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Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue Raisonné d'une très Précieuse Collection de Livres Anciens et Modernes sur l'Amerique et les Philippines Classés par order alphabétique de noms d'Auteurs

Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue Raisonné d'une très Précieuse Collection de Livres Anciens et Modernes sur l'Amerique et les Philippines Classés par order alphabétique de noms d'Auteurs

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Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue Raisonné d'une très Précieuse Collection de Livres Anciens et Modernes sur l'Amerique et les Philippines Classés par order alphabétique de noms d'Auteurs

by Leclerc, Charles

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Paris: Maisonneuve & Cie, 1867.

8vo.  viii, 407 pp.  Bound in contemporary vellum spine and tips, marbled paper boards, red leather label; final 10 leaves with lower corners worn away.  This copy with a late 19th century Italian bookseller's description which reads in part, "Catalogue très important et recherché pour l'exacte description bibliographique de 1647 ouvrages ayant rapport à Amerique".  With faults a good to very good copy.


 Leclerc's catalogue, Bibliotheca Americana, is one of the most important lists of books on the Americas published in the 19th century.  Including 1647  lots, most with detailed annotations, the books in this collection document the vast field of European Americana in addition to many of the fundamental works published in England and America during the formation of the nation.   Sabin writes in part, "it includes a careful collation of each book, and in many instances analyses and important notes. . "  Still a very useful work and reference. 


Sabin 39647. 

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Title
Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue Raisonné d'une très Précieuse Collection de Livres Anciens et Modernes sur l'Amerique et les Philippines Classés par order alphabétique de noms d'Auteurs
Author
Leclerc, Charles
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Maisonneuve & Cie
Place of Publication
Paris
Date Published
1867

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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.

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Vellum
Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
Leaves
Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Marbled Paper
Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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