ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA, 1492-1897, THE ROMANCE OF VOYAGE AND DISCOVERY FROM SPAIN TO THE INDIES, THE SPANISH MAIN, AND NORTH AMERICA, INLAND TO THE OHIO COUNTRY; ON TOWARD THE MISSISSIPPI; THROUGH TO CALIFORNIA . BEING A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF HERSCHEL V. JONES. With a Preface by Dr. Wilberforce Eames. With AMERICANA COLLECTION OF HERSCHEL V. JONES, A CHECK LIST. Compiled by Wilberforce Eames

Jones, Herschel

Verlag: Cooper Square Publishers, New York, 1964

Beschreibung

tall 4to. cloth. (xi),142 leaves; (viii),143-300 leaves,(12); xii,220 pages. 3 volumes. Reprints of the first editions first issued in 200 copies. Bibliographical description and reproduction of the title pages of 300 of the rarest books in the collection. A.S.W. Rosenbach made one of the great purchases of his career when he bought the Jones Americana library in 1939 for a little less than a quarter million dollars. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28338

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Titel: ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA, 1492-1897, THE ...

Verlag: Cooper Square Publishers, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1964

Einband: cloth