Offered Sep-26-2005 by Forrest Books, Redmile, Notts, United Kingdom, US$ 1085.37
Classical Library, Soho-Square, London. A Catalogue of Greek and Latin Books, now on Sale, Containing Several in the Infancy of the Typographic Art, and many of the most Esteemed Critical Editions of the Classics; Including, Specimens from the Presses of Aldus, Janson, Juntas, H. Stephans, R. Steph. Froben, Plantin, Turnebus, Elzevir, Baskerville, Foulis, Bodini, Bensley, Ritchie and Sammels, Bulmer, and various other Celebrated Printers, both Ancient and Modern. Those, with many Thousand others, are Comprehended in W. H. Lunn’s Collection, which Consists of one of the most General and useful Assemblage of Books in the Learned Languages, that were ever Exhibited for Public Sale. They have been Principally Imported, at unbounded Expence from LUNN (William Henry)
Publisher: Printed by W. S. Betham, London. 1802.
Binding: Hardcover
Description: 3 parts in one, [4],41,[1]; [2],50; 51-52,3-29,[1]pp., title browned, parts II and III have separate titles, last 3 leaves foxed, modern boards. Part. I. Books lately imported from the Continent including all Sizes under One Alphabet. Part II. Greek and Latin Classics. Biblia, Psalteria, Liturgia, Heb. Gr. Lat. &c. Missals illuminated on Vellum. Part. III. Books published by W. H. Lunn. Foreign Editions of the Classics, &c. English Books. A note at the bottom of the Index notes that "Mr. Lunn has many thousand volumes of Greek and Latin Books in his Collection, that are not inserted in this Catalogue, and that may be examined at his Library, in Soho Square, any of which will be charged on liberal terms." Part I. has separate signatures and pagination. parts II and III have continuous signatures and irregular pagination but the text is continuous. No copy of this catalogue in the NSTC, OCLC, RLIN or COPAC, although OCLC and COPAC find the same copy of a later (1807) Lunn catalogue at Wellcome; Wellcome, III, p.561.