No. 33. A Rough List of the Choicest Portion of the Library of the Late Rev. C. H. Craufurd, M.A. Rector of Old Swinford, Worcestershire [ Bernard Quaritch, bookseller's catalogue, August 5, 1876 ]

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Printed self-wrappers, 8vo, 40 pp. 404 items in main numbered sequence, with 400-404 misnumbered 340-344). Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge had concluded their third sale dispersing the library of Rev. Charles Henry Gregan Craufurd on 10th July 1876, with Quaritch's purchases including the 1472 Mainz Latin Bible, the 1518 Aldine Greek Bible, the Strassburg 1480 Bible, Caxton's Dyctes, 1477, the 1527 Wynkyn de Worde Voragine and the Shakespeare 4th folio. Quaritch's catalogue includes further sections as follows: items 204-221: Numismatic Library & Oriental Manuscripts of Colonel Charles Seton Guthrie, Decd (1807-1874 - a noted collector of Mughal stones and Indian coins); 221-259: a selection from the library of Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-1877 British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge); 260-273: Oriental Manuscripts; 275-288: Books from the library of "Dr Strousberg the eminent Financier" (presumably Bethel Henry Strousberg the railway magnate and industrialist); 31-358: Oriental Literature from the library of the late Rev. Albert Browne (Vicar of Flitton, Bedfordshire); 390-[404]: a selection fom the library of William Foster White (late Treasurer of St Barts Hospital), Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-58840

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