Merly Library. A Catalogue of the Well Known and Celebrated Library of the late Ralph Willett…which will be sold

by Auction, by Leigh and Sotheby

$2,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

2 p.l., 119 pp. 8vo, cont. marbled boards, finely rebacked & recornered in calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: 1813. A fine copy of this uncommon catalogue, here printed on fine and thick paper with many outer and lower edges uncut. Willett 1719-95 , after inheriting the family’s West Indian estates, devoted his life to scholarship, botany, and the collecting of books and pictures. He formed a very rich library, strong in

• Binding: Leather

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