Catalogue of Books for sale at the annexed prices', numbers 49 (Jan. 1873) to 72 (Dec. 1874); with 'The American Bibliopolist', vols. 5 and 6 (New York, Jan. 1873 to Dec. 1874); and incomplete 'Catalogue of Standard English Books' (undated).

Author: 
J. Sabin & Sons [Joseph Sabin (1821-81), Anglo-American bookseller]; Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati
Publication details: 
J. Sabin & Sons, Publishers, 84 Nassau Street, New York. 14 York Street, Covent Garden, London. 1873.
£250.00
SKU: 4882

All items octavo. All in good condition, on aged paper, bound together in heavily-worn contemporary half-calf. Ownership inscription of the art dealer Faris C. Pitt on front free endpaper. The various issues of the 'Catalogue of Books' vary in length from eight pages to twenty-eight. The 'Catalogue of Standard English Books' consists of the first eighty pages only (ending in the M's), and includes a set of Audubon at $1,300 ('Owing to the larger portion of the copies printed of this superb work having been sold to public libraries, and the stock and copper plates having been destroyed by fire in New York, a perfect set is scarcely to be procured. [...]'. Bound in is a two-page single-leaf undated advertisement of 'Valuable historical works for sale by Robert Clarke & Co. of Cincinnati.