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Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue Raisonné d'une très Précieuse Collection de Livres Anciens et Modernes sur l'Amerique et les Philippines Classés par order alphabétique de noms d'Auteurs

Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue Raisonné d'une très Précieuse Collection de Livres Anciens et Modernes sur l'Amerique et les Philippines Classés par order alphabétique de noms d'Auteurs

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Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue Raisonné d'une très Précieuse Collection de Livres Anciens et Modernes sur l'Amerique et les Philippines Classés par order alphabétique de noms d'Auteurs

by Leclerc, Charles

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Paris: Maisonneuve & Cie, 1867.

8vo.  viii, 407 pp.  Bound in contemporary vellum spine and tips, marbled paper boards, red leather label; final 10 leaves with lower corners worn away.  This copy with a late 19th century Italian bookseller's description which reads in part, "Catalogue très important et recherché pour l'exacte description bibliographique de 1647 ouvrages ayant rapport à Amerique".  With faults a good to very good copy.


 Leclerc's catalogue, Bibliotheca Americana, is one of the most important lists of books on the Americas published in the 19th century.  Including 1647  lots, most with detailed annotations, the books in this collection document the vast field of European Americana in addition to many of the fundamental works published in England and America during the formation of the nation.   Sabin writes in part, "it includes a careful collation of each book, and in many instances analyses and important notes. . "  Still a very useful work and reference. 


Sabin 39647. 

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Title
Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue Raisonné d'une très Précieuse Collection de Livres Anciens et Modernes sur l'Amerique et les Philippines Classés par order alphabétique de noms d'Auteurs
Author
Leclerc, Charles
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Maisonneuve & Cie
Place of Publication
Paris
Date Published
1867

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About De Simone Company, Booksellers

De Simone Company Booksellers specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The owner, Daniel De Simone, has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, and ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy. The business also deals in 19th-century Americana and fine books in all fields and languages.

De Simone Company Booksellers enjoyed its second opening as a book company in 2018 after a seventeen-year hiatus. Originally established in 1978, De Simone Company bought, sold, and evaluated rare books, manuscripts, and prints for twenty-two years before closing, when De Simone accepted the position as Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress.

De Simone held this position for fourteen years before moving to the Folger Shakespeare Library as the Eric Weinmann Librarian. In this position, he managed seven departments, including acquisitions, exhibitions, conservation, research services, and the Library's book, manuscript, and art collections. He held this position for three years before retiring in 2017 and reopening De Simone Company Booksellers.

Because of his experience in both the book trade and rare book librarianship, De Simone consults with institutions about the development and evaluation of their library collections. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles on the history of book illustration and early bibliography.

He is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the Print Council of America, the Grolier Club, the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, the American Printing History Association, the Bibliographical Society of America. He is also the Treasurer of the Antiquarian Book Seminar Foundation, a 501c3, which support the Colorado Antiquarian Books Seminar (CABS). Recently he has been appointed Secretary of Breslauer Prize for Bibliography by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

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Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Leaves
Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Vellum
Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
Marbled Paper
Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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