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Books and readers - Libraries - Histories, Catalogues - United States

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Cambridge, Harvard University

Philip Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration: A Short Survey from the Collection in the Department of Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, Second printing, with new introductory material, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1970, fol., publisher's green cloth, dust jacket


New York, Morgan Library & Museum

Paul Spencer Bayard, Cynthia Davidson, Charles E. Pierce, Jr. & Brian Regan, The Making of the Morgan from Charles McKim to Renzo Piano, New York, Morgan Library & Museum, 2008, fol., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket


New York, Morgan Library & Museum

In August company : the collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, fol., publisher's black cloth gilt, slip case


New York, Morgan Library & Museum

Paul Needham, Early Printed Books: Major Acquisitions of The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1924‐1974, New York, 1974, fol., publisher's brown paper wrappers gilt


Chicago, Newberry Library

James M. Wells, The Scholar Printers: Two Exhibitions at the Newberry Library … I. Printers, Publishers, and Scholars: Books Mainly from the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing. II. The Learned Presses, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1964, 8vo., publisher's green printed wrappers (2 copies)


Princeton, University Library

Paul Needham, The Invention and Early Spread of European Printing: As Represented in the Scheide Library, Princeton, 2007, fol., publisher's printed wrappers


Washington, DC, Library of Congress

Frederick R. Goff, A Catalogue of Important Recent Editions to the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection Selected for Exhibition at the Library of Congress, June 1947, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office 1947, 4to., pamphlet, publisher's blue printed paper wrappers


Cambridge, Harvard University

James E. Walsh, A Catalogue of the Fifteenth‐Century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library, (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, v. 84, 97, 119, 150, 171), Binghamton & Tempe, 1991‐1997, 4to., 5v., publisher's blue cloth gilt - - David R. Whitesell, First Supplement, Special Issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin, v. 16, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006, 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt


New York, Morgan Library & Museum

Joseph Blumenthal, Art of the Printed Book, 1455‐1955, Masterpieces of Typography through Five Centuries from the Collections of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1973, fol., publisher's printed wrappers


Bethesda, National Library of Medicine

R. J. Durling, A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, 1967 (reprint), publisher's blue cloth


Cynthia Burlingham & Bruce Whiteman, The world from here : treasures of the great libraries of Los Angeles, San Marino, Getty Museum, 2001, 4to., publisher's grey cloth


Chicago, University

Anna Sigrídur Arnar, ed., Encyclopedism from Pliny to Borges, Chicago, University of Chicago Library, 1990, fol., publisher's printed wrappers


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