A Romance of the Rostrum being the business life of Henry Stevens and the history of thirty-eight King Street, together with some account of famous sales held there during the last hundred years
- Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
- Publisher : H.F. & G. Witherby
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : frontis + 12 b/w plates
Description:
First edition. Preface by Lord Rothschild. Scarce. The history of Stevens' auction rooms in Covent Garden, which sold many natural history collections during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, lightly rubbed to extremites, gt title to spine. Occasional foxing. Owner's name and address to endpaper.
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