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Yve-Plessis, Robert. ESSAI D'UNE BIBLIOGRAPHIE FRANÇAISE
MÉTHODIQUE & RAISONNÉE DE LA SORCELLERIE ET DE LA POSSESSION
DÉMONIAQUE. Pour Servir De Suite Et De Complément À La
Bibliotheca Magica De Græsse, Aux Catalogues Sépher, Ouvaroff,
D'Ourches Et Guldenstubbe, S. De Guaita Et Aux Divers Travaux Partiels Publiés
Sur Cette Matière. Préface Par Albert De Rochas. $45.00
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.xv.255. Paris: Bibliotheque Chacornac, 1900.
Caillet calls this bibliography an indispensable work and a vade-mecum on the
subject. It is an extensive bibliography covering works on witchcraft and the
occult. In all 1763 items are described, some at considerable length.
The author conceived his work as a continuation of Graesse's Bibliotheca Magica,
and other bibliographies on the subject.
Originally printed in an edition of 500, the title was reprinted again in 1971.
A standard work in a field that that does not have a wealth of bibliography.
It is the first substantial bibliography on witchcraft listed in Besterman.
Besterman 6553.
Zamorano
Club. THE ZAMORANO 80. A SELECTION OF DISTINGUISHED CALIFORNIA BOOKS MADE BY MEMBERS OF
THE ZAMORANO CLUB. $50.
Cloth, Octavo. xii.
Folding frontispiece. Illustrated. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1945.
The publication of Libros Californianos by Phil
Townsend, a member of the Zamorano Club, prompted Leslie Bliss, Robert Cowan
and Henry Wagner to prepare a list of the most important books dealing with
the history of California. The Zamorano 80, the clubs best effort to
prepare a list of the most important and rare books in the field. There are
numerous illustrations in the bibliography. Besterman 1084.
Zeitlinger, H & Sotheran, Henry Cecil. Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica: C atalogue of Works In Many Tongues On Exact And Applied Science, With A Subject-Index. $125.00
Oversized octavo. Two volumes bound in one. 2 v. (xii, 964 p.) plates, ports. facsims. 24 cm. London, H. Sotheran, 1921
“This catalogue was started in 1906 based on a large collection of books in exact and applied science, and was expanded to reach about three hundred pages. It grew as it went, and by the end of the alphabet so many more works in allied subjects, as well as other and interesting copies of books already described, had come in that a Supplement was begun, still more fully annotated, which far exceeded the size of the original scheme. “—from the preface.
This is perhaps the first historical catalogue of Science published in any country, at least as giving at once the current price of each book included, bibliographical particulars, and many biographical and historical references both in the descriptions themselves and in the notes.
17397 items are described. There is a wealth of information provided, including plate count and frequent annotation.
An index is provided. Though later expanded, these are the basic and still most important volumes. An extensive index is provided.
Zimmer,
John Todd. CATALOGUE OF THE EDWARD E. AYER
ORNITHOLOGICAL LIBRARY. $95.
8vo. Two volume in one. x, 364; 365-706 pp. Cloth. Illustrated. Chicago 1926. Reprint 1990. ISBN 1-888262-07-9.
One
of the most useful, practical and carefully prepared of the annotated catalogues
available for the student of ornithology. It is an authors’ catalogue of the Ayer Library. The books described contain 51,995 plates of
birds, 1981 plates of egg and 39,347 text figures of ornithological subjects.