(AUCTION CATALOGUE: GORDON, Sir R.). A Catalogue of the Singular and Curious Library, originally formed between 1610 and 1650, by Sir Robert Gordon, of Gordonstoun...with some additions by his Successors comprising an extraordinary number of Rarities of the Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries:
which will be sold by J.G. Cochrane, Bookseller...on Monday, March 25th, 1816, and Eleven following Days. 2 p.l., 187, [1] pp. 8vo, cont. half-calf & marbled boards (well-rebacked with much of the orig. spine laid-down), uncut. London: 1816. "The library collected, in the days of James I and Charles I, by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, was sold nearly two centuries later, on 25 March 1816. Books with his signature, especially the rare satirical tracts of the Elizabethan period, are always welcome finds to any collector."De Ricci, p. 191. 2421 lots, ruled in red and priced throughout in a contemporary hand. Fine copy. D.N.B., VIII, pp. 224-26.
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