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Auction archive: Lot number 420 A

BOOKS ON BOOKS]. LOWNDES, William Thomas. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. London: Bohn, 1857. 4 vols. 12 o . Half-morocco and marbled boards. -- SMITH, George and Frank BENGER. The Oldest London Bookshop. London: Ellis, 1928. 4 o . ...

Auction 11.12.2001
11 Dec 2001
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$235
Auction archive: Lot number 420 A

BOOKS ON BOOKS]. LOWNDES, William Thomas. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. London: Bohn, 1857. 4 vols. 12 o . Half-morocco and marbled boards. -- SMITH, George and Frank BENGER. The Oldest London Bookshop. London: Ellis, 1928. 4 o . ...

Auction 11.12.2001
11 Dec 2001
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$235
Beschreibung:

BOOKS ON BOOKS]. LOWNDES, William Thomas The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. London: Bohn, 1857. 4 vols. 12 o . Half-morocco and marbled boards. -- SMITH, George and Frank BENGER. The Oldest London Bookshop. London: Ellis, 1928. 4 o . Original cloth. -- PLOMER, H.R. and others. A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775. Oxford: The Bibliographical Society, 1932. 4 o . Original cloth-backed boards. -- FORD, Worthington Chauncey. The Boston Book Market, 1679-1700. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1917. 8 o . Original cloth-backed boards. -- BURTON, John Hill The Book-Hunter. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1882. Later morocco gilt. -- Another copy. Original cloth gilt. -- ANONYMOUS ("Written by a Country Book-Seller"). Fables and Tales for the Ladies. London, 1754. 8 o . Contemporary calf (upper cover detatched). -- BEYERI, M. Augusti. Memoriae Historico-Criticae Librorum Rariorum. Dresdae & Lipsiae: Fridericum Hekel, 1734. 8 o . Contemporary calf (lacking lower cover, upper cover detatched). -- and approx. 115 others including several editions of Burton's Book-Hunter. Together approx. 125 vols., most 8 o , most in original bindings (conditions vary). (125)

Auction archive: Lot number 420 A
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

BOOKS ON BOOKS]. LOWNDES, William Thomas The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. London: Bohn, 1857. 4 vols. 12 o . Half-morocco and marbled boards. -- SMITH, George and Frank BENGER. The Oldest London Bookshop. London: Ellis, 1928. 4 o . Original cloth. -- PLOMER, H.R. and others. A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775. Oxford: The Bibliographical Society, 1932. 4 o . Original cloth-backed boards. -- FORD, Worthington Chauncey. The Boston Book Market, 1679-1700. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1917. 8 o . Original cloth-backed boards. -- BURTON, John Hill The Book-Hunter. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1882. Later morocco gilt. -- Another copy. Original cloth gilt. -- ANONYMOUS ("Written by a Country Book-Seller"). Fables and Tales for the Ladies. London, 1754. 8 o . Contemporary calf (upper cover detatched). -- BEYERI, M. Augusti. Memoriae Historico-Criticae Librorum Rariorum. Dresdae & Lipsiae: Fridericum Hekel, 1734. 8 o . Contemporary calf (lacking lower cover, upper cover detatched). -- and approx. 115 others including several editions of Burton's Book-Hunter. Together approx. 125 vols., most 8 o , most in original bindings (conditions vary). (125)

Auction archive: Lot number 420 A
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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