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THE PASSION FOR BOOKS; A GUIDE TO BOOK COLLECTION.
Cataldo, Gerard M.
First edition. A concise guide to book collecting for book lovers and collectors. The author is a rare book dealer and lifelong collector. This enjoyable guide presents the basics in a readable and highly informative manner, covering the early days of printing through the terms used in collecting circles, developing relationships with book dealers, attending book auctions and fairs, working with the internet, collecting trends, the basics of identifying editions, deciphering book collations, recognizing issue points, and caring for collections. This informative guide is an important book for the collector and general book lover. Cataldo is the co-author of First in Their Hearts: The Early Biographers of George Washington. Soft cover trade edition, signed by the author.
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, HIS OWN BOOK OF PRIVILEGES 1502
by Stevens, Benjamin Franklin
Limited to "Only Twenty Copies Printed, all being for Private Distribution. No. (blank)" (this copy is not numbered). This special version of just the introduction to this facsimile has a separate half-title on which is printed "Presented by the author to (blank)" at the top of the page. Historical introduction by Henry Harrisse. Compiled, edited and a preface by Benjamin Franklin Stevens, the son of Henry Stevens. With descriptions of the documents in the Paris Cartulary, two color illustrations of the coat of arms of Columbus and the hand-illuminated dedication page. Also includes a separate plate showing the "bag in which Columbus transmitted the Book of his Priviledges to the Genoese Ambassador, March, 1502." Spine is slightly rubbed, with minor scratching to the cover. Well-preserved copy.
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