AUCTION CATALOGUES -- [Sir Robert Henry ABDY Collection] -- Bibliothèque de Sir A. Paris: 1975-1976-1995. 3 volumes, 4o. 1 mounted colored frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some mounted and colored). Original cloth (part I) or wrappers (parts II-III). The complete set of the catalogues for the three main auctions of Sir Robert Abdy's collection: part I with prices and buyer's names marked in manuscript. The library was almost entirely French in character but was housed at Sir Robert's house at Newton Ferrars in Cornwall, England. -- A. ROMAGNOL Collection. - Catalogue de très beaux livres modernes recouverts de reliures d'art. Paris: 1906. 2 volumes (1 vol. text; 1 vol. plates), 4o. 64 plates. Text: original wrappers (backstrip torn); plates: unbound (as issued) within original folder (backstrip torn). - WALTERS, Henry. Four Centuries of French Literature, mainly in Superb Bindings... New York: Parke-Bernet, 23 April 1941. Original wrappers (worn). -- [With:] 21 others including auction catalogues of books taken from the following collectors' libraries: Sir Robert Leighton [2 volumes, 1960]; Henri Paricaud [1996]; Professor Millot [1991]; Jean-Pierre Guillaume [1995]; F. Wheelert [1932]; Count A. Oberndorff [1955]; F. Kettaneh [1980]. (23)

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AUCTION CATALOGUES -- [Sir Robert Henry ABDY Collection] -- Bibliothèque de Sir A. Paris: 1975-1976-1995. 3 volumes, 4o. 1 mounted colored frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some mounted and colored). Original cloth (part I) or wrappers (parts II-III). The complete set of the catalogues for the three main auctions of Sir Robert Abdy's collection: part I with prices and buyer's names marked in manuscript. The library was almost entirely French in character but was housed at Sir Robert's house at Newton Ferrars in Cornwall, England. -- A. ROMAGNOL Collection. - Catalogue de très beaux livres modernes recouverts de reliures d'art. Paris: 1906. 2 volumes (1 vol. text; 1 vol. plates), 4o. 64 plates. Text: original wrappers (backstrip torn); plates: unbound (as issued) within original folder (backstrip torn). - WALTERS, Henry. Four Centuries of French Literature, mainly in Superb Bindings... New York: Parke-Bernet, 23 April 1941. Original wrappers (worn). -- [With:] 21 others including auction catalogues of books taken from the following collectors' libraries: Sir Robert Leighton [2 volumes, 1960]; Henri Paricaud [1996]; Professor Millot [1991]; Jean-Pierre Guillaume [1995]; F. Wheelert [1932]; Count A. Oberndorff [1955]; F. Kettaneh [1980]. (23)

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