Creator
Bangs, Richards & Platt
Title
Catalogue of an extensive collection of choice books … to be sold at auction, on Wednesday evening, November 18th.
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Bangs, Richards & Platt
Date
[1846]
Description
Book auction catalogues were often produced as large single sheet advertisements, but surviving copies are extremely rare. The wonderfully miscellaneous selection includes multiple remainder copies of standards such as Fox’s Book of Martyrs and Pope’s Poetical works, as well as the Encyclopedia Americana, Gibbons’ Doctrine [sic] and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Dewar’s Dictionary of the Gaelic Language. The auction house of Bangs, Richards & Platt, in business since about 1838, changed its name to Bangs, Brother & Co. in 1852.