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Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the library of the late Richard Heber, Esq. Part the fifth, removed from his house at Pimlico. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Wheatley, at his Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Monday, January 19, and nineteen following days, Sundays excepted. 1835. ...
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WHEATLEY, B.
[Sale catalogue. 1835:01:19--02:10]
Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the library of the late Richard Heber, Esq. Part the fifth, removed from his house at Pimlico. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Wheatley, at his Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Monday, January 19, and nineteen following days, Sundays excepted. 1835. ...
[London]: printed by W. Nicol, Pall Mall, [1835].
[4], 257, [1] p. ; 23.5 cm. (4°)
Richard Heber, the great bibliomaniac, died in 1833 and the disposal of his library extended over thirteen sales in London between 1834 and 1837, conducted variously by Messrs. Sotheby (parts 1--3, 9--10), Evans (parts 4, 6--8, 11) and Wheatley (parts 5, 12--13), and further sales on the continent. See W.Y. Fletcher, English book collectors, 1902, pp. 336--41; Arnold Hunt, 'The sale of Richard Heber's library, 1834--1837' in R. Myers, M. Harris & G. Mandelbrote (eds), Under the hammer: book auctions since the seventeenth century, 2001, pp. 143--172. Parts 5--8 and 11--12 only are in the Soane Museum (qq.v.).
Copy Notes Unopened and unannotated.
Binding Original grey paper boards, printed paper label. Later numbered '29' in a series of sale catalogue volumes.
Reference Number 5045
[Sale catalogue. 1835:01:19--02:10]
Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the library of the late Richard Heber, Esq. Part the fifth, removed from his house at Pimlico. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Wheatley, at his Great Room, 191, Piccadilly, on Monday, January 19, and nineteen following days, Sundays excepted. 1835. ...
[London]: printed by W. Nicol, Pall Mall, [1835].
[4], 257, [1] p. ; 23.5 cm. (4°)
Richard Heber, the great bibliomaniac, died in 1833 and the disposal of his library extended over thirteen sales in London between 1834 and 1837, conducted variously by Messrs. Sotheby (parts 1--3, 9--10), Evans (parts 4, 6--8, 11) and Wheatley (parts 5, 12--13), and further sales on the continent. See W.Y. Fletcher, English book collectors, 1902, pp. 336--41; Arnold Hunt, 'The sale of Richard Heber's library, 1834--1837' in R. Myers, M. Harris & G. Mandelbrote (eds), Under the hammer: book auctions since the seventeenth century, 2001, pp. 143--172. Parts 5--8 and 11--12 only are in the Soane Museum (qq.v.).
Copy Notes Unopened and unannotated.
Binding Original grey paper boards, printed paper label. Later numbered '29' in a series of sale catalogue volumes.
Reference Number 5045