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The extraordinary library of Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker ... Catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan V. Henkels at the book auction rooms of Davis & Harvey ...

Title: The extraordinary library of Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker ... Catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan V. Henkels at the book auction rooms of Davis & Harvey ...
Author: Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916.
Publication: [Philadelphia, 1905-09]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KAC (Pennypacker, S. W. Extraordinary library)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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8 parts in 2 v. facsims., fronts. (part col'd), ports.; 26.5 cm.

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"Catalogue no. 943."
Title and imprint vary.
Sale of parts 7-8 conducted at the book auction rooms of Samuel T. Freeman & co.

Contents

Part 1: Books printed by and relating to Benjamin Franklin, to be sold Dec. 14, 1905. Part 2: Personal association books, manuscript commonplace books, journals and diaries of eminent Americans of colonial and revolutionary times, books from the library of General George Washington, original war maps of the Revolution used by Lafeyette [sic], and rare Confederate imprints, to be sold April 25, 1906. Part 3: Books relating to the history of Pennsylvania, also magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals, to be sold Dec. 5-6, 1906. Part 4: Books relating to general American history. Also, a collection on American genealogies, to be sold April 24-25, 1907. Part 5: Books relating to the Quakers, publications of Christopher Sower, of Germantown, and first American editions, to be sold Nov. 26-27, 1907.
Part 6: Autograph letters and historical documents relating to Pennsylvania, caricatures by Wm. Charles and others, relating to the Revolution, War of 1812, and Civil war, broadsides, American portraits and views, to be sold April 10, 1908. Part 7: Issues of the press of Robert Bell and of the press established by the Dunkers at Ephrata, Bradford imprints, early American almanacs, early Philadelphia and miscellaneous American imprints, early school books and juveniles, to be sold, Nov. 27-28, 1908. Part 8: Books and pamphlets relating to the University of Pennsylvania, catalogues of early circulating libraries, works relating to the Palatines and Mennonites, first editions of American authors, English county histories, bookplates, lottery tickets, to be sold, Oct. 18-19, 1909.

Call Number

*KAC (Pennypacker, S. W. Extraordinary library)

OCLC

2456428

Author

Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916.

Title

The extraordinary library of Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker ... Catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan V. Henkels at the book auction rooms of Davis & Harvey ...

Imprint

[Philadelphia, 1905-09]

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Henkels, S. V. (Stanislaus Vincent), 1854-1926. Compiler

Davis & Harvey.

Freeman, Samuel T., & Company, Philadelphia.

Research Call Number

*KAC (Pennypacker, S. W. Extraordinary library)

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