Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - November - 2009 Issue
The Zaehnsdorf Reference Library from Oak Knoll Books
Books await restoration by Zaehnsdorf's after 1939 fire.
Item 225 is a book about the Shakespeare you don't know so well, Susannah: William Shakespeare and His Daughter Susannah. This 1931 book by Frank Marcham tells everything he could find about her. Susannah was the playwright's oldest daughter. She married a physician, Dr. John Hall, so she would have been of reasonably good means. Shakespeare left the bulk of his estate to her, but there doesn't appear to have been much in the way of great interest she received, such as manuscripts of her father's plays. Susannah died in 1649, and her gravestone notes she was "witty above her sex," likely an attribute inherited from her father. Susannah's daughter, Elizabeth, who died in 1670, was Shakespeare's last living descendent. This copy of Marcham's book was inscribed by the author to Ernest Zaehnsdorf. $75.
Item 199 was a book put together by Zaehnsdorf to display their skills in restoring books: "The Pantechnicon" Fire 1939, Specimens of Books Restored & Rebound by Zaehnsdorf Ltd. It contains 17 before and after photographs of books salvaged from a warehouse fire. $450.
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Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000. -
