Catalogue of the ... Library of ... Valuable Books & Manuscripts the Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney: Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... at Their House ... on Thursday, the 3rd of December, 1908, and Two Following Days, and on Wednesday, the 24th of March, 1909, and Three Following Days |
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... excessively rare and some unique items from the earliest presses to those at the end of the seventeenth century . It is especially remarkable for the extra- ordinary number of books printed by CAXTON , of which there are no less than ...
... excessively rare and some unique items from the earliest presses to those at the end of the seventeenth century . It is especially remarkable for the extra- ordinary number of books printed by CAXTON , of which there are no less than ...
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... rarest character , comprising several unique and many excessively rare specimens of prototypographers . But to call attention to a tenth part of the noteworthy books , would make the preface of an inordinate length . Every detail has ...
... rarest character , comprising several unique and many excessively rare specimens of prototypographers . But to call attention to a tenth part of the noteworthy books , would make the preface of an inordinate length . Every detail has ...
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... EXCESSIVELY RARE ; and one of the few books PRINTED in Nor- WICH BY ANTHONY DE SOLESMNE , the introducer of Printing into that Cathedral city . The only other copy of this edition known is in the Library of Trinity College , Dublin ...
... EXCESSIVELY RARE ; and one of the few books PRINTED in Nor- WICH BY ANTHONY DE SOLESMNE , the introducer of Printing into that Cathedral city . The only other copy of this edition known is in the Library of Trinity College , Dublin ...
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... EXCESSIVELY RARE , only one other copy being known . The edition is only mentioned without locating a single copy , by Salva , in the Repertorio Americano ; and referred to by Brunet as cited solely on the authority of Lenglet du ...
... EXCESSIVELY RARE , only one other copy being known . The edition is only mentioned without locating a single copy , by Salva , in the Repertorio Americano ; and referred to by Brunet as cited solely on the authority of Lenglet du ...
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... EXCESSIVELY RARE , the SECOND BOOK PRINTED AT OXFORD , attributed to Theodore Hunt , of Cologne , and the FIRST WITH A CERTAIN DATE . It was formerly in the Spencer , then in the Bright and Ashburnham libraries . It was sold in the sale ...
... EXCESSIVELY RARE , the SECOND BOOK PRINTED AT OXFORD , attributed to Theodore Hunt , of Cologne , and the FIRST WITH A CERTAIN DATE . It was formerly in the Spencer , then in the Bright and Ashburnham libraries . It was sold in the sale ...
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