Books and readers - Libraries - Histories, Catalogues

Lot Comprises:

Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust jacket

James W.P. Campbell, The Library: A World History, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013, fol., publisher's black paper boards, dust jacket

John Cotton Dana & Henry W. Kent, Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, (Chicago, 1906), reprint Metuchen, Scarecrow, 1967, 8vo., publisher's ecru cloth, stamp of Leeds College of Commerce

Edward Edwards, Libraries and founders of libraries : from ancient times to the beginning of the nineteenth century, (London, 1865), reprint Amsterdam, Gerard Th. van Heusden 1968, 4to., blue cloth gilt

Alfred Hessel, A History of Libraries (translated, with supplementary material, by Reuben Peiss), New Brunswick, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1955, 8vo., publisher's green cloth

Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970, fol., publisher's green cloth, dust jacket

Elmer D. Johnson, A History of Libraries in the Western World, New York & London, 1965, 8vo., publisher's black cloth

Fred Lerner, The Story of Libraries from the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age, New York, Continuum, 1998, 8vo., dust jacket

Albert Predeek, A History of Libraries in Great Britain and North America (translated by Lawrence S. Thompson), Chicago, American Library Association, 1947, 4to., publisher's brick red cloth, first edition

Konstantinos Staikos, The Great Libraries from Antiquity to Renaissance (3000 BC to AD 1600), New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press & London, British Library, 2000, fol., publisher's red cloth gilt, dust jacket

Alfred Hessel, The Memory of Mankind: The Story of Libraries since the Dawn of History (revised by Reuben Peiss; edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann), New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2001, fol., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Thomas Hendrickson, Ancient libraries and Renaissance humanism : the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius, Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2017, 4to., publisher's painted boards

Justus Lipsius, A Brief Outline of the History of Libraries, translated from the second edition (Antwerp, The Plantin Press, John Moretus, 1607), the last from the hand of the author, by John Cotton Dana, Chicago, McClurg, 1907, 8vo., beige cloth over marbled boards

Johannes Lomeier, A Seventeenth‐century View of European Libraries: Lomeier's "De Bibliothecis" chapter X, translated, with an introduction and notes, by John Warwick Montgomery (University of California publications in librarianship, 3), Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1962, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers

Karl Christ, The Handbook of Medieval Library History (translated and edited by Theophil M. Otto), Metuchen, NJ & London, Scarecrow, 1984, 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt

John Willis Clark, Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods, (Cambridge, 1894), reprint Chicago, Argonaut Inc Publishers, 1968, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth

James Westfall Thompson, The Medieval Library, (Chicago 1939), reprint New York & London, Hafner Publishing Company, 1965, thick 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt, dust jacket

Marc Baratin & Christian Jacob, Le pouvoir des bibliothèques : la mémoire des livres en Occident, Paris, A. Michel, 1996, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers

Theodore Wesley Koch, Bibliothécaires d'Antan

[translated from the English, by Abel Doysié] Paris, Honoré Champion, 1922, 8vo., blue printed wrappers, Occidental College bookplate

André Masson & Denis Pallier, Les bibliothèques (Que sais‐je?), Paris, 1986, 8vo., pocket book, publisher's printed wrappers

Guglielmo Cavallo, ed., Le biblioteche nel mondo antico e medievale, Bari, 1997, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers

Sold as a group, not subject to return.