May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 180
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
ROXBURGHE, JOHN KER, Duke of. A Catalogue of the Library of the late John, Duke of Roxburghe. xxiv, [2], 18, 284 [i. e., 283], [1]; iv, 20, [2]; 73 pages, including supplement and price list. 3 parts in one volume. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked with cloth tape, fore edges of covers darkened; dampstaining in outer margin of opening leaves, scattered foxing. London, 1812

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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.