[Book auction catalogues] Three titles: (1) Catalogus eener belangrijke verzameling

van boeken, in verschillende wetenschappelijke, letter- en geschiedkundige vakken (...) inzonderheid met betrekking tot de natuurlijke historie, schilder- en prentkunst en oudheidkunde (...) merkwaardige handschriften (...) uitmakende een gedeelte der (...) bijeengebragte aanzienlijke boekverzameling, door wijlen den heer B. Scheurleer, in leven boekhandelaar te 's Gravenhage. Verkooping (...) den 16 December 1844 en volgende dagen (...). The Hague, n.publ., printed by P.M. van Cleef, (1844), VIII,141 pp., contemp. gilt half mor.

Title-p. loose and lacking portions; scattered tax stamps; lacks first free endpaper. Interesting and very rare auction-catalogue, listing 538 / 598/ 2809 / 296 books (folio/ 4to/ 8vo/ manuscripts). The manuscripts include 2 of the oldest Dutch chronicles, written in Egmond (number 12 in folio, up to the year 1147 and number 286 in 8vo, up to the year 1205), as well as a number of other (early) medieval texts. The printed books include (post)incunabula and a number of later 16th-century books. The auction was held at the house of the widow B. Scheurleer, Veenestraat 152, The Hague. A second part of the library was auctioned in November 1845. (2) Troisième partie du catalogue des livres rares et précieux, de la bibliothèque de feu Mr. Pierre-Philippe-Constant Lammens (...). Dont la vente publique aura lieu à Gand, le 26 Octobre 1840 et jours suivants (...) par le greffier De Porre et Verhulst. Ghent, printed by D.J. Vanderhaeghen-Hulin, (1840), (4),445,(2) p., contemp. gilt hcl., both covers w. central gilt crowned coat-of-arms (a few unobtrusive signs of age). The third part of what must have been a truly incredible library, this part alone listing 6874 lots of printed works and 146 lots of manuscripts. (3) N.C.L. Abrahams. Description des manuscrits français du Moyen Âge de bibliothèque Royale de Copenhague (...). Copenhagen, De Thiele, 1844, XVI, 152 p., 3 (col.) lithogr. plates. contemp. gilt half sheepskin, 4to (spine-ends rubbed). (total 3)