Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. A History of the University of Cambridge. 96 aquatint and line- or stipple-engraved plates, all but the first hand-colored. Half-titles. 2 volumes. Large 4to, 332x274 mm, modern red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt; plates generally clean though offsetting onto adjacent leaves throughout, occasional browning of text leaves, dampstain along top edge of last index leaf, owner's inscription on front endleaf in each volume. London, 1814

Additional Details

first edition, complete with the founders' portraits; ordinary-paper issue. Second state of plate 73 ("Public Library"), signed "Dl. Havell" instead of "Havell." Abbey Scenery 80.