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63. (Swedenborg, Emanuel) Hyde, James. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF EMANUEL
SWEDENBORG, ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED. (Healdsburg, Ca and Mansfield Centre, CT:
Todd Leif Pratum and Martino Publishing, 2002), 8vo., cloth. xvi, (ii), 742, (2) pages. ISBN 1578984246.
$110.00 $82.50
A facsimile of the edition published by The Swedenborg Society, London, 1906. The first reissue of a scarce
bibliography of the original and translated works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), 3500 entries in all
(Besterman 5955). Swedenborg was first trained in mathematics and astronomy and published works on physics
and physiology before devoting himself to philosophy and mysticism. Appendices of Swedenborg's Manuscripts,
Composite Volumes, Biographies, Swedenborg's Rules of Life, Portraits, Additional Notes, and a Classification of
Swedenborg's Works. With indexes of books, persons and institutions, and places, and a Guide to the volumes
which form sets of the Heavenly Mysteries and the Apocalypse Explained in English. [Order No. 72141]
64. (Carroll, Lewis) Williams, Sidney Herbert. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF LEWIS
CARROLL (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON, M.A.). (Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing,
n.d. but 1999), 8vo., cloth. xiv, 142 pages. ISBN 1578982030. $60.00 $45.00
Reprint of the 1924 first edition, which was limited to 700 numbered copies and was published in London by the
Bookman's Journal. Over 200 works described, including primary works, contributions to periodicals and short
articles. Also includes books about Carroll. Full collations and annotations. [Order No. 59019]
65. Duveen, D.I. BIBLIOTHECA ALCHEMICA ET CHEMICA. AN ANNOTATED CATA-
LOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS ON ALCHEMY, CHEMISTRY AND COGNATE SUBJECTS IN
THE LIBRARY OF DENNIS I. DUVEEN. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1986, 8vo, cloth. 669, 98
pages. ISBN 9789061941767. $130.00 $97.50
Facsimile edition to which is added: Catalogue 62, H.P. KRAUS, The Duveen Collection of Alchemy & Chemistry,
supplementing the Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica. The Duveen Collection of Balneology. Illustrated. Sales
rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103337]
66. Hagen, Hermann August. BIBLIOTHECA ENTOMOLOGICA, DIE LITTERATUR UBER
DAS GANZE GEBIET DER ENTOMOLOGIE, BIS ZUM JAHRE 1862. (Mansfield Centre: Martino
Publishing Co., 2002), large 8vo., cloth. xxi,566; (ii), 512 pages. ISBN 157898372X. $120.00 $90.00
Two volumes bound in one. Reprint of the original edition published in Leipzig in 1862-1863. A bibliography of
entomology, being one of the most exhaustive works listed in Besterman, with about 22,500 works cited
(Besterman 2301). Entomology was pioneered by William Kirby and William Spence, both beetle collectors, who
brought entomology to the forefront of respectable science during the period of 1815 to 1826 with their publication
of four books titled Introduction to Entomology, the first popular book on insects in English. [Order No. 70493]
67. (Tobacco) Bragge, William. BIBLIOTHECA NICOTIANA; A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
ABOUT TOBACCO, TOGETHER WITH A CATALOGUE OF OBJECTS CONNECTED TO
THE USE OF TOBACCO IN ALL ITS FORMS. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2008, tall
8vo., cloth. 3 pages, l., ii, (5)-248 pages. ISBN 9781578987122. $70.00 $52.50
Facsimile of the 1880 original edition privately publishing in Birmingham and limited to 200 copies. It took Bragge
twenty years to put together this collection of books and objects relating to tobacco. Included is a chronological list
of 409 titles of books, and a classified catalogue (with separate t.-p.) of about 13,000 objects connected with the use
of tobacco ("an ethnographic collection ... pipes, snuff mills and snuff rasps ... snuff bottles," fire strikers, tinder
boxes, etc. Very scarce in the original. [Order No. 102009]
68. Rahir, Edouard. LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE L'AMATEUR, GUIDE SOMMAIRE A TRAVERS
LES LIVRES LE PLUS ESTIMÉS. (Mansfield Centre: Maurizio Martino, 2005), thick 8vo., cloth. lx,
718 pages. $95.00 $71.25
Reprint of the second revised, corrected and expanded edition published in Paris in 1924 by Francisque Lefrançois,
Libraire de la Sociéte des Bibliophiles françois (Besterman 912). Bibliophiles desiring to collect could, at one time,
1-4 books, 25% off 5-25 books, 40% off 26-49 books, 45% off 50+books, 50% off