17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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Taylor (Jeremy) The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living & Dying
Taylor (Jeremy) The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and of Holy Dying, bound with Taylor (Jeremy) The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying, London: Miles Flesher for Richard Royston, 1682, 8vo, engraved frontispiece for both volumes and title pages; together with [Allestree (Richard)] The Gentleman's Calling, London: Printed by R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, 1671, 18th century calf, inscribed: 'Elizabeth Sandys her booke 1674' to endpaper and 'Samuel Sandys his book 1708' to title page, lacking frontispiece, 2 plates (2)
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £320
Taylor (Jeremy) The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and of Holy Dying, bound with Taylor (Jeremy) The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying, London: Miles Flesher for Richard Royston, 1682, 8vo, engraved frontispiece for both volumes and title pages; together with [Allestree (Richard)] The Gentleman's Calling, London: Printed by R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, 1671, 18th century calf, inscribed: 'Elizabeth Sandys her booke 1674' to endpaper and 'Samuel Sandys his book 1708' to title page, lacking frontispiece, 2 plates (2)
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Taylor: Not collated, binding with wear, a little warped and worn and bumped to the extremities, gilding rubbed, front hinge cracked head and toe of foot of spine worn, front pastedown delaminating, plates a little soiled and browned to the edges, text pages a little toned with some spotting and foxing to endpapers, back endpapers soiled
Allestree: binding with wear, head of spine with loss, unfinished pastedowns with earlier religious tract scrap endpapers, good text with light smudges in part
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