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Cover of Stevens's historical collections. Catalogue of the first portion of the extensive and varied collections of rare books and manuscripts relating chiefly to the history and literature of America comprising the great collections of voyages and travels of De Bry (in Latin and German) Hulsius Thevenot Purchas and Hakluyt with early separate voyages of the Dutch English and French navigators; early American history and literature; Burns's autograph poems; black-letter and other early English and American ballads; Chaucer's Works 1532; highly important collections of manuscripts relating to Sir Francis Drake, the colony of Georgia, New England and Virginia including 18 of the earliest autograph letters of Washington and Henry Stevens's Franklin collection

Stevens's historical collections. Catalogue of the first portion of the extensive and varied collections of rare books and manuscripts relating chiefly to the history and literature of America comprising the great collections of voyages and travels of De Bry (in Latin and German) Hulsius Thevenot Purchas and Hakluyt with early separate voyages of the Dutch English and French navigators; early American history and literature; Burns's autograph poems; black-letter and other early English and American ballads; Chaucer's Works 1532; highly important collections of manuscripts relating to Sir Francis Drake, the colony of Georgia, New England and Virginia including 18 of the earliest autograph letters of Washington and Henry Stevens's Franklin collection

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Cover of Catalogue of valuable books and manuscripts comprising many very rare Elizabethean and Jacobean books and pamphlets mostly relating to Shakespeare, including the Life and Reign of Richard the Second, 1634; The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, 1634; King Edward III, 1599; first and early editions of the writings of Ben Jonson, Brathwaite, Barnaby Rich, Sir P. Sidney Milton, R. Greene, Wm. Browne, S. Marmion, Beaumont and Fletcher, Drydon, Lord Bacon, Massinger; the excessively rare first edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 1678; first editions of Boccaccio in English and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; a valuable manuscript volume containing transcripts of letters by Jonson, Bacon, Drake, George Chapman, and others; a portion of the original autograph manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe; rare works relating to America, including an important volume of official copies of letters of instruction written to Governors of American Colonies by General Hugh Conway, 1765-66; autograph letters of Queen Victoria, etc.; first and collected editions of modern English writers; a few ancient and rare books with woodcuts; publications of the Kelmscott and Vale Press; a fine XVth century antiphonale; rare French books including a fine La Fontaine, 1762, and Temple de Gnide, on large paper, with plates in three states; Izaak Walton's copy of John Hale's Eton Sermons; etc.

Catalogue of valuable books and manuscripts comprising many very rare Elizabethean and Jacobean books and pamphlets mostly relating to Shakespeare, including the Life and Reign of Richard the Second, 1634; The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, 1634; King Edward III, 1599; first and early editions of the writings of Ben Jonson, Brathwaite, Barnaby Rich, Sir P. Sidney Milton, R. Greene, Wm. Browne, S. Marmion, Beaumont and Fletcher, Drydon, Lord Bacon, Massinger; the excessively rare first edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 1678; first editions of Boccaccio in English and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; a valuable manuscript volume containing transcripts of letters by Jonson, Bacon, Drake, George Chapman, and others; a portion of the original autograph manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe; rare works relating to America, including an important volume of official copies of letters of instruction written to Governors of American Colonies by General Hugh Conway, 1765-66; autograph letters of Queen Victoria, etc.; first and collected editions of modern English writers; a few ancient and rare books with woodcuts; publications of the Kelmscott and Vale Press; a fine XVth century antiphonale; rare French books including a fine La Fontaine, 1762, and Temple de Gnide, on large paper, with plates in three states; Izaak Walton's copy of John Hale's Eton Sermons; etc.

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