The Valuable Private Library of Lucius L. Hubbard of Houghton, Michigan. Consisting almost wholly of Rare Books and Pamphlets relating to American History. [partially priced and named]

8vo, 345 pp. Frontispiece and 26 plates. Small blue accession stamp ('134149') on reverse of title. Bound in green buckram with leather label. Fair, on aged paper and occasionally-discoloured paper. A tight copy, on worn and stained binding. 2451 lots with unusually full descriptions. Two page 'Prefatory' describing the 'widespread interest' that has been 'displayed in the announcement of the dispersal of Mr. Hubbard's extensive and well-chosen collection of books relating to America'. 'To suggest [...] that Mr. Hubbard confined his purchases exclusively to books on the West would be to convey an erroneous impression. On the contrary [...] he sought to cover the entire range of American History in its broadest sense'. Hubbard's copy of Audubon's 'Birds of America' is marked down as having sold to E. H. Wendell for $320. Eliot's Indian Bible sold for $370; Jefferson's 'Notes on the State of Virginia' for $260; a set of Wassenaer ('Mr. Hubbard has been informed by a prominent bibliographer that his is practically the only complete set every [sic] offered for auction in America') for $300; and Wyeth's 'Oregon' for $90. Scarce on the east side of the Atlantic, with no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at the Bodleian. For some reason the name of the collector W.L. Clements and his address has been written on the rear endpaper.