Mar 13, 2003 - Sale 1963

Sale 1963 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
OFFOR, GEORGE. Catalogue of the Important and Valuable Library of the late George Offor, Esq., of Grove House, Hackney. 8vo, contemporary cloth with chipped roan lettering piece, original wrappers bound in. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, [1865]

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3921 lots of rare Bibles, early English theology, and editions of John Bunyan, of which only the first 315 lots were auctioned; most of the remainder were destroyed when a fire swept through Sotheby's premises after the first day of the sale. De Ricci, page 155; Herrmann, pages 55-57.