The following notes from Daniel J. Slive / John Carter Brown Library. 16 August 1996
ABHB: Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries. Volume 23: Publications of 1992 and additions from the preceding years. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. x, 470 p. $175.00--previous year's price 3,596 records, selected from approximately 1,600 periodicals, edited by the Department of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague. International in scope, the bibliography's purpose is to document books and articles "of scholarly value" related to the history of the printed book. Included are material and technological aspects as well as economic, social and cultural influences relating to the production, distribution, conservation, and description of printed works.
The American Bible. Original leaves from rare and historic Bibles printed in the Colonies and the United States of America during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The set collected and described and with a preface by Michael Zinman and with, an introduction by Mark Knoll. Set of 38 leaves in four portfolios. Ardsley, NY: Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts, 1993. Keep? Price?
Barker, Nicolas, editor. A Potencie of Life: Books in Society. London: The British Library, 1993. vi, 206 p. $58.06 Eight essays based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Library in 1986-1987. Includes "A New Model for the Study of the Book" by Barker and Thomas R. Adams, a response to Robert Darnton's "communication circuit."
Colas, Ren:. Bibliographie Générale du Costume et de la Mode. Paris: Librairie Ren: Colas, 1933. Reprint: Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino, 1994. Two volumes in one book. Indices. $90.00 Originally published in Paris in 1933, this work is still the standard bibliographical source on costume books. 3121 entries listed alphabetically by author.
Gill, Bartholomew. The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile. New York: William Morrow, 1995. 275 p. $20.00 Sex, lies, and videotape as well as murder and rare book mayhem in modern-day Dublin recorded with a distinctly Swiftian twist. The eleventh in the series of Peter McGarr detective stories. Readers may also wish to check out the author's previous investigation of crime and Irish literature entitled Death of a Joyce Scholar.
Harley, J. B. and David Woodward, editors. The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2. Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xxvii, 970 p. illustrated (including 40 color plates) bibliography, index.) $195.00 Second of three books on cartography in "traditional societies" comprising the second volume of the History of Cartography Series. Previously published: Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies.
Hiler, Hilaire and Meyer Hiler, compilers. Bibliography of Costume. A Dictionary Catalog of About Eight Thousand Books and Periodicals. New York: Wilson, 1939. Reprint: Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino Publishers, 1994. xl, 911 p. $50 Approximately 8400 references on costume and adornment, including works in all [European] languages. Author, title, subject, and references are listed in single alphabetic order. Includes the essay "Costumes and Ideologies."
Hough, Samuel J. and Penelope R. O. Hough. The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College. A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Maps, and Drawings, 1521-1860. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994. $150.00 xi, 414 p. , illustrated, index. Approximately 1,00 printed books and 1,000 manuscripts as well as maps and other visual materials extensively described. List of books consulted and author, title, subject index included.
The James Ford Bell Library. The James Ford Bell Library. An Annotated Catalog of Original Source Materials Relating to the History of European Expansion 1400 - 1800. Minneapolis: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1994. [v], 622 p. $50.00 Holdings are listed alphabetically by main entry with author, title, and imprint indicated. Bibliographical descriptions are not included but items are briefly described.
Karrow, Robert W., Jr. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Bio-Bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570. Chicago: For the Newberry Library by Speculum Orbis Press, 1993. xxx, 846 p. ill., bibliography, indices. $110.00 Biographical essays on the 86 cartographers mentioned by Abraham Ortellius in his 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with more than two thousand maps and several hundred books, pamphlets and broadsides described. Information regarding modern reproductions of the images, references, other editions, locations, and a brief review of the literature for each cartographer is given. Also included are 23 maps, a bibliography with over 2,000 references, indices to both "place and date" and "date and place" of publication and a general index of subjects, personal names, places, and map titles.
Lee, Sul H., editor. The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries: British and American Perspectives. New York: Haworth Press, 1993. 98 p. $24.95 Six papers from a 1992 seminar of the same title at the University of Oxford. Also published as Journal of Library Administration, Volume 19, Number 1 (1993).
Martin, Henri-Jean. Print, Power, and People in 17th-Century France. Translated by David Gerard. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993. xviii, 740 p., 1 map, sources and bibliography, indices. $82.50 Originally published in1969 as Livre, pouvoirs et socie'te' a Paris au 17 siecle (1598-1701) in two volumes and 1091 pages, the translator's intent of producing "an uninterrupted narrative without loss of substance" was achieved by curtailing the massive documentation found in the original. Gerard also translated Martin's The Coming of the Book.
Meisel, Max. A Bibliography of American Natural History: The Pioneer Century, 1769-1865. New York, Premier Publishing, 1924. Reprint: Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino, 1994. 3 volumes, indices, $135 Title page: "The role played by the scientific societies, scientific journals, natural history museums, and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploring expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, and zoology." Includes annotated bibliography of publications, classified subject and geographic indices, and a bibliography of biographies.
Morrison, John J. and Carolyn W. Nelson, editors. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700. Compiled by Donald Wing, Second edition, newly revised and enlarged. Volume 1 of three volumes. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1994. xli, 954 p. $400 The entries in this revised volume are structured in a smiliar fashion to the original Wing STC : author, short title, imprint, date, format, locations, and additional information to distinguish entries. The original first-edition numbering is used as are valid numbers from the 1972 edition, with additional entries interpolated.
Servies, James A. and Lana D. Serives. A Bibliography of Florida. Volume I: 1507-1845. Pensacola, FL: King & Queen Books, 1993. xxii, 424 p., ills., index. $165.00 The first in a proposed series of volumes intended to describe the printed literature of Florida from earliest references through World War II. 3,106 books, pamphlets, periodical articles, broadsides, and maps are arranged chronologically with author, title, physical description (without signature statements), brief notes, bibliographic references, and occassional detailed contents.
Sheppard's Book Dealers in Europe. A Directory of Antiquarian and Secondhand Book Dealers on the Continent of Europe. Surrey: Richard Joseph Publishers, 1994. 319 p., indices. $43.20 The ninth edition. Orgnaized geographically by country and city. Includes business, proprietor, and specialty subject indices.
Simmons, J.S.G. and Be' Van Ginneken-Van de Kasteele, editors. Likhachev's Watermarks. An English-Language Version. Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1994 2 Volumes: One: Text. Two: Plates and Indices. Dfl 550. The fifteenth and final volume of the Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae Historiam Illustrantia (Collection of Works and Documents Illustrating the History of Paper). Translation of "The palaeographical significance of watermarks in paper," first published 1899.
Tanselle, G. Thomas. The Life and Work of Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. viii, 210 p., 1 portrait, index. The first in a series of occassional publications issued by The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, this volume reprints Tanselle's biography and Martin C. Battestin's checklist and chronology from Studies in Bibliography (Volume XLVI, 1993) with minor corrections and the addition of an index.
Vander Meulen, David L., editor. Studies in Bibliography. Volume Forty-Eight . Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1995. viii, 305 p., illustrated. $30 per year for subscribing members. "Most of this volume consists of essays designed to honor J. D. Fleeman on the completion of his life's principal endeavour, a comprehensive bibliography of Samuel Johnson." (preface).
Wendorf, Richard, editor. Rare Book and Manuscript Libraries in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1993. 124 p., illustrated. Twenty-three essays and responses emanating from the 1992 Harvard symposium of the same name. Also published as New Series, Volume 4, Number 1 and 2 of the Harvard Library Bulletin.
World Guide to Libraries, 11th edition. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1993. xxvii, 1179 p. , index. 498 DM (Harrassowitz) 45,773 libraries in 181 countries are listed. Geopolitical changes as of December 11, 1992 are reflected in a number of corrections including names of libraries, institutes, streets and town names.
World Guide to Special Libraries, 3rd edition. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1995. xxx, 1258 p. (in 2 volumes), index. 468 DM (Harrassowitz) Over 41,600 libraries listed under approximately 800 subject headings. "Special Libraries" here refers to libraries with thematically specialized holdings.
Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors. Seventh Edition. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 1995. 224 p., $25.00 Revised by Nicolas Barker with corrections, additions, and a new introduction.
Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, editors. A Millenium of the Book: Production, Design, and Illustration in Manuscript and Print, 900- 1900. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1995. 192 p. , illustrated. $30.00. Contains important article by Nicholas Pickwoad detailing the myriad way by which bookbinders over many decades changed product and method in order to keep up with the ever-growing numbers of printed books.