(AUCTION CATALOGUE: ASKEW, Anthony).

Bibliotheca Askeviana. Sive Catalogus Librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D.

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Quorum Auctio fiet apud S. Baker & G. Leigh…Die Lunae 13 Februarii MDCCLXXV. & in undeviginiti sequentes Dies… vi, 149, [1] pp. Tall 8vo, cont. tree calf (joints with short cracks, corners a little worn), spine richly gilt, green leather lettering piece on spine. London: 1775. A “Royal Paper” copy, with “Price Four Shillings” on the title of this important sale catalogue, ruled in red and priced throughout in a contemporary hand. “Another great collector of the same generation was Dr Anthony Askew (1722-1772), who travelled on the Continent and whose achievements in the medical field are quite eclipsed by his proficiency as a classical scholar. As a book-collector, he is said to have attempted to secure a complete series of all the Greek classics ever published; he purchased privately R. Mead’s Greek manuscripts, the papers of Dr Taylor and some fine early classical codices from the library of the Maffei family. His sale (13 February 1775) was a great success and was attended by the Paris bookseller De Bure, who bought for the Duc de La Vallière and other French collectors (including the King of France).”–De Ricci, p. 52. The leaf of “Libri Omissi” is present. 3570 lots. Fine copy with the Chippendale bookplate of Plummer of Middlestead and the library label of Sunderland Hall, Selkirkshire. ❧ Gustave Brunet, Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique, col. 558–“Catalogue curieux…riche en anciennes éditions classiques.” Peignot, p. 78–“Catalogue assez curieux, surtout pour les anciennes éditions.”

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