Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BODLEIAN LIBRARY, Oxford. Catalogus impressorum librorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi. Engraved frontispiece in Volume 1 with portraits of Sir Thomas Bodley, the Earl of Pembroke, Archbishop Laud, Sir Kenelm Digby, and John Selden; engraved divisional headpieces and pictorial initials throughout. [12], 611, [1]; [4], 714, [1] pages, including errata leaf at end of Volume 2. 2 volumes. Folio, 454x286 mm, contemporary speckled calf gilt with morocco lettering pieces, spine ends worn, joints cracked, cords intact; occasional minor toning or foxing, otherwise generally a clean, wide-margined set. Armorial bookplates of the Scottish politician George Baillie (1664-1738) dated 1724. one of 800 sets. (EHLS) Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1738