FOREST BOOKS
CATALOGUE 115
SCHARF (George) A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Knowsley Hall. London: Printed by Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.,1875. £495 4to (285 x 220), [8], 307, [1]pp., large paper copy, cont. quarter green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, a nice copy. The rare privately printed catalogues of the library and pictures at Knowsley Hall, formed over several centuries by the Earls of Derby. The library contains some 15,000 titles alphabetically arranged. The books, predominantly in English and French, are of mixed nature, largely of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. A small amount of manuscript material is included. The catalogue of pictures describes 476 items in full detail, this is then followed by and alphabetical biographical index of the painters.
162. KÖNIG (Eberhard) Boccaccio und Petrarca in Paris. Der Boccace des Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, Paris 1460-1470, mit 88 Miniaturen nach 68 Jahren wieder vollständig Das größte bekannte Boccaccio-Manuskript sowie Der Petrarca der Anne de Polignac mit fünf ganzseitigen Miniaturen von Jean Coene IV. Die früheste französische Trionfi-Handschrift mit großem Illustrationszyklus Paris 1500. Ramsen: Heribert Tenschert,1997. £50 Folio, 319pp., numerous coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.
163. LABARRE (E.J.) Dictionary and Encyclopaedia of Paper and Paper-Making. With Equivalents of the Technical Terms in French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish & Swedish. Oxford University Press.1952. £45 Second Edition, xxiv,488pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, spine a little scuffed. A most useful work on the subject of paper and papermaking.
164. LAING (David) Catalogue of the First Portion [-Fourth and Concluding Portion] of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the late David Laing, Esq. LL.D. Librarian of the Signet Library... Comprising an Extraordinary Collection of Works by Scottish Writers or Relating to Scotland... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... London: Dryden Press,1879-81. £395 4 parts bound in one, 8vo (220 x 140 mm), [2], 271, [1]; [2], 250; [2], 138; [2], 94; 20; 21, [1]; 13, [1]; 8pp., complete with all 4 printed list of prices realized, recent half calf, priced throughout in a neat contemporary (some buyers names supplied in first part), cont. quarter morocco, rubbed, red morocco title label to spine. Sale catalogues of the library of the great Scottish bibliographer, which contains 11,743 lots and was sold over 31 days realising £16,137, 9s. 0d. The Signet Library, when Laing became its librarian in 1837, contained about 40,000 volumes. He left it at his death, 41 years later, with 70,000. De Ricci, p.191.
IRISH LIBRARY 165. LAKELANDS LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Rare & Valuable Books, Manuscripts & Engravings, of the Late W. H. Crawford, Esq. Lakelands, Co. Cork. Which will bhe sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Thursday, the 12th of March, 1891, and Eleven following Days; London: Dryden Press,1891. £125 Large 8vo (250 x 160 mm), x, [ii], 280pp., orig. printed wrappers, covers a little soiled and bottom corner of upper wrapper torn with small loss to the border, 3428 lots. This great library of manuscripts, incunabula and other rare volumes was formed from 1870 onwards by William Horatio Crawford, a partner in the brewing firm of Beamish and Crawford. He was born at Cork in 1818, and devoted his life to furthering the interests of the city of his birth. De Ricci, p.165.
166. LAW LIBRARY. A Catalogue of the Very Extensive and Valuable General and Law Library, of Mr. Edwards, Solicitor, Derby, to be Sold by Auction, on the premises, Friar-gate, Derby, on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 25th Days of September, 1826. The Library contains a Selection of the best Works in every Department of Literature,