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NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, AUTHOR CATALOG.
43 volumes.
First edition of this extensive catalogue describing at least 373,262 volumes and 169,336 pamphlets. The library, founded in 1847, flourished under the beneficence of Dr. Samuel Smith Purple and has now grown to be the second largest medical library in the United States. Reproduced from the card catalogue.
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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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