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The Library of H. Bradley Martin. Part II: Magnificent Color-Plate Ornithology Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates : June 7 1989

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The Library of H. Bradley Martin 9 volumes complete set

009849New York & Monaco: Sotheby’s 1989 9 parts in 9 volumes 4to 27.5 cm Part I 6 June 1989: 96 pp. lots 1-38; Part II 7 June 1989: 340 pp. lots 39-242; Part III 8 June 1989: 236 pp. lots 243-519; Part IV 16-17 October 1989: 444 pp. lots 520-1322; Part V 12-13 December 1989: 384 pp. lots 1323-1977; Part VI 30-31 January 1990: 424 pp. lots 1978-2505; Part VII 31 January 1990: 136 pp. lots 2506-2553; Part VIII 30 April-1 May 1990: 528 pp. lots 2554-3345; Part IX 14 June 1990: 264 pp. lots 3347-3672. Lists of estimates and price lists loosely inserted in each volume. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering and mounted illustration on each front board. A complete nine-volume catalogue documenting the dispersal of one of the most important private libraries of the twentieth century. The collection was formed by H. Bradley Martin 1906-1988 a major American bibliophile whose holdings in ornithology natural history and literature were regarded as among the finest ever assembled in private hands. Alongside landmark illustrated books and scientific works the library included significant association material in English and American literature manuscripts and early printed books reflecting both breadth and curatorial ambition characteristic of the great Gilded Age collecting tradition. The sale realised a total of $35719750 and stands as a key document in late twentieth-century rare book collecting history both for the quality of material offered and for the record prices achieved for major illustrated and scientific books. Notable highlights included Audubon's The Birds of America London 1827–1838 a double-elephant folio set with 435 hand-coloured plates which realised $3960000; Audubon's 1826 travel journal relating to the conception of the work; and major ornithological and natural history classics by Catesby Gould Lear Levaillant and others many realised at strong six-figure sums. The sale also included important literary and historical material such as Melville correspondence Poe's extremely rare Tamerlane and Other Poems 1827 Blake association material and Beckford correspondence alongside significant early printed books and manuscripts including vernacular and classical incunabula and vellum-printed luxury copies. A landmark multi-session auction record of a major American private library frequently cited in provenance research and the history of collecting. Sotheby’s hardcover

Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko · Pologne1 350,00 PLN≈ 320,08 €

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The Library of H. Bradley Martin Part IV: Highly Important French Literature; Monaco Oct 16 & 17 1989. With original Price-List.

1989200405AB1989. Monaco Sotheby's 1989. 21.3 cm x 27.7 cm. Unpaginated approx 400 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to the binding and to front and rear endpapers. Minor discoloration to edges. Otherwise binding strong. Interior bright and clean. Contains Price-List of this auction ! Important Reference-Work for the research of historic price-development of French Literature and French Literary Manuscripts of the 19th and 20th century. With Rare Books by Paul Verlaine with manuscript-annotations Manuscript-Letters by Marcel Proust Signed books by Victor Hugo etc. etc. As a book collector H. Bradley Martin 1906-1988 has been ranked with such giants as Robert Hoe and J. Pierpont Morgan. He spent a lifetime in pursuit of rare books and manuscripts and the breadth of his interests and the depth of his knowledge enabled him to build a library that is recognized as one of the finest in the world. Born in New York in 1906 Mr. Martin was the eldest of five sons of Bradley Martin and Helen Phipps and a grandson of Henry Phipps. After his graduation from St. George's School in Newport he entered Christ Church College at Oxford where he spent five years between 1924 and 1929. By that time he was already a book collector. At eighteen he had purchased his first rare book a copy of Tom Sawyer and during his years at Christ Church he became a familiar figure to booksellers in Oxford and London. The collection found its direction in 1929 when Mr. Martin began to read the works of W.H. Hudson. This author as a novelist and a naturalist drew him towards both literature and ornithology ultimately the two major components of his library. Over the next sixty years he formed a series of author collections- Poe Hawthorne Melville and Thoreau as well as Hudson- and acquired and extraordinary range of English French and American literature. His ornithological library is unmatched by its richness and depth. Not only did he succeed in assembling a virtually complete collection of the classic illustrated books from the sixteenth century onwards but perhaps more remarkably he obtained a vast number of scientific books and treatises that record the important developments and discoveries in the field to the present day. By the mid-1930s Mr. Martin was well established as a book collector and until his death in 1988 he received- and read- virtually every catalogue produced by booksellers and auction houses alike. Throughout the book world he was known as a discerning and meticulous collector one with specific if broad interests who was unwilling to compromise his standards. His quest took him to booksellers and auctions throughout this country and Europe and Howard Swann of Wheldon & Wesley Michael Papantino of Seven Gables and David Kirschenbaum of Carnegie Bookshop were among his prinicipal advisors. Above all the Martin Library was a private collection housed in his apartment in New York and at Rose Hill his Georgian house in Virginia. Mr. Martin welcomed his colleagues there but the world of exhibitions and bibliographic events had less appeal for him. Rather he was a collector who lived among his books reading them collating them and finding in them new challenges and discoveries. As David Kirschenbaum has said "Bradley collected with sense discrimination and a deep love of the book." H.Bradley Martin was a great lover of all the literature of the Romantic period Lamartine Chenier Chateaubriand but he was also attracted by the revival of the novel at the hands of Balzac Flaubert Stendhal and Merimee. The poetry of the nineteenth century that of Hugo Baudelaire Verlaine for example naturally finds a place here. The collection moves into the twentieth century with Marcel Proust. A feature of the library is its collections of works by particular authors such as Balzac Sand and Hugo which are among the most important ever made. For Balzac the references to Pierre Duche or Gabalda are of lasting value. The two rare copies of Le Pere Goriot and La Peau de Chagrin derive from the library of Dr. Nacquart Balzac's personal physician and the library also includes his earliest works published under the pseudonyms of Saint-Aubin and Lord R'Hoone as well as numerous forgeries and first editions generally in original paper wrappers. From introduction hardcover

Inanna Rare Books Ltd. · Irlande275,00 €

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