[Rarebooks] FS: Early Book Collection Catalogs

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

A nice group of 5 different collections-

[Ives Collection.]  "DeLUXE CATALOGUE OF THE ART AND LITERARY TREASURES
COLLECTED BY THE LATE GENERAL BRAYTON IVES OF NEW YORK"  New York;
American Art Galleries; April 6-14th, 1915. Subscriber's Edition, limited
to 300 copies.  A sterling Victorian literary collection including nice
Keats, Lamb, Thackeray, Poe, etc... There were 1,121 lots of books as well
as 474 lots of antiques and 1028 lots of engravings and etchings.  Card
covers. 8"x11", 2,623 lots, about 600 pages; card covers with paper
jacket; slipcased. Some light soil and a little internal browning; case
worn, soiled and chipped.

[Lambert Library]  "LIBRARY OF THE LATE MAJOR JOHN LAMBERT Parts 1-2-3:
Lincolniana; Thackeray; Civil War"  New York; Anderson Galleries: 1914. 
The first three sessions of this remarkable collection; there was a fourth
part also dedicated to Lincoln material.  Hardcover. 3 catalogs bound into
neat cloth; covers of parts 1 and 3 bound in; some soil; a few newspaper
clippings, etc.

[Macmillan Publishers.]  "THE ARCHIVE OF MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS Ltd.
(1905-1969)"  London; Sotheby's: July 19th, 1990. This auction included
material from John Maynard Keynes, Ezra Pound, Arthur Ransome, and Dame
Edith Sitwell, as well as an archive of reader's reports, etc. Softcover.
8"x10.5", 37 pages, b&w illustrations; light wear.

[Terry Library]  "THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE REV. RODERICK TERRY OF NEWPORT
RHODE ISLAND. Part One [and] Part Two"  New York; Anderson Galleries; May
2-3rd, & November 7-8th, 1934.  A distinguished library which included
incunabula, important early science, history and literature, illuminated
manuscripts, and rare Americana and broadsides. Terry was a former
President of the Newport Historical Society and the Redwood Library. "Over
half a century ago he began to lay the foundations for a private library
which, during the ensuing decades, grew to be one of the most remarkable
collections in this country". There was a third sale in 1935.  Softcover.
2 volumes. 7.5"x11", 361 & 370 lots, b/w facsimiles; Volume 1 priced; some
general cover wear, Volume 2 with a copy of the paste-on cover decoration.

[Wallace Collection]  "ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE LITERARY TREASURES OF
WALTER THOMAS WALLACE..."  New York; The American Art Association: March
22-25th, 1920.  A fabulous collection of literary first editions of the
17th, 18th and 19th centuries, with many illustrations. Includes examples
of the first four Shakespeare Folios, and works of Milton, More, Spenser,
Gay, Goldsmith, Burns, Lamb, and Dickens... very rare American literary
first editions by Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and others, and a whole lot more,
including some very fine examples of early printing. A presentation copy
signed by Arthur Swann.  Hardcover. 7"x10", 1,560 lots, original card
covers bound into quarter leather, covers with light wear, some scattered
soil, etc., but a nice copy.

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The five auctions- $150.00, net, ppd.

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