[Cover title:] A Catalogue of Autograph Letters, Original Manuscripts, and Historical Documents. Being Composed of James R. Osgood's Collection, and other valuable and desirable specimens..

New York: Benjamin, 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Ends of spine lightly chipped. 8vo. 36 pages. Original light blue pictorial printed wrappers, untrimmed. A dealer's priced catalogue, offering mainly literary autographs. One can only drool at the availability of a good two-page Keats or Shelley letter for $50, an excellent Poe letter for $35, a 31-page Hawthorne manuscript of an "Our Old Home" sketch for $90. Not to mention the 790-pages of all seven of Emerson's 'Representative Men' essays for $500. Being catalogue #44. (BA).