Oak Knoll

Exhibition catalogue. A near fine copy. First edition limited to 1,000 copies. The collection of Nahuatl manuscripts held by the Newberry Library in Chicago, while not the largest of its kind in the United States, certainly contains some of the most important individual works. The collection of Nahuatl manuscripts held in the Latin American Library of Tulane University, New Orleans is one of the largest in the United States. The Bancroft Library is part of the legacy left to the scholars by Hubert How Bancroft. His career in books was formed by the California gold rush, where he came with a consignment of books to sell for an Eastern dealer. In his success, he expanded his operations until they came to include not just the sale of books, but nearly everything having to do with books, from paper, to presses, a bindry and a staff of researchers, clerks and scholars who wrote the sections of his mammoth histories dealing with all aspects of North America. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.