Title & Author:

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.

Description:

xxxv, 427 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), maps (some color), 1 plan ; 29 cm

Notes:
"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.
LC has copy of the regular trade ed.
DLC
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Resources:
Lessing J. Rosenwald collection

ISBN:

084440733X (alk. paper)
9780844407333 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius), 1891-1979 Library.
Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius), 1891-1979 Bibliothèque.
Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius), 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
Manuscrits Collectionneurs et collections États-Unis.
Livres rares Collectionneurs et collections États-Unis.
Enluminure.
Illustration des livres États-Unis.
Manuscrits Histoire.
Imprimerie Histoire.
Livres rares Washington (D.C.) Bibliographie.
Bibliothèques privées États-Unis.
Bibliophilie États-Unis.
Illustration des livres.
Livres rares.
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.)
Rare books Bibliography Washington (D.C.)

Form/genre:

Government publications United States.
Bibliography
bibliographies.
Bibliographies.
History.
Typefaces (Type evidence) Monotype Bembo.

Added entries:

Rosati, Tony, illustrator.
Rosati, Tony
Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, issuing body.
W. Thomas Taylor (Firm), printer.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
W. Thomas Taylor (Firm)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 17649
Call No.: ID:93-B108
Status: Available