?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AUCTION CATALOGUE.) Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of. A Catalogue of the Library of the late John, Duke of Roxburghe . . . which will be sold by Auction . . . by Robert H. Evans, Bookseller, Pall-Mall. Extraneous contemporary stipple-engraved portrait of the Duke of Roxburghe bound in as frontispiece. xxiv, [2], 18, 284 [i. e., 283], [1]; iv, 20, [2]; 73 pages, including the preface in both versions, supplement, and printed price list. Prices and buyers also entered throughout in ink in small neat contemporary hand. 4 parts in one volume. 8vo, 230x143 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco attractively gilt, spine darkened, joints rubbed; portrait heavily foxed, offsetting onto title, other foxing mostly confined to the preliminaries. Contemporary owner's handwritten obituary of the Duke on front flyleaf. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1812
10,121 lots. "A new era in British book-collecting may be said to start with the Roxburghe sale . . . John, third Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804) . . . built a handsome and extensive library . . . mainly devoted to incunabula, French chivalry-romances, early English and Italian literature, Shakespeare and the drama"--De Ricci, page 71.
