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‎Hidden Treasures: Postage Stamps of China The Major James Starr Collection - Volume 1 - Text and Volume 2 - Plates‎

‎Sotheby's 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. 1991 two volumes hardcover no dust jackets VG in lightly worn slipcase color & b/w illstns. Sotheby's hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016326

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‎Man Ray: Paintings Objects Photographs - Property from the Estate of Juliet Man Ray the Man Ray Trust and the Family of Juliet Man Ray 22 and 23 March 1995‎

‎London: Sotheby's 1995. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9� - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound text clean no inscriptions. 308pp. Many illustrations some in colour the majority in b/w. This 597 item catalogue was produced to accompany the auction of paintings objects and photographs produced by Man Ray held at Sotheby's London and 22 and 23 March 1995. It includes some of his most iconic works including a copy of the photograph Le violon d'Ingres 1924 printed c.1971 and a mixed media piece entitled Pechage 1972 Size: 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Sotheby's Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 003934

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‎Una Importante Coleccion De Obra Grafica y Libros Illustrados De Joan Miro 22 February 1989‎

‎Madrid Spain: Sotheby's Madrid 1989. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. NB: Text is in Spanish throughout. Green cloth with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Condition: Very good with very light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound no inscriptions. Very light foxing to endpapers. Dustjacket condition: Very good with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine. 305 lots. Many colour illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the auction of graphic work and books illustrated by Joan Miro held at the Hotel Ritz Barcelona on 22nd February 1989. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Sotheby's Madrid Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 004524

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‎English Literature History Children's Books and Illustrations. : including the earliest rules and archive of Sheffield FC the world's first football club. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 14 July 2011‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th July 2011. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 88 pp colour ills. 159 lots. Contents: English Literature History Children's Books and Illustrations: Lots 1-159: History including Sport and Medicine Lots 1-22 Including the rules and archive of Sheffield FC Lot 10; Property removed from Dunecht House Aberdeenshire Lots 23-36; Economics Philosophy and Law Lots 37-40; English Literature 17th Century Lots 41-45; English Literature 18th Century Lots 46-48; English Literature 19th Century Lots 49-79 Including Jane Austen s manuscript of The Watsons Lot 51; English Literature 20th Century Lots 80-117 Including Books from the Library of Sir Alec Guinness Lots 87-90; Entertainment Lots 118-120; Children's Books Illustrated Books and Related Drawings Lots 121-159. Indexed. A few scribbled notes otherwise Very Good. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th July 2011 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47029

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‎English Literature comprising Printed Books Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 21 and 22 July 1983‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st and 22nd July 1983. Printed wrappers 8vo. 223 pp facs. 634 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: the Second Edition of Bacon's Essayes 1597; Donne Poems 1633; Davenant Gondibert 1651 Presentation Copy; Shakespeare Comedies Histories and Tragedies Fourth Folio Edition 1685; the Collection of Seventeenth-Century English Literature Formed by the Late John Hart; Byron Waltz 1813; Keats Endymion 1818 Charles Dickens's Copy; Trollope la Vend�e 1850; Bram Stoker Dracula 1897; Joyce Ulysses 1922 One of 100 Copies Signed by the Author; Nancy Cunard Negro 1934; Tolkien the Hobbit 1937 Presentation Copy and the Lord of the Rings 1954-1955 Inscribed; Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited 1944 Pre-Publication Version; and Presentation or Inscribed Copies of Works by H.D. Gertrude Stein Dreiser Sherwood Anderson Faulkner W. B. Yeats and Ian Fleming; a Page from the Earliest Known Promptbook of Hamlet; an Autograph Letter by Mary Herbert Countess of Pembroke to the Earl of Essex; an Autograph Letter by Dryden; the Literary Archive of Elizabeth Taylor; the Autograph Manuscript of John Cowper Powys's Dostoevsky; Manuscripts of Shaw's Last Dramatic Work; Notes by Sir Walter Scott on the Prototype of 'Meg Merrilies'; Manuscripts by Contemporary Writers Sold Partly on Behalf of the Arvon Foundation. Estimates included in text. Rear wrapper creased otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st and 22nd July, 1983 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-46961

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‎The Collection of Otto Sch�fer Part II : Parisian Books Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 27 June 1995‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 27th June 1995. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. over 300 pp numerous plates including many in colour. 195 lots. A lavishly illustrated catalogue of a major collection. Indexed; Index of Provenance. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 27th June, 1995 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-48533

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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". Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 27 May, 2004 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-48521

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‎A Magnificent Collection of Botanical Books. Being the Finest Colour-Plate Books from the Celebrated Library formed by Robert de Belder. Sotheby's Auction Catalogue sale dates: 27 - 28 April 1987‎

‎Sotheby London auction catalogue for the sales held on 27th - 28th April 1987. Cloth with mounted colour illustration on front board as issued 4to. 425 pp profusely illustrated with colour plates. 388 lots. The catalogue introduction claims this to be "the finest collection of botanical colour-plate books ever offered at auction". Robert de Belder a diamond merchant who bought and restored the Kalmthout Arboretum in Belgium in the 1950s built up the greatest private collection of botanical books in the world securing many of the very best copies from the Arpad Plesch collection the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library virtually the entire rare book collection of the Horticultural Society of New York as well as many other distinguished collections. His collection was initially offered for sale en bloc without success before being acquired by Quaritch who finally consigned the colour-plate books to auction - in the process revolutionising price levels for this sort of material. Catalogued here are some 388 lots being the chief monuments of botanical illustration from the period 1600 -1900. Each lot is carefully described and annotated with the great majority of lots illustrated usually in colour. Spine a trifle rubbed and slightly bumped otherwise Very Good. Sotheby, London, auction catalogue for the sales held on 27th - 28th April, 1987 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47964

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‎The Joseph Conrad collection from the library of the late Stanley J. Seeger. Part I with Part II. 2 vols Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates: 10 July 2013 and 15 July 2014‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th July 2013 and 15th July 2014. 2 vols laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 128 132 pp plates ills. 193 and 194-389 lots. From the introduction to Part I: " The lots in this catalogue comprise the first selection of highlights from one of the greatest libraries of first editions inscribed works manuscripts letters and annotated proofs by Joseph Conrad ever assembled and certainly the greatest amassed by a collector in modern times. Carefully put together over many decades with intense dedication and devotion it focuses firstly on the letters manuscripts typescripts and proofs which have been available during this time many of course were snapped up at auction and elsewhere by major European and American institutions in the immediate years after Conrad's death and secondly on the best presentation and association copies of Conrad s works to come to market. Thus combined and arranged in chronological order these lots tell the remarkable story of Conrad s life and career his development and struggles as a writer and his closest influences and inspirations. So for instance in this first sale aside from the last great surviving autograph manuscript in private hands that for Typhoon and likewise the earliest letter in private hands to Spiridion Calcutta 1885 there are exceptional presentation copies to his most intimate friends literary collaborators and influences: John Galsworthy Edward Sanderson Ford Madox Ford J.B. Pinker Henry James Andre Gide Richard Curie Hugh Walpole among many others. Near Fine. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th July 2013 and 15th July 2014 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47018

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‎Fine Books & Manuscripts. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 14 June 2016‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th June 2016. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 160 pp colour ills. 300 lots. The sale comprised : Session One: The Gerald N. Wachs Collection of 19th-Century English Poetry: Lots 1-155; Session Two: property from the Collection of Irvin & Anita Schorsch various properties property from the Collection of Mamdouha & Elmer Holmes Bobst: Lots 156-300. Very Good. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th June 2016 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-46969

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‎English Literature History Children's Books and Illustrations. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 15 July 2010‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th July 2010. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 108 pp colour ills. 215 lots. The principal highlight was an inscribed copy of the first appearance of "A Study in Scarlet" illustrated and described on the front cover and 4 pages of the catalogue. The sale comprised: English Literature History Children's Books and Illustrations: Lots 1-215 including History Lots 1-30; Churchill Lots 31-38; Art and Entertainment Lots 39-42; Science and Economics Lots 43-48; English Literature: Sixteenth Century Lots 49-50; Seventeenth Century Lots 51-71; Eighteenth Century Lots 72-103; Nineteenth Century Lots 104-142; Twentienth Century Lots 143-167; Private Press and Fine Printing Lots 168-172; Children's Books and Original Illustrations Lots 173-215. Near Fine. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th July 2010 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-46973

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‎Catalogue of Continental autograph letters and manuscripts with a section by musicians and composers and with some printed music. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 12-13 May 1981‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 12th-13th May 1981. Printed wrappers small 4to. 166 pp ills. 490 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: an important manuscript atlas of the world by Urbano Monti 1587; the diary of the last tzar of Russia Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch; literary manuscripts of Ren� Char Claudel Maeterlinck Pasternak Pirandello two autograph plays Turgenev and Zola; musical manuscripts by Arne Delius and Wagner; letters and documents by Bettina von Arnim Thomas Attwood about Mozart Bolivar series Brahms series Bruckner B�low Camus Freud Gautier Henri IV love letter Hitler Marguerite de Navarre Maria Theresa Maximillan I and other Holy Roman Emperors Nabokov Napoleon I Peter the Great Per�n Proust Puccini Quisling Stalin Trotsky and Wolf. Indexed. Very Good. List of estimates laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 12th-13th May, 1981 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-46957

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‎A Second Selection of Printed Books Mostly from the Fifteenth Century the Property of Mr J.R. Ritman Sold for the Benefit of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Amsterdam Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 5 December 2001‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December 2001. Illustrated boards 4to. 294 pp plates ills. 122 lots. From the introduction: "In the past quarter-century no collector of early printing probably has placed a stronger and more original focus on the textual contents of his acquisitions than J. R. Ritman. This has resulted in the formation of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam an internationally famous and energetic library that has become a centre for research in Neoplatonic Hermetic and Rosicrucian thought of a kind that never existed before. In view of this foundation interest in the texts and textual significance of his books it seems more than appropriate attempt to provide in an extensive index to this catalogue an analytic guide to the textual contents of the approximately one hundred fifty incunables offered both here and a year ago in the Sotheby's sale of 6 December 2000 the sales designated as II and I respectively. Despite the masses of research on fifteenth-century printing that have been carried from the age of Panzer and Hain down to the present no incunable catalogue has attempted to provide a full and consistent record of the textual contents of the books it describes.The Author-Text index attempts to identify both authors and texts - two quite different categories - in as concise and unambiguous a way as possible citing for each whatever reference works seem to provide the most precise most useful and least ephemeral information. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December, 2001 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47937

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‎Music Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 8 June 2011‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th June 2011. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 168 pp colour ills. 555 lots. The sale comprised: Continental books and manuscripts 15th-20th Century Lots 1-62; Science and Medicine: The Property of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 63-96; Russian books and manuscripts 98-118; Property of a European royal family 119-151; Books and manuscripts from the Library of Marie Caroline Duchesse de Berry 152-185; Music from the Library of Marie Caroline Duchesse de Berry Lots 186-204; Printed and manuscript Music 205-555 including Printed music: the property of a European collector 356-375. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th June 2011 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47030

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‎The library of Marshall B. Coyne. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 5 June 2001‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th June 2001. Illustrated laminated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 280 pp plates some colour ills. 325 lots. From the introduction: "Coyne became intrigued with the life and career of James Madison accumulating a rich collection of manuscripts documents and printed works by our nation's fourth chief executive which includes a 32-page autograph manuscript discussing the Constitution and its framers and a partial draft of his message to Congress in which he consoles a nation stunned by the Joss of Detroit to the British during the War of 1812. From this wellhead sprang the many other historical American manuscripts in the collection which range from Pilgrim times to the present day. Mr. Coyne acquired fine examples of all the presidents including a presidential pardon signed by William Henry Harrison during his first and only month in office and a letter by Lincoln to his military aide requesting documentation on the failed Hampton Roads Peace Conference with Confederate Leaders; most of the first ladies; all the Signers of the Declaration of Independence including the elusive autograph of Button Gwinnett; all the Signers of the Constitution; legion vice-presidents cabinet members and Supreme Court justices. Major military figures from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars are also amply represented. A rare example in the hand of the schoolmaster and martyr spy Nathan Hale is perhaps one of only a dozen letters by him known to survive and the first to appear at auction since 1924. There is a bright cheerful autograph letter by Continental officer and traitor Benedict Arnold to his sister written while he was in the very midst of conspiring with the British to deliver them the plans of West Point. The towering dignified figure of Robert E. Lee is represented by a very fine copy of his magnificent valedictory General Orders No. 9 with emendations by his wife Mary Custis Lee; the same lot also includes a fair copy of those orders written out entirely by Mrs. Lee. Mr. Coyne's Americana includes printed material as well including both the vellum and paper issues of the Stone facsimile of the Declaration of Independence; the first publication of the United States Constitution in the 17 September 1787 issue of the Philadelphia newspaper The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser; a first edition in the rare original boards of Lewis and Clark's narrative of their 8000-mile journey westward to the Pacific; and the scarce Charleston broadside announcing the secession of South Carolina. Near Fine. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th June, 2001 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47080

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‎Oscar Wilde. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 29 October 2004‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 29th October 2004. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 142 pp colour ills. 104 lots. From the introduction: "The catalogue features highly important first editions inscribed presentation copies letters manuscripts original photographs and other extraordinary ephemera relating to Wilde. The 104 lots include such items as Wilde's annotated copy of Aristophanes' Clouds used by him while an under graduate at Oxford in 1877 lot 3; an exceptionally fine copy of his first regularly published book the Poems of1881 which was exhibited at the British Library in 2000 lot 11; his presentation copy of the acclaimed play A Woman of No Importance inscribed to his mother Speranza lot 64; his presentation copy of The Ballad of Reading Gaol inscribed to the drama critic William Archer lot 78; his presentation copy of The Importance of Being Earnest inscribed to his friend Arthur Clifton; the only known presentation copy of his rare privately printed historical tragedy The Duchess of Padua lot 28. These and other outstanding items offered including remarkable autograph letters by Wilde constitute what is almost certainly the finest collection of Wilde memorabilia remaining in private hands.One item of special resonance dating from Wilde's lifetime may illustrate the quality of the collection: namely the celebrated Tite Street catalogue for the sale on 24 Aprii 1895 of Wilde's household property lot 73. .and the sale includes as lot 89 one of the few known contemporary prints of the deathbed photograph taken by Maurice Gilbert with Robbie Ross's camera. Some scribbled prices otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 29th October 2004 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47163

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‎English Literature and English History comprising Printed Books Autograph Letters and Manuscripts. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 6-7 December 1984‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 6th - 7th December 1984. Printed wrappers large 4to 27 cm. unpaginated approximately 200 pp ills. 521 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: items by or relating to Cranmer Miles Coverdale the Bible of 1535 Arbella Stuart Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Dr Johnson Adam Smith William Blake Lord Nelson Thomas Clarkson Harriet Beecher Stowe President Kruger Oscar Wilde Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Clements Markham and Captain Scott Petty Officer Edgar Evans D.H. Lawrence John Middleton Murry Katherine Mansfield W.B. Yeats Evelyn Waugh Dorothy L. Sayers David Jones and others Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 6th - 7th December 1984 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-46970

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‎Magnificent ornithology : from the collection of Brooks McCormick sold for the benefit of the International Crane Foundation. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 5 October 2007‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 5 October 2007. Boards mounted cover illustration 4to 27 cm. 142 pp plates ills chiefly colour. 99 lots. Near Very Good. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5 October, 2007 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-48423

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‎The James Watt Sale. Art & Science. The property of the late Lord Gibson-Watt and members of the Gibson-Watt family. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 20 March 2003‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 20th March 2003. Laminated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 299 pp plates ills. 564 lots. Contents include introductory essays: James Watt Art & Science; and James Watt An Appreciation; The History of this Collection and the Diff�rent Inventories mentioned in the Catalogue; and Short Biographies of the Main Friends & Associates of James Watt. "The sale has been divided into two sessions: Session One lots 1 to 293 reflects the life and career of James Watt; and Session Two lots 294 to 564 the life and career of James Watt Junior with additional furniture and books from the collections of James Watt Gibson-Watt. This division reflects the information given in the various inventories. Wrappers creased and chipped some scribbled prices etc to contents. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 20th March 2003 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-46971

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‎Catalogue of the Celebrated Library of the Late Major J.R. Abbey. The Eleventh and Final Portion : Forty-Four Manuscripts from c. 1100 to 1762 Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 19 June 1989‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 19th June 1989. Printed boards with pasted on cover illustrations 4to. unpaginated many colour plates. Lots 3007-3050. From the introduction: "The forty-four lots offered for sale here form the eleventh and final portion of the great library formed by MajorJohn Roland Abbey 1894-1969. .The end of the Abbey manuscripts marks the conclusion of a great age of English collectors of medieval manuscripts among whom stand out Yates Thompson Dyson Perrins Chester Beatty and Major Abbey. They were all inspired to collect manuscripts under the exacting guidance of Sir Sydney Cockerell 1867-1962 and the Abbey collection was the latest but largest of the four. Major Abbey began collecting books in 1929 and bought his first medieval manuscript in 1934. Lot 3049 here has been in his library for more than fifty years. There are manuscripts offered here acquired by Major Abbey from the sales of the collections of Sir Lionel Tollemache d.1612 Sir Thomas Phillipps 1792-1872 Sir Robert Shafto Adair 1786-1869 Lord Peckover 1830-1919 Mortimer Schiff 1877-1931 Sir Sydney Cockerell C.W. Dyson Perrins 1864-1958 andJ.W. Hely-Hutchinson 1881-1955 and the collecting opportunities of those long-gone dispersals can be recaptured for the last time in the present auction.At the end of this catalogue we have added a list of all Major Abbey's manuscripts some 200 in all and the progress of his acquisitions can he clearly seen. A few pencilled notes slight wear to boards otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 19th June, 1989 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-45364

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‎English Literature History. Children's Books and Illustrations. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 17 December 2008‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 17 December 2008. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 204 pp colour ills. 227 lots. The catalogue includes the following sections: History Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Lots 1-13; Economics and Politics Lots 14-15; English Literature Sixteenth Century Lots 16-20; English Literature Seventeenth Century Lots 21-50; English Literature Eighteenth Century Lots 51-55; English Literature Nineteenth Century Lots 54-86; English Literature Twentieth Century Lots 87-133; Private Press Lots 134-145; Childrens Books and Illustrations Lots 144-226 including Beatrix Potter Lots 188-205. Near Fine. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 17 December 2008 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47033

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‎English Literature History Children's Books and Illustrations. : including a royal military library from the House of Hanover Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 16 December 2010‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th December 2010. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 136 pp colour ills. 246 lots. Near Very Good. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th December 2010 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-46985

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‎Nelson : the Alexander Davison Collection the property of an overseas family by direct descent from the Estate of Alexander Davison Esq Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 21 October 2002‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st October 2002. Laminated wrappers 4to. 228 pp colour ills. 93 lots. A valuable catalogue with extensive introductory material and the lots described in considerable detail. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st October, 2002 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-46948

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‎The Library of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Granard Extracted from Castle Forbes County Longford Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 21 July 1993‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st July 1993. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 88 pp plates ills. 620 lots. Lots 1-141 were "A collection of later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth century novels". Scribbled notes and prices otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st July, 1993 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47095

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‎English Literature History Children's & Illustrated Books & Drawings : including a previously unknown autograph manuscript of the Eumaus episode in James Joyce's "Ulysses" Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 10 July 2001‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th July 2001. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 283 pp plates many colour ills. 615 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: a previously unknown autograph manuscript of the Eumaeus episode in James Joyce's Ulysses; The original signed contracts for Bram Stoker's Dracula; An important series of autograph letters signed by the African explorer Mungo Park to his wife including his last letter; A series of editions of Samuel Beckett inscribed to Henri and Josette Hayden; A comprehensive collection of volumes published by the Limited Editions Club; A variant proof copy of the first 'James Bond' novel by Ian Fleming; Early works by Virginia Woolf published by the Hogarth Press; Important annotated and inscribed copies of first editions by Vladimir Nabokov; A fine collection of private press and illustrated books from the library of Walter Kupfer; Gregynog Press books from the library of Daisy Davies co-founder of the press; A fine group of presentation copies signed by Lewis Carroll; other children's books by Jessie M. King Beatrix Potter J.K. Rowling and R.L. Stevenson; Important watercolours and drawings by Kay Nielsen Beatrix Potter E.H. Shepard and Thomas Taylor; Books from the Library of the British Artist Joe Tilson; Marcel Verth's own copy of Ramon Gomez de la Sema's La Cirque extensively extra-illustrated; A collection of books on Sir Henry Irving including books from his Library; Important letters and other manuscript material relating to Charlotte Bront� Elizabeth Barrett Browning S.T. Coleridge John Betjeman Graham Greene Margaret Mitchell J.R.R. Toikien Sir Winston Churchill Lady Hamilton J.M. Keynes and Captain R.F. Scott. Indexed. Lacking pp 229-230. Rear wrapper creased scribbled notes. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th July, 2001 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-47078