Bibliotheca Pinelliana
Subtitle: a catalogue of the magnificent and celebrated library of Maffei Pinelli, late of Venice  ... : The whole library ... will be sold by auction, on Monday, March 2, 1789, and the twenty-two following days, (Sundays excepted); the sale afterwards to recommence on Monday, April 20, and continue the following thirty-six days (Sundays excepted), at the Great Room, opposite the chapel, in Conduit Street, Hanover Square, London ...
Contributors: J. Robson and W. Clarke; Edwards, James, 1757-1816
Publisher: Catalogues to be had of Mess. Robson and Clarke ... Mr. Edwards ... and of the principal booksellers throughout Europe
Published: 1789
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
Subjects: Italian literature; Bibliography; Private libraries; Library; Classical literature; Early works to 1800; Catalogs; Rare books
Other titles: Catalogue of the magnificent and celebrated library of Maffei Pinelli, late of Venice
Notes: The unnumbered section is a revised order of sale.

The present catalog purports to be "an exact abridgment" of the six volume catalog by Jacopo Morelli published at Venice in 1787. The entire collection sold by Pinelli's heirs to the bookseller, James Edwards, did not, however, reach London. While in transit, on three vessels, one of the ships was captured by pirates and the books thrown into the sea. Edwards' present sale of the remainder brought £9,000. cf. Ottino and Fumagalli, Bibliotheca bibliographica italica, no. 4180.

A further sale of the Pinelli library took place on 2 February 1790; its catalog was entitled "Bibliotheca Pinelliana. Appendix".

ESTC (RLIN) T150724

Library's copy is annotated with some prices in brown ink; has ms. note in brown ink on second front free endpaper, "Questo appartiene al Negte. di libri Vincenzo d'Aloysio per dono di Mr. Eudiars[?] Inglese ..." Lacks the unpaged, revised order of sale and half-title known in other copies. Binding: red marbled papers over boards, half brown marbled calf.