Anitigüedades Mejicanas Falsificadas: Falsificacion y Falsificadores
Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.
Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.
New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 1876. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. List of prices bound in after title. Original printed wrappers, paper spine with title in manuscript (presumably done by Goelet when the price list was added). 2239 lots, priced in pencil. Ogden Goelet's copy, with his name.....
[Richmond, VA]: [Hockaday], ca late 1860s-early 1870s. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Some foxing. Hockaday goes on to report that "prospects are favorable for a HEAVY DECLINE in grain and flour especially, and as Produce generally sells better and commands higher prices when new.....
New York: Bangs & Co., 1880. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 50 pages. Original printed wrappers; in a cloth folding chemise. A priced copy. "There is in this catalogue, fifty titles which are rare, and fifty more which are scarce. Be kind enough to help yourselves. 'The Book of.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 12mo. Tourgée was a carpet-bagger judge and a best-selling author of sensational political novels, including 'A Fool's Errand'. Here (in about 155 words) he writes a playful response to a girl's request for an autograph: "My publisher handed me your request for an.....
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece and plates. Original midnight blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and decorated, all edges gilt.
[New York]: [1848]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Large folio broadside (27 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches), two long folds (one vertical, one horizontal). The top half of this broadside advertisement is a map of the area, showing the properties to be auctioned. The bottom half gives the information about.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, folio, with integral blank leaf (with docket). Signed by Roos and Thinehovon (followed by red wax stamps) and signed by three witnesses. "The Condicon of this obligation is... that if the above bound... doo well and truely observe, perform, fullfill, accomplish, and keep.....
Cambridge City, Wayne County [Indiana]: D. K. Winder, Printer, 1844. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. [2], [8], 10-64 pages. Original red roan-backed brown boards. First edition of this pioneer Indiana educator's first book, which consists of a series of letters, ostensibly pertaining to local events, written in the most.....
Boston: Printed by Rowe & Hooper, 1816. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, green morocco spine label. First (and only) edition. A didactic novel set in New England, and with numerous references to the Revolutionary War. The author was a Methodist minister and father of Lorenzo Sabin, senator.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 8vo. The author, best known for 'Two Years Before the Mast', comments on the "air pipe" he has purchased and orders a drum. (BA).
Mobile, Alabama: S. H. Goetzel, 1865. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. 48 pages. Original tan pictorial stiff wrappers. "Fourth edition – Thirtieth Thousand" on front cover. Two full-page woodcuts (one of a printing press) and numerous cuts in the text. A fine copy. Crandell 4039; Parrish & Willingham 7685.....