Besterman T D N (11 results)

Cloth, small 8vo, 20 cm, [x], 302 pp. Approximately 1,500 entries. A separate volume containing the bibliographical entries relating to bibliographies on Medicine; Anatomy; Hygiene; Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics; Psychiatry; and related special subjects extracted from the 5 volumes of Besterman's monumental "A world bibliography of bibliographies and of bibliographical catalogues, calendars, abstracts, digests, indexes, and the like" (4th and best edition). The coverage is geographically very wide-ranging, and includes both separately published books and monographs and serial publications (though not bibliographies appearing in periodicals). Classified arrangement (an author index would have been valuable). Besterman's indication of the approximate number of entries contained in each work is particularly useful. Top edge of textblock smokestained, otherwise Good.…

Cloth, small 8vo, xii, 216 pp. Approximately 1,000 entries. A separate volume containing bibliographical entries relating to bibliographies on various discrete subjects : most significantly on Art, Architecture and Archaeology, but also covering a number of more or less related subjects including Towns and Town Planning, Ceramics, Painting, Posters, Cinematography and others. The entries are extracted from the 5 volumes of Besterman's monumental "A world bibliography of bibliographies and of bibliographical catalogues, calendars, abstracts, digests, indexes, and the like" (4th and best edition). The coverage is geographically very wide-ranging, and includes both separately published books and monographs and serial publications (though not bibliographies appearing in periodicals). Classified arrangement (an author index would have been valuable). Besterman's indication of the approximate number of entries contained in each work is particularly useful. Top edge of textblock smokestained, small mark to spine, otherwise Good.…

Cloth, small 8vo, 20 cm, [x], 302 pp. Approximately 1,500 entries. A separate volume containing the bibliographical entries relating to bibliographies on Medicine; Anatomy; Hygiene; Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics; Psychiatry; and related special subjects extracted from the 5 volumes of Besterman's monumental "A world bibliography of bibliographies and of bibliographical catalogues, calendars, abstracts, digests, indexes, and the like" (4th and best edition). The coverage is geographically very wide-ranging, and includes both separately published books and monographs and serial publications (though not bibliographies appearing in periodicals). Classified arrangement (an author index would have been valuable). Besterman's indication of the approximate number of entries contained in each work is particularly useful. Top edge of textblock smokestained, otherwise Good.…

Cloth, top edge gilt, 8vo, xxi, 100 pp, plates, folding facsimile. 266 entries. Includes a note by Sir James George Frazer. An ex-library copy with a label on the front board, discard stamp on front free endpaper, top inch of front joint torn, otherwise ok.

Cloth, small 8vo, 20 cm, [x], 302 pp. Approximately 1,500 entries. A separate volume containing the bibliographical entries relating to bibliographies on Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and related subjects extracted from the 5 volumes of Besterman's monumental "A world bibliography of bibliographies and of bibliographical catalogues, calendars, abstracts, digests, indexes, and the like" (4th and best edition). The coverage is geographically very wide-ranging, and includes both separately published books and monographs and serial publications (though not bibliographies appearing in periodicals). Classified arrangement (an author index would have been valuable). Besterman's indication of the approximate number of entries contained in each work is particularly useful. Top edge of textblock mildly smokestained, otherwise Very Good.…

Cloth, small 8vo, 20 cm, [x], 365 pp. Approximately 1,800 entries. A separate volume containing the bibliographical entries relating to bibliographies on Music, Drama, Opera and related subjects extracted from the 5 volumes of Besterman's monumental "A world bibliography of bibliographies and of bibliographical catalogues, calendars, abstracts, digests, indexes, and the like" (4th and best edition). The coverage is geographically very wide-ranging, and includes both separately published books and monographs and serial publications (though not bibliographies appearing in periodicals). Classified arrangement (an author index would have been valuable). Besterman's indication of the approximate number of entries contained in each work is particularly useful. Top edge of textblock smokestained, otherwise Good.…

Cloth, top edge gilt, 8vo, xxi, 100 pp, plates, folding facsimile. 266 entries. Includes a note by Sir James George Frazer. Ex-library copy with the following marks: gilt callnumber on spine, library label (overstamoed "Discarded") on front pastedown endpaper, stamps on recto of frontispiece portrait and reverse offold-out illustration, a few library numbers on verso of titlepage, one blindstamp at end. Otherwise a Good clean copy with slight wear at head of spine.…

Cloth,paper spine-label, 8vo, 344, [2] pp. 2389 entries. From the introduction: ".[the first edition of this] book contained an abnormal number of misprints; these have now been corrected, and indeed the text has been revised and completed throughout, and brought up to date, the whole better arranged and indexed. It should be emphasised that this is not a bibliography of writings on printing, but only of bibliographies dealing specifically with the period to 1600/1640 - not that it is always easy to distinguish between, say, a general monograph on a printer and a descriptive list of his productions." Two ink corrections to Table of Contents, upper corners bumped, otherwise Very Good.…

Rebound in morocco-grained cloth, gilt filet round front board and gilt spine-titles, top edge gilt, 8vo, xxi, 100 pp, plates, folding facsimile. 266 entries. Includes a note by Sir James George Frazer. Near Very Good.

Cloth, small 8vo, xii, 436 pp. A separate volume containing the bibliographical entries relating to bibliographies on Law, International law and relations, Crime, and related subjects extracted from the 5 volumes of Besterman's monumental "A world bibliography of bibliographies and of bibliographical catalogues, calendars, abstracts, digests, indexes, and the like" (4th and best edition). The coverage is geographically very wide-ranging, and includes both separately published books and monographs and serial publications (though not bibliographies appearing in periodicals). Classified arrangement (an author index would have been valuable). Besterman's indication of the approximate number of entries contained in each work is particularly useful. Top edge of textblock slightly smokestained, otherwise near Very Good.…

3 vols, cloth, 4to, xxviii pp, 4111 columns. Approximately 40,000 entries. The second edition of this astonishing one-man contribution to bibliography. Contents: v. 1. A-H - v. 2. I-Z - v. 3. Index. A reasonable ex-library set. Library callnumbers on spines and bookplates on front pastedown endpapers, some library marks on versos of title-pages. Covers somewhat marked, heads of spines somewhat worn, Volume 1 a little shaken.…