Three Books on Rare Books.

Description:

Three Books on Rare Books. W.G. Bowdoin's The Rise of the Book-Plate, New York: Wessels, 1901, signed dedication copy inscribed by Bowdoin to the dedicatee, Hamilton Holt, with several inscriptions in Holt's hand as well, and Holt's bookplate, bound in publisher's half red cloth, binding worn, preliminaries detached; Nolie Mumey's A Study of Rare Books, Denver: Clason Publishing Co., 1930, limited edition, copy number 516 of 1,000 signed by the author on the limitation page, publisher's half cloth; [and] a bound volume containing autograph and letter auction catalogs from sales in New York City in the late 1860s, a few catalogs from London dealers from the 1820s inserted, half leather, peeling. (3)
Estimate $100-150


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