Sales catalogue 43: Henry Stevens, son & Stiles

Date:: 1949

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/50/6

Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Henry Stevens, son & Stiles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Americana. A Catalogue of Books relating to the History and Literature of America, sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, March, 1861. London, 1861. 273 pages, original cloth. 8° $3.00 This catalogue contains 2,415 lots with collations and numerous historical and bibliographical notes. It served as the model of the Maisonneuve elaborate Bibliothéque Ameéricaine. 320 Stevens (Henry, of Vermont) Bibliotheca Geographica et Historica, or a Catalogue of a Nine Days’ Sale of Rare and. Valuable Ancient and Modern Books, Maps, Charts, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, etc., illus- trative of Historical Geography and Geo- graphical History, etc, very many relating to North and South America, and others to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceanica. Collected, used, and described with an Introductory Essay on Catalogues and how to make them upon the Stevens system of photo-bibliography. Part 1 (all published). Dispersed by auction by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, November, 1872. London, 1872. Frontispiece, 361 pages, cloth, uncut. 8° $3.00 Describes 3,109 lots, with a number of important historical, geographical, and bibliographical notes. 321 Stevens (Henry, of Vermont) Bibliotheca Historica. Ora Catalogue of 5,000 Volumes of Books and Manuscripts relating chiefly to the History and Literature of North and South America, among which is included a large proportion of the extraordinary library of the late Henry Stevens, senior, of Barnet, Vermont, Founder and First President of the Vermont Historical Society. Boston, 1870. 234 pages, cloth, uncut. 8° $3.00 Contains many important historical notes. The introduction contains some particulars of the Stevens family. Collections. Catalogue of the first portion of the extensive and varied collections of rare books and manuscripts relating chiefly to the history and literature of America, Sold at Sotheby’s, July, 1881. London, 1881. 229 pages, cloth. 8° $3.00 Describes 1,625 lots, including the famous Henry Stevens Franklin Collection. Numerous _ biblio- graphical and historical notes. 323 Stevens (Henry, of Vermont) Photo- Bibliography, or a word on printed Card Catalogues of old, rare, beautiful and costly books, and how to make them on a co- operative system; and two words on the establishment of a Central Bibliographical Bureau or Clearing-House for Librarians. London, 1878. Cloth. 16°. $5.00 Dedicated to the Librarian of the future, whose Bibliography is to be as exact as his spelling. Exten- sively illustrated with reduced facsimile titles, and six sample Cards. (Henry, of Vermont) Johann Schoner of Nuremberg. A Reproduction of! his Globe of 1523 long lost, his Dedicatory * Letter to Rymer von Streytperck and the» ‘De Moluccis’’:of Maximilianus Transyl-- vanus. With new Translations and Notes: on the Globe. Edited with an Introduction! by C. H. Coote of the British Museum, 1888.. London, 1888. Cloth. 8° $10.00) In addition to the Contents mentioned on the title, , the volume contains a Bibliography of Schéner’s:; Works (46 items), with Collations and Notes; a1 copious Index to the Introduction, Translations, andi Bibliography; and facsimiles of four earlier globes, , and a Sketch of the ‘‘ Carta da Navigar,’’ 1502. The Introduction includes an account of early globes, , embodying Mr. Henry Stevens’s Notes on Schoner’ss Globe of 1523 and the early cartography of America ; ; also a Bibliographical Sketch of Sch6ner. of the New World and the First Use of the: Name America on a Printed Map. An Ana-- litical Comparison of three Maps for each: of which Priority of Representation has: been claimed (two with the name America: and one without) tending to demonstrate: that the earliest in each case is the one ini the John Carter Brown Library at Provi-- dence, R.I. London, 1928. Two. large: folding maps and many reproductions, cloth.. gilt. Roy. 4° $16.00) EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, OF WHICH ONLY A\ FEW REMAIN. In this Essay Mr. Stevens submits his: solution of the abstruse problem set out on the: title-page as given above. It represents the resultt of patient investigation over a period of more than: twenty-five years. ; The other two maps referred to on the title-page are: the large Waldseemiiller map of 1507 [q.v.] and the: recently discovered Contarini Map of 1506, now in: the British Museum. A Brief Account of all the Printed Editions: down to 1730, with Notes on some Im-- portant Variations observed in that of: Ulm, 1482, including the Discovery of the: Earliest Printed Map of the World yeti known on Modern Geographical Concep-- tions in which some attempt was made to: depart from Ancient Traditions. Second Edition. London, 1908. Printed in ved andi black, sewed, r.ncut, in stiff printed wrapper 8°. $5.00! The First Edition of this little Essay was privately printed in an edition de luxe of only twenty copies, . and has long been out of print. Mr. Stevens had no intention of publishing these Notes until several friends urged him to do so on the ground that the information as to the curious variations | in the Ulm Ptolemy of 1482 and the recently dis-. covered early World Map was of sufficient interest and importance to students of early typography, biblio- graphy and cartography to be worthy of being placed on record. (W.) Observations on the Agriculture of the United States of America. London, 1801. Oviginal marbled wrappers. 8° $37.50 A very rare pamphlet which we have not seen before. It relates to New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, and Virginia. Contains many interesting comments on the method of farming and the quality of the soil.$

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