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Vision of a collector : the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress
- Title
- Vision of a collector : the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress / Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
- Publication
- Washington : Library of Congress, 1991.
- Austin, Texas : W. Thomas Taylor.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Book/Text | Use in library | Z997.R817 V57 1991 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxxv, 427 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), maps (some color), 1 plan; 29 cm
- Subject
- Rosenwald, Lessing J. 1891-1979 > Library
- Rosenwald, Lessing J. 1891-1979
- Rosenwald, Lessing J
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting > United States
- Rare books > Washington (D.C.) > Bibliography
- Rare books > Collectors and collecting > United States
- Private libraries > United States
- Book collecting > United States
- Illumination of books and manuscripts
- Illustration of books
- Manuscripts > History
- Printing > History
- Rare books
- Illustration of books > United States
- Manuscripts as Topic > history
- Printing > history
- Book Collecting > history
- Rare Books
- illumination (image-making process)
- illustration (process)
- Book collecting
- Libraries
- Manuscripts
- Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting
- Printing
- Private libraries
- Rare books > Collectors and collecting
- Bibliophiles Buch
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Zeldzame en kostbare boeken
- Particuliere bibliotheken
- Bibliothek
- United States
- Washington (D.C.)
- Genre/Form
- Government publications – United States.
- Bibliography
- bibliographies.
- Bibliographies.
- History.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) – Monotype Bembo.
- Note
- "Three hundred copies in the edition have been specially bound by BookLab in Austin and contain an etched portrait of Lessing J. Rosenwald by Philadelphia artist Tony Rosati"--Colophon.
- Shipping list no.: 92-0358-P.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Provenance (note)
- WHS shelf-list has no date of acquisition or name of vendor.
- Contents
- Manuscripts: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis (Edith G. Rosenwald Hours) [Paris, 1370s] Schutzner Ms. 45 / Lilian M.C. Randall ; Biblia Latina (Giant Bible of Mainz) [Mainz] : 4 April 1452-9 July 1453 / Alan Shestack ; Roberto Valturio. De re militari [North Italy, third quarter of the fifteenth century] / Jonathan J.G. Alexander ; Horae beatae Mariae ad usum Romanum [France], 1524 / Roger S. Wieck ; James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Venice. Second Series. Manuscript and proofs of the catalog, dated 17 February 1883 / Ruth E. Fine.
- Illustrated books fifteenth century and later: Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis. [Southern Germany, ca. 1465] / Felix de Marez Oyens ; Passio Christi [Germany, ca. 1470?] / Richard S. Field ; Speculum humanae salvationis [Utrecht : Printer of the Speculum, not after 1471-74] / Joyce Lancaster Wilson ; Francesco Petrarca. [Uber die Grisel. Ulm : Johann Zainer, 1474 or 1475] / Marilyn Migiel and Ann Marie Rasmussen ; Johannes Mueller, called Regiomontanus. [Kalender, 1475-1530/31. Nuremberg : Sold by Hans Briefftruck?, 1474] / Rudolf Hirsch ; Flavius Vegetius Renatus. Des durchleichtigen wolgebornen Grauen Flauii Vegecii Renati kurcze Red von der Ritterschafft. [Augsburg : Johann Wiener, ca. 1475] / Bernard M. Rosenthal ; Der sielen troest. Utrecht : t C, 10 November 1479 / Elly Cockx-Indestage ; [Jacobus de Cessolis]. The game of chess. [Westminster] : William Caxton, [1483] / Joan M. Friedman ; Dante Alighieri. La commedia. Florence : Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 August 1481 / Konrad Oberhuber ; [Indulgence for hospital of St. Mary Rounceval, Charing Cross. Westminster : William Caxton, 1480] / Paul Needham ; Dialogus creaturarum moralizatus. Gouda : Gheraert Leeu, 31 August 1482 / Lotte Hellinga ; Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Boeck van den proprieteyten der dingen. Haarlem : Jacob Bellaert, 24 December 1485 / Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann ; Boethius. De consolatione philosophiae. Ghent : Arend de Keysere, 3 May 1485 / Roland Folter ; Aesopus. Vita et Aesopus moralisatus. Naples : [Germani fidelissimi for] Francesco del Tuppo, 13 February 1485 / Arthur E. Vershbow ; Bernhard von Breydenbach. Die heyligen reyssen gen Iherusalem. Mainz : Erhard Reuwich, 21 June 1486 / F. Thomas Noonan ; Homerus. Opera. Greek. Florence : Bernardus Nerlius, Nerius Nerlius, and Demetrius Damilas, 9 December 1488 [i.e. not before 13 January 1488/89] / Nicolas Barker ; Chorea ab eximio Macabro versibus alemanicis edita. Paris : Guy Marchant for Geoffroy de Marnef, 15 October 1490 / Bettye Chambers ; Heiltum zu Bamberg. Nuremberg: Hans Mair, 3 March 1493, and In disem puechlein ist verzaichent das hochwirdig Heyligtub so man in der loblichen Stat Wienn in Osterreich alle Iar an Sontag nach dem Ostertag zezaigen pfligt. [Wienn : Gedrugkt durch J. Winterburg, 1502] / Frederick G. Schab ; Titus Livius. Deche di Tito Liuio vulgare historiate. Venice : Joannes Vercellensis, for Lucantonio Giunta, 11 February 1493 / Lillian Armstrong ; Publius Terentius Afer. [Comoediae]. Lyons : Johannes Trechsel, 29 August 1493 / Erich Segal ; Bidpa'i. Exemplario contra los engaños: y peligros del mũdo. Zaragoza : Paul Hurus, 15 April 1494 / Werner Gundersheimer ; Giovanni Boccaccio. Des nobles maleureux. Paris: Antoine Vérard, 4 November 1494 / David Anderson ; Sebastian Braunt. Das Narrenschiff. Basel : Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 11 Februaru 1494 / Robert L. Nikirk ; Publius Terentius Afer. [Comoediae]. Strassburg : Johann Grüninger, 1 November 1496 / Christine Ruggere ; Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice : Aldus Manutius, December 1499 / Ruth Samson Luborsky ; The Knyght of the swanne. [London : enprynted by W. de Worde, 1512] / John N. King ; Albrecht Dürer. Hierin̄ sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion. [Nuremberg : Gedruckt durch I. Formschneyder, auff Verlegung Albrecht Dürers verlassen Witib], 1528 / Charles Talbot ; Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort. Lyon : [M. et G. Trechsel], 1538 / Ruth Mortimer ; Gerardus Vorselman. Hier begint eenen nyeuwen coock boeck. Thantwerpen : Gheprint by dye weduwe van H. Peetersen, 1560 / Leonard Beck ; Thomas Hariot. A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. Francoforti ad Moenum : Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus vero T. de Bry, 1590 / Edwin Wolf 2nd ; Lodovico Ariosto. Orlando fvrioso in English heroical verse, by Iohn Haringtõ. [London : Imprinted by R. Field, 1591] / Elizabeth Mongan ; Giovanni Battista Braccelli. Bizzarie di varie figure di Giouanbatista Braccelli. [Livorno], 1624 / Alan Fern ; Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée. Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1673 [i.e. 1674] / H. Diane Russell ; Desiderius Erasmus. Stultitiae laus. Basileae : Typis Genathianis, 1676 / Howard A. Wolf ; Torquato Tasso. La Gerusalemme liberate con le figure di Giambatista Piazzetta. Venezia : Stampata da G. Albrizzi, 1745 / Eleanor M. Garvey ; Alois Senefelder. Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey. München : K. Thienemann, 1818 / Thomas M. Whitehead ; Stephen Crane. War is kind. New York : F.A. Stokes Co., 1899 / John C. Broderick ; Leonard Baskin. Horned beetles and other insects. Northampton : Gehenna Press, 1958 / Anthony Hecht ; Denis Grivot and George Zarnecki. Gislebertus, sculptor of Autun. [Boissia, Clairvaux] : Trianon Press in association with Collins [London, 1961] / Rev. Anthony J. Lauck, C.S.C. --
- William Blake. William Blake. Songs of innocence [London] : W. Blake, 1789, and William Blake. Songs of innocence and of experience. [London : W. Blake, 1794] / David Bindman ; William Blake. The book of Urizen. Lambeth : printed by Will Blake, 1794 [i.e. 1815] / Robert N. Essick ; Edward Young. The complaint and the consolation; or, Night thoughts. London : R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797 / Nelson Hilton ; William Blake. Milton, a poem in 12 [i.e. 2] books. [London : W. Blake], 1804 [i.e. 1815?] / Martin Butlin.
- Bindings: [Contemporary Ferrarese covers] Battista Fregoso. Anteros, sive tractatus contra amorem. Milan : Leonardus Pachel, 10 May 1496 / Mirjam M. Foot ; [Grolier binding] Michele Marullo Tarcaniota. Epigrammatum libri IV. Hymnorum naturalium libri IV. Florence : Societas Colubris, 26 November 1497 / Bernard H. Breslauer ; [Canevari binding] Galenus. Extra ordinem classium libri. Venetiis : Apud haeredes L. Iuntae, 1541 / Anthony Hobson ; [Fanfare binding] Ippolito Salviani. Aqvatilivm animalivm historiae. Romae, 1554 / John P. Chalmers ; [Presentation binding by Padeloup] [Antoine Danchet]. Le sacre de Louis XV. [Paris, 1722] / Paul Culot ; [Embossed paper binding] Componimenti poetici per l'ingresso solenne alla dignità di proccuratore de S. Marco per merito di sua eccellenza il signor Lodovico Manin. [Venice : Albrizzi, 1764] / Andrew Robison ; [Bonet binding] Guillaume Apollinaire. Calligrammes. [Paris] : Gallimard, 1930 / Jan Van Der Marck.
- Geography: Claudius Ptolemaeus. Cosmographia. Ulm : Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482 / Walter W. Ristow ; Claudius Ptolemaeus. Geographiae. [Argentinae : I. Schotti, 1513] / Ralph E. Ehrenberg ; Pedro de Medina. Arte de navegar. [Valladolid : F. Fernandez de Cordua, 1545] / John Parker ; [Christopher Saxton. An atlas of England and Wales. London], 1579 / John A. Wolter ; Gerardus Mercator. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra. Dvisbvrgi Clivorvm, [1595] / David Woodward.
- Herbals: Leonhart Fuchs. De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes. Basileae : in Officina Isingriniana, 1542 / Bernadette G. Callery ; [Jean Robin?]. Histoire des plantes, novvellement trouuées en l'Isle Virgine, & autres lieux, lesquelles ont esté prises & cultiuées au iardin de Monsieur Robin Arboriste du Roy. Paris : Guillaume Macé, 1620 / Rosemary Fry Plakas ; Pierre Joseph Redouté. Les roses. Paris : Firmin Didot, 1817-24 / Mary Leahy.
- Science: C. Plinius Secundus. Historia naturalis. Venice : Johannes de Spira, [before 18 September] 1469 / Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. ; Petrus Apianus. Instrument buch. Ingolstadii, 1533 / Silvio A. Bedini ; [Petrus Apianus]. Astronomicum Caesareum. [Ingolstadt, 1540] / Owen Gingerich ; Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome. Basileae : [Ex officina I. Oporini, 1543], and Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basileae : [Ex officina I. Oporini, 1543] / Jeremy M. Norman ; Georg Agricola. De re metallica. Basileae : [apvd. H. Frobenivm et N. Episcopivm], 1556 / Cyril Stanley Smith ; Agostino Ramelli. Le diverse et artificiose machine. Parigi, 1588 / Daniel Traister ; Galileo Galilei. Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche. Leida : Elsevirii, 1638 / Leonard C. Bruno ; Johannes Hevelius. Selenographia. Gedani : Hünefeldianis, 1647 / Ruth S. Freitag ; Robert Hooke. Micrographia. London : J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665 / I. Bernard Cohen.
- ISBN
- 084440733X
- 9780844407333
- LCCN
- 91032821
- OCLC
- ocm24380200
- 24380200
- SCSB-1950024
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library