25th Mar, 2025 10:00

The March Auctions 2025

 
Lot 291
 

291

[Z] Chalmers (Alex) A History of the ... University of Oxford

Chalmers (Alex) A History of the Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings attached to the University of Oxford including the Lives of the Founders, Oxford: Collingwood and Co for J. Cooke and J. Parker [et al.], 1810, two volumes, full calf gilt, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for G. Knapp, half titles, volume one with frontispiece and additional engraved title, several later pasted hand coloured illustration of scholars to front endpapers of volume 1, 30 plates over two volumes (2)

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A Gloucestershire book collector

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Chorley's bi-annual auction of Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts includes a wide variety of works including a page from the Gutenberg bible. 

Sold for £190


 

Chalmers (Alex) A History of the Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings attached to the University of Oxford including the Lives of the Founders, Oxford: Collingwood and Co for J. Cooke and J. Parker [et al.], 1810, two volumes, full calf gilt, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for G. Knapp, half titles, volume one with frontispiece and additional engraved title, several later pasted hand coloured illustration of scholars to front endpapers of volume 1, 30 plates over two volumes (2)

A Gloucestershire book collector


Fine Books & Manuscripts

Chorley's bi-annual auction of Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts includes a wide variety of works including a page from the Gutenberg bible. 

Auction: The March Auctions 2025, 25th Mar, 2025

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