Catalogue of the Fine, Extensive and Valuable Library of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Gosford . (Removed from Gosford Castle, Armagh, Ireland) [ Puttick & Simpson, auction catalogue, sale date: 21-26 and 28-30 April and 1-2 May 1884 ].

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Original blind-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt, gilt spine-title, folio, vii,175, xxxiv pp. 3363 lots. The highest price achieved was for Lot 2673, First Folio Edition of Shakespeare s Works, 1623, a perfect copy for £470. [Cummins: The library of the Third Earl of Gosford (1806-1864) was sold by private contact to James Toovey, the London Bookseller, who sold the French books in Paris in 1882 at auction, the Aldines by a special catalogue produced by Toovey and the remainder of this fine library in this sale. It included the extensive collections of Country Histories, Genealogies, natural history, Irish topography and history, drawings and engravings, the classics, a First Folio, the first volume of the Mazarine Bible, a fine collection of Large Paper copies, including "Robinson Crusoe" (1820); manuscripts, fine bindings and printings. The total given for the eleven days' sale was £11,318. vii, 175 pp. 3363 lots.] de ricci: "In the early 'forties, the third Earl of Gosford had formed at Gosford Castle, in Ireland, a large and extremely beautiful library which was sold by private contract in 1878 to the London bookseller James Toovey. the history, topography, natural history and the important series of books on large paper were dispersed by Puttick and Simpson (21 April 1884), the total for 3,364 lots being over £11,000" (De Ricci). With the printed 'List of Prices and Purchasers' Names' bound in at rear. Covers slightly rubbed, minor marks to boards, lower fore-edge corners a little bumped, three lots ticked in pencil in the margin, a Good bright copy. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-50090

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