Bibliotheca Brandiana 1807

BIBLIOTHECA BRANDIANA. A Catalogue of the Unique, Scarce, Rare, Curious, and Numerous Collection of Works ... being the entire Library of the late Rev. John Brand...which will be Sold at Auction, by Order of his Executors, by mr. Stewart, at his Room, No. 194, Piccadilly (opposite Albany,) on Wednesday, May 6, 1807, and Thirty-Six following days. (London, 1807).
8vo. IV, 369 pp. Later brown half morocco with marbled boards. Uncut copy with broad margins. Neatly annotated with realised prices, and a summation at the end.

Numbers in excess of 8800 books and manuscripts. Main topics are "antiquity, topography, and decayed intelligence of Great Britain and Ireland, from the first Invention of Printing down to the present Time, early poetry, classics, belles letters, and miscellanies, ever offered by public sale, many hundreds of the articles, from their very great rarity, may be deemed unique, being the productions of the fathers of our language, from the presses of Caxton, Winken de Worde, Pinson, and all the early and modern printers, likewise the invaluable collection of manuscripts, the whole selected with a degree of great research and judgement, during a period of nearly half a century...".

Provenance: Sten Ringselle (1949-2017), Swedish antiquarian bookdealer who in 1992 opened his shop Antiquaria in Gothenburg.

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