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three books that are sitting next to each other on a tableseveral books are sitting on a table with a gray cloth
Daguerre Savoie

6 - [AMERICA (Michigan and Maryland)] – 5 volumes.
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Estimate €40 - €60
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[AMERICA (Michigan and Maryland)] – 5 volumes. - BAER (Elizabeth). Seventeenth-Century Maryland. A bibliography. Baltimore, 1949 (Reprint, 2000). Quarto, XXIX, 219 pp, publisher’s cloth. This catalogue of the holdings of the John Work Garrett Library constitutes a bibliography that is as comprehensive as it is detailed, covering early works on Maryland. It contains descriptions of 209 books relating to history, early voyages, maps, natural history, ornithology, etc. Abundant illustrations reproduce documents and most of the title pages. The first edition, printed in a small run, is impossible to find. - WROTH (Lawrence C.). A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland. 1686–1776. Baltimore, 1922 (Reprint, 2010). In-4, [1 f.], XIV pp, [1 f.], 275 pp, illustrated cardboard binding by the publisher. Following a lengthy preface on the early days of printing and Maryland’s very first printers, the work provides a description—with detailed collation, often accompanied by commentary—of the 393 books published during the period in question. Plates are included in the pagination. - KARPINSKI (Louis Charles). Bibliography of the printed maps of Michigan, 1804–1880. With a series of over one hundred reproductions of maps constituting a historical atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan. Historical atlas of the Great Lakes to accompany the bibliography of the printed maps of Michigan. Lansing, 1931 (Reprint, 2002). 2 volumes in one large 8vo volume, 539 pp + atlas, publisher’s cloth binding. - McMURTRIE (Douglas C.). Early Printed in Michigan. With a bibliography of the issues of the Michigan Press. Chicago, 1931 (Reprint, 2000). In-8, [2 ff], 351 pp, numerous illustrations, publisher’s binding. Following a history of printing in Michigan from its origins, which occupies the first 100 pages, comes the bibliography, arranged first alphabetically by town and then chronologically. This is followed by a directory of newspapers. Index. - GREENLY (Albert Harry). A Selective Bibliography of Important Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides relating to Michigan History. Lunenburg (Vermont), The Stinehour Press, 1958 (Reprint, 2011). In-4, XVII, 165 pp, illustrated hardback by the publisher. 28 plates. Index.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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