Books Stolen from the Harry Ransom Center,

University of Texas at Austin

Version 7/2008

 

The following items were disposed of, through sale or auction, by Mimi Meyer in the mid- and late-1990s.  Recovery is being pursued through the houses involved, but in the meantime the accompanying listing, which contains copy-specific information from our records, is being supplied to the booktrade, appropriate listservs, and law enforcement agencies. If you have any information about the current owners or whereabouts of these items, we would appreciate it if you would contact  Richard W. Oram, Assoc. Director, (512) 471-4458 roram@mail.utexas.edu

 

Author

Title

Imprint

Auction House

Sale and Lot

Notes

*

Almanach royal, anne royal M.DCC.LXIX

Paris : Le Breton, [1769]

Swann

1856 : 5

JN 2304 A45 1769 Cop. 1 (PAR); ex libris P.C.M. De Lonchamp;  inscribed: Joly de Fleury;  inscribed: Mme. Belin; plaque-impressed binding by Dubuisson. The plaque impression is illustrated in: Usanne, Octave. French bookbinders of the 18th cent. (plate XV); and Sotheby's catalogue for 19-21 June 1967 (plate 91). Stamped in the center of both covers are the arms of J.F. Joly de  Fleury 

Albumasar

De magnis [con]junctionibus

[Venetijs : expensis M. Sessa per J. Pentium de Leucho, 1515]

Swann

1740 : 7

520.953 Ab91kTLj 1515;  register no. 885766

Arcussia, Charles d, Vicomte dEsperron

Conference des fauconniers 1598

[19th cent., manuscript]

Swann

1754 : 8

See: Todd, W.B.  Mss. In the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library (1965)

Bodoni

Serie di maiuscole e caratteri cancellareschi

[Parma : Bodoni Press, 1788]

Swann

1722 : 29

 

Boyle, Robert

Experiments and notes about production of electricity

London : E. Flesher for R. Davis, 1675

Swann

1752 : 90

Norman 177

Collenucio, Pandolfo   =CollenutilusPanaulphus

Comedia de Jacob: & de Josep

[Venice : N. Zoppino, 1525]

Swann

1742 : 99

Stark 6287

Denon, Vivant

 

Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute gypte (atlas v. only)

 

A Paris : P. Didot l'an, 1802.

 

PBA

 

2 Feb 1994

 

 

Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)

Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers qui se sont signalés dans les Indes (Nouvelle éd.)

 

A Trevoux par la Compagnie 1775.

PBA?

 

 

Fugger, Wolfgang

Nutzlich und wolgegrundt formular, manncherley schner Schriefften

Nuremberg : W. Fugger, 1553

Swann

1773 : 89

 

Missale ad sum sarum

...

[Paris : T. Kerver, ca. 1503-1506]

PBA

11/30/95: 187

19thC sheep gilt; joints cracked; defective; some marginal commentary

Keats, John

Poems

London : C. & J. Ollier, 1817

Swann

1722 : 72

 

Lamb, Charles

 

Beauty and the beast

 

[London : M.J. Godwin, ca. 1811]

 

PBA

7 Apr 1994

 

Legrand, Louis   = Ramiro,       rastne         

Cours de danse fin de sicle

Paris : E. Dentu, 1892

Swann

1787 : 135

GV 1787 R355 1892;  extra-illustrated with proofs, etc.;  signed binding (stamped on box): F. Maylander 

Olina, Giovanni Pietro

Uccelliera

Rome : A. Fei, 1622

Swann

1740 : 156

61-7608;  ex libris Walter Thomas Wallace;  ex libris Henry W. Poor

Ovid

La Vita et Metamorfoseo

Lyons : Jean de Tournes, 1559.

Swann

1856 : 135a

PQ 4634 S44 V57;  ex libris G. De Berny;  register no. 6301

Sacro Bosco, Johannes de 

Sphaera mundi

[Venice : G.B. Sessa, 3 December 1501] 

Swann

1787 : 177

QB 41 S123s 1501;  ms. annotations; William Prandtl Collection

Shakespeare, William

 

Poems

 

Printed at London by Tho. Cotes and sold by Iohn Benson, 1640

 

PBA

2 Feb 1994

 

Shakespeare, William

 

Othello

London : R. Bentley, 1695

 

PBA

23 Feb 1995

 

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Adonais

Pisa, 1821

Swann

1722 : 184

Stark 6860

Stoeffler, Johann

Calendarium Romanum magnum

Oppenheim : [J. Kbel], 24 March 1518

Swann

1805 : 161

-q- CE 73 S7 1518; bookplate of W.E. van Wijk

Tagore, Rabindranath

 

Loffrande lyrique

 

Paris : F.L. Schmied, 1925

 

PBA

14 Sep 1996

 

Taylor, John, the Water poet.

All the workes

London, J.B. for James Boler, 1630

Swann

1769 : 351

Ah T218 +C630