Stevens historical collections
Published: 1881
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Notes: Catalogue of the first portion of the extensive and varied collections of rare books and manuscripts, relating chiefly to the history and literature of America. Comprising the great collections of voyages and travels of De Bry (in Latin and German), Hulsius Thevenot Purchas and Hakluyt with early separate voyages of the Dutch English Iand French navigators; early American history and literature; Burns's autograph poems; black-letter and other early English and American Ballads; Chaucer's Works 1532; highly important collections of manuscripts relating to Sir Francis Drake, the colony of Georgia, New England & Virginia including 18 of the earliest autograph letters of Washington and Henry Stevens's Franklin collection.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: July 11-15, 1881.