Source : Thomas Scheler

Source Title Livres Precieux du XV th au XIX th siecle
Description Librairie Thomas-Scheler: This renowed Parisian book dealer maintains a shop at 19, rue de Tournon, 75006 Paris. The firm is owned by the Clavreuil family.

Exceptional material is the order of the day.

This catalogue was issued for the 2004 Holiday season and represents the highest level of presentation available in the world of books today. In an era when fewer dealers are issuing catalogues and those that are issuing catalogues are issuing fewer of them this catalogue presentation, while exceptional in any age, is highly unusual today.
Scope of Text There are 60 items offered for an aggregate price of about 4 million euros or $5.5 million dollars.
Total Records in AED 116
  • 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.