[Rarebooks] FS: ROSENBACH CATALOGS

[Norman Kane]

The poetry/Drama list is sold.  Quite a bargain, if I may say so. So, how about a few catalogs from the great                 Rosenbach Company ?  They ain’t makin’ ‘em no more. 

All in original wrappers

CHECK LIST OF ENGLISH BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND AND ON THE CONTINENT 1475-1640.  N.D. This remarkable gathering of nearly 2000 titles is listed by S.T.C. numbers, and includes 26 English incunables, half of them printed by Caxton. 82 pp.

CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE ... EARLY PLAYS ... POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO SWINBURNE ...N.D. Large format, illustrated with facsimiles. A remarkable offering. 159 pp. Crease in front wrapper. 

A CATALOGUE OF RARE BOOKS OF SIX CENTURIES.  1935.  (Washington’s copy of Priestley’s “Discourses”; The 1694 folio of N. Y. laws; Meres’ 1598 “Palladis” mentioning Shakespeare; the editio princeps of Galen, 1490; &c.) 123 pp.

FROM THE NINTH CENTURY TO TODAY ... 1937.  (“The Earliest”, “The First”, “The Only”, &c, &c.)   148 pp.
One inch tear in rear wrapper. 

A BIBLIOPHILE’S MISCELLANY ...  1941.  (Incunables, including the “Catholicon”; early Bibles; Blake’s “For the Sexes – The Gates of Paradise”; Boethius translated by Chaucer; a Byron manuscript; the manuscript of Conrad’s “Nostromo”;
the first illustrated Dante; and on and on.)  125 pp.

SELECTIONS FROM OUR SHELVES.  1942.  (The editio princeps of Aesop; a Gutenberg leaf for $365; Californiana; a book presented by Franklin to Hancock; a rare Franklin antislavery imprint; &c.)  128 pp.

ALL 6 FOR $ 60.00 ($ 50.00 TO THE TRADE) + POSTAGE AT COST


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