The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle. Part Twelve: Continental Books and Manuscripts
Catalog Information: 533 lots | 335 with images
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Lot 4300: Aa, Pieter vander (1659-1733). , No. I. Bibliotheca exquisitissima (selectissima... splendidissima), sive librorum selectissimorum collectio in omnes facultate, arte, scientia & lingua... Horum publica auctio habebitur... ad diem 20 Septembris...
Grainger, Walter--A catalogue of a library of very valuable books of the late Mr Walter Grainger, merchant, deceas'd... To be sold, at his late dwelling-house. London, 1729 , 30pp., lacking final leaf Collins, Anthony (1676-1729)--Ballard, Tho [...more]
Lot 4301: Abecedarium. German. , Hamburg: Michael Ludolff Volckers, [c. 1710]
8vo (158 x 98mm.), ff. [8], title-page printed in red and black, illustration : 4 hand-coloured woodcut portraits and 2 hand-coloured woodcut illustrations on 3 leaves, full-page woodcut printer's device printed in red and black, woodcut initials, [...more]
Lot 4302: Abecedarium. German. , Dresden: David Wentzel, n.d. [?c. 1710]
8vo (158 x 99mm.), ff. [24], illustration : woodcut tailpieces, binding : contemporary green stained vellum-backed Dutch floral boards, spine chipped
Lot 4303: Abecedarium. Lappish. , Stockholm: J.L. Horrn, 1726
8vo (166 x 97mm.), ff. [16], illustration : large woodcut illustration on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, binding : contemporary quarter calf
Lot 4304: Abecedarium. Lettish. , Riga: Samuel Lorentz Frölich, 1727
8vo (150 x 93mm.), ff. [8], title-page printed in red and black, illustration : title within typographic border, woodcut initials, binding : contemporary vellum-backed Dutch floral boards, spine chipped

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