?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER LIBRI, GUGLIELMO. Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Splendid Manuscripts, chiefly upon Vellum, in Various Languages of Europe and the East. 37 plates, including 2 folding (both foxed). Large 8vo, contemporary panelled brown morocco, spine darkened, joints and raised bands rubbed. London: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, [1859]
1190 lots, described in a style characterized by De Ricci as "charlatanesque." Prices and buyers entered in ink throughout. With the signature of John T. Beer of Rock Ferry near Liverpool, "the most active and prolific amateur decorator of fore-edges in the latter part of the nineteenth century" (Weber, Fore-Edge Painting, page 143).
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