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VENUE
The venue for the viewing is our galleries at 38 Molesworth
Street, Dublin 2.
SESSION 1: 19 OCTOBER 2012 – INTERNET &
ABSENTEE BIDDING ONLY
Lots 1-504 will be sold on the internet and clients may bid live
at www.whytes.com
or www.invaluable.com or www.artfact.com
Bids can also be left with reception on 19 October or faxed to
01 676 2880
(+3531 676 2880) or emailed to bids@whytes.ie or posted to
Whyte’s, 38 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
All such bids must be received by 4pm on 19 October 2012.
SESSION 2: 20 OCTOBER 2012
The venue for the auction is the Freemasons Hall, 17
Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
The auction will take place on Saturday 20 October and the sale
starts at 11am.
BIDS
Telephone: (+353) (0)1 676 2888
Email: bids@whytes.ie
On-line: www.whytes.ie
Fax: (+353) (0)1 676 2880
ENQUIRIES
Telephone: 01 676 2888 (+3531 676 2888 from outside Ireland)
Email: cd@whytes.ie
Fax: (+353) (0)1 676 2880
COLLECTION OF LOTS
Lots may be collected from our Molesworth Street premises up
to 6pm on
day of sale, otherwise Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm.
Purchasers must pay for and collect all lots within 5 days of the
date of sale.
Any lots not collected within that time will be transferred to an
offsite secure storage facility, incurring storage charges. Lots
that have been transferred offsite may only be collected at two
days notice once storage charges have been paid for in full. We
can make arrangements to post or ship purchases from this sale.
Contact Aaron Lowry, al@whytes.ie or 01 676 2888 for
assistance.
WHYTES
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GLOSSARY & ABBREVIATIONS
4to: Quarto. A book that is approximately 10” to 12” tall.
8vo: Octavo. A book that is approximately 8” to 10” tall
12mo: Duodecimo. A book that is generally under 7” tall
BAL: Bibliography of American Literature
BL: British Library
Black:
R. D. C.
Black’s
A
Catalogue
of Pamphlets on
Economic
.
Subjects, 1750-1900
COPAC: University and specialist research libraries union catalogue for
UK and Ireland (followed by initials which denote libraries copies are
held at)
cr 8vo: Crown octavo, book with paper size 7.5” x 5” inches
Darlow & Moule: Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy
Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1911.
DIB : Dictionary of Irish Biography (RIA)
Dibden: Thomas Frognall Dibden catalogue of books written in the 15
th
Century
Ebert: Friedrich Adolf Ebert General Bibliographical Dictionary
ESTC: English Short Title Catalogue
Folio: Large book size, generally 15“ or larger
Foxon: David F.
Foxon
, English Verse 1701-1750
Catalogue
Goldsmiths: Catalogue of the Goldsmiths’ Library
Gulick: A Chesterfield Bibliography to 1800
Half-title: a leaf before the main title-page recording the title
Higgs: Catalogue of the library of William Simonds Higgs
Keynes: Catalogue of the library formed by Geoffrey Keynes
Kress: The Kress Collection of Business and Economics, Harvard
University
Litho: Plate printed by lithography
Loeber : Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900.
Ms(s).: manuscript(s)
NLI: National Library of Ireland
NUC: The National Union Catalog
of Pre-1956 Imprints
Oblong: the book’s width exceeds its height.
NSTC: Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
ODNB: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Pagination: the sequential numbering of pages.
roy 8vo: Royal octavo, Book with paper size 10” inches tall
Rothschild: Catalogue Des Livres Composant La Bibliotheque De Feu
M. Le Baron James De Rothschild
Stratman: Bibliography of English Printed Tragedy, 1565 – 1900
Teerinck: Herman Teerinck, A Bibliography of The Writings of
Jonathan Swift
Todd: A Bibliography of Edmund Burke
Uncut: The leaf edges have not been trimmed smooth
Vol(s): Volume(s)
Wellcome: The Wellcome Library (on the History of Medicine)
WING: Predecessor to ESTC
Wolff: Robert Lee Wolff catalogue of 19
th
Century fiction
WorldCat: World union library catalogue