penetration inland increased. By this time the African Association had developed into the powerful Royal Geographical Society
Kayer's bibliography is an important early bibliography on Africa. In all 2276 items are described. He focuses especially on central Africa. Kayser's intention was to provide a bibliography of all books on Africa from the beginning of printing to publication [1887. The arrangement is by region, and is especially strong in the Congo.

 

 

 

Kennedy, William. A Short Narrative of The Second Voyage Of The Prince Albert, In Search Of Sir John Franklin. $85.00

Octavo. xiii, [1], xxv, [27]-202 p. front., plates, fold. map. London, W.H. Dalton, 1853.

Born in Saskatchewan and educated in Scotland, Kennedy returned to Canada to work for the Hudson Bay Company for eight years. In 1851, Kennedy led an expedition, privately financed by Lady Franklin, in search of her husband, Sir John Franklin. At Batty Bay he left the ship, Prince Albert, and travelled for 97 days, covering 1100 miles with dogs and sledges. Kennedy returned to Aberdeen at the end of 1852 and, although he was unsuccessful in his search for Franklin and his crew, he found new routes to crossing the Arctic and made precise charts of the whole area. In 1853 Kennedy published his experiences in A short narrative of the second voyage of the Prince Albert, in search of Sir John Franklin

 

Kennedy, Pringle, 1855-1925. A HISTORY OF THE GREAT MOGHULS; OR, A HISTORY OF THE BADSHAHATE OF DELHI FROM 1398 A.D. TO 1739, WITH AN INTRODUCTION CONCERNING THE MONGOLS AND MOGHULS OF CENTRAL ASI $75.00

Octavo.  Two volumes bound in one. 319 +217 pages.  Index. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, 1905-11.

The Mughal empire was a Turkic imperial power which ruled most of the Asian subcontinent from the early 16th to the mid-19th centuries. At the height of its power, around 1700, it controlled most of the subcontinent and parts of what is now Afghanistan. Its population at that time has been estimated as between 110 and 130 million, over a territory of over 4 million km² (1.5 million mi²). Following 1725 it declined rapidly. Its decline has been variously explained as caused by wars of succession, agrarian crises fueling local revolts, the growth of religious intolerance and British colonialism. The last Emperor, Bahadur Shah II, whose rule was restricted to the city of Delhi, was imprisoned and exiled by the British after the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

 The classic period of the Empire starts with the accession of Jalaluddin ohammad, better known as Akbar the Great, in 1556 and ends with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707, although the Empire continued for another 150 years. During this period, the Empire was marked by a highly centralized administration connecting the different regions of India. All the significant monuments of the Mughals, their most visible legacy, date to this period.

 

 

 

Kent, Henry Watson. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FAMOUS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. $50.00

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.xii.228. New York: Grolier Club, 1903.
"After the publication of One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, the books themselves were gathered from the collections of the members of the Grolier Society for an exhibition at the Clubhouse. This second volume now offered in reprint edition was published in order to give the bibliographical facts connected with each of the 100 books selected as high spots in English literature.
The relations of author with printer of publisher, the success or failure of the books, matters of illustration, and marked peculiarities of editions, issues or volumes-all these things are discussed at greater of less length. In some cases, the facts have been given with fullness; but in others, like that of the Shakespeare First Folio, about which so much has been written, it was thought unnecessary to enter into details…."-From the Preface.
The 100 works described constitute the high spots of English Literature as seen from the perspective of 1903. Beginning with Chaucer and ending with Whittier, many of the major works of the major authors are treated.

 

 

 

Kernot, Henry. BIBLIOTHECA DIABOLICA: Being a Choice Selection of the Most Valuable Books Relating to the Devil; his Origin, Greatness, and Influence ... with Some Curious Volumes on Dreams and Astrology. $40.

Cloth. Octavo. pp.40. New York, 1874

The devil was omnipresent in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries, an age of religious reform, religious war, andreligious persecution. Indeed Satan haunted the minds of Christians in those two centuries as never before or after.
The devil posed a formidable physical threat to mere mortals. As a spiritual creature, the devil could traverse the ends of the earth in a heartbeat, and he could communicate instantly with his legion of demons, who could and usually did act in unison together. The ultimate master of the black arts, Satan could raise tempests, create illusions, and assume physical forms such as animals and humans. He was also the power behind the legions of his human agents such as witches, warlords, and magicians. Surprising, there are view bibliographies of books about the devil. Besterman cites only one reference, and it is not this one. Kernot lists about 400 books on the subject, making this the most comprehensive bibliography on the devil. The arrangement of the material is chronological. Most citations have brief annotations that are often quite useful.
This catalogue is quite scarce. Original editions sell for about $300, and it has never been reprinted. Not in Besterman. Catalogue of the Cornell Witchcraft Collection [Witchcraft Z5761.K39].

 

 


 

Keynes, Geoffrey. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE.  $85.

Cloth. Large Octavo. xvi.517.  Illustrated. New York:  The Grolier Club, 1921.

Blake, English poet, painter, engraver, and visionary mystic whose hand-illustrated series of lyrical and epic poems, beginning with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794), created one of the most strikingly original and  indipendent bodies of work in the Western cultural tradition. Blake is now regarded as one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism. Yet he was ignored by the public of his day and was called mad because he was single-minded and unworldly; he lived on the edge of poverty and died in neglect. Keynes’ Bibliography of Blake is the first substantial work on the artist.  In all 775 works are meticulously described.  Original publications, illustrations, as well as sale catalogues and reproductions, are extensively treated.  Though once reprinted, copies of this bibliography are hard to find.  Besterman 876.

 

Klebs, C. Arnold. INCUNABULA  SCIENTIFICA ET  MEDICA.   $65.

 Cloth, Octavo.pp.{ii}.359.  Bruges, Belgium, St. Catherine Press, 1938.

 Klebs’ important work remains a standard bibliography in the field of science and medicine. In all about 3,000 works are described. The bibliography is arranged by the names of the author, of which there are about 650. Besterman 3775. Sheehy [1986] Ek 38.

 

 

Klipstein, August. KAETHE KOLLWITZ: THE GRAPHIC WORK.  $150.

4vo. 384 pp. 269 illus. New York, 1955. ISBN 1-888262-06-0.

 Klipstein’s Catalogue of the Complete Graphic Work of Kaethe Kollwitz remains the best and most exhaustive catalogue raisonee’ on this important expressionist artist. Text in German.

 

 

Kress Library. THE KRESS LIBRARY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS. CATALOGUE COVERING MATERIAL PUBLISHED THROUGH 1776.  $85.

4to. x, 414 pp. Cloth. Cambridge, 1940. Reprint 1993. ISBN 1-888262-49-4.

The first volume of the Kress Library Collection, one of the most important collections of its kind. Covers material from the beginning of printing to 1776. Contains 7279 detailed entries with collations. Sheehy CH11.

 

 

Kress Library. THE  KRESS  LIBRARY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS. CATALOGUE, 1777-1817, GIVING DATA ALSO UPON COGNATE ITEMS IN OTHER HARVARD LIBRARIES.   $85.                                                

4to. x, 397 pp. Cloth. Cambridge, 1957. Reprint 1993. ISBN 1-888262-50-8.

 

 

Krey, August C. The First Crusade; The Accounts Of Eye-Witnesses And Participants. $75.00

Octavo. 3 p. l., v-viii, 299 p. maps. Princeton, Princeton University Press; 1921.

This is a history of the various accounts of eye-witnesses and participants to the first crusade. Chapters include: The Summons; The March to Constantinople; Alexius and the Crusaders; From Nicaea to Antioch Kerbogha and the Finding of the Lance; Dissension among the Leaders; Capture of Jerusalem.

 

 

 

Krieger, Louis C.C. CATALOGUE OF THE MYTOLOGICAL LIBRARY OF HOWARD A. KELLY. $75.

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp. [v].ix.260. Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1924

Mycology is the study of fungi, any of a large group of lower plants that include molds, mildews, mushrooms and bacteria.
Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737) is considered the founder of the systematic study of fungi (science of mycology). In 1729 he published Nova Plantarum Genera, which included the first research on fungi.
Christian Hendrick Persoon is another important figure in the history of the discipline. He was a South Africa who studied in Holland, Germany and France. He published important papers on the classification of fungi. Two such papers are Synopsis Methodica Fungorum (1801) and Mycologia Europaea (1822-1828).
Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1889) is another important figure in the discipline. He is the first person to use the term "mycology" in the English language. He also coined the term "fungology" and was a leader in taxonomic mycology in England. In all, he wrote over 400 mycology papers and named approximately 6000 species of fungi.
There is not much available scholarship on the bibliography of mycology. Besterman lists less than 20 works, of which Kelly's Catalogue is by far the most comprehensive regarding books that would now be considered antiquarian. In all, 6500 items are described in this catalogue.
This catalogue is very uncommon. It was privately printed in 1924 and never reprinted. Besterman 4127

 

 

 

Kristeller, Paul. DIE ITALIENISCHEN BUCKDRUCKER- UND VERLEGERZEICHEN BIS 1525. $110.

 Cloth.  Large Folio.  11 X 16 inches.  143 pages. 351 illustrations.  Heitz & Mundel: Strassburg, 1893

Kristeller’s work contains a thorough treatment of Italian printers’ marks.  In all 351 marks are reproduced showing the progress of printing in Italy prior to 1525. The material is arranged alphabetically by Italian cities.  For each city is provided a list of printers, including works printed prior to 1525, and cross-references with Hain. All the known printers’ marks for each press are illustrated. All Italian cities, from Aquila to Vincenza, where printing was established by 1525 are included. Kristeller is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on early printing in Italy, having authored several other standard works. This is our first foray into printing oversized books.  Our edition is large folio, measuring 11 X 16 inches.

Kristeller, Paul. EARLY FLORENTINE WOODCUTS WITH AN ANNOTATED LIST OF FLORENTINE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.   $65.

Cloth. Octavo. ppix. xlvii.184 +ff.[ii]123.  London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1897.

Kristeller’s name is an important one in the history of bibliography and the history of printing in Italy. This work is more than a history of Woodcuts.  It is a bibliography of Florentine Illustrated books printed between 1490 and the middle of the sixteenth century.  In 439 such works are described. Kristeller also provides valuable information on the prints illustrating these books.  About 190 of these prints are also illustrated in the book. The author provides a useful index of printers and publishers as well.  Besterman 3018.

 

 

Krivatsy, Peter  (Compiled by). A CATALOGUE OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PRINTED BOOKS IN THE NATIONAL  LIBRARY  OF MEDICINE.   $110. 

Cloth, Octavo. vxiv, 1315 pp. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Bethesda, Maryland, 1989.

This title is the fifth in the series of pre-19th Century holdings in the National Library of Medicine. The printed catalogues were prepared in order to make the holdings known and accessible to scholars around the world.  Krivatsy provides much more information than is found in the other catalogues. The information provided is also much more thorough than most of the other volumes.  Krivatsy lists about 13,300 books printed between 1601 and 1700.

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