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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 ..

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

Publication date: 1905

Topics: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784, Bell, Robert, 1724?-1784, University of Pennsylvania, Bibliography, Society of Friends, Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Bibliography, Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784 -- Bibliography, Bell, Robert, 1724?-1784 -- Bibliography, University of Pennsylvania -- Bibliography, Bibliography -- Catalogs -- Libraries, Private -- Pennypacker, Society of Friends -- Bibliography, Pennsylvania -- Bibliography

Publisher: [Philadelphia]

Collection: cornell; americana

Contributor: Cornell University Library

Language: English

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"Catalogue no. 943."

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Sale of parts 7-8 conducted at the book auction rooms of Samuel T. Freeman & co

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 Revlution 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Part 6: Autograph letters and historical documents relating to Pennsylvania, caricatures by Wm.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, Bradfordimprints, 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

8 parts in 2 v. 26 cm