Laurence Witten (38 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Southport, 1977; brown paper covers; mild corner wear; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 95 pages.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Southport, 1978; green paper covers; mild corner and edge wear; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 127 pages.

Paper wrappers. First edition. 95 pp. Illus. with b/w plates, photos and reproductions. Sm. 4to. A very good- copy with an inch chip to spine head.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Binding is tight and square. Trivial exterior wear, minus the sticker residue on the back cover.

Wrappers. Condition: Good. 96 pp., illustrated, 4to, stiff card wrappers. Catalogue describing 52 early manuscripts in scholarly detail. Numerous color and black-and-white illustrations. Printed price list laid in. Good copy only, with signs of damp on covers and last several pages and short crease to rear wrapper panel and last leaf.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Lightly creased throughout. Check mark on the front cover. ; 23 pages; Contained in "The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America," Volume 53, Second Quarter, 1959, pp. 91-113. Complete issue. Contents also include Irving Lowens "Copyright and Andrew Law.".

Paperback. Condition: Good. Full Title: "Catalogue Five: Important Books Maunscripts Documents & Autographs 10th to 19th Centuries." Laurence Witten New Haven Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover catalog. Oversize. Light shelfwear to covers, contents clean and tight. Nick at foot of spine. 95 pages, 260 items, b&w photos.

paper wrappers. large 8vo. paper wrappers. 116 pages. Nicely annotated and illustrated bookseller's catalogue listing over 270 items. Witten, Laurence (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. New Edition. lxvii, 291pp. + 18 plates. Foreword by Alexander O. Vietor. Introduction by George D. Painter. In addition to the plates, the volume includes additional black and white illustrations. Cloth clean and bright and binding sound. Minor dings to corners of a small number of pages and a minor bump to fore-edges of same. Text clean. Several tiny tears and light wear to dust-jacket, with just a hint of soiling in a few places. Overall, a nice, clean, sound, and attractive copy. Volume measures approximately 11.75" x 9.25" x 1.75". …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing. 4to. 128 pages. Soft cover bound in olive green wrappers. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy and clean within. Contains a few illustrations.

Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. 115, [1] pp., illustrated, 4to, wrappers. Catalogue describing 271 early printed books mostly from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Near fine copy, with a tiny sliver of uneven fading on edge of rear wrapper panel.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 127, [1] pp., illustrated, 4to, wrappers. Catalogue describing 131 early printed books and manuscripts, many with duotone illustrations. Very good copy; spine a little age toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 291pp; Index. Contents clean, tight, unmarked; no library stamps. Comes with Gaylord book jacket cover. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 30 cm x 23 cm. The Vinland Map dates to at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas. It shows an outline of the northeast American coast, and the story of Leif Eiriksson, the Norseman from Greenland who discovered it in about the year 1000.…

Printed wrappers, 4to, 127, [1] pp, 129 ills. 131 items. Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 96 pp, over 40 colour plates, ills. 52 items. The items offered include several leaves from Books of Hours. Very Good.

Later cream cloth, original printed rear wrapper bound in, top edge gilt, 4to, 143, [1] pp, plates, ills. 181 items. From the introduction to the catalogue : "Petrarch is youthfully uncertain about the spelling of Cicero's name as he annotates a text of that ancient author which is as old as any now extant, and Pierre de la Ramee whimsically annotates his copy of Lancelot in Italian; popes write private letters about their nephews, books, singers, and known authors, while Essex says that his influence over Elizabeth is not so great as people imagine, and Cardinal Pole calls Henry VIII a tyrant; Ficino corrects and adds the Greek passages to one of his greatest works, and a general of the Dominicans presents his opposition to Ficino's views, in manuscripts dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent; the papacy carries out espionage in England and claims the right to censor books; Simon Boccanegra's brother crushes the power of the Moors in Spain forever while, in England, hundreds of grotesques are judged suitable decoration for a Psalter; a short-lived king of Jerusalem and Naples founds an order of chivalry, and a little to the north diplomats compose the draft of an elaborate peace treaty between powerful city - states; manuscripts of Dante, Chaucer, and Gower, sometimes humble and sometimes noble, are written and preserved, and one of Dante's exiled relatives recounts his efforts to create a new life; while Pietro Aretino makes notes on the fawning letters by which he earned his living, his contemporaries collect and edit the monuments of Italian literature for the first time; French historians dislike to talk about Joan of Arc, while Petrucci invents modern music printing, and Polydore Vergil writes about inventions and proverbs; tremendous manuscripts with large pictures and tiny manuscripts with microscopic pictures are prepared for prelates and princesses; as a 17th-century savant draws pictures of the moon seen through his telescope, his contemporaries write erotic poetry; presses spring up in Constantinople and Colmar, Teheran and Trino, while in provincial England a schoolmaster makes early experiments with color-printing; a distinguished retired soldier turned antiquarian adds drawings to his copy of The City of God, whilst the barber Burchiello swaps verses with the notables of his time." Spine slightly spotted, otherwise Very Good. (From the library of the bibliophile A R A Hobson, although without indication of that in the volume.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, US, 1983 and 1984; catalogues 15 "Illustrated and Ornamented Books 1468-1979, pp 112; 19, "Italy Part I, Libri in Volgare Italiano", pp 64; and 20 "Fine Books in Vernacular Languages, French - English - German - Spanish", pp 80; each catalogue is 215 x 275mm; each is in very good condition apart from some light dust marking on the covers; each catalogue is well illustrated with catalogue 20 having several images in colour.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, US, 1981, here the subject being Aldine printing; 215 x 275mm, 16pp, usual card covers; slightly dist marked in places but otherwise in very good condition. . The catalogues lists and describes 61 Aldine Press books and includes 12 illustrations of bindings or title or other pages together with a chronological list by Renouard numbers; loosely inserted is a four page fold-out being a full-size reproduction of the folding view of Rhodes from the French edition printed at Lyon in 1488 of "La peregrination de oultre mer en terre saincte" by Bernhard von Breydenbach and Nicolas le Huen, the original print being, with the others in the book, the earlies plates pulled from a roller press to have been used in any printed book. . NOTE that as the catalogue weighs onl;y just over 100g postage costs will be reduced from the default values shown.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 115 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm OCLC 930283968 Title from cover Indexes on last page at end and on page 3 of cover ; blue and white stiff paper wrappers ; Contents lists and an index of places of printing and writing are provided on the final pages. Catalogue Eleven offers a wide range of books printed in many European localities from 1470 to about 1600, with a few later. They reflect in many ways the diverse interests and influences of a period of great complexity. ; FINE. Book.…

Condition: VG. New Haven and NY. 1959 first edition. octavo wraps. vol 53, 2nd quarter. Witten article pp. 91-113. Other articles in issue as well. VG+. no owner marks.

4to. pp. 84. text illus. index. wrs.

4to. pp. 59, [1]. illus. (some full-page). wrs.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, US, 1982; 215 x 275mm; Catalogue Ten "Incunabula, Manuscripts, Early Illustrated Books, Early Graphics and Bindings", pp80. 1979; Catalogue Thirteen "Icunabula" pp40, 1980; Catalogue Sixteen, pp 96, 1982; all items well illustrated throughout; slight dust marking and with some wear on the spine of catalogue 10 but otherwise a very good copies of these useful reference work on incunabulae; many books are listed and described and there are indexes of printers and publishers and of authors and a note on locations.…

Southport, Connecticut, [anni '80 del XX sec.], in-4 piccolo, br. editoriale figurata a colori, pp. 96. 52 schede bibliografiche di magnifici manoscritti, illustrate. Allegato foglio con prezzi di vendita.

Hardcover. Condition: New. New slipcase in mailing carton. First Edition, Limited 500 sets. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Library, 1977. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW slipcase. Perfect condition. Still sealed in the publisher's original shipping carton. [This description is based on an identical set in our reference library]. 1977. First Edition. Limited to 500 sets. Volumes 3 & 4 only (the 2 manuscript volumes). Volume Three: Manuscripts 1225-1671, and Volume Four: Manuscripts 1675-1922. Magnificently illustrated including many full color reproductions. Meticulous descriptions and historical context are provided for 149 manuscripts from the Mellon collection. Among the highlights are manuscripts by Paracelsus, Ramon Lull, Johann Hollandus, Isaac Newton, etc. Cross referenced to Duveen and De Ricci-Bond. This lavishly produced work weighs some 15 pounds. The 2 volumes are uniformly bound in the original two tone cloth (blue with oatmeal spines), stamped in bright gold over black leather (or leatherette?) label on the spine. The two-compartment slipcase is bound in matching blue cloth with printed paper labels on the spine and front cover. Oversize Hardcover. 9.75" wide by 13" tall by 6" thick. This large, extremely heavy 2 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the second volume at no extra cost. First Edition, Limited 500 sets. Oversize Hardcover. New/New slipcase in mailing carton. Illus. by We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1 via media mail. 2 volume set: 949pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1 via media mail (illustrator).…

[0-300-06520-5] 1995, new edition. (4to) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. lxvi, 291pp. Black and white and color photographs, maps, folding maps, notes, bibliography, indices. Contributors include Thomas A. Cahill, Bruce H. Kusko, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Laurence C. Witten, II. Foreword by Alexander O. Vietor. Locale: Vinland. (Canada, Cartography, Mongols, Vikings).…

4to. Mit zahlr. farb. Abb. Illustr. OKtn. 52 illuminierte Handschriften, detailiert beschrieben und meist abgebildet. Preisliste beiliegend. 0,800 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Alchemy and the Occult is an essential bibliographic reference that catalogs one of the most comprehensive private collections of alchemical and occult literature ever assembled. The work, spanning four volumes, meticulously documents rare books, manuscripts, and printed materials related to alchemy, esotericism, astrology, magic, and early chemistry. The Mellon Collection, housed at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is one of the most prestigious collections of its kind, featuring hundreds of primary texts from the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods. The catalogue serves as both an academic resource and a historical record, providing scholars with insights into the intellectual traditions of alchemy and occultism. Bound in full two toned cloth with leather labels at spine. Folio: in orig. slipcase, usual external wear but still VG, internal condition excellent. Only 500 sets were published. Complete copies such as ours are now scarce on the market. Of considerable bibliographic and historic interest, this impressive achievement minutely describes 160 printed works (Vols. 1-2) and 149 manuscripts in the collection, beginning chronologically with Apollonius (circa 1225), and ending with Thomas Taylor (1790). A splendid catalogue that includes detailed bibliographical descriptions for each of the 160 printed books; each is described with painstaking accuracy, and appears with illustrations. In Vols. 3-4, the 149 manuscripts are minutely described (most of these were purchased by Mellon from Denis Duveen). These four volumes represent some of the "crown jewels" in the kingdom of hermetic bibliography, and continue to inspire and inform students and scholars of Witchcraft, Wicca, Pagan Ritual, Occult, folklore, anthropology, primitive races and customs, Mythology, Ancient Magical Practices, Ritual and Initiation, Secret Societies, Rosicrucian Egyptology, Ancient Magical practices, Aleister Crowley, Andrew Chumbley, Ceremonial and Black Magic, Grimoire, O.T.O. Golden Dawn, Alchemy Hermetics, Freemasonry, Kabalah, Cabala, Kenneth Grant, Austin Osman Spare, Chaos Magick, Church of Satan, Anton LaVey, Michael Aquino, Temple of Set, Demonology, Satanism, and more. From the famed B.H. Breslauer collection (sale of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana at Christie's New York, 27 June 2005, lot 1582), with letterpress bookplates loosely inserted into each volume.…

2. Southport, 1980, in-4°, 59 pp, 61 items, ills. spine discoloured.