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O’ Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. A LIST OF EDITIONS OF THE HOLY
SCRIPTURES AND PARTS THEREOF PRINTED IN AMERICA PREVIOUS TO 1860. $65.
Cloth.
Octavo. pp.lxiii.415pp Albany: Munsell & Rowland, 1861.
In The English Bible in America Hills
describes O’ Callaghan’s work as “ most valuable.” And so it remains today. 1500
bibles printed in American are described. Unlike Hill’s work, O’Callaghan starts from the very beginning,
the 1661 New Testament printed in Cambridge. O’Callaghan’s work is an important supplement to Hills’ English
Bible in America. Hills bibliography
begins with bibles printed after the Revolution, while O’Callaghan covers
the ground before the Revolution. Besterman
764.
J.C.T.
Oates, M.A. A CATALOGUE OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTED BOOKS IN THE
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE.
$100.
Cloth,
Octavo. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1954.pp.xiv.898.
The
purpose of this work is to list all the fifteenth-century books in the
Cambridge University Library, to direct the reader to the best published
descriptions of each book, to supplement published descriptions when they
appear inadequate or inaccurate, and to describe the peculiarities and the
provenance of the Cambridge copy. Reference is invariably made to Proctor, the
BM Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century, Hain, and the Gesamtkatalog.
Other works are also referenced when appropriate. In all 4227 books are
described, making this one of the more comprehensive of the references on
fifteenth-century printing. Besterman
5053. Published by arrangement with
Cambridge University Press.
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. xii, 278 p. illus., music. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926
Odum, Howard Washington, (May 24, 1884 - Nov. 8, 1954), sociologist, was
born near Bethlehem, Ga., the son of William Pleasants Odum and Mary Ann Thomas
Odum. He grew up in modest circumstances on his family's small farm. His formal
education was a product of hard work, borrowed money, and happy coincidence.
At the age of thirteen the family moved to Oxford, Ga., where he attended
Emory Academy and College, graduating in 1904 with the B.A. degree in English
and classics.
Negro Workaday Songs is the third volume of a series of folk background studies
of which The Negro and His Songs was the first and Folk-Beliefs of the Southern
Negro was the second.
So far as Odum was aware, none of the songs in this collection had been published
and the songs were all sung or repeated by actual Black workers or singers
and much of their value lies in the exact transcription of natural lines,
words and mixtures.
Odum intended his study of Black music as a series of pictures of the Black
American as portrayed through his workaday songs. He has taken the position
that these workaday songs, crude and fragmentary, and often having only local
or individual significance, provide a more accurate picture of Negro working
life than do conventional folk songs.
Odum's book is also an important contribution to the history of the blues
in America and a collector's item in that field.
Olschki,
Leo S.
CHOIX DE LIVRES ANCIENS RARES ET CURIEUX [VOLS 1-13]. $550.
Paper,
8vo. 13 volumes. 5692 pp. 76 plates and 2145 illustrations.
Olschki:
Florence, 1907-1966. ISBN 1-57898-084-4.
The
thirteen volumes which comprise the set were published from 1907 thorough 1966.
Thus complete sets are not common. In all, 21, 773 books are accurately and
amply described, often with valuable annotations and illustrations.
Osler,
Sir William. BIBLIOTHECA OSLERIANA. A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF
MEDICINE & SCIENCE… $95.
Cloth,
8vo. xxxvi, 786 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929. ISBN 1-57898-015-1.
Sir
William Osler (1849-1919) was one of the greatest figures in modern medicine,
and the most outstanding character in the annals of medical history. The Bibliotheca
Osleriana is an enormous bibliography of 7,950 titles from the library of
Osler. “It is probably the most complete, well-annotated bibliography in the
history of medicine. It reveals Osler’s character better than any of his
writings and stands as a monument to him.” G&M 6722. Particularly valuable
for its annotations.” Sheehy EK 154. Besterman 3769-3770.
Osler,
Sir William. INCUNABULA MEDICA: A STUDY OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED MEDICAL BOOKS,
1467-1480. $60.
4to.
Cloth. 152 pp. Illustrated. London 1923. Reprint 1994. ISBN 1-888262-56-7.
Incunabula
Medica contains extensive descriptions, collations, content notes,
bibliographical references and notes on special features for 217 early printed
medical books. It is cross-referenced with most of the standard incunable
bibliographies.
Ottley, William John . With Mounted Infantry in Tibet. $85.00
Octavo. English Book xviii, 275 p. : plan, plates, port. ; London : Smith Elder & Co., 1906 This is an eye-witness account of the 1904 Younghusband expedition to Tibet. Ottley served with the 1st Mounted Infantry, specially formed for the expedition. A full account of the British invasion of Tibet in 1904 under Colonel Younghusband. Scarce. Illustrated with forty nine plans, views and photographs. Scarce in the original
Oxford,
Arnold Whitaker. ENGLISH COOKERY BOOKS. TO THE YEAR 1850. $45.
8vo.
[vii], 192 pp. ISBN 1-88262-51-6.
Oxford’s
English Cookery Books has been called “the most detailed and exhaustive
treatment of English cookery books.” Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography p.
352. The works are presented in chronological order beginning with the year
1500. Four hundred titles are discussed.