Author: BROXBOURNE LIBRARY.
Title: Catalogue of the Valuable Printed Books from the Broxbourne Library, Illustrating the Spread of Printing.
Description: . Auction Cats. Sotheby, London. I Abbeville-Lyons. II Madrid-Zwolle. Describes 698 Incunables from 125 different towns. Indexes. Illus. Two sales, 1977/1978. Pricelists. 2 vols.*Magnificent collection! Albert Ehrman (1890-1969) tried to gather specimens of all first printing in Europe: 698 titles from 243 towns. The appendix contains a list of the various gifts Ehrman made to various libraries in Great Britain..

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