Description

Up For Sale Today is

Robert Abels
860 Lexington Ave
New York, NY
Antique Firearms and Edged Weapons Catalog

Catalogue #12 March-April 1940
Catalogue #14 Summer 1940
Catalogue #15 Fall 1940
Catalogue #16 1941
Catalogue #17 1941
Catalogue #18 Summer Edition 1941
Catalogue #19 Winter Edition 1941 (Notes present to the title page).
Catalog #20 Spring Edition 1942
Catalog #21 Summer Edition 1942
Catalog #22 1943 (Featurs Alexander Hamtilon's Flint Lock Pistols)
Catalog #23
Catalog #24
Catalog #25
Catalog #26
Supplement to Catalog #26
Catalog #27 1949
Catalog #28

Hardcover. 8vo. Robert Abels, New York. 1940-49. 15 catalogs (missing #13). Each catalog 16-171 pgs. #28 is present but not bound in. Illustrated.

Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplates of Roger Peterson and Ray Riling present to the front pastedown.  Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

Robert Able was a famous dealer in all weapons (firearms and edged weapons) that used to be located in midtown Manhattan.

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Book formats and corresponding sizes  
Name Abbreviations Leaves Pages Approximate cover size (width × height)  
inches cm  
folio 2º or fo 2 4 12 × 19 30.5 × 48  
quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30.5  
octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23  
duodecimo or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19  
sextodecimo or sixteenmo 16º or 16mo 16 32 4 × 6¾ 10 × 17  
octodecimo or eighteenmo 18º or 18mo 18 36 4 × 6½ 10 × 16.5  
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo 32º or 32mo 32 64 3½ × 5½ 9 × 14  
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo 48º or 48mo 48 96 2½ × 4 6.5 × 10  
sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo 64º or 64mo 64 128 2 × 3 5 × 7.5  
 

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