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The Library of the Late John Gerard Heckscher.
[New York: James Cummins Bookseller, 1992]. (HECKSCHER, JOHN GERARD) Facsimile Reprint. One of 250 copies. 8vo. . Blue cloth gilt. ΒΆ A fine reprint of the original three catalogues of the series of auctions held at the Merwin-Clayton Sales Company in New York in 1909 to disperse the collection of Heckscher. Our reprint also contains the catalogue of duplicates from Heckscher's library, sold by Merwin-Clayton in 1906. Heckscher was a great angling book collector, with, according to the preface of the original sales catalogue, his Angling Library considered at the time to be "the largest, but one, in the United States." The importance of the catalogues lies in the fact that, prior to the sales, the catalogue of Heckscher's library existed only in manuscript, but, with the publication of the sales catalogues, this hand-written record was transformed into a tool of lasting reference value, containing detailed descriptions including collations
Offered for US$ 75.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 9209