A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library of books of Robert Morse, Esq. deceased, late of Clarges Street, Piccadilly : comprising a very extensive collection of the best editions of the classics in the learned languages : the whole of Dugdale's works -- King's Vale Royal -- Ashmole's Berkshire and Order of the Garter -- Atkyn's Gloucestershire -- Bloomefield's Norfolk -- Gunestone's Peterborough, t.p. -- Bentham's Ely -- Holingshed and Hall's Chronicles, b. letter -- Manning's Surry -- Montfaucon's Antiquities -- Picart's Relifious Ceremonies -- Stukeley's Works -- Thoroton's Nottinghamshire -- Voyages Pittoresque de la Grece, de Istria, de Naples et de Sicile, et de la Suisse -- and all the celebrated works of Voyages and travels : also, in all the miscellaneous branches of literature, particularly the belle lettres, history, biography, poetry, arts, sciences, philosophy, plays, &c. &c. : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction by Mr. Thomas Dodd, at no. 42, Old Bond Street, (four doors from Piccadilly,) on Thursday, 20th of June, 1816, and seven following days (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock each day.

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Dodd, Thomas, 1771-1850, A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library of books of Robert Morse, Esq. deceased, late of Clarges Street, Piccadilly , [1816]

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Creator:: Dodd, Thomas, 1771–1850
Title(s):: A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library of books of Robert Morse, Esq. deceased, late of Clarges Street, Piccadilly : comprising a very extensive collection of the best editions of the classics in the learned languages : the whole of Dugdale's works -- King's Vale Royal -- Ashmole's Berkshire and Order of the Garter -- Atkyn's Gloucestershire -- Bloomefield's Norfolk -- Gunestone's Peterborough, t.p. -- Bentham's Ely -- Holingshed and Hall's Chronicles, b. letter -- Manning's Surry -- Montfaucon's Antiquities -- Picart's Relifious Ceremonies -- Stukeley's Works -- Thoroton's Nottinghamshire -- Voyages Pittoresque de la Grece, de Istria, de Naples et de Sicile, et de la Suisse -- and all the celebrated works of Voyages and travels : also, in all the miscellaneous branches of literature, particularly the belle lettres, history, biography, poetry, arts, sciences, philosophy, plays, &c. &c. : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction by Mr. Thomas Dodd, at no. 42, Old Bond Street, (four doors from Piccadilly,) on Thursday, 20th of June, 1816, and seven following days (Sunday excepted), at twelve o'clock each day.
Published/Created:: [London] : [Thomas Dodd], [1816]
London : Smith & Davy
Physical Description:: 47, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6 v. 33 no. 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12608103
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Signatures: [pi] B-G⁴ [$1 signed].
1608 lots.
Date of sale: June 20-27, 1816.
Place of sale: London.
BAC: British Art Center copy is not annotated. Number 2 of 2 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf. Armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.
MUDD,AUCT X348 D66 1816/6/20: Bound with: Thomas Dodd (Firm : London, England). A catalogue of the extensive and choice collection of prints, formed by the late Robert Morse, Esq. of Clarges Street. [London], [1816] (MUDD,AUCT X348 D66 1816/5/15).
MUDD,AUCT X348 D66 1816/6/20: Priced in ms. Bookplate is three bees (drypoint), with initials "K.C." (Katherine Cameron, bookplate created for Arthur Kay, her husband). Inscribed: "A.K. / FLORIFERIS. / UT. APES. IN. / SALTIBUS.OM- / NIA LIBANT / OMNIA. NOS / ITIDEM / DEPASCIMUR / AUREA. DICTA". Binder's spine title: Morse's prints and books.
Subject Terms:: Book auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
Cameron, Katharine -- Bookplate.
Kay, Arthur, 1861–1939 -- Bookplate.
Morse, Robert , -1806 -- Library -- Catalogs.
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.
Private libraries -- England -- Catalogs.
Form/Genre:: Auction catalogs.
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