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Printed Books Manuscripts and Music including Atlases Maps Travel and Topography Bibliography and Art Reference Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates: 14 & 28 May 1985
Sotheby's. London auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th and 28th May 1985. Printed wrappers 4to. unpaginated approximately 90 pp ills. 1018 lots. Among the items in the sale were "Books from the estate of the late G.K. Cowlishaw Sydney Australia mainly natural history and travel books: lots 1-97. Near Very Good. Sotheby's., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th and 28th May, 1985 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-37042
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English Literature and History comprising Printed Books Autograph Letters and Manuscripts including the Herrick Papers with autograph letters signed by Robert Herrick. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 15 December 1988
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th December 1988. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 183 pp facs ills. 244 lots. Among the non-Herrick highlights noted were the following: A series of 130 letters by Chaim Weizmann; Papers of Captain Scott including one of his farewell letters; A draft letter by Churchill to Stalin; autograph letterbooks and sonnets of Anna Seward 'The Swan of Lichfield'; Autograph letters and poems by A.E. Housman 11 lots; a major collection of eighteenth-century pamphlets on politics and finance; a remarkable letter by Nelson about Napoleon; the archive of the Anvil Press; a collection of documents signed by the first thirty-six American Presidents; books from the Library of the Rt Hon. The Lord Latymer. Summary Contents: English Literature: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Lots 1-20; Eighteenth century 21-31; Nineteenth century 32-70;Twentieth century 71-117; Royal Letters and Documents 118-121; History 122-141; Sir Winston Churchill 142-152; Topography 153-156; Travel and Polar Exploration 157-165; Naval 166-168; Theatre Cinema and Broadcasting 169-173; Science and Natural History 174-180; America 181-213; Philosophy and Economics 214-239; Art and Architecture 240-245. Indexed. Wrappers a little creased otherwise near Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th December 1988 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-36997
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English Literature History Children's Books and Illustrations. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 11 December 2003
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th December 2003 . Laminated wrappers 4to 27 cm. approximately 220 pp colour plates ills. 326 lots. The sale comprised: English Literature History Children's Books & Illustrations Lots 1-329; History and Politics Lots 1-26; Travel and Exploration 27; Entertainment 28-29; Science Medicine the Occult and Domestic Science 30-34; Scholarship 35-36; English Literature Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 37-42; Eighteenth Century 43-51; Fencing Books 52-55; The Lake Poets: Wordsworth Coleridge and Southey 56-83; Nineteenth Century 84-106; Twentieth Century 107-162; Private Press Books 163-174; lllustrated and Children's Books and Related Drawings 175-326; index. Several scribbled notes and prices otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th December, 2003 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-37008
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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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English Literature and History. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 13 December 1994
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th December 1994. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 207 pp plates ills. 565 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: a Fine Letter Signed in 1588 by Queen Elizabeth I; Important Manuscripts by Esther Inglis Sir William Temple. Sir Isaac Newton Alice Thornton Emily Dickinson Rudyard Kipling Sir Winston Churchill Ngaio Marsh Elias Canetti and Others; the Account Books of Sir Giles Mompesson Massinger's "Sir Giles Overreach"; Remarkable series of over seventy letters by Caitlin Thomas about her stormy marriage with Dylan Thomas; Series of over four hundred letters by Ezra Pound to Henry Swabey; Notable Letters and Documents by Sir Christopher Hatton Samuel Pepys Sir Christopher Wren Jane Austen David Livingstone G.B. Shaw Evelyn Waugh Patrick White and Others; Substantial Collections of Books relating to Lady Gregory Aldous Huxley the Sitwells and Modern Poetry; a Complete Run of "Action" the Periodical of the British Union of Fascists; a Substantial Archive Relating to Arthur Symons; Memorabilia of A. J. P. Taylor Books and Manuscripts from the Fairfax Library. Wrappers somewhat creased half-title filled with lot numbers and numerous bold annotations and marks to catalogue text otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th December, 1994 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-37003
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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 Pages 39-44 present but detached numerous scribled prices etc. to text. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 7th November, 2001 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-37004
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'That Sort of Bear' E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh from the collection of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 17 December 2008
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th December 2008. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 102 pp plates ills some colour. 42 lots. From the introduction: "The exceptional collection in this sale includes original Shepard artwork for dozens of what can only be described as iconic images: Pooh squeezing his way through Rabbit's front door and then after too much honey and Condensed milk getting stuck on the way out; Christopher Robin nailing Eeyore's lost tail back in place; six scenes of Pooh stoically attempting to master his honey-jar-boat The Floating Bear ; and Pooh and Piglet pursuing Woozle-tracks in the snow or struggling against the wind on that Blusterous day on which Piglet does a Very Grand Thing. These superlative examples of E.H. Shepards incomparable draughts manship together with accompanying books and ephemeral items perfectly evoke the timeless wit and enduring charm of the World of Pooh. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th December, 2008 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-37017
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English Literature and History. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 11 December 1997
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held at the Aeolian Hall on 11th December 1997. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 183 pp plates ills. 404 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: the Warwick Shakespeare Deed; and other important items relating to Shakespeare from the Warwick collections; The Nugent manuscript of Irish bardic poetry from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries; the first edition of the first English translation of Homer 1581; Francis Bacon's copy of a tract against 'prophesies' by the Earl of Northampton 1620; a 'Harmony' of the Gospels produced by Nicholas Ferrar's community at Little Gidding 1635; a fourth folio of Shakespeare 1685; the working papers for the unratified Anglo-American Treaty of 1806 the failure of which led to the war of 1812; Mrs. Beeton's own family copy of her Household management; Oscar Wilde's annotated copy of Matthew Arnold's Poems; Henry James's 'French library'; a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses; intimate and forthright letters by D. H. Lawrence discussing Lady Chatterley's lover; annotated proof pages of Churchill's abridged The Second World War; rare first editions and manuscripts by Graham Greene; a collection of books by Agatha Christie; James Bond books inscribed by Ian Fleming; notable letters by David Hume Frances Burney Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton Sir Walter Scott Charlotte Bronte S. T. Coleridge Charles Dickens W. M. Thackeray J. E. Millais Aubrey Beardsley G. B. Shaw T. E. Lawrence Malcolm Lowry and others. Lot 85 of the sale The Warwick Shakespeare Deed was the subject of a separate catalogue entirely devoted to it; accordingly here it is given only a one-page description and one illustration. Idexed. Minor marks and light creasing to wrappers otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held at the Aeolian Hall on 11th December, 1997 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-37128
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Biblioth�que Marcel Jeanson Premiere Partie : Chasse Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates 28 February and 1 March 1987.
Sotheby's Monaco auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th February and 1st March 1987. Cloth 4to. 515 pp numerous colour and black-and-white plates. 598 lots. In French. The first part of the sale devoted to works on all forms of hunting. From the introduction: "Jeanson bien s�r ne manqua pas d'acqu�rir nombre de chefs d'oeuvre aux ventes Rahir 1938 et Schwerdt 1939 qui demeur�rent ainsi absents du march� pendant les cinquantes derni�res ann�es. Parcourrons cette bifoho-di�que et feuilletons certains de ses tr�sors: ce sont six des sept manuscrits enlumin�s de Gaston Ph�bus aujourd'hui en mains priv�es ainsi que les deux premi�res �ditions imprim�es circa 1507. Ce sont les trois premi�res �ditions du Roy Modus d'Henri de Ferri�re 1486 et un des deux seuls manuscrits demeurant en collection priv�e. De Guillaume Cr�tin voici les premi�res �ditions de ses po�mes de chasse Chante Royaulx 1527 et circa 1529 et Le d�bat des deux dames 1526 ainsi que l'ensemble exceptionnel d'enluminures de chasse extraits d'un manuscrit de ce second texte. Voici encore la premi�re �dition de La V�nerie de Du Fouilloux ainsi que treize �ditions ult�rieures. Voil� les trait�s les plus rares de fauconnerie d'archerie de louveterie; introuvables pour la plupart certains sont m�me uniques: l'�dition Wynleyn de Worde du Book of St Albans 1518 ou l'�dition d'Augsbourg de 1497 d'un trait� de fauconnerie. Voil� encore de splendides exemplaires d'ouvrages de v�nerie du 17e au 19e don't nombre sont reli�s en maroquin rouge brun ou vert et tous en merveilleux �tat. Voil� des ouvrages reli�s aux armes des plus grandes familles voire aux armes royales; voil� m�me deux carnets de chasse de la main de Louis XVI couvrant tous les deux l'ann�e cruciale 1789.Voil� encore de fabuleuses images de chasse; des miniatures milanaises de 1400 des dessins de Stradanus des gravures de Victor Adam d'autres des fr�res Vernet. . . et voil� encore . . . et encore . . . Notes on front pastedown endpaper prices marked throughout otherwise near Very Good. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, Monaco, auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th February and 1st March, 1987 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-35656
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The Wardington Library : Incunabula and The Wardington Hours. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date 5 December 2006
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December 2006. Cloth 4to 27 cm. 124 pp plates some colour. 43 lots. From the introduction: "There are forty-six incunabula editions bound in forty-two volumes one book printed in 1502 an edition of Filelfo's Epistolae printed in Venice with its spine wrongly stamped Mediolani 1475 and one Strassburg imprint of 1513 in a interesting Sammelband of two printed books and a manuscript. There are sixteen incunabula printed in the German-speaking lands twenty-eight in Italy of which fourteen printed in Venice one printed in Louvain and an English fragment. There is nothing printed in France or Spain. For the most part the books are in Latin aldiough diere are three Greek texts lots 23 37 and 38 and two works in Italian lots 7 and 36. The earliest book is dated 1469 and is from the press of Mentelin lot 2 and there are another twenty-one printed in the 1470s. There is one book printed on vellum the Praeparatio evangelica of Eusebius printed by Jenson lot 18 and there are one or two books widi very handsome decoration notably the Augustine De civitate Dei Mainz 1473 lot 3 and the Sallust decorated by the Master of the Pico Pliny lot 35. Although there are three items in eighteenth-century bindings most of the bindings are nineteenth-century and many come from one bindery that of Storr of Grantham and half the books have one provenance that of the Thorold library at Syston Park.This group of some forty three volumes the last a fine manuscript Book of Hours illuminated by the Bedford Master in Paris in around 1420 acquired by Lord Wardington in 1958 the printed books largely acquired by his grandfather in the 1880s marks the end of the dispersal of the library at Wardington Manor. It is a tribute to successive generations of mostly English book collectors and in particular to the interests of one family and this final catalogue takes us back to its beginning. Syston Park may have been destroyed and Wardington Manor severely damaged by fire but the books are still with us." With indexes of authors and of notable provenances. Priced in pencil with bidder numbers noted a few other pencil notes otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December 2006 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-36233
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Biblioth�que Marcel Jeanson Deuxi�me Partie : Ornithologie Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 16 June 1988
Sotheby's Monaco auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th June 1988. Cloth 4to. 205 pp numerous colour plates. 392 lots. In French. The first part of the sale in 1987 had been devoted to works on hunting; this second part was entirely devoted to ornithology and included works by Audebert. Audubon. Baer. Beebe. Bettoni. Boitard. Bonaparte. Bouchard. Bouteille. Buc'Hoz. Brown. Brisson. Buffon. Catesby. Collaert and many more. From an advertisement for the sale: "The sale is dominated by large groups of watercolours of outstanding quality by three French artists. Nicolas Robert 1614-1685 was certainly the finest Natural History artist of the 17th Century and his work usually watercolour on vellum is extremely rare; this is by far the largest group of watercolours by him left in private hands. Jacques Barraband 1767-1809 is best known for his illustrations to Le Vaillant's ornithological books examples of which are included in the sale. Some 120 of Barraband's large preparatory watercolours which are of breathtaking quality and in superb condition. A large group of watercolours by Edouard Travies 1805-after 1866 from the 1830's for editions of LeBuffon .is followed by a smaller group of working studies for lithographs which date from the end of the next decade and clearly show the artist's development. The sale also includes outstanding ornithological printed books from the 16th to the 19th Century." Estimates included at end of catalogue. Very Good. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, Monaco, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th June 1988 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-35661
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Printed Books and Maps. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 27 November 1997
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held in the Aeolian Hall Bloomfield Place on 27th November 1997. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 83 pp ills. 716 lots. Wrappers slightly yellowed lower fore-edge corners curled otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held in the Aeolian Hall, Bloomfield Place on 27th November, 1997 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34987
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The Wardington Library : Important Atlases & Geographies. Part One : A-K. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 18 October 2005
Sotheby's London auction catalogues for the sales held on 18th October 2005. Cloth 4to cover illustration 27 cm. 347 pp plates many in colour ills. 244 lots. The first part of a two-part catalogue. Estimates included with lot descriptions. Minor scuffs to boards otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogues for the sales held on 18th October, 2005 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-35108
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The Collection of Otto Sch�fer Part I : Italian Books Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 8 December 1994
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December 1994. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. numerous plates including many in colour. 198 lots. A lavishly illustrated catalogue of a major collection. Very Good. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December, 1994 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-35077
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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. Boards slightly duststained and a little bumped otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December, 2001 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-35187
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Livres Anciens et Modernes. Sotheby's Monaco S.A. auction catalogue sale date: 20 October 1986
Sotheby's Monaco S.A. Monte Carlo auction catalogue for the sale held on 20th October 1986. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. approximately 108 pp ills some colour. 401-677 lots. The sale comprised: Livres anciens et du XIXe si�cle Lots 400-574; Livres Illustr�s Modernes & Reliures du XXe si�cle Lots 575-677. Very Good. Sotheby's Monaco S.A., Monte Carlo, auction catalogue for the sale held on 20th October 1986 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-35463
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Biblioth�que Marcel Jeanson Premiere Partie : Chasse Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates 28 February and 1 March 1987.
Sotheby's Monaco auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th February and 1st March 1987. Cloth 4to. 515 pp numerous colour and black-and-white plates. 598 lots. In French. The first part of the sale devoted to works on all forms of hunting. From the introduction: "Jeanson bien s�r ne manqua pas d'acqu�rir nombre de chefs d'oeuvre aux ventes Rahir 1938 et Schwerdt 1939 qui demeur�rent ainsi absents du march� pendant les cinquantes derni�res ann�es. Parcourrons cette bifoho-di�que et feuilletons certains de ses tr�sors: ce sont six des sept manuscrits enlumin�s de Gaston Ph�bus aujourd'hui en mains priv�es ainsi que les deux premi�res �ditions imprim�es circa 1507. Ce sont les trois premi�res �ditions du Roy Modus d'Henri de Ferri�re 1486 et un des deux seuls manuscrits demeurant en collection priv�e. De Guillaume Cr�tin voici les premi�res �ditions de ses po�mes de chasse Chante Royaulx 1527 et circa 1529 et Le d�bat des deux dames 1526 ainsi que l'ensemble exceptionnel d'enluminures de chasse extraits d'un manuscrit de ce second texte. Voici encore la premi�re �dition de La V�nerie de Du Fouilloux ainsi que treize �ditions ult�rieures. Voil� les trait�s les plus rares de fauconnerie d'archerie de louveterie; introuvables pour la plupart certains sont m�me uniques: l'�dition Wynleyn de Worde du Book of St Albans 1518 ou l'�dition d'Augsbourg de 1497 d'un trait� de fauconnerie. Voil� encore de splendides exemplaires d'ouvrages de v�nerie du 17e au 19e don't nombre sont reli�s en maroquin rouge brun ou vert et tous en merveilleux �tat. Voil� des ouvrages reli�s aux armes des plus grandes familles voire aux armes royales; voil� m�me deux carnets de chasse de la main de Louis XVI couvrant tous les deux l'ann�e cruciale 1789.Voil� encore de fabuleuses images de chasse; des miniatures milanaises de 1400 des dessins de Stradanus des gravures de Victor Adam d'autres des fr�res Vernet. . . et voil� encore . . . et encore . . . Covers slightly scuffed and a little worn at the corners small indentation to front board otherwise Good. Sotheby's, Monaco, auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th February and 1st March, 1987 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34591
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The Americana library of Laird U. Park Jr. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 29 November 2000
Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 29th November 2000. Laminated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 328 pp plates some colour ills. 394 lots. From the introduction: "Although the Park collection is about a third of the size of last year's Siebert sale and about one-tenth the size of the legendary Streeter sale it is considered to be among the most important collections of Americana offered for sale at auction during the past fifty years. Because of its breadth it is in many ways like a mini-Streeter. .The scope of the Park collection is broad. There are great areas of concentration. Examples of this are: Lewis and Clark Franklin and Franklin Imprints the American Revolution Native Americans and Western Exploration View Books Philadelphia and Pennsylvania 17th-century Americana the South and some spectacular manuscript material including extraordinary autograph letters signed by George Washington Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. There are numerous "high spots" in the collection including the Aitken Bible; Birch's Views of Philadelphia; the 1754 edition of Catesby; Franklin presentation copies as well as rare Franklin imprints; Hill's Picturesque Views of American Scenery; Hubbard's Present State of New England; Zenas Leonard's Narrative; Henry Lewis's Das Illustrirte Mississippithal; and two copies of J. O. Lewis's Aboriginal Port Folio including the Siebert copy containing eighty plates. In addition there is a wonderful collection of Lewis and Clark; a choice copy of McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes; Mantes French and Indian War classic; Maximilian's Travels in North America; Morton's New English Canaan; Purchas's Voyages London 1625; and George Washington's copy of Joseph Priestly's Discourses Relating to Religion. Also present are an extensive group of titles by Benjamin Rush; an immaculate copy of Simcoe's Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers; John Smith's Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters London 1698 as well as his General Historic of Virginia; Warre's Sketches in North America; Washington's Journal London 1754; and Williams' Key to the Language of America London 1643. Near Fine in lightly soiled dustwrapper. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 29th November, 2000 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34752
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English literature : history private press children's books and illustrations. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 13 December 2007
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th December 2007. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 263 pp plates ills. 311A lots. The sale comprised: History Seventeenth to Twentieth Century lots 1-15;; Science and Medicine lots 16-19; English Literature: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century lots 20-23; Seventeenth Century lots 24-32; Eighteenth Century lots 33-35; Books and Letters from the Libraries of S. T. Coleridge and his descendants lots 36-59; Nineteenth Century lots 60-87; Twentieth Century lots 88-198 Including the LilyYeats Collection lots 134-154 Including W.B. Yeats lots 155-198; Fine Bindings and Calligraphy lots 199-205; Private Press lots 206-246 Including Kelmscott Press lots 206-244; Children's Books lllustrated Books and Related Drawings lots 247-311A Including J.K. Rowling's The Taies of Beedle the Bard lot 311A. Lot 311A also had a separate catalogue not included here. Many lots with scribbled prices otherwise near Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th December, 2007 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34397
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The Wardington Library : Bibles. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 12 July 2006
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 12th July 2006. Cloth mounted cover illustration 4to 27 cm. 282 pp plates ills. 257 lots. With an introduction by Lord Wardington discussing the history of the English Bible with reference to his collection in which he states that the Bible collection was his main interest in the Library. Contents: The Wardington Library: Bibles Lots 1-257 comprising Printed English Bibles Lots 1-224; Bible Reference Lots 225-232; Non-English Bibles including Medieval Manuscripts Lots 233-257; Index of Uniform Titles; Selective Index of Binders and Illustrators; Bibliography. Indexed. Waterstaining to rear board minor colour bleed to cornertips of first few leaves and last few leaves a little rippled without staining otherwise a Good copy. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 12th July, 2006 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34757
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Incunabula from the court library at Donaueschingen. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 1 July 1994
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 1st July 1994. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 323 pp plates some colour ills. 326 lots. Introduction; Catalogue Descriptions; Appendix: Donaueschingen Incunables Traded in 1930 and Privately Sold to Baden-Wurttemberg in 1994; Index of Authors and Titles; Index of Cities and Printers; Index of Provenance; Index of Bindings; Illustrations of Binding Tools and Ownership Marks; Concordances: Hain - Copinger - Reichling - GW - Goff; Principal Works Cited; From the introduction: "In the late fifteenth century the young Count Wolfgang founding father of the house of F�rstenberg displayed his pride of ownership of favorite manuscripts and early printed books at the time of course new printed books by conspicuously inscribing his name: Diss buck ist Wolffgang grauff du F�rstenberg. These precious relics stored for centuries at the family's castle at the source of the Danube are the foundation stones of what developed in succeeding centuries into one of the great noble libraries of Europe: the Court Library at Donaueschingen. Sotheby's has for long been involved in the Furstenberg library. In June and July 1982 we sold at auction in separate catalogues a group of twenty major western illuminated manuscripts from the rich trove at Donaueschingen and a similar selection of some 400 printed books of science natural history and travel. In 1993 Sotheby's negotiated one of the largest private book sales in history when the state of Baden- W�rttemberg purchased for DM 48000000 great majority of the Donaueschingen medieval manuscripts. We now bring to auction approximately 400 Donaueschingen incunabula following our private sale to Baden-W�rttemberg earlier this year of 85 incunabula of special significance to the state libraries in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart see Appendix. The Donaueschingen Incunabula are an amalgam of secular and ecclesiastical chains of ownership which shed much new light on the history of ownership and use of early printed books in southwestern Germany. The central core is the surviving group of books bearing the inscriptions of Count Wolfgang F�rstenberg 1465-1509 four of which are now offered at sale two others being included in the private sale of incunabula to Baden- W�rttemberg see Appendix. These are exclusively vernacular texts meant for secular amusement and instruction and commonly enlivened with woodcut illustrations: Steinhowel's German version of Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus; two editions of the fascinating collection of fables of Bidpai known as the Buch der Beispiele translated by Anton von Pforr; the Klagspiegl a German tract on judicial penalties of which a manuscript copy was also in the Donaueschingen library; the Arzneibuch of Ortolff von Bayerlantt a compendium of folk medicine Wolfgang's signature appears also in two manuscript copies. Typical reading tastes of the Germany nobility are reflected also in an early French edition of the chivalric romance Lancelot du lac in which Count Joachim F�rstenberg grandson of Wolfgang entered an inscription in 1559 when he located the book after the death of his father Count Friedrich. Small sticker mark on front wrapper otherwise Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 1st July, 1994 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34792
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Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. Sotheby & Co. auction catalogue sale date: 21 June 1988.
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st June 1988. Laminated wrappers 4to. 161 pp plates some in colour. 126 lots. The items offered included: The Imhof Prayerhook Antwerp 1511 with 49 miniatures by Simon Bening; a Flemish Psalter with15 miniatures and over 100 marginal grotesques c.1300; Books of Hours including one with the device of Antoine Verard and over 500 large and small miniatures Paris c1510 a Book of Hours of Sarum Use with 49 miniatures by the Bedford Master Paris c.1425 a Dutch Book of Hours with 14 miniatures by the Zwolle Bible Master Arnhem c.1475 and a remarkable oval-shaped Book of Hours with mystical miniatures by the Doheny Master; Books of Hours illuminated in Utrecht Liege Bruges Paris Rheims Rouen Amiens Florence and Venice; Psalters Breviaries Antiphoners and Graduals; medieval texts including works by Usuardus Petrits Riga Johannes Marchisinus Bartolomo da San Goncordia Petrus de Crescentiis Francesco Petrarca Petrus Rosenheim and Raymund Lull; classical texts including a Suetonius and three manuscripts of Cicero; fragments of uncial manuscripts including the earliest known manuscript of part of St.Paul's Epistle to the Romans 3rd century seven leaves from a very early Coptic Psalter and four leaves from an eighth-century medical manuscript from the eastern Frankish kingdom now Switzzerland; eighteen full-page miniatures from an Armenian Gospel Book Lake Van sixteenth century; single leaves and cuttings including illuminated miniatures by or from the workshops of Jacquemart de Hesdin the Boucicaut Master the Master of Otto van Moerdrecht the Master of Edward IV Simon Bening Girolamo dai Libri and Attavante degli Attavanti; and miniatures of the Lancoon Group c.1506 and of an elephant c.1300. Stain to front cover and minor marking to first two leaves at fore-edge some scribble dprices in margins otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st June, 1988 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34398
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Fine books and manuscripts. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 22 June 1999
Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 22nd June 1999. Laminated wrappers 4to. 392 pp plates ills. 460 lots. Among the sections noted were the following: Americana Lots 1-162; modern illustrated books and fine bindings 163-196; a selection of fruit books from the pomological library of Robert A. Nitschke 197-246; property from the botanical library of Earl L. Murphy M.D. 247-267; natural history and travel 288-314; fine books & manuscripts 315-460. Near Fine. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 22nd June, 1999 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34796
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Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 22 June 2004
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 22nd June 2004. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 166 pp colour plates ills. 85 lots. llustrations throughout of illuminated manuscripts or fragments on vellum from Italy France England Germany the Netherlands Flanders Spain including Cristoforo Buondelmonti's 'liber Insularum Archipelagi' a consular diptych on ivory from the early 6th century etc. Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 22nd June 2004 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34028
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Western Manuscripts and Miniatures with important Hebrew incunabula and early printed books from the collection of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild 1818-1874 and Hebrew manuscripts from the early fourteenth century onwards including several formerly in the library of David Solomon Sassoon 1880-1942. Sotheby's. auction catalogue sale date: 5 December 1994
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December 1994. Printed wrappers 4to. 135 pp numerous black-and-white plates ills. 99 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following:manuscripts in Latin French Dutch German Italian Greek Coptic Judaeo-Arabic Ge'ez Syriac and Anglo-Norman and with Bibles liturgical books Books of Hours classical texts monastic statutes medieval texts on alchemy baking etc. and with miniatures and illumination by Jacobellus known as Muriolus Nicol� da Bologna the Master of the Murano Gradual the Boucicaut Master the Master of Morgan 85 the Master of the Suffrages the Master of the Older Prayerbooks of Maximilian I Perrin Retniet and Meshullam Zeimel ben Moshe and other artists. Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December, 1994 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-34027
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Livres anciens livres illustres modernes. Sotheby's Monaco auction catalogue sale date: 16 June 1989
Sotheby's Monaco S.A. Monte Carlo auction catalogue for the sale held on 16 June 1989. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 105 pp ills some colour. 230 lots. Very Good. List of prices realized loosely laid in. Sotheby's Monaco S.A., Monte Carlo, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16 June, 1989 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-19977
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Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 15 October 1997
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th October 1997. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 88 pp plates ills some colour. 82 lots. The first 20 lots comprised Qur'an leaves and illuminated manuscripts. The sale also included important lots of Persian illuminated manuscripts miniatures watercolours and portraits including a rare 17th century Safavid lifesize oil painting of a European dignitary. Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th October 1997 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-33665
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Printed and Manuscript Music. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 9 December 1999
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 9th December 1999. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 168 pp plates ills. 267 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: hitherto unrecorded autograph music manuscripts by Schubert Mendelssohn and Schumann autograph manuscripts by Verdi Offenbach Johann Strauss Sullivan and Walton and important letters by Beethoven Chopin and Johann Strauss. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 9th December 1999 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-33876
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 16 March 1996
Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th March 1996. Laminated wrappers 4to. several colour plates ills. 1 lot. Catalogue entirely devoted to the earliest surviving autograph manuscript by Einstein on the Special Theory of Relativity; and the most substantial and significant of the handful of surviving scientific manuscripts written by Enstein during his period of greatest creativity before the end of World War I. Near Fine. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th March, 1996 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-33599
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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. Boards bumped at lower fore-edge corners and front board slightly abraded there otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December, 2001 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-33562
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Printed Books and Maps of the Near and Middle East including the library of Cyrus Ghani. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 23 October 1997
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held in the Aeolian Hall Bloomfield Place on 23rd October 1997. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 88 pp ills. 604 lots. Indexed. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held in the Aeolian Hall, Bloomfield Place on 23rd October, 1997 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-33872
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The Pencarrow Collection of autographs including the newly discovered Beethoven quartet movement. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 8 December 1999
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December 1999. Laminated illustrated boards 4to. 136 pp plates ills. 202 lots. From the introduction: "Perhaps the collection's most astonishing feature is that it has remained in obscurity for over 100 years most of the interesting items evading the attentions of scholars. There are many new and unpublished items here including letters by Charlotte Bronte Boswell. Burns Darwin Disraeli Edward VII George Eliot David Garrick Gordon of Khartoum Mendelssohn Mary Shelley and others: Charles Dickens reflects on a train crash the horror of which stayed with him for the rest of his life Winston Churchill defends his stance on the Boer War Lord Nelson professes his love to Emma Hamilton Bvron discusses the nature of good poetry. If that were the sum of the collection it would be remarkable enough. That it contains at least two items of international significance raises it to quite a different plane. First is a group of items relating to America and its Civil War. Among these items which include letters by Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee is a highly important unpublished and undocumented proclamation by Abraham Lincoln about Confederate prisoners and relating indirectly to the matter of slavery. This is a major discovery and adds new historical evidence to a crucial period of American history. the second discovery is even more remarkable and relates to Mary Ford's husband Richard 1796-1858 the noted traveller and author whose consummate Handbook for Travellers in Spain 1845 is regarded as a guide of the highest importance. Ford's travelling evidently began early. Shortly after graduating at Oxford in 1817 he visited Vienna where he encountered Beethoven. The composer not known for his unstinting amiability evidently liked his English visitor and gave him a souvenir. The autograph manuscript which presumably passed into the possession of Ford's third wife Mary bears a most interesting inscription signed by Richard Ford: 'This quartette was composed for me in my presence by Ludwig v. Beethoven at Vienna Friday 28th November 1817 Richard Ford'. " Contents include: An Appreciation of Sir William Molesworth Bt; English Literature lots 1-56; Theatre lots 57-59; History and Politics lots 60-75 Travel and Exploration lots 76-83 Military and Naval lots 84-88; Science and Technology lots 89-102; Philosophy Economics and Religion lots 103-109; Art Architecture and Photography lots 110-123; American Literature and History lot 124-149; Continental Literature lots 150-171; Continental Latin American and South African History lots 172-188; Music lots 189-202; Index; Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December, 1999 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-33581
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Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 16 October 1996
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th October 1996. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 99 pp plates ills some colour. 118 lots. The sale comprised: Qur'an Leaves & Manuscripts Lots 1-33; Manuscripts Calligraphy and Laquer Lots 34-48 including the Dufferin and Ava Shahnama; Persian Manuscripts and Paintings Lots 49-77; Indian Miniatures lots 78-118. Very Good. List of prices realized laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th October 1996 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-33711
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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. Very Good save for a vertical line lightly scored down the centre of the front board from top to bottom. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th - 13th October 1989 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-04777
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Printed Books and Maps including a section on Greece Turkey Cyprus the Near and Middle East; The Natural History library of the Late Mr. D. and Mrs. K.E. Daniels of Shrewsbury; and Books from the Art Reference Library of Dr. Julius Bohler of Munich. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. auction catalogue sale date: 26-27 October 1995
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held in the Aeolian Hall on 26th-27th October 1995. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 147 pp in double-column format ills. 1236 lots. The sale comprised: Greece Turkey Cyprus the Near and Middle East 1-241; Europe 242-303; Costume 304-315; Naval & Military 316-329; Architecture Technology and Related Subjects 329-345; British Isles 346-415; General Atlases and Geographies 416-448; General Voyages 449-460; World and General Maps 461-471; Americas 472-534; Africa 535-552; Asia 553-600; Australasia and the Pacific 601-614; Natural History including the Natural History Library of the Late ; Mr D. and Mrs K.E. Daniels of Shrewsbury 515-795; Science and Medicine 796-822; Sport and Pastimes 823-839; Engraved Plate Books and Albums 840-852; Miscellaneous Books 853-884; Manuscripts 885-910; Music 911-953; Art Reference including Books from the Art Reference Library of Dr Julius Bohler of Munich 954-1008; Bibliography 1009-1038; Early Printed Books 1039-1096; Continental Literature 1097-1175; Literature 1176-1207; Modern Literature 1208-1236. Indexed. Upper fore-edge corners a trifle bumped top edge darkened otherwise Near Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held in the Aeolian Hall on 26th-27th October, 1995 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-22626
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Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 19 June 1990
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the second sale held on 19th June 1990. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 177 pp plates ills. 131 lots. Among the highlights noted were: the Donaueschingen Pontifical Reichenau Abbey second quarter of the ninth century; manuscripts in Latin Greek French German Italian Spanish Dutch Middle English Hebrew Church Slavonic Armenian Arabic and Ge'ez; texts by Lucus Anneus Florus Plutarch Servius Gregory the Great Adalerus Berno of Reichenau Sacrobosco Bonaventura Bartholomeus Anglicus Gregory IX Bartolomeo da San Concordia Matthew of Cracow Antoninus of Florence Leonardo Bruni and Amerigo Vespucci; manuscripts of the statutes of England and of canon law chronicles science astronomy mathematics botany sermons virtues and vices and the story of the Holy Grail; Bibles including a third-century fragment of St. John's Gospel and an important early thirteenth-century English Bible from the library of William Morris; Books of Hours including examples of the Uses of Sarum Rome Paris Lyons Therouanne and Tournai and three miniature Italian Books of Hours; a total of over 300 fragments and single leaves including fragments of an Anglo-Saxon service book of a twelfth-century giant Bible from Siena and of the Psalter of Joan of Navarre; and miniatures by or in the style of Nero da Rimini Cristoforo Cortese the Master of the Queen Mary Psalter Johannes the Master of Adelaide of Savoy the Master of the Prayerbooks of c. 1500 and the Spanish Forger; and documents including illuminated charters of Ferdinand IV 1304 and Richard III 1485 and an archive concerning Savanarola. Front wrapper slightly creased otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the second sale held on 19th June, 1990 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-31963
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Biblioth�que Marcel Jeanson Deuxi�me Partie : Ornithologie Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 16 June 1988
Sotheby's Monaco auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th June 1988. Cloth 4to. 205 pp numerous colour plates. 392 lots. In French. The first part of the sale in 1987 had been devoted to works on hunting; this second part was entirely devoted to ornithology and included works by Audebert. Audubon. Baer. Beebe. Bettoni. Boitard. Bonaparte. Bouchard. Bouteille. Buc'Hoz. Brown. Brisson. Buffon. Catesby. Collaert and many more. From an advertisement for the sale: "The sale is dominated by large groups of watercolours of outstanding quality by three French artists. Nicolas Robert 1614-1685 was certainly the finest Natural History artist of the 17th Century and his work usually watercolour on vellum is extremely rare; this is by far the largest group of watercolours by him left in private hands. Jacques Barraband 1767-1809 is best known for his illustrations to Le Vaillant's ornithological books examples of which are included in the sale. Some 120 of Barraband's large preparatory watercolours which are of breathtaking quality and in superb condition. A large group of watercolours by Edouard Travies 1805-after 1866 from the 1830's for editions of LeBuffon .is followed by a smaller group of working studies for lithographs which date from the end of the next decade and clearly show the artist's development. The sale also includes outstanding ornithological printed books from the 16th to the 19th Century." Estimates included at end of catalogue. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. List of prices realized and buyers laid in. Sotheby's, Monaco, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th June 1988 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-33557
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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-32297
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English literature and history private press and illustrated books drawings and watercolours. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 12 December 1991
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 12th December 1991. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 156 pp plates ills some in colour. 326 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Shakespeare's second and fourth folios the first appearance of Milton's "Lycidas" first editions of novels by Jane Austen dedication and presentation copies of works by Graham Greene inscribed by him to his wife Vivien presentation copies of works by Evelyn Waugh inscribed to Graham Greene a collection of material by or relating to John Wilkes important manuscripts and drawings of Mervyn Peake the archive of Lord Kimberley Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Winston Churchill's official War Office photographs; Fine Letters and Literary Material by James Thomson G.B. Shaw Robert Graves Brendan Behan and Other Important Drawings by Richard Doyle Edmund Dulac Arthur Rackham E.H. Shepard and Others; Designs for Book Illustrations and the Stage by Rex Whistler. Indexed. Wrappers slightly yellowed near Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 12th December, 1991 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-32896
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The Astor Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts : Twenty Manuscripts from the Celebrated Collection of William Waldorf Astor 1848-1919 . From the Library at Cliveden and Subsequently Part of the Astor Deposit at the Bodleian Library . Tuesday 21 June 1988 Sotheby's auction catalogue for sale held on 21 June 1988.
Sotheby's London separate auction catalogue for twenty manuscripts lots 50-69 in the sale held on 21st June 1988. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 124 pp colour plates. 20 lots 50-69 A stunning collection including a mid-fourteenth century Roman de la Rosethe Hours and Psalter of Elizabeth de Bohun c 1340-45 Bede's Commentary on St Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles Naples c. 1481 and the Hours of Albrecht of Brandenburg Bruges 1522 which is given 30 pages of description and illustration in the catalogue. The sale set world record prices for English Flemish and Italian manuscripts. Fine. Sotheby's, London, separate auction catalogue for twenty manuscripts (lots 50-69) in the sale held on 21st June, 1988 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-32319
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Natural History Travel Atlases and Maps. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 18 November 2004
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th November 2004. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 254 pp plates ills. 323 lots. Indexed. Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th November 2004 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-32342
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Biblioth�que Marcel Jeanson Premiere Partie : Chasse Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates 28 February and 1 March 1987.
Sotheby's Monaco auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th February and 1st March 1987. Cloth 4to. 515 pp numerous colour and black-and-white plates. 598 lots. In French. The first part of the sale devoted to works on all forms of hunting. From the introduction: "Jeanson bien s�r ne manqua pas d'acqu�rir nombre de chefs d'oeuvre aux ventes Rahir 1938 et Schwerdt 1939 qui demeur�rent ainsi absents du march� pendant les cinquantes derni�res ann�es. Parcourrons cette bifoho-di�que et feuilletons certains de ses tr�sors: ce sont six des sept manuscrits enlumin�s de Gaston Ph�bus aujourd'hui en mains priv�es ainsi que les deux premi�res �ditions imprim�es circa 1507. Ce sont les trois premi�res �ditions du Roy Modus d'Henri de Ferri�re 1486 et un des deux seuls manuscrits demeurant en collection priv�e. De Guillaume Cr�tin voici les premi�res �ditions de ses po�mes de chasse Chante Royaulx 1527 et circa 1529 et Le d�bat des deux dames 1526 ainsi que l'ensemble exceptionnel d'enluminures de chasse extraits d'un manuscrit de ce second texte. Voici encore la premi�re �dition de La V�nerie de Du Fouilloux ainsi que treize �ditions ult�rieures. Voil� les trait�s les plus rares de fauconnerie d'archerie de louveterie; introuvables pour la plupart certains sont m�me uniques: l'�dition Wynleyn de Worde du Book of St Albans 1518 ou l'�dition d'Augsbourg de 1497 d'un trait� de fauconnerie. Voil� encore de splendides exemplaires d'ouvrages de v�nerie du 17e au 19e don't nombre sont reli�s en maroquin rouge brun ou vert et tous en merveilleux �tat. Voil� des ouvrages reli�s aux armes des plus grandes familles voire aux armes royales; voil� m�me deux carnets de chasse de la main de Louis XVI couvrant tous les deux l'ann�e cruciale 1789.Voil� encore de fabuleuses images de chasse; des miniatures milanaises de 1400 des dessins de Stradanus des gravures de Victor Adam d'autres des fr�res Vernet. . . et voil� encore . . . et encore . . . Long scratch to spine front board slightly marked otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, Monaco, auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th February and 1st March, 1987 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-32659
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The Trumbull Papers. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date : 14 December 1989.
Sotheby's. London auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th December 1989. Cloth 4to. 157 pp many plates including some in colour. 63 lots. The archives of the related Trumbull and Weckherlin families spanning 1540-1770 which had descended to the Marquess of Downshire. The collection was sold by private treaty. "Spanning a period of more than two centuries of British European and Colonial history from the 1540s to the 1770s with a special concentration on the whole of the seventeenth century the papers include most notably the diplomatic and official papers of William Trumbull c. 1580-1635 British Resident at Brussels his daughter's father-in-law Georg Rudolph Weckherlin 1584-1653 Charles I's secretary and afterwards Secretary to Parliament for the Foreign Tongues and William Trumbull's grandson Sir William Trumbull 1639-1716 Ambassador to Paris and Constantinople and afterwards Secretary of State. As much as a hundred thousand pages of correspondence tracts memoranda and other related documents it is the largest and most important collection of State Papers of the period ever to be offered for sale at auction." - from the catalogue introduction. Very Good. Sotheby's. London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th December, 1989 hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-32296
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Western Manuscripts and Miniatures Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 21 June 1994
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st June 1994. Laminated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 123 pp plates ills. 114 lots. Near Fine. List of prices realized and buyers loosely laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st June, 1994 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-31993
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Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 1 December 1998
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 1st December 1998. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 136 pp plates ills. 103 lots. The catalogue includes also descriptions of the two illumnated medieval manuscripts included in the sale of 2nd December 1998. Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 1st December 1998 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-31835
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Sotheby's
English literature and history private press and illustrated books and related drawings. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 13 December 1993
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held in the Aeolian Hall on 13th December 1993. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 119 pp plates ills. 357 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Shakespeare's Hamlet in Quarto c.1630 bound in contemporary vellum with a number of other plays from the period a first edition of the first privately printed book in England Mathew Parker's de Antiquitate Brttannicae Ecclesiae 1572; the Judge's Annotated Copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover Used at the 1960 obscenity trial; a revealing series of letters by Greta Garbo to a close friend in Sweden; letters written by a steward on the Titanic; manuscripts and letters by Branwell Bronte. J.S. Mill Thomas de Quincey John Steinbeck Henry Williamson R.B. Sheridan Mary Howitt G.B. Shaw H. Rider Haggard and others. Indexed. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held in the Aeolian Hall on 13th December, 1993 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-30393
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Western Manuscripts and Miniatures Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 5 December 1989
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December 1989. Laminated wrappers 4to. 244 pp colour plates ills. 136 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: the Du Boisrouvray Psalter Amiens c.1260 with 40 miniatures and a Brabant Psalter c.1280 with 77 miniatures; and four extremely important illuminated manuscripts in Hebrew from the ninth to the fifteenth century the property of the British Rail Pension Fund; and also including manuscripts of Aristophanes and Euripides Varro Horace Cyril of Alexandria Joachim of Fiore Gerard of Vliederhoven Leonardo Bruni and Georgius Gemistus Plethon and manuscripts of the romances of Alexander and of Constanza of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost Exempla Sermons and Genealogies; four thirteenth-century Bibles and a twelfth-century New Testament; two English Psalters of the fifteenth century including the Barningham Psalter in a contemporary binding; twenty-three Books of Hours including three from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century; manuscripts made for Jean de Montboissier Arthur Duke of Brittany Borso d'Este Pope Clement VII Louise de Bourbon and Charles I of England; manuscripts illuminated by the Brussels Initials Master Monte del For a Maitre Fran�ois the Master of Edward IV the Dresden Master Antonio de Hollanda and Esther Inglis; a total of 425 manuscript fragments and cuttings including a tenth-century Carolingian drawing a twelfth-century leaf of an illustrated Peter Lombard and two Mozarabic miniatures of the thirteenth century; manuscripts in Latin Greek Hebrew French Italian Spanish Portugese Dutch Middle English Armenian Church Slavonic Sa'idic and Ge'ez; manuscripts from the Christian Orient and an Ethiopian imperial Dibabe. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December, 1989 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-30329
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Sotheby's
The Collection of Otto Sch�fer Part I : Italian Books Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 8 December 1994
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December 1994. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. numerous plates including many in colour. 198 lots. A lavishly illustrated catalogue of a major collection. Long diagonal crease to rear wrapper otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December, 1994 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-31672
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Sotheby's
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". Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st July, 1993 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-30288
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Sotheby's
English Literature and History. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 13 December 1990
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 13 December 1990. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 347 pp plates ills. 502 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: The letter by Queen Elizabeth I instructing her Admiral Howard of Effingham to put to sea against the Spanish Armada; Correspondence of Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia and her family; A fine collection of printed eighteenth-century English Literature; The Archive of the Lamb Family of Melbourne Hall; Books and fine bindings from the Library of the Duke of Wellington; A series of letters by John Ruskin about Rose La Touche; A collection of books and manuscripts by or relating to Oscar Wilde; Books and papers from the family library of Gerard Manley Hopkins; Books and papers of Samuel Beckett from the collection of John Calder; A collection of the earliest English Sale Catalogues. Near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 13 December 1990 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-30332
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