Sales catalogue: Henry Stevens & Son

Date:
February 1885
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/50/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Henry Stevens & Son. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XI HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES on the earliest discoveries in America, 1453-1530. With comments on the earliest charts and maps; the mistakes of the early navigators and the blunders of the geographers ; the Asiatic origin of the Atlantic coastline of North America ; how it crept in and how it crept out of the - = SSS = = BR pe 1 SS See oe =X Maps. The whole illustrated by the WS QO EZ Se S*S_—s Tehuantepec Railway Company’s Map of LSS —7_ == SS the world on Mercator’s projection, and photolithographic facsimiles of many (16) of the earliest maps and charts of America, cloth extra, only 100 copies printed. New Haven & London, 1869 , (8° £1 155) XII SEBASTIAN CazoT—John Cabot =O. Endeavored by Henry Stevens, G.M.B. etc. only a very few copies privately printed, blue cloth. Boston & London, March, 1870 (16° 75 62) XII The history of the Oxford Caxton Memorial Bible, printed at Oxford and bound in London in twelve consecutive hours, June 30, 1877. 32 pages, on best hand-made paper, tllustrated, blue roan. London, privately printed at the ELZEVIR PRESS, 1878 (rO° se) XIV 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 Bibliographi- cal Bureau or Clearing-House for Librarians. JVeatly bound in roan. London: privately printed for the Author by C. Whittingham, Chiswick Press, 1878 (16° 55) Dedicated to the Librarian of the Future, whose bibliography is to be as exact as his spelling. Extensively illustrated with reduced facsimile titles, and six sample Cards. XV The Universal Postal Union and International Copyright. With a Bibliographical Appendage, 66 pp. cloth. Only 250 copies printed. Lon- don: printed at the Chiswick Press for the Author, 1879 (sm. 8° 2s 62) The object of this little book is, in giving a history of the origin and working of the Universal Postal Union, to show that selfish and unnecessary impediments have been thrown in the way of its success by the Unzted States of America. XVI aa ATALOGUE of my English Library, collected and de- oe “3 \}) scribed by Henry Stevens, Literary Agent in London of mps“f/s the Smithsonian Institution, doth extra. Privately printed w) by Charles Whittingham, London, 1853 (fscp 8° 75 62) UG] MW ph This little Manual was prepared in 1853, and printed for private distribution. It contains a list of about 5,700 volumes of Standard English Books, and was designed to aid collectors in the choice of their English Books and Editions. The contents are given of the principal collected works, together with the dates of birth and death of most of the deceased authors,
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