[Book auction catalogue.] "Rothbury," Blackheath Park, [...] Catalogue of the Valuable Library formed by the late J. Vavasseur, Esq., C.B. [Partially priced, and with manuscript list of booksellers attending.]

20pp., 4to. Stapled. In original card wraps printed in black and red. 317 lots. Worn and aged and with central vertical crease to volume. Central bifolium loose. Advertisement for the auctioneers on inside front cover, and 'Time Table' on inside rear. A second day's sale, on the following day, is advertised as featuring 'The Furniture, Unique Collection of Japanese Works of Art, Bronzes, Old English and Continental Porcelain etc.' In margin of page with conditions of sale is pencil list of the booksellers, headed by 'Museum Book Store (Spencer's man)' and featuring E. Joseph, Quaritch, Batsford, Spencer, Maggs, J. Bumpus, H. Stevens, Sotheran, Edwards, Thorp and J. H. Joseph. Variant interpretation possible. Either Prices fetched are in the right-hand margin, and what appear to be the bids of the owner of the catalogue in the left-hand margin. Or the right-hand margin's figures represent the hammer prices, while the left-hand column lists the knockout prices. I fancy the latter. Occasional traces of a bidding code. The collection is strong in history and art. An incongruous item, which fetched £12 against the catalogue owner's bid of £10 12s 6d, is '282 NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, Chronicon Nurembergense, Auctore Hartmann Schledel, numerous woodcuts, russia, gilt edges, 1493, fine copy'. A scarce item: no copies found on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.