Catalogue of a valuable collection of books
Subtitle: the property of a gentleman, comprising, a rare selection of works printed during the fifteenth century ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Leigh Sotheby, at his house, 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Wednesday, May 10th, at one o'clock, precisely
Contributors: Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; S. Leigh Sotheby & Co
Published: 1837
Language: eng
Subjects: Auction catalogs; Book auctions; Sotheby & Co. (London, England); Catalogs
Other titles: Auction catalogues 1837.
Notes: Spine title: Auction catalogs 1837.

In English.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound with: Catalogue of a valuable collection of books, including the well-selected library of an officer ... / S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. 1837. ; Shakespeariana: a catalogue of the valuable and select library of a gentleman ... / Benjamin Wheatley. 1837. ; .A catalogue of the valuable library of the late Right Hon. Lord Viscount Weymouth ... / Benjamin Wheatley. 1837. ; Catalogue of the library of the late Rev. Sir Robert Peat, D.D. vicar of New Brentford, Middlesex ... / S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. 1837. ; Catalogue of a portion of the library of a prominent orientalist, deceased ... / S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. 1837. ; Catalogue of the valuable library of the late William Jones, Esq. of North End, Fulham ... / S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. 1837. ; A catalogue of a collection of books, including the books, books of prints, and drawings of the late James Burton, Esq. / Benjamin Wheatley. 1837. ; Catalogue of a valuable collection of books, comprising the duplicate volumes of the royal library ... / S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. 1837.

Thomas Pennant Barton; May 1873.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is included within a "bound-with" volume of various auction catalogs dating from 1837. Bound-with volume is half-bound in brown paper over boards and vellum. Spine includes a circular label at head reading "1974", and has spine title and table of contents in script (black ink). Front pastedown includes ex libris (bookplate) of the Barton Library, noting that the volume was received by the Boston Public Library in May, 1873, and listing both accessions and shelf number. Leaf opposite front pastedown includes handwritten table of contents, and an annotation at head-/fore-edge of leaf indicating volume "[f]rom Dawson Turner Collection".