First editions and other rare books : featuring the Perkins' copy of the Fourth Folio Shakespeare, the Kelmscott Chaucer, fore-edge paintings, a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, Sanders' Reichenbachia, a special copy, Exquemeling's Bucaniers of America in a fine early binding, a XV-XVI Horae with 34 illuminations, other manuscripts, Luther's copy of Erasmus, 1523, the 1st English edition of Rabelais, 1652-94, all 5 vols., Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, over 200 editions in various languages : library of the late Thomas Henry Foster, Ottumwa, Iowa, sold by order of his son, Robert T. Foster. Publisher: New York : Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1957. Catalog for an auction held April 30 and May 1, 1957. Distinguished library of the late Thomas Henry Foster, Ottumwa, Iowa On Dec 12, 2024 at 13:27:59 PST,.
