Document Record

Creator

Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886, author

Title

Catalogue of the first portion of the extensive and varied collections of rare books and manuscripts relating chiefly to the history and literature of America : comprising the great collections of voyages & travels of De Bry (in Latin and German), Hulsius, Thenevot, Purchas and Hakluyt, with early separate voyages of the Dutch, English and French navigators ; early American history and literature ; Burns's autograph poems ; black-letter and other early English and American ballads ; Chaucer's works, 1532 ; highly important collections of manuscripts relating to Sir Francis Drake, the colony of Georgia, New England & Virginia, including 18 of the earliest autograph letters of Washington, and Henry Stevens's Franklin collection : which will be sold by auction, by Messers. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts, at their house, No. 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. London, on Monday, 11th of July, 1881, and four following days, at one o'clock precisely.

Published

London : [publisher not identified], 1881.

Identifier

oocihm.13960
13960

Subject

Franklin, Benjamin,1706-1790 -- Bibliography.
Franklin, Benjamin,1706-1790 -- Bibliographie.
Booksellers' catalogs.
Voyages and travels -- Bibliography.
Catalogues de librairies.
Voyages -- Bibliographie.
America -- Bibliography.
Amérique -- Bibliographie.

Document source

Electronic reproduction.

Notes

"Explanatory" signed: Henry Stevens of Vermont.
An account of the history of Benjamin Franklin's papers and Henry Stevens' s Franklin collection--p. 159-162.
At head of title: Steven's historical collections.
229 pages (160-160L) ; 26 cm.

Collection

Monographs

Language

English

URL

https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.13960