Mar 13, 2003 - Sale 1963

Sale 1963 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CROFTS, THOMAS. Bibliotheca Croftsiana. A Catalogue of the Curious and Distinguished Library. xvi, 420 pages. 8vo, 19th-century 1/4 cloth, spine faded and discolored; uncut. [London, 1783]

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8363 lots. Interleaved copy, with prices and buyers entered in ink on the inserted leaves throughout. "Crofts (1722-81) had accumulated the finest library of old Italian books yet seen in England; his sale (7 April 1783) also contained a number of fine French chivalry-romances"--De Ricci, page 56.