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mei/00212995 Auct. 7Q 6.69.
[00212995]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Auct. 7Q 6.69.
ISTC No.ia01098000
TitleArs moriendi "Cum de praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus...". With title: Speculum artis bene moriendi
Provenance nameSotheran, Henry Cecil (1861-1928), 1861 - 1928 Henry Sotheran Ltd.; bookseller, London; on the firm, established in London in 1816, but with forebears who had been booksellers in York from the middle of the eighteenth century; see Block, Short History, 57-9; Mellot–Queval no. 3515; Pearson, Provenance Research, 167.
NotePurchased on 4 May 1886 from Henry Cecil Sotheran for £0. 10. 0, with £0. 3. 0 postage; see Catalogue no. 255, Catalogue of Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern, in All Classes of Literature . . ., 30 Apr. 1886, p. 3, and Library Bills (1886).
Provenance nameSotheran, Henry Cecil (1861-1928), 1861 - 1928 Henry Sotheran Ltd.; bookseller, London; on the firm, established in London in 1816, but with forebears who had been booksellers in York from the middle of the eighteenth century; see Block, Short History, 57-9; Mellot–Queval no. 3515; Pearson, Provenance Research, 167.
NotePurchased on 4 May 1886 from Henry Cecil Sotheran for £0. 10. 0, with £0. 3. 0 postage; see Catalogue no. 255, Catalogue of Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern, in All Classes of Literature . . ., 30 Apr. 1886, p. 3, and Library Bills (1886).