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Mentmore : catalogue of [the collections] : sold on behalf of the executors of the 6th Earl of Rosebery and his family : auctioned by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. at Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, 18-27 May 1977 (v.1)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection J266

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Type of record: Book

Title: Mentmore : catalogue of [the collections] : sold on behalf of the executors of the 6th Earl of Rosebery and his family : auctioned by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. at Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, 18-27 May 1977 (v.1)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection J266

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co (Issuing body)

Related people: Rothschild, Meyer Amschel de, 1818-1874; Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929; Rosebery, Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of, 1882-1974; Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929

Publisher: Sotheby

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1977

Language: English

Size and medium: 5 volumes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/746839

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020073788005181

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Includes bibliographical references.


v. 1. French and continental furniture, tapestries and clocks.--v. 2. Works of art and silver.--v. 3. Vincennes and Sèvres and other continental porcelain and Italian Maiolica.--v. 4. Paintings, prints and drawings.--v. 5. General contents of the house.


Place of sale: London.


Date of sale: May 18-21, 23-27, 1977.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection J266: Each volume contains one loose price estimate list.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection J266: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: CTH/48 (5).

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