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1984211014Jerusalem: Bible Society in Israel 1984. Special Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in wooden boards. Front hinge cracked. Bible Society in Israel hardcover
177211652Amsterdam Hendrik Brandt Dirk onder de Linden Petrus Schouten en Jan de Groot 1772. Origineel half marokijn Leer met ribben Folio H. 44 x B. 285 x D. 3 cm. Prentbijbel van Ysbrand van Hamelsveld welke bestaat uit een titelpagina register en 126 foliobladen met op elk 2 gravures. De prenten zijn gegraveerd door Jacob Folkema Pieter Tanje en Simon Fokke. In het jaar 1791 werd de prentbijbel uitgegeven met bijgevoegde beschrijvingen door Van Hamelsveld. De prentbijbel wordt vaak naar hem genoemd ook al werkte hij niet mee aan deze eerste uitgave. Contemporary red morocco Leather with 6 raised bands Folio H. 44 x B. 285 x W. 3 cm. The printbible by Ysbrand van Hamelsveld which contains a titlepage index and 126 folio sized leaves with 2 engravings on each. The prints are engraved by Jacob Folkema Pieter Tanje and Simon Fokke. In the year 1791 the printbible was published with accompanying descriptions by Van Hamelsveld. The printbible is often called after him although Van Hamelsveld did not contribute to this first edition. Poortman W.C. 1986. Bijbel en Prent Deel IIa: Boekzaal van Nederlandse Prentbijbels p. 150-151 Amsterdam, Hendrik Brandt, Dirk onder de Linden, Petrus Schouten, en Jan de Groot hardcover
1823AQ19315Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co. 1823. Unpaginated. With additional engraved title pages for both the O.T. and N.T. and a further 27 engraved plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary blind-stamped black straight-grain morocco lettered in gilt A.E.G. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Manuscript records of births deaths marriages etc. of the Trueman family to front blank fly-leaves very occasional light spotting. . Quarto. Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co. unknown
1844097410London: Printed for Thomas Tegg & Son 1844. Complete in 6 volumes. Books measure 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Circa 5500 pages illustrated. Bound in full period black crushed moracco raised bands gilt tooling blind rulled lines full gilt edges marble endpapers. Calf very slightly faded very minor marking. All bindings in excellent condition. Internally previous owners bookplate spotting to titles and frontispieces very occasional minor spotting or browning. Pages and plates in very good clean condition. A near fine set in very attractive period bindings. . Full Period Morocco. Very Good Plus. Quarto. Printed for Thomas Tegg & Son Hardcover
17154383London: Printed by John Baskett printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty & by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills deceas'd 1715 1715. Bound with The Book of Common Prayer London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceased 1709. And with The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins And Others. London: Printed by J. Heptinstall 1717. 8vo. 192x120mm. Unpaginated. Collates as follows: BCP a4 A8-G6. Bible pi1 A8-Z8 As8-Zz8 Aaa8-Zzz8 Aaaa8-Cccc4. Psalms: A4-L4. General title for the Bible dated 1715 with the separate title page for the New Testament dated 1710. Contemporary black morocco decorated with gilt panel with gilt cornerpieces. Spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Extremities and head and foot of spine rubbed and worn and a split to the joint of upper cover at head and foot of spine. Some marking and fading to covers. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Internally very good but with some waterstaining from Bbbb and Cccc of the New Testament. The front pastedown has the very pretty book label "Martha Manning. Her Book. 1770." It is unclear exactly who this Martha Manning might be but there are two possible candidates. It might be the Martha Manning born in 1750 in Romford Essex who married William Whitford in 1771. A more exotic possibility is the Martha Manning who was the daughter of a William Manning a business associate of Henry Laurens one of the Founding Fathers and slave trader and rice planter. The Mannings had lived in St Kitts where they owned land but by the 1770s they had returned to London. In 1776 Henry Laurens's son John was in London studying law. Secretly he married Martha Manning on October 26. The following year Laurens left London and the pregnant Martha to return to America to fight in the Revolution. There he made his name working alongside Alexander Hamilton as an aide to George Washington. In 1780 Laurens was appointed to be the American special minister to France. Martha travelled to France to find her errant husband but tragically died there without seeing him. In any case this is a charming and beautiful bookplate and rare for it to belong to a woman at a time when few women owned books. This edition appears to be unrecorded in Herbert. The closest is Herbert 933 which has the OT dated 1715 and the NT dated 1712 but our copy has a 1710 NT printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills whose first Bible was in 1710 but was a 12mo with the text ending on S2a whereas this Bible collates continuously throughout the OT and NT. Baskett's name which is on the Old Testament title page does not appear on the New Testament until the 1712 edition and so is absent here. A nice copy of an unrecorded variant. London: Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, & by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and He unknown
159732804Francofurti: apud Andreae Wecheli heredes Claudium Marnium & Ioan. Aubrium 1597. Folio extra 37 cm; 14.5". 4 ff. 1098 pp. lacks final leaf with colophon. <br><br>Thought to have been edited by Franciscus Junius or Friedrich Sylburg this complete Greek Bible is based on the Basel edition of 1545 with corrections from the Complutensian and other texts including for the New Testament that of Robert Estienne. The woodcut printer's device appears on the title-page. The main text is printed in double-column format with some handsome woodcut initials and headpieces. The chapters and verses are numbered. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adams B979; Darlow & Moule 4653; VD16 B2578. 18th-century English calf binding in the Cambridge style worn. Both boards with loss of leather and roughly replaced. Front board detached in past and resecured with a linen hinge inside and a leather spine repair; hinge at rear with same strenthening. Early leaves crumpled some later ones as well. A few leaves have irregular fore-margins. Title-page stained and with old library stamp and shelving label; reverse of same with rubber stamp. A less than ideal copy but priced accordingly. apud Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium, & Ioan. Aubrium hardcover books
1663256261V.p. Venice Leipzig London Amsterdam 1663. Folio and smaller. Generally fine mounted in card folders. Folio and smaller. The collection includes the following printed leaves:<br /> 1 Bible. Greek. Venice 1518. From the Aldine Greek Bible the editio princeps of the complete Bible in Greek Darlow & Moule 4594. Book of Malachi folio 326.<br /> 2 Bible. German. Leipzig 1541. From a pirated edition suppressed at Luther's request on account of its errors Darlow & Moule 4204 note. Isaiah chapter 48.<br /> 3 Walton's Polyglot Bible. London 1655. The great London Polyglot published in 6 volumes from 1655 to 1657. Darlow & Moule 1446. From vol. I the Pentateuch: Leviticus chapter 18 in Hebrew Samaritan Latin Greek Arabic Syriac.<br /> 4 Walton's Polyglot Bible. London 1657. Darlow & Moule 1446. From vol. V New Testament: Paul's Epistle to the Romans chapter 9 in Latin Greek Ethiopic Arabic Syriac.<br /> 5 Bible. Dutch. Amsterdam Elzevier 1663. States General version Darlow & Moule 3321. Leviticus folio 55. unknown
1777254347Dordrecht & Amsterdam New Testament & Psalms 1777. Thick 12mo. Contemporary pebbled morocco a.e.g. gauffered. Inscribed on the ffep "Robert H. Penyn/ from his friend/ J.H. Ten Eyck/Dec. 29 1861. Thick 12mo. unknown
19147040London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society 1914. First thus. Fine. One of 500 copies on paper twelve copies on vellum were also produced printed by C.T Jacobi and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner. Original full limp vellum binding titled in gilt and retaining the original fore-edge ties. Quarto. xv 1 88 pp. Printed on handmade paper in the signature Riccardi Press typeface. With ornaments and ten mounted color plates including frontispiece by Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 each with a printed tissue guard. Title-page lettering by Edith M. Engall. Ink gift inscription dated 1918 and mid-twentieth century ink ownership signature to upper flyleaf. A Fine bright copy.<br /> <br /> Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 was an accomplished painter and illustrator. His painting The Death of Abel held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris is considered his most enduring work. "This work was the source of an illustration for The Book of Genesis published by the Riccardi Press in 1914; together with another masterpiece The Death of Rachel it constitutes his finest achievement as a book illustrator" ODNB. Robinson's illustrations for The Book of Genesis epitomize his melancholy style which reflected the influence of both ornate art deco aesthetics and the somber clarity of the Symbolist movement. Fine. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society unknown
184189325London: Samuel Bagster and Sons 1841. Full Leather. Very Good. 30 x 22.5 cm. Thick quarto. Unpaginated. The six translations included are Wiclif 1380 Tyndale 1534 Cranmer 1539 Genevan 1557 Anglo-Rhemish 1582 and Authorised 1611. The original Greek text after Scholz is also included. The translations all appear in parallel in six columns on two pages with the Greek text on the top. Bound into full period leather with stamped design and gilt spine lettering. Five raised bands to spine. Title page in black and red. Marble endpapers AEG. There is some scuffing to the leather and gilt page edges. Some minor scattered foxing. The first leaf of text has been professionally reattached; but that page is pasted over a page of hand-written notes. First Bagster edition with date of MDCCCXLI on the title page and no additional printings noted.<br /> <br /> Reference: Herbert 1840. Samuel Bagster and Sons unknown
12124San Francisco: The Arion Press 1996. Limited Edition. Stab-sewn stiff printed wrappers within chemise and slipcase. Fine/Slipcase: Fine. Michael Mazur. Folio. Pp. 102. Printed retrograde. Printed in Hebrew with translation in facing text by Robert Alter. Frontispiece etching by Michael Mazur signed. Bound in stiff plumb-colored handmade paper housed in a chemise and matching slipcase printed title label mounted on spine. Of an edition limited to 200 numbered copies this is hand-numbered copy 22. Signed by Robert Alter at the colophon. A bright fresh copy of this refined publication from the Arion Press a leading practitioner of fine press publishing and the natural heir to San Francisco's exemplary fine printing tradition. The Arion Press unknown
1830019652Philadelphia: George W. Mentz 1830. Hardcover. Foxing; rubbing to covers. Very Good with a bright attractive fraktur bookplate. Duodecimo 4-1/4" x 7" bound in contemporary sheep leather with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label gilt rules on the spine and two metal clasps; vi 7-504 pages with several full-page illustrations. With a stunning colorful elaborate fraktur bookplate by Elizabeth Lefewer dated 1832 in red yellow green and black depicting two birds one with wings spread perched on a flower with multiple petals and stem the fraktur in red green and blue red corners and borders of rope design in two colors and six lines of religious text in red. <br/><br/> George W. Mentz hardcover
165834706London: Printed by John Field one of His Highness’s printers 1658. First Edition. Leather bound. Fair. 24mo 2-1/2 x 4-3/4" 1104 pp. A-2Z¹² engraved title page separate dated also 1658 letterpress title page on 2N6r for "The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" register is continuous. Straight-grain morocco spine gilt gilt border on both boards paste-paper end papers. Binding separating from the text block at the rear hinge. Front hinge repaired causing some stiffness opening the front cover. Rear paste down removed. Some loss at the fore-edges of a handful of pages a chip out of the engraved title page which is separating from the block age-toning to leaf A2 but otherwise clean and bright. Fair. <br /> <br /> Collates complete. A mixed state with 'Appointed' on the title page Jer. 2:26 'chief' for 'thief' and 2 Thess. 2:15 'Paul fast' for 'stand fast' though not 'Jesaiah' in the headline of Hh2v or John 7:31 'no miracles.' "According to the BM Catalogue this is the ’genuine’ bible; Fry and Lenox call it ’spurious’"-- Darlow & Moule. Darlow & Moule 662 Wing B2253 ESTC R23800. <br /> <br /> BOUND WITH The whole book of Psalms: collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others: set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches of all the people together before and after morning and evening prayer; and also before and after sermons and moreover in private houses for their godly solace and comfort; laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads which tend onely to the nourishment of vice and corrupting of youth. <br /> <br /> London: printed by John Field one of His Highness’s Printers 1658. 90 pp. A-D9 lacking the final two leaves of text i.e. pp. 91-94. "In this edition title page line 5 ends: ’metre by’; page numbers are without brackets."--ESTC no priority. Wing B2470 ESTC R483411. One of two 1658 pocket-sized editions of the King James Bible printed using a pearl-sized font known as the "Pearl Bible." It is conjectured that one of the editions was printed by Field and the other "spurious" edition was foreign and/or pirated though it is difficult to establish which is "spurious" and which is "genuine" per A.S. Herbert This copy unusual for having all three components Old and New Testaments Psalms all dated 1658. Printed by John Field one of His Highness’s printers unknown
1777254347Dordrecht & Amsterdam New Testament & Psalms 1777. Thick 12mo. Contemporary pebbled morocco a.e.g. gauffered. Inscribed on the ffep "Robert H. Penyn/ from his friend/ J.H. Ten Eyck/Dec. 29 1861. Thick 12mo. unknown books
1856300659Large 4to. Illustrated with full page steel engravings by P.J. De Loutherbourg and others. Original full black morocco spine with five raised band each double ruled in gilt and elaborately stamped in gilt covers double ruled in gilt with elaborate gilt designs inner dentlles yellow coated endpapers a.e.g. Very good fresh. No signatures or bookplates. Small bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. H.G. Collins hardcover books
1770WRCLIT66987Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill . 1770. Not paginated. A8-3C5 †A8 -†M4 3D8-3S6. Thick octavo. Contemporary unlettered red morocco spine gilt extra covers with gilt roll of vines at edges with oval black morocco central inlay with the sacred monogram and cross within a gilt sunburst a.e.g. marbled endsheets. Vertical crack in spine with shallow losses at crown and toe front binder's blank detached but present rear inner hinge cracking after free endsheet some wear to joints and forecorners; still a good internally fresh and crisp copy. An attractive octavo printing including the Apocrypha. Wright and Gill printed an edition in folio the same year. A highly likely association copy of some interest signed on the front binder's blank "Sarah S. Villiers 1804" probably Sarah Sophia Child-Villiers 1785-1867 Countess of Jersey and with the earlier signature of "Sarah Child 1779" her mother Sarah Anne Child 1764-1793. Sarah Childs married Lord Villiers on 23 May 1804. As heir to Child's Bank and to the property at Osterley Park she brought considerable resources to the marriage and was engaged as an active partner at the bank. She exerted influence in political circles and was prominent socially sufficient to provide models for fictional characters in novels by Disraeli and Lady Caroline Lamb. ESTC T91638. DARLOW & MOULE HERBERT 1206. Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill ... unknown books
1792WRCLIT76093London: Printed for Bellamy and Roberts 1792. Four volumes bound in six. Quarto. Contemporary unlettered calf marbled endsheets spines gilt. Plates and maps some folding. Institutional bookplate and early gift inscriptions hinges cracked but still holding spine ends chipped scattered foxing and tanning burn scar to lower board of first volume scrape to spine of sixth volume. Still a sound useful set amenable to cosmetics. First edition of Thomas Scott's edition of the English Bible first published in 174 weekly numbers spanning 1788-92. The enterprise contributed to the bankruptcy of the publisher and Scott was saddled with considerable debt but his commentary has been described as "the greatest theological performance of our age and country" - Sir James Stephen quoted by Herbert. The title calls for a Concordance and accompaniments which does not appear in this set -- according to Herbert it is usually the separate 3rd edition of Powell's 1792 concordance and was published as a separate accompaniment in quarto format and in 8vo both as standalones. Given the binding configuration of this set it usually appears in four volumes it is possible that this set was bound up from the parts issue. The New Testament is bound in two volumes with general title in 1st volume only and what usually appears as volume one is here present in two volumes with the general title in the first and the second beginning with Ruth. ESTC locates three sets: BL Newport Central and Washington State. HERBERT 1366. ESTC T95096. Printed for Bellamy and Roberts unknown books
1604WRCLIT65625London: Excudebat Valentinus Simsius 1604. 48144149-7364 blank14pp. Blank A1 present Y1-2 not present but pagination continuous errors in numbering in signature 2S final blank not present. Small octavo. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt with gilt devices on each panel and initials 'I.O.' and "T.V.' on front and rear boards rebacked with remnants of original gilt backstrip and label laid down. Small ink spot on A6 occasional marginal discolorations faint tidemark in upper outer quadrant 2b and shallower scattered discolorations along some fore-margins toward end clean marginal tear without loss in 2T3 short repairs to marginal tears in A1 early ink name on A1 and ink identification of "Brydges" on title; title possibly supplied from a slightly smaller copy; yet a good sound copy. First edition of this Latin version of the New Testament translated/edited by John Bridges Bishop of Oxford 1535/6 - 1618. After a career of publications on Church government engagement in pamphlet exchanges and similar matters Bridges began work on this rendering of the text into Latin hexameters in 1599. In this copy leaves L8 M1 and T7 are in their canceled states. The sole edition reported in ESTC and an uncommon edition as well: ESTC locates only nine copies in North America. ESTC S106573. STC 3735. Excudebat Valentinus Simsius hardcover books
1663256261V.p. Venice Leipzig London Amsterdam 1663. Folio and smaller. Generally fine mounted in card folders. Folio and smaller. The collection includes the following printed leaves:<br/>1 Bible. Greek. Venice 1518. From the Aldine Greek Bible the editio princeps of the complete Bible in Greek Darlow & Moule 4594. Book of Malachi folio 326.<br/>2 Bible. German. Leipzig 1541. From a pirated edition suppressed at Luther's request on account of its errors Darlow & Moule 4204 note. Isaiah chapter 48.<br/>3 Walton's Polyglot Bible. London 1655. The great London Polyglot published in 6 volumes from 1655 to 1657. Darlow & Moule 1446. From vol. I the Pentateuch: Leviticus chapter 18 in Hebrew Samaritan Latin Greek Arabic Syriac.<br/>4 Walton's Polyglot Bible. London 1657. Darlow & Moule 1446. From vol. V New Testament: Paul's Epistle to the Romans chapter 9 in Latin Greek Ethiopic Arabic Syriac.<br/>5 Bible. Dutch. Amsterdam Elzevier 1663. States General version Darlow & Moule 3321. Leviticus folio 55. unknown books
elala2162<p>London: Printed For The British And Foreign Bible Society 1876. Horden came to Canada in 1851 and was stationed by the Church Missionary Society at Moose Factory on Hudson's Bay. There he spent the rest of his life baptizing thousands of Indians and translating over twenty texts into the Cree Salteaux and Ojibwa languages. Several of his Cree translations he printed with his own hands on a press sent out from England. Pilling notes that some copies of the present work end on page 245 the verso of which is blank and include only to the end of Acts while in complete copies as this one Romans begins on page 246. Darlow & Moule 3123. Banks p. 38. Evans 80. Peel. 782. Pilling Algonquian pp. 236-37. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 425. text printed entirely in Cree syllabic characters Moose dialect. original blind-stamped sprinkled calf joints cracked spine ends & corners worn</p> London: Printed For The British And Foreign Bible Society, 1876
177410669Goettingae: Recudi fecit vidua b. Abr. Vandenhoeck 1774. 4to 23 cm. 2 494 pp. <br><br>Signed presentation copy from the Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey Regius Professor of Hebrew Oxford University dated 1835. Edited by Simon de Magistris. Greek and Latin text printed in parallel columns. Illustrated with an engraving on p. 104 and engravings of Greek coins on p. 194. WorldCat locates only one copy of this edition in U.S. libraries. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Darlow & Moule but see 4760 for the 1773 edition and 4759 for the first edition. Contemporary plain wrappers paper over spine chipped and with lengthwise cracks; binding coming apart with final 14 pages separated. Gift inscription dated 1835 on verso of title-page. Bookplate of a theological seminary on inside of front cover. Some pages unopened. Foxed. Dog-eared. => Uncut mostly unopened copy. Recudi fecit vidua b. Abr. Vandenhoeck unknown books
155539566Basileae: per Ioannem Oporinum colophon: 1555. 8vo 15.9 cm 6.25". 16 341 7 pp. <br><br>Sole edition of these Greek paraphrased psalms done by Paul Dolscius while he was serving as a rector in Halle. Melanchthon was a great supporter of Dolscius 152689 whose translation work was so proficient that at one point his authorial byline on the Greek translation of the Augsburg Confession was assumed to be merely a pseudonym for the great reformer himself.<br>Â Â Â Â The text here is simply printed with the Latin preface in roman and the main text in Greek using single columns; a 5-line decorative initial and a 7-line inhabited one showing two kings in profile complete the work. This is now an uncommon edition with searches of Worldcat COPAC USTC and NUC Pre-1956 revealing only three U.S. institutions reporting ownership.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: An inked ownership stamp of notable 19th-century English bibliomaniac Richard Heber 17741833 reading "Bibliotheca Heberiana" appears on the front free endpaper; Thomas Frognall Dibdin added this stamp to select rare books in Heber's collection following the collector's death. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Bibliotheca Palatina F5048/F5049; VD16 B3122; USTC 626665. Not in Adams; not in Darlow & Moule. On Dolscius see: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie online. 19th-century half calf and paste papercovered boards spine with gilt rolls and green leather gilt title-label all edges stained blue; rubbed slight loss of leather on front joint outside and corners a few small spots and leather repairs isolated glue action to endpapers. Light age-toning with occasional slivers of marginal staining possibly thanks to the blue edge stain one interior tear touching letters and two marginal spots. Provenance indicia as above small round paper shelflabel on spine a few bibliographical notes pencilled on endpapers. => A skillfully produced work with a pleasing provenance. per Ioannem Oporinum hardcover books
1685256235Cambridge Mass: Samuel Green 1685. 1 vols. Small 4to 5-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches. Outer margin trimmed close costing one letter. Some light toning very good. Mounted in card folder. 1 vols. Small 4to 5-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches. Leaf from the Second Ediiton of Eliot's Indian Bible 1685. A leaf from the second edition of the Eliot Indian Bible printed in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1685. A Massachusett Indian James Printer was one of the printers who worked on the project. Darlow & Moule 6738; Pilling Algonquin pp. 153 ff Samuel Green unknown books
1817FF2408Cambridge:: Printed by J. Smith 1817 1816. 1817. 2 volumes. Small 12mo. iv 600; 601-821 1 2; 250 2 pp. Original crimson blind- and gilt-stamped straight grained morocco all edges gilt. Within slip-case bound in red cloth gilt-stamped back "Foredge Paintings" likely the box dates from the time of the fore-edge painting. With two lovely fore-edge paintings painted on the fanned edges; not labeled but the scenes are of British churches. Provenance: Carnegie Book Shop New York Dec 14 1965 - sold to: Roland S. Bond Dallas TX. Probably this is the Louis H. Silver d.1963 Chicago copy sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries Nov. 16 1965 sold to Carnegie Book Shop NY. The volume was described as "one vol. bound in 2 which was an oversight as the 2nd title is deep within the second vol. Silver was a lawyer engineer and Chicago hotel owner Gold Coast Hotels who was a trustee of the Newberry Library. The bulk of his collection was purchased through his agent the noted bookseller John F. Fleming and brought a reported NY Times May 15 1964 price of 2.75 million dollars. / The University of Texas Ransom Center reports: "In June of 1963 Silver was diagnosed with terminal cancer and enlisted Fleming's help in selling his substantial library. Silver had very specific demands for the sale—his library was to be sold en bloc and he should receive no less than $2.2 million for it. Fleming made contact with several auction houses but on October 27 1963 Silver died before any action towards a sale could be completed. Silver's estate represented by Clarence A. Beutel and Silver's wife Amy wanted the search for a buyer to continue according to Silver's specifications. / On November 15 1963 the University of Texas at Austin expressed interest in the collection. Fleming began negotiations with Dr. Harry Ransom Chancellor of the University of Texas at Austin. Within a month Ransom had $2.75 million in cash for the sale. Silver's estate though was feeling hesitant about the sale. The first problem was that they did not want to pay Fleming his $200000 commission. The second was that they felt pressured to keep the Silver Library in Illinois by selling it to the Newberry Library instead. In the end that is what the estate chose to do. On May 13 1964 the Newberry Library bought the Silver Library for $2.75 million. / Under Illinois law Fleming as a property broker should have earned his commission when he produced a ready willing and able buyer. There is no requirement that a sale with that buyer must occur. Since Fleming produced his buyer he requested his commission. When the Silver estate refused Fleming filed a lawsuit in Illinois on August 6 1964. The estate was granted summary judgment and the case was dismissed. The court found that since many of the books were damaged and the University of Texas did not examine the books prior to agreeing to buy them it would not have actually been willing to commit to the sale. Fleming appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In John F. Fleming Incorporated v. Beutel 395 F.2d 21 the appellate court remanded the case after finding that the lower court was incorrect in granting summary judgment. The appellate court ruled that when one was dealing with older books some damage was par for the course and so the buyer would have been willing to go through with the sale. However rather than continue the court battle Fleming settled out of court for $92000 on December 17 1968. / The Newberry Library took possession of the Silver Library and against Silver's wishes discarded one third of the books as surplus and auctioned them." JWRB Printed by J. Smith, 1817, 1816. hardcover books
