Bibliotheca splendidissima : A catalogue of a superlatively splendid and extensive library, consigned from the continent ... which will be sold by auction, by Leigh and Sotheby ... May 8, 1816, and seventeen following days, (Sundays excepted) ...
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Bibliotheca splendidissima : A catalogue of a superlatively splendid and extensive library, consigned from the continent ... which will be sold by auction, by Leigh and Sotheby ... May 8, 1816, and seventeen following days, (Sundays excepted) ...
Wright and Murphy, printers, [1816]
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Sale catalog. Prices noted in ms.
The 3,465 lots brought £ 8,401
"Containing many very rare specimens of the earliest typography; most of the editiones principes of the classics ... ; the octavo and quarto variorum classics, the latter chiefly on large paper; also the elegant works printed by the Elzevirs ; the best french historical and dramatic writers by Bodoni, and by Didot ... ; the various works published by the foreign academies, the fine works recently published by order of Bonaparte ... ; also a rare assemblage of maps and charts, including the earliest impressions of the entire collection published by Cassini ; likewise a very good collection of books in English literature ; and a choice collection of curious manuscripts ... The whole most superbly bound, and the greater part either in Morocco or Russia lethers"
"This collection has been made by a foreign nobleman greatly distinguished for his diplomatic talents ... This magnificent library was consigned from Paris to England in the month of September 1814, and has remained untouched to the present period"--p. [iii]-iv
The collector is Talleyrand. Cf. NUC pre-1956