Catalogue of the extensive, curious and valuable library of the late Hon. Baron Bolland. Including Bartholomæus Glanvile De proprietatibus rerum ... a collection of law books, &c. ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Evans, no. 93, Pall-Mall: on Wednesday, November 18, and twelve following days. (Sundays excepted.) 1840 / [R.H. Evans].

  • Robert Harding Evans
Date:
[1840]
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Credit: Catalogue of the extensive, curious and valuable library of the late Hon. Baron Bolland. Including Bartholomæus Glanvile De proprietatibus rerum ... a collection of law books, &c. ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Evans, no. 93, Pall-Mall: on Wednesday, November 18, and twelve following days. (Sundays excepted.) 1840 / [R.H. Evans]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - ■ • I * ' V . - f : ■ — . . - OF THE .-.v - EXTENSIVE, CURIOUS and VALUABLE LIBRARY OF THE LATE HON. BARON BORLAND. INCLUDING A Bartholomjeus Glanvile de Proprietatibus Rerum, translated INTO English by Trevisa, at the request of Lord Berkley, first EDition,Book Printed upon Paper Manufactured in England, blue morocco, Imprynted by Wynkyn de Worde. Arnold’s Chronicle, first edition, rare, greew morocco. Chaucer’s Troylusand Creseyde, Em-^ prynted by Pynson. Leclabart, Epreuves des Caracteres, Manuscript, an extraordinary specimen of the skill of Leclabart in Copying Aniient Printing and Cuts, in morocco. Lodge’s Portraits, 2 vol. large paper, PROOFS ON India paper. Shaw’s Illuminated Ornaments from MSS. and Early Printed Books, the plates coloured, heightened with Gold, blue morocco. Stephani Thesaurus Grsecus, edentibus Barker et Valpy, 12 vol. large paper, in russia. Ogilby’s Works, 12 vol. numerous plates. A Complete Series of the Books Printed by the Roxburghe Club. Shakspeare’s Lucrecb, first edition, a FINE AND perfect Copy, EXCESSIVELY RARE, Only Four Other perfect Copies known, 1594. History of King Boccus and Sydracke, a Poem, blue morocco, extremely rare. Printed by Godfray. Virgil’s Bukes of Eneados, by Gawdn Douglas, rare, Imprinted by Copland, 1553. Davies of Hereford’s Wits Pilgrimage, very rare. Cicero deOfficiis, Printed by Ulric Zel, extremely rare, supposed by Dibdin to be Anterior to the Mentz Edition of 1465. Rees’s Cyclopaedia, 45 vol. Churchyard’s Challenge, extremely rare, olive morocco, 1593. Churchyard’s Worthines of Wales, first edition, very rare, 1587. New Testament, Tyndale’s Version Revised, cuts, Jugge, 1552. Shakspeare’s Venus and Adonis, third edition, extraordinarily RARE, 1596. Spenser’s Amoretti, first edition, excessively rare, 1595. Marston’s Scourge of Villainy, first edition, extremely RARE, 1598. Armony of Byrdes, a Poem, unique, Imprynted by Wyght. Britton and Brayley’s Beauties of England and Wales, 26 vol. LARGE PAPER, bouud by Lewis. Dryden’s Works, by Scott, 18 vol. Dibdin’s Works, large paper ^ a Collection of Law Books, &c. ALSO, AN ELEGANT MAHOGANY BOOK CASE 5 WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION BY Messrs. EVANS, No. 93, PALL MALL: On Wednesday,‘November 18, and Twelve Following Days. (Sundays excepted.) 1840.
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