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several books are lined up in a row on a tableseveral open books sitting on top of a table next to each other
Daguerre Savoie

7 - [AMERICA]. Set of 5 volumes.
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[AMERICA]. Set of 5 volumes. - CHURCH (Elihu Dwight). A catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America forming a part of the library of E. D. Church, compiled and annotated by George Watson Cole. Mansfield, CT, Maurizio Martino, 2005. 5 in-8 volumes, publisher’s binding. Reprint of the 1907 edition. The Church collection, now in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, was acquired in 1911 by Henry E. Huntington. - STEIGER (E.). *The Periodical Literature of the United States of America*. With index and appendices. New York, Steiger, 1873. In-4, [5 ff], 139 pp. Following this, by the same author: *Specimen of an attempt at a catalogue of original American books with index of subject-matters*. Same place and date. [2 ff], 14 pp, publisher’s green cloth, gilt headband, with title in gilt letters on the upper cover. A signed autograph copy by the author. - WEAVER (William D.). Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books, Pamphlets and Periodicals in the Library of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. New York, 1909. 2 in-8 volumes, portrait frontispiece, VII, 504 pp and portrait frontispiece, 475 pp, in the publisher’s lemon-coloured cloth binding. A copy signed by the author. The author has listed 5,966 references relating to electricity and magnetism. Two indexes. - JACKSON (Stuart W.). La Fayette. A bibliography. New York, 1930 (Reprint by Burt Franklin, 1968). In-8, publisher’s binding. - LANCOUR (Harold). A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists 1538–1825. Being a Guide to the Publication of Lists of Early Immigrants to North America. New York, Public Library, 1938 (Reprinted 1966). In-8, publisher’s blue percaline binding.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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