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Catalogue of the Valuable Private Librry and Autograph Collectdion
by Alger, William Rouseville
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- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: C. F. Libbie & Co., 1905.
8vo. 240 x 155 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches]. 123 pp. Original printed wrappers; some soiling and discoloration of the wrappers, spine a bit chipped, yet sound.
This copy with a presentation bookplate inside the back wrapper pasted-in by the New England Historic Genealogical Society citing the catalogue as a gift from Libbie & Co.; with numerous ownership stamps in blind of the NEHGS. With a printed 'Notice' about the rules of the sale and an envelope for bids.
Fine collection of first editions 1,320 lots of American authors including presentation copies of Emerson, Holmes, Parsons, Leland, and 249 lots of autograph letters, manuscripts and ephemera by notable English and American authors, including Dickens, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Whitman.
Wiliam Rouseville Alger (1822-1905) was a was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His major works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860). He published numerous works on Christianity and living a life of fellowship and compassion toward all mankind.
George McKay, American Auction Catalogues, 5945. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, I p. 49. Allibone's A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, I p. 52.
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Details
- Bookseller
- De Simone Company, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 826
- Title
- Catalogue of the Valuable Private Librry and Autograph Collectdion
- Author
- Alger, William Rouseville
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- C. F. Libbie & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1905
Terms of Sale
De Simone Company, Booksellers
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About the Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers
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Washington, District of Columbia
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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