Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MdcccLvi (1856)./ Catalogue of Canadian Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas, 1856./ Catalogue of the Mexican Books and other Spanish & American & West Indian Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas 1856./ Catalogue of the American Maps in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas 1856. 4 volumes in one. Vier Bände in einem. Nachdruck der Ausgabe London 1866.

Stevens, Henry

Edité par Kraus Reprint, Nendeln, Liechtenstein, 1969

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Fadengehefteter Ganzleineneinband mit goldener Rückenbeschriftung. Der Vorderdeckel leicht fleckig, Schnitte, Vorsätze und erste bzw. letzte Seiten stockfleckig (s. Foto), ansonsten noch guter Erhaltungszustand. Henry Stevens (August 24, 1819 ? February 28, 1886), American bibliographer, was born in Barnet, Vermont. He studied at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1838?1839, graduated at Yale in 1843, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and studied at Harvard Law School in 1843?1844. In 1845 he went to London, where he was employed during most of the remainder of his life as a collector of Americana for the British Museum and for various public and private American libraries. He was engaged by Sir Anthony Panizzi, librarian of the British Museum, to collect historical books, documents, journals, etc., concerning North and South America; and he was purchasing agent for the Smithsonian Institution and for the Library of Congress, as well as for James Lenox, of New York, for whom he secured much of the valuable Americana in the Lenox library in that city, and for the John Carter Brown library, at Providence, Rhode Island. He became a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1852, and in 1877 was a member of the committee which organized the Caxton Exhibition, for which he catalogued the collection of Bibles. He died at South Hampstead, England, on the 28th of February 1886. His brother, Benjamin Franklin Stevens, also a bibliographer. (Wikipedia) In englischer Sprache. XXXII, 628; 14; 62; 17 pages. Groß 8° (160 x 225mm).

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• Titre: Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MdcccLvi (1856)./ Catalogue of Canadian Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas, 1856./ Catalogue of the Mexican Books and other Spanish & American & West Indian Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas 1856./ Catalogue of the American Maps in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas 1856. 4 volumes in one. Vier Bände in einem. Nachdruck der Ausgabe London 1866.
• Éditeur: Kraus Reprint, Nendeln, Liechtenstein
• Date de parution: 1969
• Reliure: Leinen
• Édition: Nachdruck, Reprint.
• État de l'article: gut
• Poids: 1144 grammes