Item #409660 Catalogue of Rare, Useful and Curious Books... For Sale by S. G. Drake. Samuel G. DRAKE.

Catalogue of Rare, Useful and Curious Books... For Sale by S. G. Drake

Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1864-1875. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Complete set of the 17 catalogues of what the bookseller Drake came to designate, with the fifth number (April 1, 1869), as the "Quarto Series." Various sizes in small 4to and 4to, bound in tan buckram, roan spine label. Bookplate of C. F. Libbie, the Boston auction house, on front pastedown. A few margins slightly chipped, a couple of numbers browned, rear cover waterstained "from their cataloguer [i.e. Bart] having dropped it in the slush after purchasing it at Swann Galleries in Dec. 1973]" according to BA's note. Item #409660

Many of the issues have useful annotations to the tens of thousands of books, offered by one of the most diligent antiquarian scholars and booksellers of his time. Complete sets are scarce.

Price: $900.00

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