2 p.l., 77 pp. 8vo, modern red sheep-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. London: “which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans…on Friday, February 7, and Saturday, February 8, 1817.”

After Borromeo’s death in 1813, his library was purchased en bloc by Payne and Foss, who sold it by auction through Evans. The catalogue, most interestingly, is written in Italian throughout with its own title-page, the only English sale catalogue in that language. The catalogue was based on Borromeo’s own catalogues of 1794 and 1805 but with additional notes marked with three asterisks. It contained the true first... More