Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

Removed from ridgefield, connecticut. early science navigation and travel including americana with a few medical books, part 1, a - c. part 2, d - g. which will be sold by auction at their large galleries 34 and 35 new bond street, london w1a 2aa. 10th june 1974 11th june 1974 11th november 1974. [no more published]

Item Description

TWO VOLUMES. 4to. 11.25 x 8 inches. Unpaginated. Part 1, [214] pp; Part 2, [170] pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with decorative blocks on front boards. Loosely inset in both vols. Prices and Buyer's Names, [4] pp. folding each. A very good set. Illustrated by 2 colour frontispieces, folding plate (Part 1) and throughout by facsimiles, including one in colour. Pictorial endpapers. The two published catalogues of the sale of the Horblit Library collection by Sotheby's in 1974. Harrison David Horblit (1912-88), philanthropist, book, manuscript and photographic collector, graduated from Harvard in 1933 and later became a textile executive. His photographic collection was donated to the Houghton Library at Harvard and opened to the public in 1999. No further volumes of this Sotheby catalogue ere published.