Author: SOTHEBY'S - LONDON. Title: Sale 30/31 May 1938 & 20/21 June 1938.
Description: . The Renowned Library removed from Ham House, Surrey and sold by order of the Buckminster Trust. 2 vols. not illustrated. 123pp.*Dr. G.C. Williamson, in his essay on this library (in Ham House, by Mrs. Roundell, 1904, p. 133) describes it as containing, in proportion to its size, books of greater value than any other in Europe. the possession of twelve Caxtons is alone sufficient to distinguish this from any other private collection likely to come into the sale room..
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Price: EUR 55.00 = appr. US$ 59.78 Seller: Frits Knuf Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 69707
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