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(Rosenbach, A.S.W.) THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY, RARE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS.
Philadelphia and New York The Rosenbach Co. 1939 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 176 pages.
A well annotated, priced, rare book catalogue issued by the famous Rosenbach. Front wrapper detached. Chipped around edges with tears along hinge.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 27054

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(Rosenbach Company) REFERENCE BOOKS ON ENGRAVINGS, ETCHINGS, PAINTINGS, FURNITURE ... PROPERTY OF THE ROSENBACH COMPANY.
New York Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. 1948 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 56 pages.
Reproduces the letter sent from Philip Rosenbach to Arthur Swann asking him to sell this section of their business. Spotting along spine.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106002

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(Rosenbach) MONUMENTS OF WIT AND LEARNING
Philadelphia and New York The Rosenbach Co. 1946 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 196 pages.
A priced bookseller's catalogue. Includes Incunabula.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 18243

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(Rosenbach) WEST OF THE ALLEGHENIES, A SELECTION OF RARE BOOKS ON THE WESTERN EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Philadelphia and New York The Rosenbach Company 1950 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 50 pages.
Priced catalogue.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 18245

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Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2011 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 176 pages
There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it) and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R, as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws visitors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Mr. Lilly assembled a collection of some twenty thousand books in American literature and on historical Americana throughout the course of his collecting career. He bought books from a number of booksellers, but Rosenbach sold Lilly some of the best books and manuscripts in his collection. Rosenbach and Lilly were both personally interested in literature and Americana, and while Lilly was a conservative businessman who was usually very methodical in his acquisitions, Rosenbach's enthusiasm, which was well supported by his knowledge and experience, enticed Lilly to make some uncharacteristically large purchases during the two decades of their relationship.

This book focuses on the intersection of the two men and their business relationship from the 1920s through the 1940s. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly was first published in 2010 in a limited edition by Bird & Bull Press. This new trade edition retains Henry Morris's superb design and adds a new preface, additional illustrations, and an index. A sixteen page section of color plates is also included.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 105704

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Towner, Wesley THE ELEGANT AUCTIONEERS.
New York Hill & Wang (1970) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 632 pages.
First edition. Covers collectors and dealers such as A.T. Stewart, J.P. Morgan, A.S.W. Rosenbach and others. History of auctioneers and auction houses starting in the eighties and ending with Parke-Bernet. Minor jacket wear.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 10666

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Winship, George Parker PRINTING IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 1940 8vo. cloth. xi, 158 pages.
First edition. One of the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography titles. Spine faded.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 15662

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