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Lot 56
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Ackermann, Rudolph

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • Ackermann, Rudolph
  • A History of the University of Cambridge, its colleges, halls, and public buildings. London: R. Ackermann, 1815
  • ink on paper
LARGE PAPER COPY, 2 volumes, 4to (410 x 324mm.), half-titles, list of subscribers, engraved portrait on india paper mounted, 95 hand-coloured aquatint plates, including the 16 founders’ plates, nineteenth-century half morocco, text block cracked and lower hinge broken in volume 2, one or two plates lightly spotted, boards rubbed

Provenance

William Neville, armorial bookplate; Hon. John Wayland Leslie, armorial bookplate; R.E. Hart, book label

Literature

Abbey, Scenery 80