Book Description

LEVINSON, Harry, A. Catalogue 60 - History, Literature, Sciences, Scholarship Before 1700, Four Volumes Complete. Part I, A-D; Part 2, E-L; Part 3, M-R; Part 4, S-Z. 430pp in total, with 1,531 rare books and manuscripts, with good descriptions, and numerous illustrations. Original card covers, in good condition. Slight ‘wave’ to the covers, and a couple of leaves with small edge stain. Scarce. 4to. Harry A.Levinson. California. 1966-1972. I: 87 (1) pp., 44 leaves of plates (pls.I-LXXXVIII; pl.LXXXIX on lower wrapper. Items 1-340 + 6 addenda; priced. II: pp.[89]-198 (2 blank), 50 leaves of plates (pls.I-XCIX). Items 341-738; priced. III: pp.[199]-304 (2), 58 leaves of plates (pls.C-CCXIV). Items 739-1080; priced. IV: (2), pp.205-430, colour frontispiece, 54 leaves of plates (pls.CCXV-CCCXXII). The catalogues include Jenson’s Plutarch (1478) and the Aldine Aristophanes (1498). “He considered it his finest work” (Donald C. Dickinson, Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers, Westport, CT 1998, pp.124-125). Levinson’s residual stock and reference library were sold by Christie’s, New York, 9 October 1996.
Author LEVINSON, Harry, A.
Date 1966

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