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ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA, 1492-1897, THE ROMANCE OF VOYAGE AND DISCOVERY FROM SPAIN TO THE INDIES, THE SPANISH MAIN, AND NORTH AMERICA, INLAND TO THE OHIO COUNTRY; ON TOWARD THE MISSISSIPPI; THROUGH TO CALIFORNIA ... BEING A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF HERSCHEL V. JONES. With a Preface by Dr. Wilberforce Eames. Two volumes. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928, tall 4to., cloth, top edges gilt, slipcase. (xi),142 leaves; (viii),143-300 leaves, (12) pages. With AMERICANA COLLECTION OF HERSCHEL V. JONES, A CHECK LIST (1473-1926)
Jones, Herschel
3 volumes. Compiled by Wilberforce Eames

- New York : William E. Rudge 1928, 1938 - tall 4to. - cloth, top edge gilt. - (xi),142 leaves; (viii),143-300 leaves,(12); xii,220 pages. - Order Nr. 107718 - Price: $ 200.00

Limited to 200 copies for sale; title page designed by Bruce Rogers. Bibliographical description and reproduction of the title pages of 300 of the rarest books in the collection. A.S.W. Rosenbach made one of the great purchases of his career when he bought the Jones Americana library in 1939 for a little less than a quarter million dollars. The third volume contains an analysis of the collection by Lathrop C. Harper. Ex library copy with markings including the library name perforated on the title page.

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