Item talk:Q17770

Catálogo de la venta de 1887-02-28 - 1887-03-04. El ejemplar de la Taylor Institution de Oxford tiene anotados los nombres de los compradores y los precios realizados.

Vendido un ejemplar por Christie’s, Sale 1594, Lot 331 (New York, 2005, March 22-23). Su descripción:

“SEILLIÈRE, Baron Achille (1782-1850) -- La Bibliothèque de Mello. Catalogue of an Important Portion of the Very Choice Library of the late Baron Seillière. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 28 February 1887.

The London sale catalogue of outstanding items from the library at the Château de Mello, offering French and Italian Romances, books bound for Grolier, De Thou and Hoym, and other historic bindings. Mello, whose foundations go back to the ninth century, was bought in 1819 by François-Alexandre Seillière, later Baron de Mello, French industrialist, art and book collector. His son, Achille (1813-1887) greatly augmented the collections which in turn were inherited by his sons Nicolas (d. 1887) and François-Florentin-Achille (d. 1890).”