Luigi Cassano Serra
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Luigi Cassano Serra (1747-1825), 4th Duke of Cassano, Marquess of Rivadebro, sold his library by 1820 to Lord George John Spencer (1758 – 1834), 2nd Earl Spencer, whose library was itself sold in 1892 by the 5th Earl Spencer to Mrs Ryland and is now at the John Rylands University Library.[1] Earl Spencer sold Cassano and other duplicates at several sales.[2]
The Duke of Cassano had an engraved armorial bookplate:
http://bookplate-jvarnoso.blogspot.com/2007/11/luigi-duca-di-cassano.html
- Shelfmark W/D-3-20/21
- Caius Sallustius Crispus. C. Crispi Sallustii quae extant. Cum notis integris ... atque selectis ... Accedunt ... Fragmenta historicorum, ... Cura Sigeberti Havercampi. ...
Amsterdam: 1742.- Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Duca di Cassano | Il serra.
References
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- ↑ http://bookplate-jvarnoso.blogspot.com/2007/11/luigi-duca-di-cassano.html
- ↑ A Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, provenance index, p. 2916.