MASTERPIECES OF PRINTING; ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS; AMERICANA; AUTOGRAPHS AND PRIVATE BOOK-CLUB Conditions of Sale 1. All bids to be per Lot as numbered in the Catalogue. 2. The highest bidder to be the buyer; in all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final. 3. Buyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash payments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold. 4. Goods bought to be removed at the close of each sale. If not so removed they will be at the sole risk of the purchaser and this Company will not be responsible if such goods are lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. 5. Terms Cash. If accounts are not paid at the conclusion of each Sale, or, in the case of absent buyers, when bills are rendered, this Company reserves the right to recatalogue the goods for immediate sale without notice to the defaulting buyer, and all costs of such resale will be charged to the defaulter. This condition is without prejudice to the rights of the Company to enforce the sale contract and collect the amount due without such resale at its own option. 6. All goods are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good second-hand condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned. Notice of such defects must be given promptly and the goods returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exceptions will be made to this rule. 7. Bids. We make no charge for executing orders for our customers. We use all bids competitively and buy at the lowest price permitted by other bids. The Henry W. Poor Library PART IV. PREFATORY NOTE. THE HE manner in which the library of Mr. Henry W. Poor has been presented to the public in the three previous parts sold has proved successful, as shown by the sustained general interest in the collection. In selling this large and important library the effort has been made to offer the books to the public at such intervals and grouped in such a way as to interest both large and small buyers equally at every sale. An examination of the present catalogue will show that this plan has been continued. For instance, those who were disappointed in obtaining examples of the Daniel Press, for which there was such keen competition in the preceding section, will have another opportunity for selection in the fine examples described in the following pages, which includes some of the rarest of the series. Likewise will be found additional examples of the works of William Loring Andrews; a fine series of first editions of Charles Lever; Lord Tennyson, including his very rare "A Welcome" and "Carmen Sæculare"; Algernon C. Swinburne, with "Ode à la Statue de Victor Hugo, Paris, 1881"; a presentation copy of "Les Cenci," Paris, 1883, and the privately printed and only edition of "The Ballad of Bulgarie," 1893; the sporting novels of R. S. Surtees; the works of Andrew Lang, Walter Pater, and John Ruskin; the publications of the Kelmscott Press, the Bibliophile Society, the Vale and other private presses and Book Club issues. Among the new Authors to appear in Part IV are Robert Louis Stevenson, with twenty-eight books by, or relating to, this Author, beginning with his first work, "The Pentland Rising," 1866, and containing in addition to other rarities his "Martial Elegy for some Lead Soldiers," privately printed by Stevenson himself at his little Davos Platz Press; the Sydney issue of "Father Damien," and "Ticonderoga," 1887, one of the few copies privately printed for the author. The writings of Henry D. Thoreau appear in this division for the first time, including a complete set of his works, with particularly fine copies of both the early rarities, Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and "Walden " Among other American Authors, some of which have appeared in previous sales, are Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, and twenty-five items of the works of J. G. Whittier. 66 Cruikshank collectors will be interested in the twentyseven items described, and those interested in the older English writers will look forward to the opportunity of a chance to possess the Author's copy of a world-famous book, old IZAAK WALTON'S OWN COPY OF "THE COMPLETE ANGLER," an association copy of such surpassing interest as rarely to be met with. The final portion of the library will be offered in Part V, and with it the dispersal of the great Poor library will come to an end. It will contain some of the most important books in Mr. Poor's Library, among which will be found the noted 'Valentine Blacque" Collection, containing "Contes et Nouvelles en Vers" by La Fontaine; "Chansons de la Borde," and other fine books and manuscripts in fine bindings, among the latter being a signed mosaic binding of Trautz-Bauzonnet. There is also a set of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and other rarities in both books and letters, making this part rival in interest any of the parts already sold. |