HEBER, RICHARD. Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of ...Part the First [I-XIII, plus Catalogue of Drawings and Prints and Catalogue of Coins and Medals]...Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Son...On Thursday, April 10...1834... [London, 1834-37]. Together, 15 parts in 5 volumes, 8vo, nineteenth century muslin, handwritten spine labels; scattered minor foxing. De Ricci, pp. 102-04. (5)

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HEBER, RICHARD. Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of ...Part the First [I-XIII, plus Catalogue of Drawings and Prints and Catalogue of Coins and Medals]...Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Son...On Thursday, April 10...1834... [London, 1834-37]. Together, 15 parts in 5 volumes, 8vo, nineteenth century muslin, handwritten spine labels; scattered minor foxing. De Ricci, pp. 102-04. (5)

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"The Dibdinian age may be aptly said to terminate with the dispersal of the gigantic library accumulated by Richard Heber (1773-1833), a bibliomaniac if ever there was one"--De Ricci, p. 102. The notes to Part IV, the most important volume of old English books, were done (anonymously) by John Payne Collier.

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