>Printed books and maps : Including children’s books and juvenilia, drawings and watercolours, the performing arts, the residue of the Currer Library and other properties (catalogue of an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 19 May and 1-2 June 1994)
Sotheby's (London)
Printed books and maps : Including children’s books and juvenilia, drawings and watercolours, the performing arts, the residue of the Currer Library and other properties (catalogue of an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 19 May and 1-2 June 1994)
London, Sotheby’s, 1994
(27 cm), 167 (9) pp., illustrations. 1470 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes the “residue” (lots 1161-1470) of the celebrated library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861) at Eshton Hall. The “Principal portion” of her library had been sold by Sotheby’s on 30 July 1862 and the “Remaining portion” 31 May 1916; further disposals occurred in 1965 and 1979. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.