Chateauroux: Imprimerie A. Majeste et L. Bouchardeau, 1899. small 4to. later quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label, all edges cut. (viii), 553 pages. First edition. This catalogue includes subdivisions on Theology, Jurisprudence, Arts & Science, Belles-Lettres and History. Contains a separate section for dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, year-books, reviews and journals, as well as a section for miscellaneous items. With an extensive author index. Corners slightly bumped.
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...
