[Rarebooks] Auction catalog priced throughout

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(Bangs & Co.)  

FIRST EDITIONS OF AMERICAN AUTHORS... From the Library of a Private Collector, Together with one of the Finest Collectionsof Rare Americana Offered at Auction in New York in a Decade.  January 22d and 23d, 1902.New York: Bangs &Co. 1902.  Lg. 8vo.  99,(2)pp.  With the original printed wrappers (front wrapper printed in red and black).A finely bound copy in half purple morocco over marbled boards bound by Launder & Pfister. Binding lightly rubbed, but a fine copy.
Each of the 500 lots priced in pen, and with the occasional pencil annotation of a previous owner.


$200
   A great book auction catalog by the American firm largely responsible for building collector interest in American first editions.   In this sale (120 years ago) a London, 1608 Froissart sold for $1.00, Hakluyt's very rare VIRGINIA RICHLY VALUED, 1609 for   $90, George Washinton's WILL OF.... Alexandria, 1800 for $10, and a Kelmscott Chaucer for $500 - I suspect this may be the   first auction record for this book?  These are just random examples of so many great items.