A catalogue of the library of George Hibbert ... which will be sold by auction, on ... March 16, May 4, & May 25, 1829 by Mr. Evans / [George Hibbert].

  • Hibbert, George, 1757-1837
Date:
1829
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Credit: A catalogue of the library of George Hibbert ... which will be sold by auction, on ... March 16, May 4, & May 25, 1829 by Mr. Evans / [George Hibbert]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE present Catalogue comprises a Collection of Books, which has attracted much notice both at home and abroad, as containing many of the most splendid productions of the Press, from the Mac Carthy and other celebrated Sales, which have taken place within the last half. century— Indeed excepting only the Roxburghe Library, there has not within that period been offered to the Public an Assemblage of Books at once so extensive, valuable and various. It was the aim of the Possessor, during more than forty years, that it should contain at once the Sources of General Information and Amusement, and also choice Specimens, illustrating the Origin, Pro- gress and Perfection of the Art of Printing. The Collection cannot but attract the attention of Lovers of Literature, anxious to form or adorn a Library, since it abounds in Productions, rare, and excellent in every department of Science and of Art. It is rich in early-printed Bibles, in the various divisions of Natural History, and is, perhaps, unrivalled in the accumulation of early French Romances, and in its extensive assem- blage of the rarest productions of Italian Poetry. In it will also be found many curious and. rare Articles of our early English Poetry. Collectors of books have, for many valid reasons, been anxious to possess Books PRINTED UPON VELLUM. a