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Cloth, blindstamped borders, 8vo, 25 cm, iv, 465 pp. 2582 lots. The second of three catalogues; the first part of Hartley's library having been sold in 1885 with the third being sold in April, 1887. The contents included (1) Upwards of one hundred and forty manuscripts; (2.) A miscellaneous collection, including Rare and Curious Tracts collected by Lord Somers; an Unsurpassed Series of Privately Printed Works by Sir T. Phillipps; Saxton's Atlas, 1579; Processionale ad Usum Sarum, 1555 ; 1st edition English Romanist Version, 1582 ; the Largest Copy Known of 1st folio Shakspeare; The London Gazette from its commencement in 1665 ; Gents. Mag.; Philobiblon, Royal, and other Societies' publications; choice books on Numismatics, etc.; (3.) Standard Works relating to Parliament, Law, Records, and State Papers; embracing Journals of House of Lords, uninterrupted from A.D. 1278 to 1874, with Indexes, complete ; grand sets of Journals of Irish Houses of Lords and Commons ; English, Scotch, and Irish Appeal Cases; Decisions of Court of Session. Chancery, etc. Rymer's Foeera, etc.; (4.) In History and Biography 1st edition Biographia Brit.; superb impression of Montfaucon's Monumens de la Monarchie Françoise, Large Paper, rare, bound by Bedford; Dugdale's Monasticon, and Baronage on L. and S. paper; Douglas' Baronage of Scotland, L. P.; Moréri's Grand Dictionnaire Historique; Chron. Romanorum Pontificum, 1751 ; Harduinus' Acta Conciliorum,1715, L. P. ; Sir J. Ware's works concerning Ireland, L. P., only 6 copies; Mather's Magnalia C. Americana, L. P. ; also splendidly bound copies L. P. works of Bp. Keith, E. Lhuyd, Carte, Clarendon, W. Coxe, Sir J. Dalrymple, etc. (5.) An Unrivalled Genealogical and Heraldic Collection, including the rare Succinct Genealogies' by R. Halstead; Ashmole's Order of the Garter, L. and S. paper, 1672 and 1693; Playfair's Brit.Family Antiq. ; Sandford's Genealogical Hist., as well as Coronation of James II; Selden's Titles of Honor, 1672; Holme's Academy of Armory, 1688; Guillim's Display of Heraldry, 1724, on L. and S. Paper; Anderson's Royal Genealogies, 1736; Sir H. Nicolas' Orders of Brit. Knighthood ; etc.; (6.) Bibliography: Dibdin's Typographical Antiq., L. and S. paper; Bibl. Tour in France and Germany, and Northern Tour ; his Bibl. Decameron, L. and S. paper, and Bibl. Spenceniana, L. P. ; fine copy of Du Cange's Glossarium; Upcott's Bibl. Acc, of Eng. Topog., L. and S. paper ; Brunet's Manuel du Libraire, 1880, etc Advertisement for Third Part tipped in at end. Roughly rebacked using original spine, spine worn with loss at head and tail, and tearing along part of front joint, muslin exposed at front hinge, contents slightly agetoned otherwise Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-09838
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