Catalogue of a portion of the library of a prominent orientalist, deceased
Subtitle: also, a collection of oriental manuscripts, from the library of a late governor of Surat: to which is added, the miscellaneous and philological library of John Belfour, Esq. ... which will be sold by auction by Mr. Leigh Sotheby, at his house, 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Friday, June 30th, and following day, 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, the property of a gentleman, comprising, a rare selection of works printed during the fifteenth century ... / 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".