MARTINO PUBLISHING
Lacau
Lacau, Pierre. SARCOPHAGES ANTERIEURS AU NOUVEL EMPIRE. $225.00
Folio. 9.5 X 13 inches. Two Volumes bound into One. Le Caire, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1904-1906
Pierre Lacau (November 25, 1873 – March 26, 1963) was a French Egyptologist and philologist. He served as Egypt's director of antiquities from 1914 until 1936, and oversaw the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter.
This remains one of the standard works on Sarcophagi before the New Kingdom.
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.lxxxiv.439. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1907.
"Horae" are manuscript or printed collections of prayers, etc, for
private devotional use at the canonical offices of the Roman Church. Variations
of detail between one diocese and another are indicated by such phrases as "Horae
of the Use of Kent" or "Book of Hours for the Use of York."
The output of manuscript Horae during the 14th and 15th century was immense.
The majority of printed horae derive from the years between 1490 and 1520, with
Paris as the most active center of production.
Lacombe's work is one of the standard bibliographies of early printed Book of
Hours. In all 598 printed books are described. Lacombe was the honorary librarian
of the French Bibliotheque National, and compiled the bibliography from copies
in all the public libraries in France. Most of the books were printed in the
15th & 16th Centuries.
This hard to find book, though once reprinted, is no longer in print. We could
find no copies for sale on the internet. Besterman 3575.
Lada-Mocarski,
Valerian. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON ALASKA PUBLISHED BEFORE 1868. $95.
Cloth,
Quarto. vii,567 pp. New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1969. ISBN
1-57898-088-7.
The
particular strengths of Lada-Mocarski are the thoroughness of the annotations
and the facsimiles of the title pages, as well as the scholarly “notes” after
each selection. It is well indexed with both English and Cyrillic indices offered.
Lancour,
Harold. AMERICAN
ART AUCTION CATALOGUES, 1785-1942: A
UNION LIST.
$65.
Cloth,
Octavo. New York: New York Public Library, 1944. pp.377.
Lancour’s is a union checklist of more than 7,000 catalogs
of auction sales of art objects including painting, drawings, statuary, furniture,
rugs, jewelry, textiles, musical instruments, curios, etc. It excludes printed
books, maps, pamphlets etc. Lancour also provides locations for copies in 21
of the major art libraries. Loncour’s is one of the only works of its kind on
art auctions, and is the only work listed in Besterman for American sales.
Sheehy BE 144. Besterman 527.
Lanthemann, J. MODIGLIANI, 1884-1920, CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ;
SA VIE, SON OEUVRE COMPLET, SON ART. $150.
Cloth. Large Quarto. 32 cm. 391 pages. 1054 illustrations. Barcelona: Graficas Condal, 1970.
Italian
painter and sculptor whose portraits and nudes, characterized by asymmetry of
composition, elongation of the figure, and a simple but monumental use of line,
are among the most important of the 20thcentury. They have also earned popularity
or the entirely personal atmosphere with which they are invested: a kind of
mute sympathy between the artist and sitter that implicates the spectator. Modigliani
was born into a Jewish family of small merchants. After suffering from pleurisy
and typhus in 1895 and 1898, he was forced to give up a conventional education,
and it was then that he began to study painting. After a brief stay in Florence in 1902, he
ontinued is artistic studies in Venice, remaining there until the winter of
1906, when he left for Paris. His early admiration for Italian Renaissance painting—especially
that of Siena—was to last throughout his life.
Lanzas,
Pedro Torres. RELACION DESCRIPTIVA DE LOS MAPAS, PLANOS…DE
MEXICO Y FLORIDAS. EXISTENTES EN EL ARCHIVO GENERAL DE INDIAS. $65.
8vo.
Two vols. bound in one. 223; 201 pp. Sevilla, 1900. ISBN 1-57898-14-3.
This
extremely rare cartographic reference lists 516 maps of old Mexico and Florida
from 1519-1823. Naturally, many maps of what are now parts of Texas, California,
New Mexico and Arizona are included. The information provided is quite thorough.
Full title, dimensions, cartographer and description are provided. The arrangement
of the maps and plans is chronological and most entries are dated. There is
a valuable author index as well as a geographical index provided.
Laporte, Antoin, (1835-1899). LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE JAUNE. $ 60.00
Hardbound. Octavo. French,. 2 p. l., xxviii, [29]-103, [2] p. A Cocupolis et a Paris, 1880. Rare bibliography on cuckoldry and related erotica. Describes 400 items and is perhaps the only bibliography on the subject. Besterman 2055. Bookseller Inventory # 1301
Latimore,
Sarah Briggs & Haskell, Grace Clark. ARTHUR
RACKHAM, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
$45.
Cloth.
Octavo. pp. xiii. 112. Los Angeles, 1936
Arthur
Rackham (1867-1939) was a fellow of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolors,
and is best know for his work illustrating fairy tales and the like. In all,
Latimore describes 200 books illustrated by Rackham. These include all the signed
and limited editions illustrated by Rackham, and all his contributions, small
and large, to book illustration. Besterman 5312.
Leader, John Temple; Marcotti, Giuseppe. Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto) : Story Of A Condottiere. $70.00
Oversized octavo. Book 370 p. : ill.; [Florence]; London : T.F. Unwin [Printed by G. Barbèra], 1889.
HAWKWOOD, SIR JOHN (d. 1394), an English adventurer who attained great wealth and renown as a condottiere in the Italian wars of the 14th century. His name is variously spelt as Haccoude, Aucud, Acuto, &c, by contemporaries. It is said that he was the son of a tanner in Essex, and was apprenticed in London, where he joined the English army under Edward III and the Black Prince.
It is said also that he obtained the favor of the Black Prince, and received knighthood from King Edward III., but though it is certain that he was of knightly rank, there is no evidence as to the time or place at which he won it. After several campaigns in various parts of central Italy, Hawkwood in 1368 entered the service of Bernabo Visconti. In 1369 he fought for Perugia against the Pope, and in 1370 for the Visconti against Pisa, Florence and other enemies. In 1372 he defeated the marquis of Monferrato, but soon afterwards, resenting the interference of a council of war with his plans, Hawkwood resigned his command, and the White Company passed into the papal service, in which he fought against the Visconti in 1373.
During the 1390's, in the Florentine war against Gian Galeazzo Visconti (who had murdered Bernab), Hawkwood was appointed condottiere, mercenary general of the army. Upon the death of Sir John Hawkwood in 1394, Florence gave him a great public funeral, and decreed that a marble monument was to be erected in the cathedral. For one reason or another, it never happened.
Then in 1436, Paolo Uccello was commissioned to paint Hawkwood's portrait within the cathedral, where it still remains. At the behest of Hawkwood's son(s) to King Richard II of England and to Florence, Sir John Hawkwood was returned to England and supposedly buried at Hedingham Sibil, where he was born. Co-published with Owl at the Bridge.
Cloth,
8vo., 2 vols. in one, vii, 445; xiii, 301 pp. Washington: Library of Congress,
1950-3. ISBN 1-57898-016-X.
This
collection of U.S. atlases in the Library of Congress is by far the largest
of its kind in the world. In all, 6,696 atlases pertaining to all aspects of
U.S. cartography are listed. Extremely uncommon. Besterman 6267. Sheehy CL288.
Le
Gear, Clara Egli (Compiler). A
LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
NOTES COMPILED BY CLARA EGLI LE GEAR. $350.
8vo.
Five Volumes (2805 pp.) Washington, D.C., 1958-1992. ISBN 1-888262-94-X (Set).
Phillip’s’
monumental catalogue is a classic, an invaluable reference tool for librarian,
bookdealers, historians and carto-bibliographers. With over 100,000 maps described
it is arguably the most “important catalogue of an outstanding collection which
includes many rare and valuable atlases.” The final volume (9) contains a comprehensive
author list for the 18,435 atlases described in the List of Geographical
Atlases.
ILLUSTRATIONS--PEINTURES--DESSINS--SCULPTURES--EAUX-FORTES--LITHOGRAPHIES, AVEC
UN PORTRAIT ET 29 ILLUSTRATIONS DOCUMENTAIRES. $110.00
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. 2 p., l., 558 p. incl. illus. (incl. facsims.) plates. front. (port.) plates (1 double) Paris: Ch. Bosse, Librarie, 1931.
Dore was a French painter and book illustrator, born in Strasburg in 1833 and Educated at a Parisian lycee. He became known by his illustrations of "Rabelais" and "Don Quixote," and for some years was a constant contributor to the "Journal pour Rire." At the time of the Crimean War, he produced his "Alma" and "Inkermann." In 1861 he published the first of his famous illustrations to Dante's "Divine Comedy," and next his illustrations to the "Bible," "Paradise Lost," "The Ancient Mariner," and "The Idylls of the King." These works secured for Dore a greater reputation in England than was accorded to him in his native country. He afterwards devoted himself to the production of large pictures on religious subjects, such as "The Dream of Pilate's Wife," "The Entry into Jerusalem," and "Ecce Homo." He died in 1883. Leblanc's work remains a standard work on the artist. It describes single prints by and after, provides information regarding size, states and contains a bibliography of books with illustrations. Dore was a prolific book illustrator, and LeBlanc provides a bibliography of all of the artists illustrations. Riggs, The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists, page 230. Never before reprinted.
LeClerc, Charles. BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. $95
Cloth, Octavo. iii. xx. 739+iv.103+110. Paris: Mainsonneuve, 1878-1887.
In Bibliographia Brasiliana, Borba de Moraes
writes of LeClerc, “this is a standard catalogue, to this day very much quoted
”. LeClerc’s rare bibliography is one of the standard works in the field of
Americana, especially Latin Americana. Originally compiled in 1878, the main
volume describes 2638 works on America and the Philippines. LeClerc’s bibliography
includes works on travel, geography, voyages and history. All of Latin American,
South America and the Caribbean are included. Descriptions include valuable
information about collations and plates. A good index serves to navigate one
through the material. LeClerc added
a first supplement of 103 pages in 1881. A second supplement of 110 pages was
added in 1887. In all nearly 4,000 books are described. Martino Publishing will
be reprinting the entire original edition and both supplements. Besterman 310.
Not in Sheehy.