Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Sold by Order of the President and Council of the Royal Society [ Sotheby and Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 4 May, 1925 ].

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Published by Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th May, 1925, 1925

About this Item

Green printed wrappers, small 4to, 26 cm, iv, 46 pp, 6 plates. 228 lots. From the preface: "Tthe majority of the books catalogued below originally formed part of the collection presented to the Royal Society in 1667 by Henry Howard (afterwards 6th Duke of Norfolk), whose grandfather, the Earl of Arundel, had purchased a great portion of it during his Embassy to Vienna in 1636. A number of the books so purchased are said to have come from the collection formed at Buda by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, after whose death they passed, in the last years of the 15th or early in the 16th century, into the possession of Bilibaldus Pirckheimer of Nuremberg, whose bookplate (by Dürer) or illuminated arms appear in many of them (see Frontispiece). " Disbound from a bound collection, rear wrapper detached and lacking the spine-panel, wrappers darkened, small library stamp on front wrapper, otherwise Good.

Seller Inventory # ABE-58717

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Sold by Order of the President and Council of the Royal Society [ Sotheby and Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 4 May, 1925 ].
• Publisher: Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th May, 1925
• Publication Date: 1925
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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