Author: American Art Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-26

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780331953367

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Collection of Books and Manuscripts Belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives of New-York: Comprising, Early Printed Books, Americana, Illustrated French Books, Works of Standard Authors, Classical Manuscripts, Missals and Books of Hours, to Be Disposed of by Auction on Thursday, March 5, 1891, and Following Days, at 3 and 8 O'clock P. M Mr. Sabin was an entbusiastic student of A mericana, and l was soon instilled witb tbe same feeling. My first efiorts were not direeted to tbe purcbasc of rarities so mucb as to early local bistortes of towns, accounts of Indian figbts, and otber incidents of special interest. But it is natural to work back to first principles, and so I found myself striving more and more every year to secure ibe original sources of our knowledge of tbe dis covery and early bistory of tbc country. Tbis made me more or less familiar witb tbe works issued in tbe early part of tbs sixteentb century and tbs latter part of tbc fifteentb. 'iben I became impressed witb tbe wonderful beauty of tbese volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.