Volume 1

Bibliotheca Ratcliffiana. A catalogue of the elegant and truly valuable library of John Ratcliffe ... deceased, the whole collected ... during the last thirty years of his life ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, the Royal Academy, Pall-Mall, on Wednesday, March 27, and the eight following evenings. (Good Friday and Sunday excepted) ... / [John Ratcliffe].

  • Ratcliffe, John, -1776.
Date:
[1776]
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Credit: Bibliotheca Ratcliffiana. A catalogue of the elegant and truly valuable library of John Ratcliffe ... deceased, the whole collected ... during the last thirty years of his life ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, the Royal Academy, Pall-Mall, on Wednesday, March 27, and the eight following evenings. (Good Friday and Sunday excepted) ... / [John Ratcliffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bibliotheca Ratciiffiaftd, A 'CATALOGUE Of tha Elegant and truly Valuable LIBRARY Of y O HN^RATCLIFFE, Efq; Late of SERMONDSEV, DECEASED, The Whole collected with great Judgment and Expence during the laft thirty Years of his Life ; Comprehending the largeft and moft choice Colleflion of the rare 0I4 EngUlh Black, Letter, in fine Prefervation and in elegant Bindings, printed by Caxton, Lettou, Machlinia, the anonymous St« Alban’s Schcolmafter, Wynkyn de Worde, Pynfon, Berthelet, Grafton, Day, NewbariCj, Marihej Juggc, Whytchurch, Wyer, Raftell, ..Cdplande, cn<] the Reil of the Old Englilh Tjpographs.f; ♦rye':-) f fiiTMs; a id Mss. and two Pedigrees on Vellatn, finely illuminated ; Amonglb .vhi<~h are the following valuable and scarce BOOKS, Chaucer, ift Edit. Game of CheflTc, The Praife of Women, Godefrey of Boleyne, Gower, Confeifio Amantis, Legenda Aurea, The Wydo'.v Edyth, The Cyte of Ladyes, Lyfe of St, Catherine, Lyfe o' St. Wenefrede, Reynard; che FoXj The Proud Lady, 1485, Hvftorle of Roberta the Djyyll, Myrrour of the Wodd, Tulle of old Age, Dodlrine of Sapyence, Kalendayr of Shypars, '’.‘rcharde of Syone, Pilgrimage of Perfeftion, Lyfe of our Lady, , Cufiomes of London, The Boke called Caton. r :iychro.aicon, 2 Copies, Booke 'or a Kyuge, 7P[s of Foies, Hoke ot Dyrtyllacyon, &c, &'c. Sayenges of PinloLpuerc, Hyftoiy of Prince and King Arthur, Dives aad'Pauper, Th., Dyinge Creatpre, Dyftruccyon of Troye, Chronicles by Caxton, Raflell, Bocce, Froffart, Grafton, Hall, Fabian, Hollinfhed, Speed, Stow, Mmidy, Cooper, Hardyng, &c. &c. Chambers’s Di£tion9iy, 2 Vols, Harris’s Voyages, 2 Vols. Gerard’s Herbal, 2 Vols, coloured, Atkins’s Gloucefterfliire, Mr. Walpole's Pieces, Morocco, Pope’s works, 5 Vols. L. P. Granger’s Biography, 4 Vols. Ames’s Printing, Puritan Trails, 20 Vols. Morocco, Politj'. cai State, 60 Vols. Morocco, with many others equally good. Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. C H R I S r I E, At his Great Room, the Royal Academy, P On Wednefd'Af^ March 27, and the 8 ings (Good Friday and Su To be viewed on Monday the ly h, and Will bctUn each Evening at Catalogues may be then had ac the Place Garraway’s Coffee- Mr, RatcIiiiVs cuujus Mamifcri