Philadelphia: Printed for the Company, 1840. large 12mo. original quarter leather with woven cloth covered boards. xxii, (ii), 13-182 pages. Per Singerman (American Library Book catalogues 1801-1875, p.181, no.2877) the sixth catalogue of the Mercantile Library Company (founded 1821, taken over by the Free Library of Phila. around 1960). A classified (per introduction, the first such) catalogue of the Library with 2,500+ entries (our rough estimate), and an author index. Leather at spine ends chipped.....
New York: J.J. Little & Co., 1884. thick small 4to. original cloth. x, 527 pages. Limitation page contains a presentation from Mrs. Stewart and is numbered. This large collection contained an Audubon folio, several folios by Gould, and a very fine selection of bibles. Stuart sold the collection to the Lenox Library. Covers and spine spotted.
