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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
FAGEL, FRANS. Bibliotheca Fageliana. A Catalogue of the valuable and extensive Library of the Greffier Fagel, of the Hague . . . which will be sold at Auction, by Mr. Christie. xii, 490 pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf with reserved center-and-corner sunburst design around blind-stamped urn tool on covers, spine faded, lettering piece off, joints starting at top; clean tear across upper outer corner of 3P3. [London]: Barker and Son, [1802]
9844 lots. The sale never took place; the collection of the Dutch statesman Fagel (1740-73) was purchased en bloc by Trinity College, Dublin. "The Fagel library was . . . remarkable for its large collection of maps and of European topography and views, though its ten thousand political pamphlets may have been the principal attraction for the College. Traditional Dutch interest in gardens was represented by de luxe copies of botanical works"--Hobson, Great Libraries, pages 180-83. The blank opposite the title is
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