Books and readers - Libraries - Architecture, decoration, and shelving of books

Lot Comprises:

Marshall Brooks, Brief Illustrated History of the Bookshelf, Delhi, NY, Birch Brooks Press, 1998, 8vo., publisher's green simulated cloth, backed by tan cloth

John Willis Clark, The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, University Press, 1901

John Willis Clark, The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, University Press, 1902

William E. Gladstone, On Books and the Housing of Them, New York, M.F. Mansfield, 1898, 8vo., publisher's printed grey boards backed with red cloth, one of 500 copies

Henry Petroski, The Book on the bookshelf, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, 4to., publisher's simulated leather backed boards, dust jacket

Lydia Pyne, Bookshelf, New York & London, Bloomsbury, 2016, small 8vo., publisher's black printed paper covers

Siena, Libreria Piccolomini nel Duomo

Gyde Vanier Gilbert Shepherd, Pintorichio and Raphael in the Piccolomini Library in Siena, 1494-1508 (Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1993), Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International, 1995, 4to., wrappers

San Lorenzo de El Escorial

George Kubler, Building the Escorial, Princeton, 1982, fol., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Stephen J. Campbell, The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Paintings and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2004, large 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Candida Höfer, Great Libraries, introductory essay by Umberto Eco, Munich, 2005, 4to., publisher's grey paper over boards with pictorial dust jacket

André Masson,The pictorial catalogue : mural decoration in libraries : the Lyell Lectures, Oxford 1972-1973 (translated by David Gerard), Oxford, Clarendon, 1981, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Thomas Schlientz, The Library : a portfolio of views of early libraries from the collection of Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., presented on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Detroit Public Library and the Conference of the American Library Association, Detroit, Gale Research, 1965, agenda format 8vo. and folio (plates)

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Early Modern Rome, 1341‐1667: Proceedings of a Conference held in Rome, May 13‐15, 2010 (The Association of American College and University Programs in Italy), ed. Portia Prebys [includes Dalma Frascarelli, "Luogo del Sapere: La construzione e la decorazione della Biblioteca Vaticana nella politica culturale di Sisto V"], Ferrara, Edisai, 2012, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Geoffrey Little, Library Architecture at Yale (Yale Library Studies), New Haven, 2009, 4to., publisher's paper wrappers

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Stephen Parks, ed., The Beinecke Library of Yale University, New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2003, fol., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Monique Chatenet, La Cour de France au XVIe siècle: Vie sociale et architecture, Paris, 2002, fol., publisher's printed colored wrappers

Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph Marquis de Laborde, De l'organisation des bibliothèques dans Paris : Huitième lettre, Étude sur la construction des Bibliothèques, Paris, 1845, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Sylvie Béguin, et al., Cheminées et frises peintes du Château d'Ecouen, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux / Musée national de la Renaissance, 1995, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Myriam Bacha & Christian Hottin, ed., Les Bibliothèques parisiennes: Architecture et décor, Paris, Action artistique de la ville de Paris, 2002, fol., publisher's brown cloth gilt, dust jacket

André Masson, Le décor des bibliothèques du moyen âge à la Révolution,

Geneva, Droz, 1972, 4to., publisher's printed white cloth

Bibliothèque du Chapitre de Noyon

André Masson, La "Librairie" du chapitre de Noyon et l'architecture des bibliothèques franc̜aises à la fin du Moyen-Age (reprinted from Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, 2ème année, no. 2, Février 1957), Paris, 1957, 8vo., pamphlet

Wolfgang Liebenwein, Studiolo: storia e tipologia di uno spazio culturale, translation by Alessandro Califano, Modena, Panini, 1988, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Maria Ida Catalano, Il pavimento della Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana, Florence, Cantini, 1992, fol., publisher's printed wrappers

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Alessandro Zuccari, I pittori di Sisto V, Rome, Palombi, 1992, fol., publisher's blue cloth gilt

James F. O'Gorman, The architecture of the monastic library in Italy, 1300-1600 : catalogue with introductory essay, New York, New York University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1972, fol., publisher's green cloth gilt, inscription from author to Rudolf Hirsch, Christmas 1972, Hirsch's signature on endleaf

Sold as a group, not subject to return.