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Bibliotheca Historica. Or, A Catalogue of 5000 Volumes of Books and Manuscripts Relating Chiefly to the History and Literature of North and South America among which is included the Larger Proportion of the Extra Ordinary Library of the Late Henry Stevens Senior of Barnet Vt. . . . Edited and with Introduction and Notes by Henry Stevens
by Stevens, Henry
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About This Item
Boston and Cambridge: H. O. Houghton and Company and the Riverside Press, 1870. 8vo. 220 x 1540 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches]. xvi, 234 pp. Wrappers detached from text block, spine chipped, edges cracked. Housed in a clamshell box. With deaccession stamp of the University of Vermont. Useful as a reference copy only; priced in pencil with a few buyer's names included. Complete catalogue of this important sale of American, which contains many 16th and 17th century early printed books relating to the New World. The catalogue include Henry Stevens's descriptions of 2545 lot, many with informative annotations. The "Explanatory" or preface to the catalogue provides a very good overview of the contents of the collection and the reason for its sale. Of the sale McKay writes, "In April, 1870 came the Henry Stevens sale, with its interesting preface by Henry Stevens, Jr. . . George L. Mckay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 1540.
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- De Simone Company, Booksellers
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- Title
- Bibliotheca Historica. Or, A Catalogue of 5000 Volumes of Books and Manuscripts Relating Chiefly to the History and Literature of North and South America among which is included the Larger Proportion of the Extra Ordinary Library of the Late Henry Stevens Senior of Barnet Vt. . . . Edited and with Introduction and Notes by Henry Stevens
- Author
- Stevens, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- H. O. Houghton and Company and the Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston and Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1870
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
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About De Simone Company, Booksellers
De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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