Summary: | Auction catalogs (ca. 33) and booksellers' catalogs (ca. 66), many of the former with sale prices annotated in the margins, dating between 1870 and 1887. Most auction catalogs represent sales in Boston by Charles F. Libbie & Co. and Sullivan Brothers & Libbie Auctioneers. 1 represents a Boston sale conducted by Gideon Beck & Son. Others are from sales in New York (by Thomas & Son, Bangs, Merwin & Co., Bangs & Co. and George A. Leavitt) and in Haverhill, Mass. by C.C. Morse & Son. Booksellers' catalogs are from Bernard Quartich of London and J.W. Bouton of New York. Includes catalogs of the library of Charles H. Guild. The Collection was assembled by Ebenezer S. Lane.
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