First editions and other rare books : featuring the
Perkins' copy of the Fourth Folio Shakespeare, the Kelmscott Chaucer,
fore-edge paintings, a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, Sanders'
Reichenbachia, a special copy, Exquemeling's Bucaniers of America in a
fine early binding, a XV-XVI Horae with 34 illuminations, other
manuscripts, Luther's copy of Erasmus, 1523, the 1st English edition of
Rabelais, 1652-94, all 5 vols., Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, over 200
editions in various languages : library of the late Thomas Henry Foster,
Ottumwa, Iowa, sold by order of his son, Robert T. Foster.
Publisher:
New York : Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1957.
Notes: |
Catalog for an auction held April 30 and May 1, 1957. |
Description: |
104 pages : illustrations ; 8vo. |
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Other Titles: |
Distinguished library of the late Thomas Henry Foster, Ottumwa, Iowa |