Bibliotheca Meermanniana Sive Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Et Codicum Manuscriptorum

by Gerard Auction Catalogue Meerman Johan

$2,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Five vols. bound in three. 8vo, orig. blue boards, nicely rebacked in sympathetic white paper, printed labels on spines, uncut. The Hague: S. & J. Luchtmans et al., 1824. A fine uncut set in the original boards of the sale catalogue of the Meerman collection, “one of the most famous private libraries in Europe.”–Munby, Phillipps Studies, Vol. III, p. 26. The library was founded by Gerard Meerman 1722-71 , a prominent jurist and the author of

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