Administrators sale by order of Ephraim Lederer, Esq., attorney; estate of Moses Polock, deceased (the oldest bookseller in America) embracing rare and scarce Americana ...
Subtitle: to be sold Wednesday, March 9, 1904 ... Thursday, March 10 ...
By: catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels
Contributors: Henkels, S. V. (Stanislaus Vincent), 1854-1926, auctioneer
Publisher: Davis & Harvey
Published: 1904
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Collection of valuable Americana gathered by the late Moses Polock, Esq., the oldest bookseller in the United States
Notes: 1369 lots.

Cover title: A collection of valuable Americna gathered by the late Moses Polock, Esq., the oldest bookseller in the United States.

"... including state and county histories, voyages and travels, early American drama and poetry, early American school books and chap-books, early newspapers, biography, Indian history (including the original manuscript of Heckwelder's Narrative), pamphlets bearing on the Revolution, trials, etc. Also seven volumes from the library of Gen'l Geo. Washington purchased at the sale in 1876; fine copy of the Aitken bible (the first English bible published in America); miniatures of Charles Brockden Brown and wife; rare portraits of Washington, etc."

McKay, 5772

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Dates of sale: March 9 and 10, 1904.