Sabin, Joseph. DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME. $295.

Cloth, Oblong 4to. New York: Various publishers, 1868-1939. Mini-Printed Edition. ISBN 1-57898-062-3.

The most important of all Americana Bibliographies, comprising well over 100,000 entries books and pamphlets printed in the Western  Hemisphere and works about it printed elsewhere. Collations and often locations of copies are included.

Sadleir, Michael. XIX CENTURY FICTION. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD BASED ON HIS OWN COLLECTION.   $135.
Quarto. Two volumes bound in one. Xxxiii.399 + [vii].195. Los Angeles and London: University of California and Constable & Co., 1951
Sadleir's father, also Michael, had been a noted professor of history and an academic administrator at both Manchester and Leeds universities, so the son altered the spelling of his surname to its earlier form in order to avoid confusion with his father, about whom he later wrote a biography, producing the curious phenomenon of a book on Michael Sadler by his son Michael Sadleir.
Sadleir attained his own distinction as director of the publishing firm of Constable, as a diplomatist and member of the secretariat of the League of Nations, as a novelist (the fourth among the board members) best known for his Fanny by Gaslight, and of course as a biographer, bibliographer, and book collector of Trollope.
Sadleir's superb collection of Victorian fiction, still today the crown jewel in the UCLA Department of Special Collections, was published as a catalogue in 1951. The two-volume descriptive catalog of the collection that Sadleir himself compiled in 1951 bears the same name, differently expressed, that had by then come to be attached to the journal he served as counselor. He called his bibliography XIX Century Fiction and, like the journal, it was published by the University of California Press. The great strength of the Sadleir collection is all nineteenth-century fiction except Trollope.
In all, 3761 items are described in great detail. Profusely illustrated. Besterman 2159

Sage, Dean. CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ANGLING BELONGING TO MR. DEAN SAGE OF ALBANY, N.Y.      $60.

8vo. xi, 245pp. Cloth.  Albany, 1896. Reprint 1995. ISBN 1-888262-64-8.

Goodspeed’s Angling in America [p. 301] describes Sage’s Collection as one of the best ever assembled in America, a collection which “must be regarded as one of the most valuable American Collections of angling books.” In all there are 2,000 books collated, with descriptions and annotations.

Sanders, J.H. (Translator). Tamerlane, Or, Timur, the Great Amir, Translated By J.H. Sanders--From the Arabic Life of Ahmed Ibn Arabshah . $75.00


Octavo. English. London, Luzac & co., 1936. Description: xviii, 341 p. front., double map.

Sander's book is a translation of the 14th-century account in Arabic by Ahmed ibn Arabshah. It is one of the first biographies of Timur, (1336-19 February 1405), commonly called Tamerlane, or Timur the Lame, 14th century Turco-Mongol conqueror of much of western and Central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty (1370-1405) in Central Asia, which survived until 1857 as the Mughal dynasty of India. Timur was a military genius and his troops were essentially Turkic-speaking. He wielded absolute power, yet never called himself more than an emir, and eventually ruled in the name of the Chingizid Khans, who were little more than political prisoners. Sources claim that when Timur conquered Persia, Iraq and Syria, the civilian population was decimated. In the city of Isfahan, he ordered the building of a pyramid of 70, 000 human skulls, from those that his army had beheaded, and a pyramid of some 20, 000 skulls was erected outside of Aleppo. Timur herded thousands of citizens of Damascus into the Cathedral Mosque before setting it aflame, and had 70, 000 people beheaded in Tikrit, and 90, 000 more in Baghdad. As many as 17 million people may have died from his conquests.

Sandys, John Edwin. A HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP.  $195.

Cloth, 8vo. Three Vols. xxiv, 703; xxvii, 498; xii, 523 pp. Cambridge University, 1908-1921. ISBN 1-57898-C49-6 (SET).

Sandys remains the standard comprehensive history of classical scholarship. His magisterial work covers the whole field from the sixth century B.C. to the end of the nineteenth century. Sandys covers virtually every aspect: scribes, editors, textual and literary critics, grammarians, historians, archaeologists, and antiquarians.

Sauer, Gordon C. JOHN GOULD THE BIRD MAN: ASSOCIATES AND SUBSCRIBERS.     $48.

8vo. 183 pp. New York: Martino Publishing, [1996]. Signed & numbered by the author.  ISBN 1-888262-32-X.

This is a new work, never before published, from the author of the standard bibliography of John Gould, Dr. Gordon C. Sauer. It lists over 2,700 individuals who were in some way associated with John Gould. These include correspondents, as well as the subscribers to his various works.

Sauer, Gordon C. JOHN GOULD THE BIRD MAN: BIBLIOGRAPHY 2.  $65.

8vo. 252 pp. Two portrait illustrations. New York: Martino Publishing, 1996. Signed and numbered by the author.ISBN 1-57898-000-3.

Since his publication in 1982 of John Gould the Bird Man, Dr. Sauer has continued his interest and research into the life and work of John Gould. The expanding interest in Gould, his life, his associates and his books has resulted in a literary explosion. In his first work on Gould, Sauer noted over 450 items. This new volume adds another 480 items, and includes earlier items that were missed in the 1985 publication, as well as newer items the result of what may be called a “Gouldmania.”

 Sauer, Gordon C. JOHN GOULD THE BIRD MAN:  CORRESPONDENCE I; THROUGH 1838.  $56.                  

Cloth, Octavo 1998. Frontispiece Illustration, 360pp. Limited to 400 Copies.

Martino Fine Books is proud to publish this new book on the correspondence of John Gould. This first volume on the correspondence of John Gould and his associates is a culmination of over fifty years of interest in this renowned British ornithologist, artist, publisher, and entrepreneur. In 1982 Dr. Sauer published John Gould the Bird Man: A Chronology and Bibliography. The present volume contains an expanded chronology of the life and publications of John Gould (1804-1881). Included is the listing of Gould's presentations of his papers before the Zoological Society of London meetings, where he described and named new species of birds. The index contains over seven pages of names of birds. The dates of correspondence, through 1838, cover John Gould, his wife, and John Gilbert's early associations, their first publications, and the early months of their valuable pioneering journey in Australia. Gould corresponded with all of the important naturalist and ornithologists of his time in England and in Europe, and later in Australia and America. There are over 4,200 extant, 280 of which are in this first volume. Gould rapidly arose from modest beginnings to become the "bird stuffer" for the King of England, and for the newly formed Zoological Society of London. At the age of 26 he conceived the idea of an imperial-folio publication of birds of the Himalaya Mountains, The illustrations were roughly drawn by him, then finely done by his wife, and hand-colored. Thus originated the famous and beautiful "Gould plates’ that eventually illustrated fifty folio volumes. Gould's correspondents in this volume include Sir William Jardine, Lord Derby, PJ. Selby, Thomas Eyton, Richard Owen, Edward Blyth, Edward Lear, Charles Darwin, John Natterer, Baron Lafresnaye, Dr. George Bennett, Reverend Thomas Ewing, Sir John and Lady Franklin, and many other subscribers and natural history societies.

Sauer, Gordon C.  JOHN GOULD THE BIRD MAN:  CORRESPONDENCE  VOLUME II; 1839 THROUGHT 1841.  $65.                  

Cloth, Octavo. Frontispiece Illustration, 407pp. Limited to 400 Copies.

Martino Fine Books is proud to publish this new book on the correspondence of John Gould. This second volume on the correspondence of John Gould and his associates is a culmination of over fifty years of interest in this renowned British ornithologist, artist, publisher, and entrepreneur. Covers the period from 1839-1841.

Sauer, Gordon C. JOHN GOULD THE BIRD MAN: CORRESPONDENCE VOL III; THROUGH 1845. $65.

Cloth, Octavo.  502 pages. Limited to 400 Copies.Martino Publishing.

 Martino Fine Books is proud to publish this new book on the correspondence of John Gould. This third volume on the correspondence of John Gould and his associates is a culmination of over fifty years of interest in this renowned British ornithologist, artist, publisher, and entrepreneur. It covers the period 1842-1845.

Sauer, Gordon C. JOHN GOULD THE BIRD MAN: CORRESPONDENCE VOLUME IV: 1846 THROUGH 1851. $85.

Cloth, Octavo. 622 pages. Limited to 400 Copies.
Martino Fine Books is proud to publish this new book on the correspondence of John Gould. This fourth volume on the correspondence of John Gould and his associates is a culmination of over fifty years of interest in this renowned British ornithologist, artist, publisher, and entrepreneur. It covers the period 1846- 1851.

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