Author: (Maggs)
Title: Autograph Letters and Historical Documents (Including Some Remarkable Napoleonic Items from the Collection of the Late Earl of Rosebery). No. 593. Spring, 1934. (Catalog)
Description: London: Maggs Bros. 1934. 1934. London: Maggs Bros. 1934. 1934. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light tan wraps. The spine & extremities are darkened & the spine is rubbed with pieces out of the head & tail. The wraps are soiled & lightly bumped with some small stains. There is pencil scribbling to the rear wrap & there is a tiny chip out of its front edge. Title & 116 pages. The page corners are lightly bumped. There is staining to the front margins of a few pages & light foxing to the fore-edge & to the last page. Illustrated with a facsimile frontispiece & several full-page facsimiles. Good.

259 items are catalogued, with prices.

Laid in is an appeal for funds to purchase the Sinai manuscript of the Bible for the British Museum with a picture postcard facsimile of a page from the Bible. Also laid in is a leaflet about the Maggs Bros. monthly bulletin "Mercurius Britanicus". Good .

Keywords: HISTORY; AUTOGRAPHS; MANUSCRIPTS; SALE CATALOG; MAGGS BROS.; NAPOLEONIC ITEMS; LORD ROSEBERY'S COLLECTION; FACSIMILES.

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