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Historical Nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana or a Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America
de Henry Stevens
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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London: Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, 1862.
Two volumes. 12mo. 175 x 110 mm., [7 x 4 ½ inches]. xii, 436 pp.; [2], 437-805 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, decorated with gilt title and emblem on front covers and gilt title on the spine. Spine of volume I chipped at head and tail and repaired with glue; corners bumped. Volume II with cloth joints a bit worn; hinge of both boards detached. A reference copy only
Privately printed in an edition of 250 copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. Of this catalogue Bill Reese writes: "One of Stevens' efforts to raise cash was a two-volume catalogue listing 2,934 books, entitled Historical Nuggets; Bibliotheca Americana, rushed into print in 1862. In fact much of the listing had been standing in type since 1857. But all the leading American customers has already seen proofs of the Nuggets before the war, and none bought further now. It is ironic that the catalogue Henry Stevens is best known for today was a catastrophe at the time."
The catalogue is loosely arranged by author, with full titles and format and pagination. In his introduction entitled, "To the Diligent Biblioscopers" Stevens offer fifteen guiding principles for the writing of his which includes bibliographical notes, library locations, and three indexes. With faults a marvelous work.
William Reese, Collectors, Booksellers, and Libraries, p. 9.
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- De Simone Company, Booksellers
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- 829
- Título
- Historical Nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana or a Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America
- Autor
- Henry Stevens
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
- Editorial
- Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1862
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- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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Sobre 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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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
