Bibliotheca Sussexiana

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  • Reference
      GB 247 BD17-e.15
  • Dates of Creation
      1844-1845
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      6 vols bound together. Red leather binding. Gold-tooled spine. Marbled endpapers. Stamp inside flyleaf: Bound by Carss & Coy

Scope and Content

Bibliotheca Sussexiana: the extensive and valuable library of His Royal Highness the late Duke of Sussex, K.G., &c. &c. ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs Evans, no. 93, Pall Mall ... [London, 1844-1845.]
Part 1, Monday, July 1st and twenty-three following days (Sundays excepted, 1844. Part 2, Wednesday, July 31, and three following days, 1844. Part 3, Monday, August 12, and five following days, 1844. Part 4, Thursday, January 30, and ten following days, 1845. Part 5, Tuesday, April 22, and eleven following days (Sundays excepted), 1845. Part 6, Monday, August 11, and three following days, 1845.
Part 6 at no. 106 New Bond Street.
W.B.D.D. Turnbull's copies of 6 printed catalogues, bound together, with his manuscript annotations of prices and buyers inserted in margins.
On additional flyleaf: 'W.B.D.D. Turnbull, 1844. Given to me by my friend Eyton. Thick paper - only 50 printed.'

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