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
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Author |
Title |
Imprint |
Auction
House |
Sale and Lot |
Notes |
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* |
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 |
utzlich 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 |
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 |
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 |