Sowers, Roy Vernon (1897-1970); bookseller, Los Gatos, Calif., USA; at his death the Bodleian selected books from his personal library, while the remainder were sold, the money then to be used by the Bodleian for the purchase of antiquarian books; see `Notes and News: Mr. Roy V. Sowers', BLR 8,6 (1972), 291; `Notes and News: Sowers Benefaction', BLR 9,2 (1974), 65; Roger Burford Mason, Roy Vernon Sowers: a Life in Rare Books (Toronto, 1997); Roy Vernon Sowers, A Bookseller Reminisces (Placerville, CA, 1988); Dickinson, American Antiquarian Bookdealers, 207-9. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1897 to 1970. Period: 19th century to 20th century.

2 entries:

• G-050(1) Gart der Gesundheit — Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 28 Mar. 1485. Folio.
• P-016(1) Panormitanus de Tudeschis, Nicolaus — Lectura super V libris Decretalium. — Basel: [Michael Wenssler, Berthold Ruppel, and Bernard Richel], 1477. Folio.

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