Bibliotheca Fageliana. A Catalogue of the valuable and extensive Library of the Greffier Fagel, of...
xii, 490 pp. 8vo, cont. calf (well-rebacked to match), gilt fillet round sides, spine gilt, green morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed at Barker & Son, 1802.
A rare auction catalogue; the collection was purchased before the sale en bloc by Trinity College, Dublin. The Fagel library, formed over the course of almost two centuries by a politically powerful Dutch family, today is one of the most important collections at Trinity College, Dublin. “The Fagel library was the product of a century of rich Amsterdam taste, remarkable fo its large collection of maps and of European topography and views... More