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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
SUNDERLAND, CHARLES SPENCER, third Earl of. Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana: Sale Catalogue of the Truly Important and Very Extensive Library of Printed Books known as the Sunderland or Blenheim Library. 5 parts in one volume. Large 8vo, contemporary 1/2 black morocco gilt, spine scuffed. London: Puttick and Simpson, 1881-83
13,858 lots. "The great library of Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), contained only a few manuscripts and some 20,000 printed books: it was particularly strong in incunabula (many being printed on vellum), in Bibles, in first editions of the classics and in Continental literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries"--De Ricci, page 38.
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