?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MACCARTHY-REAGH, JUSTIN, Comte de. Catalogue des Livres Rares et Precieux de la Bibliotheque de feu M. le Comte de Mac-Carthy Reagh. 2 folding plates. xxviii, 583, [1]; [4], 473 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, spines brittle, darkened and rubbed; negligible foxing, occasional browning caused by laid-in slips of paper. Poitou Jesuit booklabels. Paris: (Crapelet for) De Bure frères, 1815
5515 lots, "extravagantly rich in books printed on vellum" (De Ricci). The auction was held in 1817, realizing less than the en bloc offer from the Duke of Devonshire rejected by the Count's heirs. Bound at the end of Volume 2 are the schedule of sale dates, list of prices realized, and fixed-price catalogue of unsold lots. Without the second catalogue of unsold lots issued in 1822. De Ricci, page 80.
