Book distribution - Auctions - Bibliographies, Studies

Lot Comprises:

Foley family library, Ruxley Lodge

Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman, Anatomy of an Auction: Rare Books at Ruxley Lodge 1919, London, The Book Collector, 1990, 8vo., publisher's wrappers

Sotheby's

Frank Karslake, Notes from Sotheby's, Being a Compilation of 2,032 Notes from Catalogues of Book‐sales Which Have Taken Place in the Rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Between the Years 1885‐ 1909, London, 1909, 4to., publisher's green cloth, bookplate of Donald & Mary Hyde

John Lawler, Book Auctions in England in the Seventeenth Century (1676‐1700), with a Chronological List of the Book Auctions of the Period, London, Elliot Stock, 1898, publisher's green cloth gilt

Robin Myers, Michael Harris & Giles Mandelbrote, ed., Under the Hammer: Book Auctions Since the Seventeenth Century, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2002, 8vo., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Philomneste Junior (pseud. of Pierre Gustave Brunet), Livres payés en vente publique 1,000 fr. et au dessus, depuis 1866 jusqu'à ce jour, Aperçu sur la vente Perkins à Londres, Bordeaux, 1877, 8vo., green cloth, original printer wrappers bound in, number 255 of edition of 275 copies, bookplate of Barnet Kottler

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Françoise Blechet, Les ventes publiques de livres en France 1630‐1750 : Répertoire des catalogues conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale, Oxford, 1991, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

London, British Library

Alfred William Pollard, List of catalogues of English book sales, 1676-1900, now in the British Museum (London 1915), reprint Mansfield, CT, Martino, [n.d.]

A.N.L. Munby & Lenore Coral, British Book Sale Catalogues, 1676‐1800: A Union List, London, Mansell, 1977, fol., publisher's orange cloth gilt

George L. McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 1713‐ 1934 (Including Supplements of 1946 and 1948), A Union List (New York 1937), reprint Mansfield Centre, CT, Martino Fine Books, [1990]

New York, Grolier Club

Michael North, French Book Sale Catalogues in the Grolier Club Library, 1643‐1830, New York, Grolier Club, 2004

George Ong, From Almeloveen to Whittington : book & manuscript catalogues, 1545-1995 : from the collection of George Ong, New York, 2006, 4to., publisher's beige printed dust jacket

Sold as a group, not subject to return.