?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
SUNDERLAND, CHARLES SPENCER, third Earl of. Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana: Sale Catalogue of the Truly Important and Very Extensive Library of Printed Books known as the Sunderland or Blenheim Library. 5 parts in one volume. Large 8vo, contemporary 1/2 black morocco gilt, extremities worn; contents clean. London, 1881-83
13,858 lots. Price/buyer lists bound in. "The great library of Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), contained only a few manuscripts and some 20,000 printed books: it was particularly strong in incunabula (many being printed on vellum), in Bibles, in first editions of the classics and in Continental literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries"--De Ricci, page 38. Laid in is the 1883 Catalogue of Rare & Valuable Books Returned Imperfect.
