Research Catalog

Title

Bibliographical notices of rare and curious books relating to America : in the library of the late John Carter Brown of Providence, R. I. by John Russell Bartlett.

Author

Brown, John Carter, 1797-1874.

Publication

Providence [Printed by H.O. Houghton and company, Cambridge] 1875-1882.

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Additional Authors

• Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886.
• Brown, John Nicholas, 1861-1900.
• John Carter Brown Library.

Description

2 v. ill., facsims, maps, ports; fol.

Subjects

• Rare books
• America > Bibliography > Catalogs

Note

• Title vignette (coat of arms) in gold and colors.
• Part 1, "Seventy copies printed of which fifty are in imperial octavo and twenty in quarto." Pt. 2, "Twenty-five copies printed."
• Enlarged and illustrated edition of pt. 1-2 of "Bibliotheca americana. A catalogue of books relating to North and South America in the library of John Carter Brown ... With notes by John Russell Bartlett", issued in 3 parts, 1865-71.
• Also issued 1875-82 under original title.
• Full titles, annotated; arranged chronologically; alphabetical index in each part.
• Contains reproductions of title-pages, vignettes, maps, portraits, printers' devices, etc.
• Under the provisions of the will of John Nicholas Brown, the collection, much augmented, was transferred in 1901 to Brown University.

Contents

Pt. 1. 1482-1601.--pt. 2. 1600 to 1700.

Call Number

*KF+ 1875 (Brown, J. C. Bibliographical notices of rare and curious books relating to America. (Quarto))

OCLC

• 7802168
• 43252730

Author

Brown, John Carter, 1797-1874.

Title

Bibliographical notices of rare and curious books relating to America : in the library of the late John Carter Brown of Providence, R. I. by John Russell Bartlett.

Imprint

Providence [Printed by H.O. Houghton and company, Cambridge] 1875-1882.

Local Note

Copy 1: Part 1 is no. 1 of 20 copies printed in quarto.

Copy 1: With inscription: Robert Lenox Kennedy Esq. with the compliments of Mrs. John Carter Brown.

Copy 1: Autograph letter to Mr. Kennedy from T. Thayer laid in.

Copy 2: Part 1 is no. 2 of 20 copies printed in quarto.

Copy 2: With inscription: James Lenox Esqr with the compliments of Mrs. John Carter Brown.

Copy 2: Autograph letter to Mr. Lenox from J. R. Bartlett laid in.

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Added Author

Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886.

Brown, John Nicholas, 1861-1900.

John Carter Brown Library.

Research Call Number

*KF+ 1875 (Brown, J. C. Bibliographical notices of rare and curious books relating to America. (Quarto)) Library has: Vol. 1 only.