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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... INTERESTING AND VERY VALUABLE VOLUME comes from the Crawford sale , and was sold in these rooms in 1887 for £ 500 . The BLOCK - BOOK is EXTRAORDINARILY FINE , and owes its preser- vation to its inclusion with the other pieces in the ...
... INTERESTING AND VERY VALUABLE VOLUME comes from the Crawford sale , and was sold in these rooms in 1887 for £ 500 . The BLOCK - BOOK is EXTRAORDINARILY FINE , and owes its preser- vation to its inclusion with the other pieces in the ...
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... INTERESTING BOOK , and an exceedingly rare edition . Not in Lowndes , who notes a doubtful 16mo edition of the same printer . Hazlitt ( 1882 ) mentions it on the authority of Collier . There is no colophon at end , the imprint being on ...
... INTERESTING BOOK , and an exceedingly rare edition . Not in Lowndes , who notes a doubtful 16mo edition of the same printer . Hazlitt ( 1882 ) mentions it on the authority of Collier . There is no colophon at end , the imprint being on ...
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... interesting XVIth Century Swiss Auto- graphs . 83 Biblia [ Italian , 1562 ] . La Bibia , che sichiama Il Vecchio Testamento secondo la Verita del testo Hebreo ; con molte annotationi ; con il Nuovo Testamento secondo la Verita del testo ...
... interesting XVIth Century Swiss Auto- graphs . 83 Biblia [ Italian , 1562 ] . La Bibia , che sichiama Il Vecchio Testamento secondo la Verita del testo Hebreo ; con molte annotationi ; con il Nuovo Testamento secondo la Verita del testo ...
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... interesting from having been formerly in the possession of an ANDERSON Family of Aberdeen . It has an inscription in cover " This Buik pertinis to David Anderson burges of Abd anno 1573 , " and other old signatures of members of the ...
... interesting from having been formerly in the possession of an ANDERSON Family of Aberdeen . It has an inscription in cover " This Buik pertinis to David Anderson burges of Abd anno 1573 , " and other old signatures of members of the ...
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... INTERESTING VOLUME , IN THE MOST PERFECT STATE OF PRESERVATION . [ See PLATE . 118 Bible ( Holy ) [ AUTHORISED VERSION , King Charles I , 1638. ] The Holy Bible , with Book of Common Prayer and Psalmes in Metre with Music , 3 vol . in 1 ...
... INTERESTING VOLUME , IN THE MOST PERFECT STATE OF PRESERVATION . [ See PLATE . 118 Bible ( Holy ) [ AUTHORISED VERSION , King Charles I , 1638. ] The Holy Bible , with Book of Common Prayer and Psalmes in Metre with Music , 3 vol . in 1 ...
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