Historical Society expects $4.5M+ from auction
In the middle of the 1920s, a newly married Cornelius J. Hauck began to collect books. At first, he and his wife, Harriet Wesche, looked only for botanical subjects: trees, plants and flowers.
In the next 40 years, the hobby blossomed into a passionate love affair with everything rare and glorious in the realm of the written word. The scion of a prominent Cincinnati brewery and banking family, Hauck bought books printed on paper, chiseled in stone, carved into jade, wrapped in leather and silver and jewels.
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