Leo Cadogan

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Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB). Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff. To sign up for newsletters, please visit leocadogan.com

Small dachshund in a garden chair, table in front with beer bottle, grass, tree with lights, hedges, ancient Roman wall.
Backs of seven women in dancing skirts, left arm raised. Hedge, grass, paving, cypress trees, Roman wall in background.
Three mummified rats? In a bad state of repair. In a cardboard dish.
Calf binding with bullet holes, with a gilt cardinal’s armorial at centre, unhit!
Inbox listing, “Gavin Newsom ‘Plutarch’” with blurb “Fast forward to today …”
Small dachshund wearing a red and yellow striped scarf held up in front of the tv which is showing the World Cup final.
Four white young men in blue first responder uniforms, one in shorts and flip flops, carry a large blue Madonna statue through an Italian town square. A small white boy follows.
51 y/o white man in green golf shirt, grey shorts, shades, with dachshund in a blue bag, strap across my front. Pine trees in background.
Carving of Virgin of Monserrat in tree trunk.
Setting sun over Mediterranean Sea, seen from other side of pink-tiled rooftops. Tv aerials, a satellite dish, a few clouds.
Pamphlet in wrappers of red white and blue stripes with handwritten label affixed to front.
Large cylindrical building with ancient stone sign affixed.
Foreground, head of miniature black and tan dachshund. Background, blurred, drums and pieces of parmesan.
Head of small dachshund in foreground, behind him a large Egyptian obelisk surmounted by metal cross, two domed churches behind.
Small dachshund on a path in a park with remains of aqueduct in background, tree in foreground, everything is bathed in strange golds and the picture almost has a mystical quality.
Intaglio print showing much messy early medieval script.
Pannier open showing a dog resting head to side inside. In front of dog a folded up table. To side a window with logo to bottom “Frecciarossa”.
Miniature short-haired black and tan dachshund in red harness sitting beside his pannier on grassy mound, looking out on traffic and entrance to a metro station.
Miniature short-haired black and tan dachshund in red harness, looking down his nose, on the steps in front of the magnificent Gothic extravaganza that is Cologne cathedral. Part of my olive jumper, white shirt and face is visible in foreground.
Beautiful miniature black and tan short-haired dachshund in red harness, being held up at his chest to see out of a train window. The view (blurred): rails, scrub, buildings.
Miniature black and tan short-haired dachshund sitting in the round window of a ship.
Two train seats, one on the right with a pannier with a miniature dachshund inside (red harness visible), one on the left with a light blue canvas hold-all. To left of this standing vertical a large turquoise trolley case.
Sig A2 recto (RHS).
Signature C4 below a printed line. Below this, the same in blind.
Early modern library with plaster casts of ancient authors and casts of classical statues.
Page of Spanish-language double-column printed text, eleven lines with words inked out, replacement text in ms to outer and bottom margins.
Column of printed text with eight lines and a bit blocked out with iron gall ink which has in places eaten through the page.
Print-out of a photo of title-page of Robert H. Williams, ‘Boccalini in Spain’ (George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, WI, 1936).
Woodcut tail-piece. Female and male adult winged putti of a curious elongated nature and respectively kneeling on symbols of church and state hold in one hand a palm frond and in the other a laurel wreath and a banner stating FINIS (the N back to front).
Ice pack for wine bottles, Haribo, hand-made card, Elizabeth Strout, ‘The Things We Never Say’.
Two books. 1 (LHS, softback, pink): Nick Wilding, ‘Faussaire de lune’ (Paris, 2015). 2 (RHS, hardback, grey wrapper): Arthur Freeman, ‘Bibliotheca fictiva’ (new edition, London 2024).
4 books. (Spine up) The Rosenthal Collection of Printed Books with Manuscript Annotations (Yale, Beinecke); Pearson ‘Provenance Research in Book History’; ‘Printing and the Mind of Man’ (small-format edition); [Hünersdorff Rare Books] ‘Cicisbeismo’.
Ten vellum-bound books and two paper-bound pamphlets, face up on a pine table. The pamphlets are stacked (a small-format one on a larger-format one).
View from bridge, train tracks, steps down to platform, buildings and sunset in background.
LCRB ‘Treasures’ and ‘Firsts 2022’ cats., Markham Interviews vols 1-3, Batterham ‘Among Booksellers’, Werner, ‘Studying early printed books’, Adams vol 1.
Colophon. CON PRIVILEGIO,/ EN MADRID,/ Por Maria de Quiñones./ Año M.DC.XXXIIII.
Text to top upper corner of aforesaid print, “In libris puritas”.
Intaglio print, Jerome in the wilderness with book and crucifix, large head of a lion behind, decorative border. 4 lines italic letterpress below.
Imprint, below a woodcut of Saints Peter and Paul: “Impresso en Alcala por los herederos de Juan Gracian que este en gloria. Año. M.D.LXXXIX.”
Page of text and woodcut illustration. Heading ‘AMERICA’, below, an armorial, below an emblem with a globe as described between two columns. 11 lines of letterpress verse below this.
Title-page. ‘Relacion circunstanciada de la defensa de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, invadida por una esquadra inglesa, al mando del contra-almirante Horacio Nelson, la madrugada del 25 de julio de 1797’ (Madrid, 1797).
The Spanish word ‘Què’ appears on five consecutive lines of a printed page, each set back a bit from the last as if to form a diagonal line.
Woodcut of a cat with a house and tree with Dutch letterpress, blue and red spots applied by hand.
Front cover of Selva Hernández López and Mercurio López Casillas, ‘Ex libris mexicanos, artistas del siglo XX’ (Mexico City, 2001).
Title-page to Pedro Juan Nuñez, ‘Tabulae institutionum rhetoricarum […] Galenus in arte parva’ (Barcelona, Jaume Cendrat, 1578).
Four police motorcyclists with motorbikes and a police Range Rover on a London street).
A pile of books, almost all bound in parchment, facing spine out, on a polished pine table. To left, Spanish export licences.
Detail of a brown cardboard package and a postal label (Royal Mail Tracked 48).
Title-page. Diego de San Francisco, ‘Exercicios de Señor S. Joseph’. México, Maria de Ribera, 1747.
Chopped onion, carrot and celery on a glass board on a false wood kitchen surface.
Close-up of printed text in Spanish including the words “el insigne Fanklin”.
Monochrome bookplate featuring Mexican eagle with snake and cactus. With initials M. O.
Bookplate featuring a Corinthian capital on a pinned up scroll, with text EX-LIBRIS L. CERVERA VERA. Printed in a reddish burgundy on cream. Printed by C. Delhom, Madrid.
Seven books in a hand, (left to right) green goatskin gilt, vellum with traditional Spanish lettering to spine, marbled brown sheep with gilt decoration and red goatskin label to spine, two thin vellum books with no text to spine, book bound in light brown calf with gilt decoration to spine, small pamphlet bound in marbled paper.
Printed text. “AVVISO. Le recite cominceranno la sera de I ventitre del corrente settembre, e proseguiranno le sere de i 24. 25. 26. 27. 28., e 30. In Ottobre le sere del primo, 2. 3. 4. 5. 7, 8. 11. 14. 15. 17. 18. 21. 22. 25. 28. 29.”
A 1790 striped (red, white, blue) front cover with the front cover of a small catalogue with same. The small catalogue has label with text “Révolutions par Brumfitt, Coltham, Hall et Schulz-Falster. An ccxxxiv”. Label below the original artefact: “The New France’s First Birthday. [FIRST BASTILLE DAY]. Procès-verbal de la Conféderation des Français. Paris, Lottin, 1790”.
Tops of apartment blocks, panorama of low mountains behind, grey skies.
Replica Caryatids on the porch of St Pancras New Church, Euston Road.