[Rarebooks] FS: On Watermarks

[Nina W. Matheson]

Greetings,
     For consideration on a watery day in Maryland :

Renker, Armin.   Das Buch vom Papier.  [Wiesbaden] Insel-Verlag [1951]. 
Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Ownership signature, place, and 
date of Alan Fern on the front free endpaper. Lower front corner lightly 
bumped, otherwise fine with publisher's wrap-around band. The fourth, newly 
edited edition. 230 pp., followed by 46 numbered plates, followed by 
reproductions of watermarks, followed by paper samples, some tipped 
in.  $100.00

Geraklitov, A. A.  Watermarks of the XVIIth Century in paper of manuscript 
and printed documents of Russian origin.  Moscow, Publishing House of the 
Academy of Sciences, USSR, 1963. Original cloth. Very good in chipped dust 
jacket with internally repaired tears. Title-pages in English and Russian. 
Text in Russian. [28] pp., followed by the Atlas (reproductions of 
watermarks), p. 31-226. Contents page in Russian and English. [259] pp. $100.00

Herdeg, Walter, ed.   Art in the watermark / Kunst im Wasserzeichen / L'art 
di filigrane. Introduction by Armin Renker.  Zurich, Walter Herdeg, Graphis 
Press [c1972]. Original white cloth. Fine. First published 1952. Text in 
English, German, and French. 103 pp. 363 numbered illustrations of 
watermarks with brief descriptions.  $75.00

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