Diary And Correspondence Of Samuel Pepys F. R. S

Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reign of Charles II and James II. Four Volumes. Illustrated. Bigelow, Brown, and Co Inc. New York. no date

Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reign of Charles II and James II. Four Volumes. Illustrated. Bigelow, Brown, and Co Inc. New York. no date. Complete four volume set in tan buckram with gilt titles on black background on spine. To page edges gilt, outer edges deckled, bottom smooth. Light soiling on covers, no major flaws, bindings are tight and solid. frontispiece in each volume. Bookplate of Felix and Lilly Reichmann on inside cover. Felix Reichmann was a Scholar, bookseller and librarian in Europe and the United States. He was born in 1899 to Jewish parents who ran the leading scholarly bookstore in Vienna. In 1938, after the Germans invaded Austria, Felix Reichmann wound up in the German concentration camps of Dachau and later Buchenwald. Working diligently, Lilly Reichmann and others obtained Reichmann's release and in 1939 the couple moved to New York and soon to Lancaster, where Reichmann served as curator and librarian of Landis Valley Museum. Reichmann served in a number of military capacities during World War II and afterwards. In 1947, he moved to Cornell University, where he spent the rest of his career. He remade the university library and had a profound influence on libraries worldwide by developing more efficient cataloging processes and working with early computer programs. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys F.R.S. PLEASE NOTE: **If you are ordering from outside of the USA or Canada you must email lisrose@ararefindbooks.com for shipping charges prior to ordering**