Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DIBDIN'S COPY (AUCTION CATALOGUE.) Sykes, Mark Masterman, Sir. Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious, and Extensive Library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. . . . which will be sold at Auction, by Mr. Evans. Engraved frontispiece portrait. v, [1], 93, [1]; [2], 83 [i. e., 50]; [2], 68 pages. 3 parts in one volume. Large 8vo, contemporary 1/2 straight-morocco, spine and cover corners heavily worn; portrait and last leaf heavily foxed. [London], 1824

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3691 lots. With the signature of T. F. Dibdin on the title, and prices and buyers in ink throughout in another hand. The library formed by Sykes (1771-1823) included incunabula, with a Gutenberg Bible and 1459 Psalter, and Elizabethan literature. De Ricci, page 95.