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Bibliotheca splendidissima : a catalogue of a superlatively splendid and extensive library / consigned from the continent ; containing ... rare specimens of the earliest typography ... editiones principes of the classics ... works printed by the Elzevirs ... maps and charts ... curious manuscripts ... which will be sold by auction, by Leigh and Sotheby ... May 8, 1816, and seventeen following days, (Sundays excepted) ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rare books--France--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- Rare books.
- France.
- Rare books--England--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- England.
- Private libraries--France--Catalogs.
- Private libraries.
- Books--Prices.
- Books.
- Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838--Library--Catalogs.
- Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de.
- Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Walpole Galleries (label)
- Physical Description:
- v pages, 1 unnumbered page, 198 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Wright and Murphy, printers ..., [1816]
- Notes:
- With prices and purchasers' names.
- The 3,465 lots brought £8,401.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. notice of the sale of Talleyrand's Library copied from the York Herald of December 1812, pasted on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has the label of Walpole Galleries in New York on t.p.
- OCLC:
- 28785480
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