[Rarebooks] Printing History: 18th C - For sale

[Nina W. Matheson]

  Friends and Colleagues,

We posted today:    Printing History -The 18th 
Century  at  http://www.mathesonbooks.com/18C.htm

However, since it is a very brief list, for your 
convenience, all items are listed below.
Trade discount available.

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Nina Matheson

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Printing History – 18th Century

1.       Eighteenth-Century English books 
considered by librarians and booksellers, 
bibliographers and collectors. Proceedings of a 
conference held at San Francisco, June 25-28, 
1975. Chicago, Association of College and 
Research Libraries, 1976. White printed wrappers. 
Upper corner bumped, otherwise near fine. First 
edition. 97 pp. Papers by William B. Todd, John 
Joliffe, William G. Cameron, G. Thomas Tanselle, 
Donald Eddy, Patricia Hernlund, Keith Maslen, Do 
nald F. Bond, Robert J. Barry, Jr., William P. 
Barlow, Jr., and Alexandra Mason. Preface by 
Hendrik Edelman. Summary by Herman Liebert.  (64961)                $25.00

2.       Bareikis, Robert P. The transition to 
modern German, the Eighteenth Century, an 
exhibition prepared and described by Robert P. 
Bareikis. Bloomington, The Lilly Library, Indiana 
University, 1975. Blue decorated printed 
wrappers. Fine. First edition. 56 pp. 
Illustrated. 182 items described. Errata slip 
laid in. Lilly Library publication number 23  (62812)         $15.00

3.       Bowyer, T. H. A bibliographical 
examination of the earliest editions of Junius. 
Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press 
[for the Bibliographical Society of the 
University of Virginia] 1957. Quarter blue cloth 
with blue paper boards and printed label on 
backstrip. Faintly foxed edges and a few leaves, 
otherwise fine. First edition. 147 pp. One of 250 
copies. Frontispiece is facsimile of the first 
authorized edition of 1772  (60230)            $15.00

4.       Bronson, Bertrand. Printing as an index 
of taste in Eighteenth-Century England. New York, 
New York Public Library, 1963. Gray printed 
wrappers. Fine. "Second printing, somewhat 
revised, 1963". 40 pp. 17 numbered figures.  From 
the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1958  (63001)              $15.00

5.       De Groote, Henry L. V. Vijftig jaar 
Boekdrukkunst te Antwerpen 1764-1814. Uitgegeven 
met de steun van 'Schoon Antwerpen'. Antwerpen, 
'Vereeniging der Antwerpsche Bibiophielen' 
V.Z.W.D., 1961. Cream printed wrappers. Library 
of Congress accession and surplus duplicate 
stamps on front wrapper, otherwise near fine. 152 
pp.   (60474)                $25.00

6.       Gangarama, 18th Century. The Maharashta 
Purana, an Eighteenth-Century Bengali historical 
text. Translated, annotated, and with an 
introduction by Edward C. Dimock, Jr., and Pratul 
Chandra Gupta. Honolulu, Published for The 
Association for Asian Studies, East-West Center 
Press [1965]. Red paper boards. Fine in dust 
jacket with several nicks and a short closed tear 
at the top of the front panel. First edition. 86 
pp. English and Bengali on facing pages. In the 
form of a narrative poem 716 lines in length, the 
manuscript tells of the Maratha incursions on 
Bengal in the mid-eighteenth century, describing 
in great detail this violent interlude in Indian 
history.  (66666)             $25.00

7.       Korshin, Paul J., ed. The widening 
circle: essays on the circulation of literature 
in eighteenth-century Europe [by] Robert Darnton, 
Bernhard Fabian, Roy McKeen Wiles. [Philadelphia] 
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976. Red 
cloth. Near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. 
First edition. 204 pp. Includes "Trade in the 
taboo: the life of a clandestine book dealer in 
prerevolutionary France" by Robert Darnton; "The 
relish for reading in provincial England two 
centuries ago" by Roy McKeen Wiles; "English 
books and their eighteenth-century German 
readers" by Bernhard Fabian.  (60994)            $30.00

8.       Parks, Stephen. The Luttrell file: 
Narcissus Luttrell's dates on contemporary 
pamphlets 1678-1830 by Stephen Parks. Assisted by 
Earle Havens. New Haven, Connecticut, The 
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1999. 
Gray printed wrappers. Fine. First edition. 223 
pp. Yale University Library Gazette, occasional 
supplement 3. With a chronological index compiled 
by Carolyn Nelson.  (64180)             $20.00

9.       Rea, Robert R. The English press in 
politics 1760-1774. Lincoln, University of 
Nebraska Press [1963]. Black cloth. Fine in 
lightly rubbed dust jacket. First edition. 272 
pp. Illustrated.  (61471)     $25.00

10.   Ritter, Francois. Une vieille maison 
Strasbourgeoise d'imprimeurs-editeurs et 
libraires F.-X. Le Roux. [n.p., 
Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1954]. Quarter cloth and 
marbled paper boards. Bumped at the foot of the 
backstrip, corners and lower edge rubbed, 
otherwise attractive. Offprint from the 1954 
Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, p. 254-260.  One illustration 
and a reproduction of the printer's mark of the 
Maison Le Roux. Inscribed by the author on the 
title-page: "A Monsieur H. P. Kraus / Hommage 
amical de la part de l'auteur / Fr. Ritter".   (62566)       $25.00

11.   Roberts, Sydney C. An eighteenth-century 
gentleman and other essays. Cambridge, at the 
University Press, 1933. Red cloth. Near fine in 
lightly soiled dust jacket with closed tear. 131 
pp. The Cambridge Miscellany  XI. From the 
author's preface: "The central figure of this 
little volume is Samuel Johnson"  (61507)      $20.00

12.   Steinitz, Kate T. Pierre-Jean Mariette & Le 
Comte de Caylus and their concept of Leonardo da 
Vinci in the eighteenth century. Los Angeles, 
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1974. Quarter natural 
buckram with brown paper boards. Fine. 39 pp. 
Illustrated. One of 500 copies printed at the 
Plantin Press. Penciled ownership signature of 
Agnes Mongan on the front free endpaper .  (67114)   $35.00

13.   Ventre, Madeleine. L'imprimerie et la 
librairie en Languedoc au dernier siècle de 
l'Ancien Régime 1700-1789. Paris, La Haye, Mouton 
& Co., 1958. Pale green printed wrappers. Fine. 
288 pp. At head of title: Ecole pratique des 
hautes éudes VIème section. Livres et Sociétés 
I.  In three parts: La profession; Police de la 
librairie et de l'imprimerie;  État de 
l'imprimerie et de la librairie en Languedoc.  (67163)  $25.00