Sotheby & Co London 1966. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 292 lots. 83 pages. With plates. With loosely inserted slip with prices realized at auction. Small annotation on front cover. Slight wear to spine covers & corners. Full Title: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE ENGLISH BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS INCLUDING CHRISTINE OF PISAN The Fayttes of Armes and of Chyualrye WESTMINSTER WILLIAM CAXTON 1489; GABRIEL HARVEY’S ANNOTATED COPY OF TUSSER’S Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie 1580; BOCCACCIO’S The Decameron 1620 THE FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH EDITION; FIELDING’S Tom Jones FIRST EDITION; FANNY BURNEY’S Evelina FIRST EDITION; GEORGE ELIOT’S Adam Beck FIRST EDITION A PRESENTATION COPY; SCIENCE AND MEDICINE. AN ALMOST COMPLETE SET OF THE WORKS OF JOHN GOULD; HARRIS’S L'Aurelien 1794; SMITH AND ABBOTT’S Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia 1797; BROOKSHAW’S Pomona 1812; REDOUTÉ’S Les Roses FIRST OCTAVO EDITION AND OTHER NATURAL HISTORY AND COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS; A COLLECTION OF BOOKPLATES. LETTERS OF PEPYS SWIFT JOHNSON MALONE SYDNEY SMITH SHERIDAN THACKERAY COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH; A CONTEMPORARY REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM PRYNNE; LETTERS OF DARWIN JENNER AND THOMAS TELFORD; RICHARD BEAMISH’S THAMES TUNNEL DIARY; LETTERS OF SIR RICHARD BURTON GORDON LIVINGSTONE AND SIR HENRY BULWER; LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF SIR JOHN KIRK; WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS BY SIR JOHN ROSS IN SEARCH OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE; THE ANTARCTIC JOURNALS OF COMMANDER F. A. WORSLEY which will be sold by auction . Day of Sale: Monday 21st March 1966 Size: Octavo standard book size. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Book History Book Binding & Book Collecting; Auction Catalogues; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013216. . Sotheby & Co unknown
Sotheby and Co London 1934. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good-. 94 pages. With folding plates. Former owner's name on title page. Annotation in pencil on title page. Some damage to top spine with part binding missing. Spine covers & corners slightly worn & slightly soiled. Full Title: Catalogue of highly important autograph letters & literary manuscripts principally of the XIX th century comprising an extraordinary assemblage of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray including drawings for Vanity Fair the Property of Dr. G.C. Taylor of Brisbane & of Marion Countess Russell; Letters to Mark Lemon the property of two grandsons of the recipient; a remarkable album of letters and drawings formed by his early friend J.M. Kemble the property of the Rev. C.E. Donne; and a superb series of letters to Mrs. T.F. Elliot and her sister Miss Kate Perry the Property of Hubert Elliot Esq.; with F. Anstey's Autograph Manuscript of "Vice Versa" the Property of the late Mrs. Roe: an unpublished letter from Keats to Thomas Richards the property of John F. Richards Esq.; Literary manuscripts by Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens D.H. Lawrence and R.C. Sherriff; Letters of John Wesley Robert Burns Thomas Gainsborough Charles Lamb Walter Scott to the Ballantyne's Charles Dickens to Mark Lemon Charles Kingsley to Tom Hughes and Eden Philpotts. Pencil drawings by William Blake from the collection of the late Richard Johnson; water-colour drawings by Thomas Rowlandson the property of Mrs. Gerald Arbuthnot. Printed books &c. including presentation copies of works by W. Cowper and Edward Fitzgerald The property of the Rev. C.G. Donne deceased; also of works by C.L. Dodgson and Charles Dickens; rare Americana with water-colour of San Francisco c. 1852; early maps and charts; books with coloured plates; books from the library of John Donne; Lutheran Tracts; Wesleyana; early printed books; fine bindings; books on London; a fine series of colour plate books; a fine series of colour plate books; Fitzgerald Omar Khayyam 1859 in original wrappers; Milton Poems 1645 wit portrait in fine state; etc. which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Co. . on monday 28th day of May 1934 and two following days Size: Quarto. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 750 grams. Category: Book History Book Binding & Book Collecting; Auction Catalogues; Literary History & Criticism; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012812. . Sotheby and Co unknown
Sotheby's London 1927. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good-. 6 pages. Annotation in pencil on verso front cover. Slight foxing to covers. Slight wear to spine covers & corners. Size: Quarto. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Book History Book Binding & Book Collecting; Medieval History 476-1450; Auction Catalogues; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012809. . Sotheby's unknown
Sotheby and Co London 1929. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good-. 175 pages. With plates. A few pages with annotations. Small note on front cover. Slight damage to head and foot spine. Some browning to margins front and back covers. Spine covers & corners slightly worn & slightly soiled. Full Title: Catalogue of valuable printed books & manuscripts fine bindings autograph letters and historical documents &c. comprising a collection of modern French illsutrated books in handsome bindings; the well-known collection of fine bindings the property of Dr. G. Morriston-Davies Llanbedi Hall Ruthin; an exceptional series of works by modern authors including inscribed presentation copies of Dickens Oliver Twist to W.C. MacReady; the Uncommercial Traveller; and A tale of Two Cities "To George Eliot"; De Quincy Confessions of an English Opium Eater to Peter De Wint; Shelley Laon and Cynthna; Coleridge The Piccolomini; Hardy The Dynasts 1903 to Mr. A.G. Gardiner; and a number inscribed by Rudyard Kipling G. Bernard Shaw Oscar Wilde'First Editions: Dickens Pickwick Papers and Lever the principal novels in the original parts; Coleridge Christabel 1816; Keats Endymion 1818; Shelley Zastrozzi 1810; Queen Mab 1813; Laon and Cynthna 1818 boards uncut; Rosalind and Helen 1819; the Cenci 1819; Prometheus unbound 1820; Stevenson The Pentland Rising 1866 and To the Thompson Class Club 1883; Thackeray Second Funeral of Napoleon 1844; Orme's British Field Sports 1807; The Earlier books include Bacon Essays 1625; Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1719; Fielding Joseph Andrews 1742; Gray's Elegy 1751; Ben Jonson's Copy of Horace Ars Poetica with his signature and motto; James I a counter-blaste to Tobacco 1604; Smith's Virginia 1624; with three copies of the second and one of the fourth Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays'and a fine Flemish illuminated Ms. the Property of J. Berkeley Weld Esq. The Autograph Letters &c. comprise a letter of James Boswell mentioned the "Life" and a remarkable series by Dr. Johnson the property of the Honble. Mrs. Howard Thornbury Castle Gloucester; Part of the Ms. of Carlyle's Frederick the Great; the signed manuscript of Gissing's Preface to Dickens' "Bleak House"; fine letters and Mss. of Sir J.M. Barrie Robert Burns Lord Byron S.T. Coleridge C.L. Dodgson Thomas Hardy Charles Lamb Sir W. Scott P.B. Shelley A.C. Swinburne W.M. Thackeray J.M. Whistler William Wordsworth'and a very fine series of Mss. and Typescripts of George Bernard Shaw the property of M. Augustin Hamon his French translator which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Co. . on Monday 3rd June 1929 and four following days Size: Quarto. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 750 grams. Category: Book History Book Binding & Book Collecting; Auction Catalogues; Literary History & Criticism; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012811. . Sotheby and Co unknown
Sotheby's London 1978. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 59 pages. With plates. Loosely inserted estimates slip. Small annotation on title page. Light wear to spine covers & corners. Size: Octavo standard book size. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Book History Book Binding & Book Collecting; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013222. . Sotheby's unknown
London: Sotheby 1933. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good- copy with rust at staples remnant of paper on front wrapper contents clean. 18 pp. Sm. 4to. 122 items. Sotheby unknown
London: Sotheby's 1977. This is a very good 2 volume hardcover set in the original green printed boards with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out a few page corners bent in the First Portion. These are sale catalogs for auctions that were held at Sotheby's London New Bond Street location on November 14-15 1977 and May 8-9 1978. The First Portion: Abbeville- Lyons had 344 lots. Many illustrated in black & white fold-out color frontispiece. The Second Portion: Madrid- Zwolle had lots 345 through 698. Thus 698 lots in the complete sale. Price estimates sheets for both Portions but not prices realized sheets. 10" high X 7" wide. Various indices: authors titles printers provenance. Heavy set foreign shipping will be extra. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Sotheby's Hardcover
London: Sotheby & Co. 1964. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy. 51 pp. plates. Illus. with 8 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 206 items described. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1969. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good crisp copy. 58 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and photos. Sm. 4to. 223 items described comprising microscope body by John Marshall Ivory Pocket Sundial by Charles Bloud circa 1700; crystal-cased verge watch by Estienne Hubert of Rouen circa 1520; French clockwatch by Noel Cusin of Autin circa 1627; a good early Roman striking month longcase clock by John Knibb; more. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1969. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy. 45 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and photos. Sm. 4to. 116 items described. Property of Mrs. E.D. Guinness Baron de Bonstetten Lt. Col. the Lord Walsingham and Sir Ivor C. Proctor-Beauchamp. 13th 14th and 15th c. caskets; German eastern French Swabian and Flemish reliefs; Italian and French bronzes; more. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1963. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good- copy with tears and chips to spine ends writing on front wrapper and notations scattered throughout including prices realized. 28 pp. plates. Illus. with 21 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 110 items described. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1962. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with prices realized noted on several items. 31 pp. plates. Illus. with 6 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 152 items described including Breguet Perpétuelle No. 5 "Montres de Fantaisie" in a variety of forms 19th c. Swiss Automaton "Triptych" box in gold and enamel; more. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1962. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with prices realized noted on most items. 44 pp. plates. Illus. with 11 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 180 items described including two watercolours by William Blake circa 1802 - The Humility of the Saviour and the Raising of Lazarus; examples by Barlow J.R. Cozens Girtin Rowlandson Paul Sandby A. Cozens F. Towne J.M.W. Turner; more. Property of Sir Ian Horobin Madame J. Laboureur Prof. E. Davison Telford L. Crispin Warmington Dr. Franke Hardie Marchioness of Crewe; more. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1964. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with most prices realized and a few scattered notations. 42 pp. plates. Illus. with 6 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 175 items described. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1962. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy. 27 pp. plates. Illus. with 7 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 118 items described including Durer's Studies of a Male Nude; Gravelot's An elegant young man with a fishing rod; Guardi's Fishing boats and gondolas on front of S. Giorgio Maggiore; more. Property of Horace Bolingbroke Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar others. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1963. First edition. Paper wrappers. Edges bumped else near fine. 36 pp. plates. Illus. with 25 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 149 items described. Including the property of: Mrs. J.H. Dent-Brocklehurst; Baroness Elizabeth van Reigersberg-Versluys; Mrs. de Montmorency Kellock; Mrs. Mary Good; Rev. Canon G.W. Broomfield; E.C. Rudge. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1963. First edition. Paper wrappers. Paper clip mark and a few notations on rear else near fine. 66 pp. plates. Illus. with 29 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 123 items described. Prices realized laid in loose. Includes: Christ as the Man of Sorrows by Botticelli Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael paintings by Tintoretto Bosch van der Ast Goya more. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1965. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy. 27 pp. plates. Illus. with 7 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 150 items described including the Property of Mrs. A. Abrahams . G.H. Forrester Esq. . Mrs. Marjorie Goodwin . Mrs. L.G. Graham . Mrs. H.O. Loescher . Brigadier R. Harding-Newman . Mrs. G.A. Batten-Pooll . Mrs. George Edwards. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1968. First edition. Paper wrappers. Notations on rear wrapper else near fine. 53 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and photos. Sm. 4to. 116 items described. SAle code: OWL. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1965. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy. 36 pp. Sm. 4to. 225 items described including a 17th c. Flemish armoire in kingwood and ebony a pair of Regency cellarettes an Adam white marble chimneypiece and a George III mahogany bureau cabinet; the property of the Rt. Hon. the Viscount Esher A. Crisp. Esq. and Miss Helen Sutherland. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1963. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with occasional notations including some prices realized. 51 pp. plates. Illus. with 1 color and 14 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 160 items described including Palmer's A cow-lodge with a mossy roof; J.R. Cozen's A view from the Inn at Terracina; drawings by Gainsborough Girtin Hearne Rowlandson and Towne; Portraits by Constable Hoppner Raeburn Reynolds Romney; more. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co.; 1970. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with some prices realized noted. 38 pp. plates. Illus. with 6 b/w plates and photos. Sm. 4to. 153 items described. An interesting serpent Forveille a fine and rare ten-keyed silver "Royal Kent' bugle a Welsh triple strung harp a fine walnut spinet a fine gold and tortoiseshell violin bow an English alto viol from 1660; more. Sotheby & Co.; unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1964. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good clean copy with a tear at the spine heel. 44 pp. plates. Illus. with 18 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 171 items described. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1962. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with a tear at the spine heel. 119 pp. Illus. with numerous b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 221 items described many in great detail. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1965. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good crisp copy. 48 pp. plates. Illus. with 1 color and 18 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Including the property of Rt. Hon. the Viscount Allendale . Sir Reginald Houldsworth . and Mrs. Edward Hutton of Westbury Long Island. Works by J.R. Cozens Turner Cotman Bonington Constable Lear Rowlandson Ward; more. 160 items described. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1963. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy. 72 pp. Sm. 4to. 372 items described. Includes the property of: Late Lady Hudson; Late N.H. Rollason; Master of Kinnaird; Count Henrik Brockenhuus-Schack; Mrs. I. E. Kelly. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co.; 1975. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A near fine copy. 35 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and photos. Sm. 4to. 213 items described. Estimates and prices realized laid in loose. Sotheby & Co.; unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1933. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good- copy with rust at staples small tear and crease along fore edge of most leaves. 20 pp. Sm. 4to. 136 items described. Property of Robert Fleming Crooks Mrs. J. de Hainaut Miss M. Dance Walter Gurney E.J. Weldon James Marshall Capt. Charles D. Tracy Major Edward Howell Henry G. Strauss and Frank Swettenham. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby's 1977. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's London on May 25 1977. The sale included material from the collections of Greta S. Heckett. 248 lots in the sale. Many illustrated in black & white photographs. Price estimates sheet included but no prices realized. 10" high X 7" wide. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Sotheby's Paperback
London: Sotheby & Co 1974-1975. Auction Catalog. Quarto; vg- paperback; manila spine with black text; minor shelf wear and bumping; text block clean; v1 "The Eighth Portion: The Hornby Manuscripts Part I 34 Manuscripts of the 11th to the 15th Century 4th June 1974;" 111 pp.; --v2 same "The Ninth Portion: The Hornby Manuscripts Part II 34 Manuscripts of the 9th to the 16th Century 25th March 1975" 96 pp.; foxing starts and light spotting; else very good. Please see photo for details. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> Sotheby & Co paperback
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc 1975. Wraps. Very Good. 9 lots. Final value sheet laid in; two illustrations in b/w seven in color. Green card covers are toned at edges previous owner's name on title page. Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1949. 48pp. Rusty staples otherwise a clean copy. Prices realised and buyers names 6pp inserted loosely. CATALOGUE OF THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF AMERICANA 1 Third Section CANADA 21-22nd February 1949 HARMSWORTH TRUST LIBRARY. 1st Edition. paper wrappers. V.g. 8vo. Sotheby & Co. Hardcover
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th June 1986. Laminated wrappers 4to. 200 pp plates some in colour. 146 lots. The items offered included: the only surviving portion of the illustrated verse life of St Thomas Becket attributed to Matthew Paris St. Albans or Westminster c. 1230-40; a Book of Hours with seventeen large miniatures by the Boocicautt Master Paris c. 1415; Henry VII's copy of the Statutes of the Golden Fleece Flanders c. 1491; two thirteenth-century Psalters including one quarto in size and with nine miniatures Paris c. 1240-50; romanesque manuscripts including the biblical commentaries of St. Paterius England c. 1150 one volume of the Grammont Abbey Bible Flanders c. 1200 and a glossed Apocalypse Italy early thirteenth-century English manuscripts including a Wycliffite Gospel Book including Lichfield and a Sarum Processional; over 20 different Books of Hours including several including Rouen and others from Paris Metz Cologne Bruges the Netherlands Italy etc.; giant choirbooks including the St Omer Antiphoner early sixteenth-century; single leaves and miniatures including 2 leaves from a Regensberg Antiphoner late thirteenth-century and a missing miniature from a fourteenth-century Lectionary from the Basilica of San Marco in Venice; and manuscripts from the Christian Orient including theYonan Codex once reputed to be the oldest Bible in existence. Initials on front wrapper Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue, for the sale held on 24th June, 1986 unknown
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co 1981. First thus. paperback. G. 8vo. A good copy 36pp Descriptions b& w photographs of 254 sale items. Green card covers. Immediate despatch from the UK. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co unknown
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co 1982. First thus. paperback. G. 8vo. A good copy 52pp Descriptions b& w photographs of 254 sale items. Green card covers. Immediate despatch from the UK. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co unknown
Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 31 October 1949. Printed wrappers small 4to. 161 -185 pp 6 plates ills. Lots 447-589. Good. List of prices realized and buyers loosely laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 31 October, 1949 unknown