17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
363
Foulis Press
Foulis Press to include: Homer [The Odyssee] Moor (Jacob) and Muirhead (George), Homerum Maximorum regum et Heroum, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1758, two volumes, folio, full calf, gilt tooled spines, half titles, red ruled throughout, text in Greek, marbled endpapers; Xenophontis de Socrate Commentarii; Item Socratis Apologia, Glasgow: Robert et Andrew Foulis, 176, 12mo, full green calf, marbled endpapers, bookplate for Lord Sandys; Anacreon Carmina cum Sapphonis et Alcaei Fragmetis, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1757, 16mo, full sprinkled calf, gilt spine with title label, marbled endpapers with bookplate for Lord Sandys (4)
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 £800
Foulis Press to include: Homer [The Odyssee] Moor (Jacob) and Muirhead (George), Homerum Maximorum regum et Heroum, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1758, two volumes, folio, full calf, gilt tooled spines, half titles, red ruled throughout, text in Greek, marbled endpapers; Xenophontis de Socrate Commentarii; Item Socratis Apologia, Glasgow: Robert et Andrew Foulis, 176, 12mo, full green calf, marbled endpapers, bookplate for Lord Sandys; Anacreon Carmina cum Sapphonis et Alcaei Fragmetis, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1757, 16mo, full sprinkled calf, gilt spine with title label, marbled endpapers with bookplate for Lord Sandys (4)
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.
Auction: The September Auctions 2024, 17th Sep, 2024
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