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FROM ONE RARE BOOK COLLECTOR TO ANOTHER
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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph Letter Signed, “O.W. Holmes,” to a
fellow book collector (“Dear Sir”), discussing the identity of someone who had inscribed
some books which he had purchased and remarking upon other books in that lot and
where they are now. 2
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2
pages, small 8vo, written on a single folded sheet; horizontal fold,
minor scattered soiling. (AKF)
Boston, 26 September 1876
[400/600]
“
I know nothing more of ‘Georgius Kloes of Frankfurt’ than that some thirty or forty years
ago a lot of fine old books—’incunabula,’ many of them—bearing his name and comments on
their rarity, etc, such as a collector would be like to make, apparently made by him. I bought a
couple of nice specimens, one without date, but considered by him as of 1474, the other a truly
magnificent specimen of early printing from the heirs of Nicholas Jensen of the date 1481. The
first . . . I gave it to the Boston Athenaeum. The other I have still. . . .”
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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Two items: Autograph Letter Signed *
Autograph Quotation Signed. The first, to “My dear Lady,” giving her permission “to
print ‘The Last Leaf ’ in your volume of selections.” 1 page, 8vo; evenly toned. The second,
four lines from his poem “Flag of the Heroes,” beginning, “Lord of the Universe, shield us
and guide us.” 1 page, oblong 8vo; oval portrait mounted at lower left. (AKF)
Boston, 5 September 1865; 24 March 1864
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WITH
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Printed bookplate: “From the library of Oliver Wendell Holmes. The gift of his son
Oliver Wendell Holmes.”
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IRVING, WASHINGTON. Autograph Letter Signed, to the Rev. Dr. Creighton,
writing “to announce to you the death of my brother Peter Irving,” whose body will be
conveyed to Dobbs Ferry, and asking him to officiate at the funeral. 1
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4
pages, 4to, with
integral address leaf addressed in his hand; uniformly toned, horizontal and vertical folds,
unobtrusive vertical fold through signature. (AKF) New York, 27 June 1838
[200/300]