New York: [1867]. Item #785

8vo. 245 x 155 mm., [9 ½ x 6 inches].  40 pp.  Stitched as issued.; some dust soiling to the title leaf, edges a chipped; generally in good condition.

Although undated, on the verso of the title there is subscription advertisement for an edition of Hazlitt’s Handbook  offered for sale through John Russell Smith of London and Sabin in New York.  The advertisement is dated 1867.

This is a general catalogue of books, including general Americana, a good assortment of American travelers to Europe, English literature, classics, and a smattering of Continental literature and history.  A first edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson was priced at $10.00, and a grangerized edition of the same work dated 1831, filled with letters and engravings, from the libraries of Jos. Haslewood and the editor J. W. Croker was offered at $80.00.  There was a 29-volume set of British Classics, $115.00, an extra-illustrated set of Irving’s Life of Washington $500.00, Schoolcraft’s History . . .of the Indian Tribes, $ 70.00.

Rare Sabin catalogue, published at the height of his career, just before the famous Bruce sale which secured his position at the top of the trade.  See Reese, Collectors, Booksellers, and Libraries, pp. 26-49.

Price: $300.00