[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: LARGE COLLECTION OF H. P. KRAUS CATALOGS

[Norman Kane]

APPROXIMATELY 100 CATALOGS ISSUED BY H.P. KRAUS**, BETWEEN #1 (FROM THE VIENNA ADDRESS) TO #211.  MOST ARE QUARTOS; BINDINGS ARE EITHER ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OR HARD BINDING.  THEY RANGE FROM THE SIMPLE TO THE ELABORATE.  MANY ARE ILLUSTRATED. THE SCOPE IS MIND-BOGGLING: SCIENCE, INCUNABULA, MEDICINE, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, AMERICANA, MAPS, HERBALS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, EARLY PRINTING AND ON AND ON. IN ADDITION TO ABOUT 75 "CATALOGS" THERE ARE 15 "LISTS" AND A DOZEN "BULLETINS" MAKING APPROX. 100 IN ALL. 
 THE LOT, $350.00 NETT + SHIPPING

** I MET HIM AT A RECEPTION IN ZURICH WHERE HE WAS SIGNING COPIES OF 
HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.  AFTER HIS DEATH GEORGE ALLEN AND I HAULED A LARGE TRUCKLOAD OF REFERENCE WORKS OUT OF THE N.Y. STORE. IT TOOK ALL DAY - UP AND DOWN THE ELEVATOR.  MY SHARE WENT TO THE BARN; BUT THERE WERE SO MANY THAT GEORGE HAD TO STORE HIS TEMPORARILY IN THE CHURCH HE ATTENDED - NO ROOM IN THE STORE.  AS WITH SO MANY BOOKSELLERS, WHEN THE MEMORY FADES, HIS CATALOGS ARE HIS MONUMENT.  NK

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