Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. A History of the University of Oxford. 115 aquatint and line- or stipple-engraved plates, all but one hand-colored. Half-titles; subscribers' list. 2 volumes. Large 4to, 339x276 mm, modern red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt; plates generally clean though offsetting onto adjacent leaves throughout, light offsetting onto a few plates from facing pages in Volume 1, occasional browning of text leaves, owner's inscription on front endleaf in each volume. London, 1814

Additional Details

first edition, complete with the founders' portraits; ordinary-paper issue. First state of plates 1 and 50; second state of plates 5, 15, 39, 65, 74, 78, 84, 94. Abbey Scenery 280.