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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    XVII ERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHER, Nos. I and II (ai ever rinted) Jan. and Feb. 1854, large woodcuts, vii and 96 pp. 8vo. London, C. Whittingham, 1854 (S078 02) Only 100 copies printed, withdrawn from sale in favour of the NUGGETS. N23) Ss S XVIII _BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. A Catalogue of Books relating to the history and literature of America, vi and 273 pp. large paper, cloth, uncut. London, sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, March, 186% (8° 55) This catalogue contains 2,415 lots, with collations and notes, and served as the model of the Maisonneuve elaborate Bibliotheque Américaine. me BIBLIOTHECA Historica, or a 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, Ver- mont, Founder and First President of the Vermont Historical Society. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, xvi and 234 pp. cloth, uncut. Loston, H. O. Houghton & Co. River-Side Press, Cambridge, 1870 (8° 55) xx SCHEDULE of 2000 American Historical Nuggets taken from the Stevens Diggings in September, 1870, and set down in Chronological Order of Printing from 1490 to 1800 [1776] described and recom- mended as a Supplement to any printed Bibliotheca Americana. Chiswick Press, London, Oct. 1, 1870 (folio 75 62) Privately printed, iv and 20 pages, describing above 1,350 works on America. Blue cloth extra, on thick hand-made paper. XXI IBLIOTHECA GEOGRAPHICA et Historica; or, a ' Catalogue of a nine days’ sale of rare and valuable ancient , and modern books, maps, charts, manuscripts, autograph (i x 1 : : : : etters, et cetera, illustrative of historical geography and ine ~ geographical 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 Cata- logues, and how to make them upon the Stevens system of photobiblio- graphy. Part I. [aM ever published.| Frontispiece, iv, 14, and 361 pp. in 3109 lots, cloth, uncut. London, 1872 (8° 55) XXII AMERICAN Books with Tails to ’em. A private pocket list of the incomplete or unfinished American periodicals, transactions, memoirs, judicial reports, laws, journals, legislative documents, and other con- tinuations and works in progress supplied to the British Museum and other libraries. By Henry Stevens, G.M.B. F.s.A. etc. Privately printed, London, 4 July, 1873 (16° 45 62) Forty pages in pearl type, very beautifully printed by Messrs. Clay on thick hand-made paper, comprising about 2000 titles. XXII _ Catalogue of Historical Collections. Books and MSS. on America. Part I 1881 (1625 lots). Cloth extra (8° 5s). Or with Prices in MS. (12s6d@). Large handmade paper edition, only ro so done, cloth extra, 215 This catalogue contains an account of the Franklin Collection sold to the De- partment of State, and the Dinwiddie Papers now in the Virginia Historical Society Library, together with many historical and bibliographical notes.
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