Bibliotheca splendidissima : a catalogue of a superlatively splendid and extensive library, consigned from the continent : containing many very rare specimens of the earliest typography; most of the editiones principes of the classics, in the finest condition possible; the octavo and quarto variorum classics, the latter chiefly on large paper; also the elegant works printed by the Elzevirs; the best French historical and dramatic writers chiefly on large paper; the beautiful works printed at Parma, by Bodoni, and by Didot, at Paris; the various works published by the foreign academies; the fine works recently published by order of Bonaparte, at Paris; also a rare assemblage of Maps and charts, including the earliest impressions of the entire collection published by Cassini; likewise a very good selection of books in English literature; and a choice collection of curious manuscripts, among which will be found some of high antiquity : the whole most superbly bound, and the greater part either in morocco or Russia leathers : which will be sold by auction, by Leigh and Sotheby ... May 8, 1816, and seventeen following days, (Sundays excepted).