MARTINO PUBLISHING
Sonneck-Stephen
Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore. Early Concert-Life in America (1731-1800). $70.00
Octavo. English Book 338 p. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1907.
1873–1928, American musicologist, b. Jersey City, N.J., educated in Germany. As chief (1902–17) of the music division of the Library of Congress, he developed one of the outstanding music libraries of the world. He edited the Musical Quarterly from its founding in 1915 until his death, and he held a position at the music publishing house of G. Schirmer, Inc. His writings rank him as one of the first, and one of the foremost, American musicologists, particularly in the field of early American music. They include A Bibliography of Early Secular American Music (1905, rev. ed. 1945); Early Concert-Life in America (1907); The Star-Spangled Banner (1914); Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed before 1800 (2 vol., 1914); Early Opera in America (1915); and several works of Beethoven scholarship. Early Concert-Life in American remains a standard source book for anyone interested in the subject.
Souhart,
R.
BIBLIOGRAPHIE GENERALE DES OUVRAGES SUR LA CHASSE LA VENERIE & LA FAUCONNERIE.
$65.
Octavo. pp.xi.coll.750.pp[v]. Paris, Chex P. Rouquete,
1886.
This uncommon bibliography covers 4,000 books on all
aspects of Hunting and Falconry. It is, infact, one of the few books on Falconry
listed in Besterman. Books published in French, Latin, German, English, Spanish,
Italian and other languages are included. Full author-title, place of publication
and size of books is provided, along with an occasional cross-reference. The
original edition of 1886 was limited to 500 copies. Though once reprinted in
the 1960s, no edition is currently in print. Besterman 2100.
Not in Sheehy.
Soulsby,
H. Basil. A CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF LINNAEUS...IN THE LIBRARIES OF THE BRITISH
MUSEUM...WITH THE INDEX. $75.
Cloth,
4to. pp.xi.246 + 68. Plus index. London:
British Museum, 1933.ISBN 1-57898-093-3.
The
Swedish Naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is most widely known for having
introduced efficient procedures for naming and classifying plants and animals
at a time when new species were being rapidly discovered by explorers. Because
he was the first to achieve a consistent and efficient system of nomenclature,
botanists agreed in 1905 to accept his Species Plantarum ( 2 volumes,
1753) and zoologist agreed to accept the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae
(1758) as the official starting points for scientific names of plants and animals.
Spaulding, Thomas M. EARLY MILITARY BOOKS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES.
$40.
Cloth, Octavo. xvi.47.
Includes 37 pages of illustrations. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1941
This work comprises a list of 372 early printed military
books. The arrangement of the bibliography
is chronological. There are cross-references to Hain, Cockle and other standard
bibliographies. The period covered is from 1493-1800. There is also a general index and an index
of military books by mathematicians. There
are also about 100 illustrations of title pages. This title has not been available
previously in reprint. Copies of the
original edition sell for approximately $100-$200. Besterman 3914.
Staff
of the War College (Compiled by). BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STATE PARTICIPATION IN THE CIVIL WAR
1861-1866. $100.
8vo. x, 1040 pp. Washington, D.C., 1913. ISBN 1-57898-011-9.
An
important starting point for regimental and state histories.....( Nevins, Civil
War Books: A Critical Bibliography II, p. 31). The 12,500 entries in this
work make this one of the most useful as well as the most comprehensive of Civil
War bibliographic tools. This title has not been available to scholars or collectors
for over 30 years.
(Prints)
Stauffer, David McNeely, Mantle Fielding, and Thomas Hovey Gage. AMERICAN ENGRAVERS UPON COPPER
AND STEEL. $175.
Cloth.
(iv),xxxi,391+(1); x,566; xi,356,(47)pages. Four volumes in three. New Castle,
Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1994.
In
1907 David McNeely Stauffer’s two-volume set of American Engravers upon Copper
and Steel was published in a limited edition of 350 copies. This pioneer
work provided biographical sketches and a checklist of the works of over seven
hundred American engravers. Little had previously been written about this subject,
as the great majority of early American engravers were relatively obscure men
and often the only record of their existence as engravers was the few impressions
of a plate accidently preserved. Stauffer’s work was based on the prints themselves, their signatures,
dates and publishers. In 1917 Mantle Fielding, who had corresponded with Stauffer
and seen many of his notes, published a supplement in a numbered, limited edition
of 220 copies. Stauffer’s and Fielding’s work on American Engravers is well
indexed for engravers and partly indexed for subjects.
Steinschneider,
Moritz (1816-1907). CATALOGUS LIBRORUM HEBRAEORUM IN BIBLIOTHECA BODLEIANA. $225.
Cloth,
Quarto. Three vols. in two. Berlin : Ad. Friedlander, 1852-1860. (2)pp., CXXXII
cols., 3104 cols., 100, viii, 32. ISBN 1-57898-069-0.
This
important bibliography is, according to Breaslauer & Folter, “...the best
general bibliography of the Hebrew books available because of the vast holdings
of the Bodleian Library in that field and the deep learning displayed in the
cataloguing. Steinschneider included among its 15,000 titles the few major desiderata
known to him”. Breaslauer & Folter,
#126.
Stephen,
Alexander M. HOPI JOURNAL. $295.
2005 Reprint of the original 1936 edition. Hardcover. One of the benchmark publications in American Indian studies, these two volumes document Stephen's three years on First Mesa in 1891-94. The volumes are filled with illustrations of ceremonies and rituals, masks, dances and kachinas, and closely examine and illustrated virtually every aspect of Hopi ceremonies. ONLY reprint done reproducing original color illustrations.
Oversized Quarto. 247 p. : ill., ports. Wien : Helm, 1921. Limited and numbered edition of 500 copies.
Deakin 72: "A very detailed catalogue of Stern-Szanas excellent private
collection, cont. 264 very rare items. The book is exceedingly useful also for
it's detailed synopses of the contents of books and periodicals. A fascinating
attractive and well-produced volume."