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[SHERLOCKIANA]. A group of miniature volumes of books “written” by Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson, Professor James Moriarty, and Col. Sebastian Moran. [Riverside: Bo Press, 2015].
20 miniature books with custom-built miniature wooden display case. Books bound with cunningly-printed paper bindings (text pages are blank). A fine example. Titles include: by Sherlock Holmes: The Whole Art of Detection; Practical Handbook of Bee Culture; An Essay on the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus; Early English Charters; Chaldean Roots of the Cornish Language; Upon the Uses of the Dog in the Work of Detection; Upon the Tracing of the Footsteps; Upon the Dating of Old Documents; On the Surface Anatomy of the Human Ear; Upon the Distinction Between the Ashes of Various Tobaccos; Upon the Influence of a Trade Upon the Form of the Hand; Of Tattoo Marks; On Secret Writings; On the Typewriter and its Relation to Crime; Malingering. By Dr. John Watson: The Giant Rat of Sumatra. By Professor James Moriarty: A Treatise Upon the Binomial System; Dynamics of an Asteroid. By Col. Sebastian Moran: Three Months in the Jungle; Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas.
[Together with:] NIELSEN, Bjarne, BSI. Scandinavia and Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, 2006. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher’s blue cloth binding; printed dust jacket. This title has a bibliography of the writings of Sherlock Holmes (pp. 65-74) by Tage la Cour.