Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HEARNE, THOMAS. A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of that Great Antiquarian Mr. Tho. Hearne of Oxford: and of another Gentleman of Note . . . which will begin to be sold very cheap, the lowest Price mark'd in each book, at T. Osborne's Shop in Gray's-Inn, on Monday the 16th Day of February 1735-6. Small engraved portrait vignette of Hearne on title. iv, 196 pages. Small 8vo, later 18th-/early 19th-century 1/2 calf, spine worn, lettering piece off, covers detached; some dampstaining, title soiled. [London, 1736]

Additional Details

first edition of a bookseller's catalogue listing 6776 items. ESTC locates 5 copies in Great Britain and only the Claremont and Cornell copies in the U.S.