[Rarebooks] FS: Association copy of 2 great Americanists

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(PRINTING HISTORY) Eames, Wilberforce. THE ANTIGUA PRESS AND BENJAMIN MECOM 1748-1765. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October, 1928. Worcester, MA: Published by the [American Antiquarian] Society. 1929. 48pp. Illustrated with 3 facsimile plates. Original printed green wrappers. A presentation copy inscribed on the front wrapper, "For R. W. G. Vail with sincere regards of Wilberforce Eames, Aug. 28, 1930."    $125.00 (trade discount allowed)
Vail was the great American bibliographer and scholar who saw Sabin's "Bibliotheca Americana" to its completion. He was head librarian of the American Antiquarian Society 1930-1939. Eames was the bibliographer of American history at the NYPL and was known as "The Dean of American Bibliographers."

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