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      [ library by our Before readers has the passed . interest The l away considered total so , widel a sum few y to notes excited realised be rather respecting in by the under the sal ten its e than of characteristic days the over ' second sale the was esti portion features m £ ated 9 , 376 result of . may 18 the s . be and 6 Sunderland d welcomed ., did a sum not Which was generaly

      reach was obviousl to half y the accounted amount for of in the the first greater ten days rari ' ty sal of e , some which books came in to the £ 19 form , 377 er . sale The , , difference though it the dealers that books sold at lmoderate

      pri was ce admitted s and some by were great bargains generall . y The total many of the twenty 9 were days amounts exceeding in round y number [ jo \ tn £ £ Zo 28 } , 754 iO < * . yj On n the wie first mau day uaj ^ the inc old uiu French jj rtsiiun ' Chroniques v / nroinques of 01 St 01 . Denys j ^ enys fetched ietcnea the highest nignesi . sum sum

      in the sale , a . nd was knocked down to M . Techener for £ 116 . Mr . Nutt bought for £ 20 I condition ' Chartier , printed Les GEuvres in Roman , ' small and 8 with vo ., cuts Paris ruled , 1529 red , an size edition 6 | by not 3 J . often The found in in the such Perkins good

      I sale broug , ht £ 44 . Among the Ciceros con , siderable , interest , was excited by copy the lot ' Cicero , I I Rhetoncorum PW . orinorum / / lib no- . iv iv . . et et de cie Inventione inventione lib no . . ii n .., . 4 4 to to ... Ven Ven ... per r > er JN Nicolau icolaum m Jenaon Jenson . 147 1470 U ; :

      I I illuminated ed . princeps initial , printe and d on border vellum with , 4 to interlaced ., 10 £ by 7 bands f , called and , folio floral by , desi Dibdin gn in . blue First red page and has , a gold fine

      I I ca it p was itals afterward painted , s knocked and another down page to him illuminated at £ 85 . . In Put another up at b a atc bid h of of the £ 50 Ciceros , from , Mr the . Ellis great , ,

      I I morocco excitemen , t whi of ch the broug day ht ' arose the over extravagant a small sum Elzevir of £ duodecim 120 , given o , beautifull by Mr . Quarit y bound ch . in The crimson fine

      I I editio for £ 295 princeps . Of this of the edition Ep onl istolae y 275 , ' the cop first ies were book printed printed and in Rome it was , was declared bought by b the yM Abbe . Techener * Laire

      I to be worth its weight in gold . This is an absolutely perfect , copy , clean , and brilliant as when I fresh from the press , has 246 leaves , two more than the Spencer Library copy , size of the

      I I very ' form sp , ' 7 irited in ., and Mr . of Ellis the at whol the e pag first e , contending 11 by 7 J . against The biddings M . Techener for this but beautiful giving way copy to were Mr .

      I Quaritch , the , contest was carried on by him . against his French rival , , who , however , was I victorious in the end with his bidding of £ 295 . What was held by many to be the gem of the

      I whole sale was catalogued as follows : * Gellius ( Aulus ) , Noctes Atticae ( ex recog . J . Andrese ) , I foL , Romse , Sweynheym et Pannartz / 1469 , ed . princeps , printed on vellum , only two copies

      I I size known , 12 , | of by which 0 . This this beautiful is one , 200 copy leave was s , c with arried 19 off illuminated by M . Techener initials , , at with his bid much of £ Greek 790 , a type price ; I which was considered to be not at all an extravagant one . A second edition of the same work

      I I and arrangement press , dated with 1472 the , containing first edition 196 , as leaves Brunet , but say not s ( size corresponding , lo \ by ' 9 , precisel somewhat y in wormed typograp ) , hical was i

      I I | de boug Sancto ht by ) , Bimell Super Titulum for ^ 22 . de A A nother pellationibus typograp , Como hical , ' imp rarit . y , , 1474 was ; Georg Gothic io letter ( Joannes , first Antonius specimen ! of oi in itoman

      I I I j ¦ ^ end pe printi printing of , which the — ng " *^ sale m fc is -w- Como < peculiar jqmo it was , , on on announced to coarse coarse ^^ this ^ thick tnicK rare that «/ book paper oaoer the WA & . third . , A & iAi size size It V-fc was portion , . 152 lo boug | bv by will ht 11 11 £ Jk by be , the the sold Mr capitals caDital . about Quaritch s in in the 1 very verv for middle £ thin thin 51 . of Roman At Jul the ¦» .

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1882, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051882/page/3/