THE LIBRARY OF ABEL E. BERLAND
Catalog Information: 446 lots | 316 with images
Lot 1: ALLOT, Robert (fl. 1600), editor. Englands Parnassus: or, The choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons . London: printed for N[icholas] L[ing], C[uthbert] B[urby], and T[homas] H[ayes], 1600.
8 o (141 x 91 mm). Woodcut device of Ling on title (McKerrow 301). (Lacking two preliminary blanks A1-A2 [A1 signed] and Kk8, upper corner of Ii5 repaired with loss of pagination and approximately 10 words [supplied in pencil], some headlines, signat [...more]
Lot 2: [ALLOT, Robert (fl. 1600), editor]. Wits Theater of the little World. [London:] J.R[oberts] for N. L[ing], 1559.
Small 8 o (129 x 80 mm). Woodcut device on title (McKerrow 301); errata leaf at end. (Some slight browning, lower corners chipped from worming on quires M-O, a few tiny wormholes to text occasionally touching a letter.) Contemporary limp vellum (a fe [...more]
Lot 3: AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, [1839-] 1840-1844.
7 volumes, royal 8 o (266 x 165 mm). Half-titles; subscribers' lists. 500 hand-colored lithographic plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen (plate 150 spotted, plate 232 with small hole in uppe [...more]
Lot 4: BACON, Francis (1561-1626). Instauratio magna [ Novum organum ]. London: John Bill, 1620.
2 o (283 x 190 mm). Engraved title by Simon van de Passe, woodcut head-pieces and historiated initials. (Blanks π1 and c4 removed, stamp removed on lower margin of title-page with small section skilfully patched [lower border retouched slightly] [...more]
Lot 5: BLACKSTONE, William (1723-1780). Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765-1769.
4 volumes, 4 o (263 x 199 mm). 2 engraved tables, one folding, in volume II. (Small hole on Zz3 in vol. I affecting one letter, occasional light browning and spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked in morocco, some wear at extemities); cloth slipcase. [...more]
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