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Catalogue of a valuable collection of books, including the well-selected library of an officer; in which will be found ... also, a good collection of numismatic and antiquarian works. Which will be sold at auction, by Mr. Leigh Sotheby, at his house, 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, May 15th, and following day, at one o'clock, precisely

by: S. Leigh Sotheby & Co., issuing body; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner. MB; S. Leigh Sotheby & Co., publisher, auctioneer

Publication date: 1837

Topics: Sotheby & Co. (London, England), Book auctions, Auction catalogs

Publisher: [London, England : S. Leigh Sotheby & Co.]

Collection: bplsctpbs; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Spine title: Auction catalogs 1837

In English

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound with: Catalogue of a valuable collection of books, the property of a gentleman, comprising, a rare selection of works printed during the fifteenth century ... / S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. 1837

Thomas Pennant Barton;

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is included within a "bound-with" volume of various auction catalogs dating from 1837. Bound-with volume is half-bound in brown paper over boards and vellum. Spine includes a circular label at head reading "1974", and has spine title and table of contents in script (black ink). Front pastedown includes ex libris (bookplate) of the Barton Library, noting that the volume was received by the Boston Public Library in May, 1873, and listing both accessions and shelf number. Leaf opposite front pastedown includes handwritten table of contents, and an annotation at head-/fore-edge of leaf indicating volume "[f]rom Dawson Turner Collection"