17th Sep, 2024 10:00

The September Auctions 2024

 
Lot 471
 

471

[Z] Classical Authors

Classical Authors to include: Tacitus (C. Cornelius) Quae Extant Opera, Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1760, three volumes, 12mo, full calf, bookplates for Lord Sandys, engraved frontispieces, devices to titles; [Le Clerc (Jean)] Joannis Clerici Physica sive de Rebus Coporei Libri Quinque, Cambridge: University Press, 1708, 12mo, full calf, multiple fold out plates; [Plini] Caii Plinii (Secundi) Historiae Naturalis Libris XXXII ... Gabriel Brotier, Paris: J. Barbou, 1779, six volumes, 12mo, full calf, aeg, red morocco title labels, marbled endpapers, bookplates for Lord Sandys (10)

Provenance:

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY

Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.

Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).

Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.

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Classical Authors to include: Tacitus (C. Cornelius) Quae Extant Opera, Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1760, three volumes, 12mo, full calf, bookplates for Lord Sandys, engraved frontispieces, devices to titles; [Le Clerc (Jean)] Joannis Clerici Physica sive de Rebus Coporei Libri Quinque, Cambridge: University Press, 1708, 12mo, full calf, multiple fold out plates; [Plini] Caii Plinii (Secundi) Historiae Naturalis Libris XXXII ... Gabriel Brotier, Paris: J. Barbou, 1779, six volumes, 12mo, full calf, aeg, red morocco title labels, marbled endpapers, bookplates for Lord Sandys (10)

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire


THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY

Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.

Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).

Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.

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Auction: The September Auctions 2024, 17th Sep, 2024

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