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 on Monday, December 6, 1813, and 16 following Days

  • [ii], 119, pp. 2906 lots. Priced. 1 vols. 8vo
  • London: Leigh & Sotheby, 1813
By (Willett, Ralph)
London: Leigh & Sotheby, 1813. [ii], 119, pp. 2906 lots. Priced. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern cloth. Fine. [ii], 119, pp. 2906 lots. Priced. 1 vols. 8vo. Library of Ralph Willett (1719-1795), heir to a West India sugar fortune, and notable collector of incunabula, Caxtons, and botanical drawings. Provenance: H.P. Kraus, Reference Library (sold 21 Nov. 2003). De Ricci, p. 88; Jackson 33; for Willet, cf. Alan G. Thomas in The Book Collector (Winter: 1963), pp. 439-48

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