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Property From The Collection Of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books And Manuscripts
02 December 2015 • New York
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  • Introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Roman Classics: being, in part, a Tabulated Arrangement from Dr. Harwood's View, &c. With notes from Maittaire , de Bure, Dictionnaire Bibliographique, and References to Ancient and Modern Catalogues. Gloucester: printed by H. Ruff: for Payne, Faulder, Egerton, Evans, Robinsons, Mawman, Hurst, Dwyer. London: Hanwell and Parker. Oxford: Smart. Worcester: and Hough, Glocester, 1802
    Estimate: 600 – 800 USD
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  • Judgment and mercy for afflicted Souls: or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers by Francis Quarles. A new Edition; with a biographical and critical introduction by Reginalde Wolfe. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807
    Estimate: 300 – 500 USD
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  • Specimen Bibliotheca Britannicae. Specimen of a digested catalogue of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books in the English Language, or appertaining to British Literature and Antiquities. London, William Savage, 1808
    Estimate: 800 – 1,200 USD
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  • The Bibliomania; or, Book-Madness; containing some account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of the Fatal Disease. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, by W. Savage, 1809
    Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 USD
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  • Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A bibliographical romance, in six parts, Illustrated with Cuts. London: Printed for the Author, by J. M'Creery and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811
    Estimate: 300 – 500 USD
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  • Collection of Dibdin's works bound in one volume with a contemporary manuscript of The Lincoln Nosegay. London: 1810–1820
    Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD
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  • Richard Arnold. The customs of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle; containing among divers other matters, the original of the celebrated poem of the Nut-Brown Maid. Reprinted from the First Edition, with the addition included in the second. London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Mawman; and R.H. Evans [for Arnold's] and J. Johnson [for Rastell], 1811 — John Rastell. The Pastime of People, or, The Chronicles of divers Realms; and most especially of the Realm of England. Briefly compiled, and imprinted in cheapside, by John Rastell. Now first reprinted, and systematically arranged, with fac-simile wood-cuts... London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; et al, 1811
    Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 USD
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  • Here Begyneth a littel tome and Hathe to name The Lincolne Nosegay Beynge a Brefe Table of certaine bokes in the possession of Maister Thomas Frognall Dibdin clerk. Which bookes be to be sold to him who shal gyue the moste for ye same. London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-row, St. James's, [1814]
    Estimate: 15,000 – 25,000 USD
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  • Here Begyneth a littel tome and Hathe to name The Lincolne Nosegay Beynge a Brefe Table of certaine bokes in the possession of Maister Thomas Frognall Dibdin clerk. Which bookes be to be sold to him who shal gyue the moste for ye same. [London, c. 1815]
    Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 USD
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  • The complete set of the catalogues of the Library of Earl Spencer, uniformly bound
    Estimate: 4,500 – 7,500 USD
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