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Bidding on the Tikytt psalter began at $20,000 and rose rapidly to $61,000, for which it was bought by plump little Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach of Philadelphia, who usually manages to skim off the cream, of most U. S. book auctions...
...only known official copy of the original Declaration of Independence in the Library of Congress is in the possession of Dr. Rosenbach. Properly certified, it was sent to Frederick the Great of Prussia through Benjamin Franklin...
...record: $51,000 which Dr. Rosenbach paid for a Button Gwinnet letter...
...catalog of items in an exhibition of 200 first editions in Manhattan, Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, famed bibliographer, included this entry...
...President Hoover was described last week by Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, bibliophile, as the greatest book collector in the White House since Thomas Jeffer- son. Said Dr. Rosenbach: "On all his journeys he gathers volumes that in time will be valuable to the student. In China in 1899 he gathered a most comprehensive collection of books on China and the Chinese people." This he gave to Stanford University. It became the nucleus of the great Chinese library there. Dr. Rosenbach described how he had informed President Coolidge that the first edition (1865) of Alice in Wonderland...