17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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[Z] Plutarch
Plutarch to include: [Various] Plutarch's Morals, London: by Tho. Braddyll, 1704, five volumes, fourth edition, 8vo, full gilt calf, marbled endpapers, bookplates for Lord Sandys, engraved frontispiece to each volume; Plutarchi, Demosthenis et Ciceronis Vitae Parallelae, Oxford: Clarendon, 1744, 8vo, speckled calf, bookplate for Lord Sandys, inscribed as from the editor (6)
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
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.
Sold for £280
Plutarch to include: [Various] Plutarch's Morals, London: by Tho. Braddyll, 1704, five volumes, fourth edition, 8vo, full gilt calf, marbled endpapers, bookplates for Lord Sandys, engraved frontispiece to each volume; Plutarchi, Demosthenis et Ciceronis Vitae Parallelae, Oxford: Clarendon, 1744, 8vo, speckled calf, bookplate for Lord Sandys, inscribed as from the editor (6)
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.
Auction: The September Auctions 2024, 17th Sep, 2024
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