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Autograph Musical Manuscripts & Letters of Composers<br /> First & Early Editions of Printed Music<br /> Rare Books on Music<br /> Portrait Engravings
Autograph Musical Manuscripts & Letters of Composers<br /><br /> First & Early Editions of Printed Music<br /><br /> Rare Books on Music<br /><br /> Portrait Engravings
The archives of Dr. Robert Rompe (1905-1993) and Dr. Friedrich Paneth (1887-1958).
The vast archive of a World War II German Luftwaffe sergeant and flight engineer.
E-List 30 Items
Ten recent acquisitions, with full-color illustrations
35 items, fully illustrated
20 items, fully illustrated
29 Rare books in the history of Science & Medicine: AUTHORS: Academie Royal de Chirurgie (1755-60). Ulyssis ALDROVANDUS (1638/1644). Thomas BARTHOLIN (1662, 1670). Georges BERTIN (1586). Robert BOYLE (1667). [Gautier d'Agoty] Antoine COURT DE GEBELIN (1776). Pierre DEFAUX [DEFOSSEZ?] [Manuscript] (1757). Rene DESCARTES (1650). Jean Amedee DUPAU (1826). Thomas ERASTUS (1580, 1572). FABRICIUS, ab Aquapendente (1592). GALEN (1556). Pierre GASSENDI (1680). Theodoros GAZES (1536). William HARVEY (1650, 1651). Caspar HOFMANN (1619). Jean-Baptiste Remy JACQUELIN-DUBUISSON (1816). Jan JONSTON (1648). Carlo LANCILLOTTI (1683). Joseph LIEUTAUD (1766). Étienne-Jules MAREY (1877). Eduard MARTIN (1911, 1912). Pierre Jean Claude MAUDUYT de la Varenne (1784). Jacques MESNARD (1753). Joannis Baptistae MORGAGNI (1728). Antoine PETIT, [Manuscript] (1762). Jean RIOLAN (1674). Friedrich SCHLEMM (1830). Jean-Baptiste VAN HELMONT (1670). Henry Patrick WAGENER (1937).
A small selection of materials with a connection to our Western Sates.
21 items, with full-color illustrations
Catalog 70 is comprised of mostly new arrivals, a majority of them coming from a single, fabulous collection. Some highlight from the catalog include C B Falls' ABC Book; Jean Charlot's Caldecott Honor, A Child's Good Night Book with text by Margaret Wise Brown; a gorgeous copy of the French edition of Greenaway's Pied Piper of Hamelin: L'Homme a la Flute; a rare picture book by advertising giant Ivan Chermayeff, Keep it Like a Secret; a wonderful group of Hans Fischer illustrated books including a first edition of Pitschi, The Birthday, Rum Pum Pum, Traveling Musicians and Der gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots); Milton & Shirley Glaser's If Apples Had Teeth; Sendak's Nutshell Library as well as Robert Kraus' Bunny's Nutshell Library; three illustrated edition of Night Before Christmas; Bruno Munari's Nella Notte Buia; a beautiful and humorous French language Noah's ark, L'Arche de Noe; a jacketed copy of Arthur Rackham's Sleeping Beauty; Charles Robinson's Rip Van Winkle and scarce, limited edition of The Velveteen Rabbit illustrated by Marie Angel.
Twenty-Eight recent acquisitions, with full-color illustrations
34 items, fully illustrated
128 items on food and drink from the 16th to the 21st century. Art Nouveau cakes, Mexican cantina menus, 16th century humoral dieting for Spanish kings, Michoacán cuisine, Japanese seasonal menus and manuscript illustrations of desserts, butter churn broadsides and much (much) more.
Book highlights include a baseball rarity, several Chicago-related titles, much poetry + architecture. Autographs featured in world leaders, exploration, business + military. Several commemorative medallions round out this eclectic list.