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‎The Library of George Cosmatos: Part 1 23 March 2005‎

‎Sotheby's 2005. Cover lightly rubbed corners ever-so-slightly rubbed spine ends ever-so- slightly rubbed/bumped; edges ever-so-slightly soiled; page 189 creased diagonally at top corner page 195 creased diagonally at bottom corner; binding tight; cover edges and interior intact and clean except as noted. Due to the size of this item additional shipping charges may apply on International or Expedited orders. paperback. Good. Sotheby's paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 617046

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‎The Library of John and Suzanne Bonham. London 26 September 2017. Sale #L17415‎

‎London: Sotheby's 2017 188 pages. The auction catalogue is brand new. We always ship in a box with protective material. Photos available upon request. Sotheby's paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 006354

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‎The Library of William O'Brien. Property of the Milltown Park Charitable Trust. London 7 June 2017. Sale #L17409‎

‎London: Sotheby's 2017 248 pages. Cover has a small tear at the top corners are lightly rubbed. However inside pages are in perfect condition unmarked clean and tight. Photos available upon request. 1 kg. Sotheby's paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 006314

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin Highly Important American and Children's Literature. Auction Tuesday January 30 1990 at 10:15 am and 2 pm Wednesday January 31 1990 at 10:15 am. "MUSTERING‎

‎New York: Sotheby's. Collectible - Very Good. Very good book. Inquire if you need further information. New York: Sotheby's unknown‎

Bookseller reference : O05C-00407

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‎The Library of Richard Manney New York October 11 1991‎

‎Sotheby's 1991-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. SCARCE LARGE HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY SLIGHT WEAR. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK. Sotheby's hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : G-3355

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‎The Library of Richard Manney New York October 11 1991‎

‎Sotheby's. Collectible - Good. Collectible - Good. New York: Sotheby's 1991. Sm 4to. Photographs. Near very good. Some marginal notation. Sotheby's unknown‎

Bookseller reference : X14B-00035

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‎The Library Of Frederick B. Adams Jr. in Two Parts Auctions 6 November & 7 November 2001 Sale Numbers L01910u & L01910h‎

‎London: Sotheby's. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2001. Softcover. Two auctions on consecutive days: Part I: English & American Literature Part II: Thomas Hardy. Sheets with prices realized for both days included. . Sotheby's paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 283734

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‎The Library of George Cosmatos: Part I. 23 March 2005‎

‎Sotheby's London 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Size: 4to - between 9¾ - 12" tall. 254 pp. Text contains occasional ink markings. Binding firm with minor wear to spine. Covers slightly creased. Auction catalogue. Comes with loose print out of prices realised. Profusely illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Antiques & Collectibles. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 18968. . Sotheby's paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 18968

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin Highly important illustrated and scientific ornithology‎

‎Sotheby's. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1989. Hardcover. Auction catalog Dec 12-13 1989; Color Plates; 10.80 X 8.40 X 1 inches . Sotheby's hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 45932

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin - John James Audubon Magnificent Books and Manuscripts June 6 1989 Sale 5870‎

‎Sotheby's 1989-01-01. Hardcover. VeryGood. . Sotheby's hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : mon0001484244

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin: Highly Important English Literature‎

‎New York NY: Sotheby's 1990. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some ink notations prices realized in margins. ill. some col. ; 28 cm. References. The auction was held Monday April 30 1990 and May 1 1990 and exhibition days were April 26-29 1990. Introductory essay by Cecil Y. Lang. Sotheby's hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 60946

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‎The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle. Part Nine : Voyages Travel and Atlases. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 15 March 2007‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th March 2007. Cloth 4to mounted cover illustration 28 cm. 301 pp plates many in colour. Lots 3077-3317. From the introduction: "The 241 items in the sale were mostly published between 1600 and 1750. There are two incunabula one the first edition of Ptolemy�s Geographia in Latin lot 3255 published in Vicenza in 1475 a rare book not found for example in the fine collection of that work in the Wardington Library and the other the Breydenbach. There are some twenty-seven sixteenth-century printed books in Latin English German French and English and with the addition of some works in Dutch the same spread of languages is found after 1600. There is one book in Swedish a privately printed work on the Far East. There are also a few manuscripts one in Italian the others in English. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th March, 2007 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-41401

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‎The Library of H Bradley Martin: Magnificent Color-Plate Ornithology Volume 2 only of a nine-volume sales catalogue‎

‎New York: Sotheby's 1989. Introduction by Howard Kirke Swann. 280 x 215 mm colour illustrations throughout index references. Complete with original estimate sheet loosely laid in. The catalogue for this part of the sale includes items from the Bradley Martin ornithological library in two sessions on Wednesday June 7 1989: lots 39 to 136 and lots 137 to 242. The end papers are lightly foxed. Original green cloth boards gilt with colour cover illustration by Edward Lear and page marker. The rear board is bumped along its upper edge. The catalogue includes colour illustrations from many lots including those in the first session by Eleazar Albin James Bolton Charles L J L Bonaparte Rex Brasher Gracius Joseph Broinowski The Birds of Australia Thomas Brown Charles Darwin the Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle Daniel Giraud Elliot John Gould lots 97 to 113 with 17 illustrations most full page Sir William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby Illustrations of Ornithology John Latham Edward Lear; and in the second session by: Rene Primevere Lesson Francois Levaillant John William Lewin Birds of New South Wales A Natural History of the Birds of New South Wales two editions and British Brids Gregory Macalister Mathews The Birds of Australiaand The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant St George Jackson Mivart Johann Andreas Nauamann Arthur Phillip The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay Albertus Seba Richard Bowdler Sharpe George Shaw John Kirk Townsend Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot John White. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sotheby's‎

Bookseller reference : 10412

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‎The Library of Horace N. Pym Sotheby's London 23 April 1996‎

‎Sotheby's 1996-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. NICE CONDITION TALL SLENDER SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN THE TEXT. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN AND SOLID BOOK. Sotheby's paperback‎

Bookseller reference : P-696

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‎The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle. Part Six: Science P-Z plus Addenda: October 25 - 26 2005‎

‎London: Sothebys 2005. Sale no. LO5409. Heavy book may require extra postage. Not Indicated. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Color & B/W Plates. Sothebys Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 050501

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin. Magnificent Color-Plate Ornitholgy Sale 5871 "RICHESSE"‎

‎New York NY: Sotheby's 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Size=8.5"x11.". 200 COLOR Plates. full book description Sotheby's New York NY 1989. 1st Edition Fine Hard Cover DJ Not Issued. Size=8.5"x11." UNP. 200 COLOR Plates. Green cloth covers & attached green cloth page marker with 4-1/2" x 7" COLOR front cover overlay. Clean bright and tight. No ink names tears chips foxing etc. Contains lots 39-242 each with a COLOR plate. 2 page Auction Estimates in Fine condition laid in. Art Collections; Auction Catalogs; Ornithology; Watercolors SELLING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1987. WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE! Sotheby's hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : CONROY236030I

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‎The Library of Frederick B. Adams Jr Part II Thomas Hardy. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 7 November 2001‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 7th November 2001. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 202 pp colour plates ills. Lots 370-601. From the introduction: "Fred Adams . gradually patiently and with the utmost discrimination succeeded in building up one of the greatest Hardy collections ever assembled - not the largest in sheer size but unsurpassed in its overall quality and importance.it must surely be the last such collection ever to be in private as distinct from institutional hands. Although Fred was acquiring significant Hardy editions from early on - the three original first editions of The Dynasts for example including the 1903 issue of Part First that he bought from Heffers's during his brief Cambridge University experience - he seems to have turned decisively to the collection of truly unique materials only in 1934 after he had summoned the resolution to seize a classically irresistible but "unaffordable" opportunity to acquire a long sequence of Hardy to Gosse letters that had originally been put together by T. J. Wise. He subsequently captured Hardy's youthfully purchased copies of The Boy's Own Book and Shelley's Queen Mab at the J. M. Barrie sale in 1937 and made several shrewdly judged purchases at the Hodgson sale of Hardy's library in 1938. Following the death of his friend Carroll Atwood Wilson in 1947 he actively assisted in the compilation of the two-volume posthumous catalogue of Wilson's large and various collection and was later successful in securing some of the very best of Wilson's many Hardy items including several that had been in the Grolier Club's Hardy exhibition of 1940. At the Sydney Cockerell sale in 1956 he carried off among other things the very first lot comprising the presentation set of the Wessex Edition with Hardy's own corrections in some volumes and Cockerell's insertions throughout of letters from Hardy and others. He bought also at other sales including those of the A. Edward Newton and Paul Lemperly collections and although he came away empty-handed from both of the Sothebv sales of the extraordinary Howard Bliss collection - the New York dealer Lew Feldman having swept up all the lots at the first sale and all but one at the second - he did obtain during that collection's final negotiated dispersal just those materials that he had especially coveted.Fred of course was by no means entirely dependent upon the saleroom for his acquisitions. In the nineteen-thirties and forties and even well into the post-war years there were still people around who had known worked for or corresponded with Hardy and Fred directly or indirectly gathered in much interesting material from such sources: Hardy's own working drawings for the family tombstones at Stinsford for example the originals of the Macbeth-Raeburn illustrations to the Osgood Mcllvaine "Wessex Novels" edition and programmes and script materials related to the dramatisations of Hardy's novels performed by the Dorchester amateurs known as the Hardy Players.It is scarcely surprising that such a man should have been so strongly and consistently drawn towards the more biographical and immediately' human aspects of collecting - to letters manuscripts and inscribed and association copies all categories richly represented in the present sale. Fred's basic holdings of Hardy editions from magazine printings and first editions to Clement Shorter's and Florence Hardy's privately printed pamphlets were of course extensive and very nearly comprehensive but the first editions in particular had been selected and purchased almost without exception for the sake of their inscriptions - and the personal relationships thus evoked - rather than for any significance they might have as items checked off on a "wants" list Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 7th November, 2001 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-38721

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‎The Library of Henry Myron Blackmer II Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates : 11th12th 13th October 1989‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th - 13th October 1989. Cloth cover illustration 4to 28 cm. 16 636 18 pp numerous ills many in colour. 1515 lots. With a biography of Blackmer and an introductory essay: 'The lure of Greece and the Orient for European travellers.' Blackmer - a retired American banker living in Athens -collected books on Greece and the Near East building up an unparalleled collection with the help of leading London and Parisian booksellers. "The collection encompasses travel neo-classical art archaeology and the commerce history and politics of the Levant from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries." An excellent catalogue of a superb collection. With a bibliography and index. Near Fine. List of prices realized and buyers laid in together with a folded multi-page illustrated sale report from the Antique Trades Gazette. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th - 13th October 1989 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-32176

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‎THE LIBRARY OF H. BRADLEY MARTIN Highly Important Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts Auction Thursday June 14 1990 At 10: 15 AM and 2 PM‎

‎NY: Sotheby's. Fine. 1990. Hardcover. Binding and contents are almost like new. No DJ. This is a large book and is not eligible for Priority Air or International under standard fees. ; 8-1/2" x 11" approx. 300 pages unpaginated. Dark green coth bright gold spine & front cover lettering full-color reproduction glued onto the front cover. ANTIQUES. Loosly laid-in is a two-sided printout of "Auction Estimates. " This book was quite a lavish production selling at the time for from $80 to $95. This is the ninth volume in the catalogue of Bradley's library. Almost every-other page contains a full-page illustration many in color. And each illustration is accompanied by a description of the article with its history. Three pages of References. . Sotheby's hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 40701

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‎The Library of Philip Robinson : Part I. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 23 June 1988‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd June 1988. Laminated wrappers 4to. 230 pp plates ills some colour. 298 lots. Catalogue of the general library of Philip Robinson the younger of the two brothers who founded the distinguished bookselling firm of William H. Robinson Ltd which existed in Pall Mall between 1930 and 1956 and acquired and dispersed the residue of Sir Thomas Phillipps' collection. Contents: Continental Printed Books Lots 1-49; Medieval Manuscripts 50-51; English literature and History Political theory and Economics 52-105; Voyages and Travel 106-298 Among some of the highlights were: Cervantes Ocho comedias1615 in limp vellum; the Strassburg Guido Colonna 1489 in its original deerskin binding; a John Harris pen-facsimile; eight works from John Locke's library signed by him; papers and correspondence of Henry Strachey on the American War of Independence; four French legal incunabula three apparently unrecorded; Oviedo Historia General de las Indias 1535 a late 13th century medical anthology from Bury St Edmunds Abbey. Part II of the Sotheby's catalogue not included here dealt with Robinson's collection of material relating to the earliest European contacts with China. Indexed. Press cutting concerning the sale result stapled to title-page otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd June, 1988 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-35198

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‎The Library of Horace N. Pym 1844-1896 Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 23 April 1996‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd April 1996. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 81 pp plates ills. 376 lots. With an introduction on Pym and his books. Among the highlights noted were the following: George Richmond's Proof Copy of William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job; A portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Sir Joshua Reynolds; A fine pair of early portraits of Charles Dickens and his wife by Samuel Laurence; Dickens's pewter tankard from Gad's Hill; An extra-illustrated copy of Pickwick Papers with original watercolour drawings by F. Pailthorpe; Benjamin Disraeli's dispatch box and related ephemera; The original manuscripts of T. Anstey Guthrie's The Giant's Robe and The Tinted Venus; Charles Darwin's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages. of the Beagle. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd April, 1996 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-37281

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‎The Library of John R. B. Brett-Smith. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 27 May 2004‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 27 May 2004. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 366 pp plates ills. 648 lots. From the introduction: "the library offered for sale is most of that which John Brett-Smith accumulated and retained as his personal collection at the time of his death supplemented by a few miscellaneous books which were the residue of his stock. It is dominated by the collection of English Literature of his favourite period: 1660-1730. Not the least important aspect of the Brett-Smith Library is the distinguished prominence of so many of the books. Indeed as the Index of Provenance below page 344 makes clear the vast range of notable collectors and libraries represented by the collection is virtually a selective guide to the history of English book-collecting over the past three-and-a-half centuries" The sale also included a group of works by "Elkanah Settle 1648-1724 self-styled "City Poet" featured in the library including a group encased in "Settle bindings'.' In the latter part of his career Settle became a purveyor of celebratory verses for the titled and wealthy and was responsible for initiating a style of binding that remained in vogue for more than two decades". A few lots priced in ink otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 27 May, 2004 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-37025

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‎The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle Part Eleven: English Books and Manuscripts March 13 2008‎

‎London: Sothebys 2008. Not Indicated. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Color & B/W Plates. Sothebys Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 049002

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‎The Library of Frederick B. Adams Jr. Part II: Thomas Hardy 2001-11-07 London‎

‎London: Sotheby's. Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. First Printing. Soft Cover. Color Photographs Numerous. 231 lots. FINE. Catalog. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. 202 2 pp . Sotheby's paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1721

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin: Part VIII Highly Important English Literature New York April 30 and May 1 1990 Sale 5998 Hardcover Sotheby's‎

‎Sotheby's 1990-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1990; green cloth covered boards with paste on illustrations; no dust jacket; very clean inside and out; 4to 9 3/4" - 12" Tall; several hundred pages. Sotheby's hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : SKU1068932