Pour la douce France: un progetto editoriale by Castagnola Rossini, Raffaella

“…However, that volume remained a project: the publication was supposed to bring together his other texts and lectures on war to  be subsequently edited and published by the librarian and bibliophile Édouard Champion. The project eventually produced only some drafts, which are now preserved in a private collection in Switzerland. …”
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Aesthetics, economy and printing in the eighteenth century: the catalogue of Giambattista Bodoni and his patron José Nicolás de Azara by Noelia López-Souto

“… This article addresses and documents the influence of the economic variable on the production of one of the most outstanding typographers in the history of the book, Giambattista Bodoni, who was famous for his books to the 18th century European bibliophile elite. Three main financing channels are distinguished in his catalog, resulting various types of editions, and this perspective of analysis shows the relevance of the Spanish patron José Nicolás de Azara in Bodoni’s work. …”
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Owning the Apparatus: Edith Wharton, Racine, and the Fetishization of Pre-Revolutionary France by Sheila Liming

“…This essay explores the best-selling American author Edith Wharton’s status as a bibliophile and book collector. It draws comparisons between her tastes as a collector and those of some of her neighbors, especially those residing in the Berkshires area of western Massachusetts around 1900. …”
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Ferdinando Martini e le biblioteche by Paolo Traniello

“…The text clarifies the biography and works of Ferdinando Martini (1841-1929), researcher and bibliophile, owner of a big library, which was later given to the Biblioteca Forteguerriana in Pistoia. …”
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Consul Joseph Smith’s Gold-Tooled Leather Bookbindings by P. J. M. Marks

“…This tells only part of the whole story, however, as more elaborate styles exist. As a bibliophile Smith would at least want his books to be neatly bound; as a book dealer he needed them to catch the eye of purchasers, many of whom were aristocratic, wealthy and of refined taste. …”
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Early years of Eugeniusz Przybył's book collection (1884–1965) by Janusz Tondel

“…The article presents the profile of Eugeniusz Przybył – one of most notable Toruń’s bibliophiles of the 20s, 30s and first decades after the World War Two. …”
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Filigrees of the exemplars of Martin Siennik’s "Herbarium" of 1568 as a source for the research of Krakow paper of the late 60s of the 16th century by Bondar N.

“…Scharfenberg, the other, probably, was initiated by the book owner, a scientist and a bibliophile, the Duke Montresor. The filigrees study of Martin Siennik’s “Herbarium” demonstrated that they were printed on the paper similar to that of the Cyrillic edition of the Evangel of 1569 printed in Zabludow by Ivan Fedorov and Pavlo Mstyslavets. …”
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Valori patrimoniale elsevieriene în fondurile Institutului de Cercetări Eco-Muzeale „Gavrilă Simion” Tulcea by Lăcrămioara MANEA

“…The purpose of this article is to introduce in the scientific circuit two bibliophile values from the collections of “Gavrilă Simion” Eco-Museum Research Institute of Tulcea printed in the 17th century by the famous Dutch Elsevier family of printers and book shoppers. …”
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Periodici e Bibliografia. Uno sguardo dalle biblioteche private by Giovanna Granata

“…In particular, the Parisian booksellers’ system described periodicals as ‘bibliographi periodici’ and this definition has passed into the bibliophile bibliography through De Bure to arrive at the third edition of Brunet’s Manuel du libraire. …”
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Cartographie et géographie en Belgique à l’époque hollandaise : à propos des cartes de Monborne et de Wautier by Lisette Danckaert

“…Avant l’Indépendance, des ouvrages de géographie ou de cartographie, souvent à caractère didactique, étaient disponibles en Belgique, même s’ils n’étaient pas nécessairement d’usage général. Le bibliophile Charles Van Hulthem en possédait un assez grand nombre. …”
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Illustrare la parodia: ‘Rutzvanscad il giovine’, i disegni di Gaetano Gherardo Zompini e il ruolo di Anton Maria Zanetti il Vecchio by Enrico Lucchese

“…The new series is bound at the end of a deluxe copy of the libretto of this successful dramma per musica, which was already in the collection of the patrician bibliophile Giacomo Soranzo, dedicatee of the first volume of Metastasio’s Opere drammatiche (Venice, Giuseppe Bettinelli, 1733) where two headings reused in the Rutzvanscad appear. …”
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The Explicacion de el catechismo by Nicolás Yapuguay (1724) in the light of the copy of the Arata Collection by Diego Medan

“…This paper describes and illustrates a recently discovered exemplary, which originally belonged to the bibliophile Pedro N. Arata. A comparison among all surviving copies reveals differences in the number and completeness of the parts they are made of, the presence of a pagination failure in the third part, the level and quality of restoration they underwent, their property marks, and the presence of marginalia. …”
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O dwóch cywilizacjach w myśli Michała Pawlikowskiego (1887–1970) by Katarzyna Wrzesińska

“… On Two Civilizations in Michał Pawlikowski’s Thought Michał Pawlikowski (1887–1970) was a Polish essayist, poet, publisher, editor, and bibliophile. Since World War I, he was an activist of the National Democratic Party (later the National Party). …”
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Un Enquiridion de Erasmo desconocido y un raro ejemplar del Libro de Albeytería de Francisco de la Reyna adquiridos por la Biblioteca Universitaria de Zaragoza, nuevas adiciones a... by Moralejo Álvarez, María Remedios

“…Incluye el estudio y la descripción bibliográfica de ambos para incorporar a la tipobibliografía aragonesa del siglo XVI.The paper is about the acquisition, by the University Library of Saragossa, of two rare 16th Century Aragonese prints: An Enchiridion of Erasmus by Jorge Coci, 1529, to date completely unknown, and the copy of the 'Tratado de Albeytería' by Francisco de la Reyna, which, in all likelihood, belonged to the 'Aragonese Bibliophile', Juan M. Sánchez. It includes the bibliographic study and description of both so as to form part of 16th Century Aragonese typo bibliography.…”
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Un poème énigmatique : L’Adonis de la Cour, par Claude Favier by Alexandre Capony

“…Although we take a stronger position than that of Paul Lacroix, for whom this poem is “possibly allegorical,” we remain in agreement with Jacob the bibliophile when we say that there exists in these numerous, effortless verses a share of enthusiasm “that cannot be explained.” …”
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Personality reflection of the old believer M.I. Chuvanov and the artist T.A. Mavrina in their collection of icons by Vazhkaya, M.A.

“…Chuvanov was a chairman of the Preobrazhensky congregation of Old Believers, a bibliophile and a palaeographer. The collection includes icons from the middle of the 15th century to the early 20th century. …”
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Late Medieval Self-Portraiture and Patronage in Pietro da Pavia’s Ambrosiana Pliny by admin admin

“…In the late Trecento Fra Pietro da Pavia, a miniaturist in the court-city of the dukes of Milan, illuminated a copy of Pliny's Natural History for Pasquino Capelli, a famous bibliophile and one of the most powerful chancellors to Duke Giangaleazzo Visconti. …”
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Late Medieval Self-Portraiture and Patronage in Pietro da Pavia’s Ambrosiana Pliny by Azar Rejaie

“…In the late Trecento Fra Pietro da Pavia, a miniaturist in the court-city of the dukes of Milan, illuminated a copy of Pliny's Natural History for Pasquino Capelli, a famous bibliophile and one of the most powerful chancellors to Duke Giangaleazzo Visconti. …”
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D. Alexandre de Sousa e Holstein and the Portuguese culture in a Rome in disarray (1790-1803) by Francisco Almeida Dias

“…It will be the same diplomat who, in his second mission, will dissolve the Academy planned in collaboration with the Intendant Pina Manique and established with the precious intervention of the art critic, collector and bibliophile Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi. Returned in a devastated Rome, D. …”
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Jurgio Ambraziejaus Pabrėžos biblioteka: medicinos ir farmacijos knygų rinkinys | Jurgis Ambraziejus Pabrėža’s Library: A Collection of Medical and Pharmaceutical Books by Nijolė Raudytė

“…In addition to being a renowned preacher and educator, Pabrėža is considered to be the founder of Lithuanian botanical terminology (still used today), and he is also known as a folk healer and a bibliophile. In many ways, Pabreža’s collection of books is an interesting personal library from the time, representing Franciscan book culture. …”
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