May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
CRAWFORD, JAMES LUDOVIC LINDSAY, twenty-sixth Earl of. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Right Hon. the Earl of Crawford. First [Second] Portion. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 morocco, joints and raised bands rubbed, original wrappers bound in; contents clean. London, 1887-89

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3253 lots. Price/buyer lists bound in. "In 1887 and 1889 the Earl of Crawford found himself compelled to part with a notable portion of the great library collected between 1860 and 1880 by the twenty-fifth Earl . . . In order to raise some £26,000, Lord Crawford sold in two sales . . . his Gutenberg Bible, many of his finest incunabula, and his beautiful chivalry-romances"--De Ricci, pages 161-62. E. P. Goldschmidt's copy, with his bookplate and handwritten index of provenances, bindings, vellum copies, and illustrated incunabula.