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.....
Paris: n.p., 1897-1919. large 8vo. quarter leather with five raised bands, marbled paper-covered boards, with original paper wrappers bound in. variously paginated. 19 volumes bound in 18. A complete run of this bimonthly periodical until 1919. The periodical continued to 1931 and superseded Revue internationale des archives, des bibliothèques et des musées. Merged into Revue des bibliothèques. Journal of bibliography, archives, libraries and library sciences. Ex-libris of Paul Lacombe, the French book collector and author.....
