The first part of the Beckford Library, the property of the Duke of Hamilton, yesterday week, fell under the hammer of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge. The highest price realised for a lot was £400, paid by Quaritch for a collection of architectural drawings on vellum, by J. Androuet du Cerceau. The same buyers gave £290 for a volume of plates by the same architect, and £270 for a very rare work, America, by Alberin Vesputio. The day's sale produced £3224. The total of Saturday's sale amounted to £3200. At the third day's sale, on Monday, the high average of the previous day was well sustained, the total reaching £3050. The highest prices on Tuesday was obtained for a "Biblia Latina," printed on vellum, with capital letters finely illuminated in gold and colours, covered in red morocco, gold tooling, with clasps, folio, Venetiis, N. Jenson, 1476, which was bought by Mr. Ellis, for £330.

Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.42