STEVENS, Henry Newton.

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Ptolemy's Geography: First edition, one of 20 copies, of the author's essay describing the 60 early editions of Ptolemy's Geographia in the collection amassed by his father. The bibliography is followed by reproductions of the bookplates designed for the collection.Henry Stevens senior (1819-1886) was an American bibliographer who arrived in London in the mid 1840s and "set the book world ablaze, virtually inventing Americana as a bookselling category, helping to build some of the world's greatest libraries - finding material for John Carter Brown Library, James Lenox, Pierpont Morgan, Henry Huntington, William Folger" (ABA). His son became the first president of the Antiquarian Bookseller's association in 1907.Provenance: Stephen C. Massey.

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