Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HOHENDORFF, GEORG WILHELM, Freiherr von. Bibliotheca Hohendorfiana; ou, Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de feu Monsieur George Guillaume Baron de Hohendorf. [2], 240; [2], 200; [2], 288 pages. 3 parts in one volume. 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt with paper shelf label; contents toned, margins trimmed, slightly affecting text on titles of second and third parts. The Hague: Abraham de Hondt, 1720

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Important collection of 6787 printed books and 252 manuscripts formed by the Austrian general von Hohendorff and purchased en bloc by the Royal Library at Vienna. Taylor, Book Catalogues, page 246; Pollard & Ehrman 240. This copy is bound in the style of books from the Pembroke Library; see De Ricci, pages 40-41 (with illustration).