Live auction - Lot 432
[Auction catalogue]
Catalogue d'une collection de livres, provenus du prieuré supprimé d'Elzeghem, près d'Audenarde [...].
Ghent, P. de Goesin, [1782]
Hammer price: €
320
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Lot description
12mo: 28 pp. (sl. browning, marg. soiling and foxing on title, occ. pencil underlining).
19th-c. half grey cloth, gilt filleted flat spine (bumped corners).
The library of this Augustinian priory suppressed by Joseph II, was sold at Ghent on 22 August 1782. Classified by format, it gives detailed notes on the incunabula and manuscripts, including a Mainz Bible of 1462. Contemp. sale advertisement glued at last p.
Ref. Blogie I:28. - Bibl. gantoise III:4657. - UniCat (2 copies: KUL, Ghent Univ.). - Not in Vandenhole.
Prov. Jules Capron (bookpl. "J.C. / Quaero" engr. by A. Descaves after H. Catenacci, printed by A. Salmon). - "Bibliothèque Goethals-Vercruysse" (library card with ms. description). - Amaury de Ghellinck d'Elseghem Vaernewyck (arm. bookpl. "Bibliotheca Elseghemensis", lithogr. by N. Heins at Ghent).
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