London: Sotheby & Co. 1968. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. 143 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and reproductions. Sm. 4to. 556 lots. Prices realized laid in loose. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1963. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good clean copy with book dealer's label tipped on to front wrapper and faint crease to one corner. 55 pp. Illus. with 6 b/w plates. 8vo. . comprising De Bure's Bibliographie instructive large paper contemporary morocco; Baudrier's Bibliographie Lyonnaise; the Fairfax Murray Catalogue of French books; and other bibliography and sale catalogues; as 16th century binding; a Bourges binding 1562; Bodoni Press books; and handsomely bound French 18th century books including examples from the libraries of Eugène de Beauharnais the Empress Marie Louise Duke Albrecht of Saxe-Teschen baron G.A. Strogannoff and Mérard de Saint-Just; presentation copies of works by Théodore de Banville Daudet to Zola Dumas fils Anatole France and an autograph manuscript Edmond de Goncourt Huysmans Loti Maupassant Rostand Verlaine Villers de l'Isle-Adam and Zola to Turgenev. 291 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1967. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy. 68 pp. Illus. with 10 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. . comprising continental books including Johannes Chrysostomso Sermo super quinquagesimum psalmum c.1468 . the autograph manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem the Dead Pan. 225 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1970. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good- copy coffee rings on wrappers. 95 pp. Sm. 4to. 650 lots. No. 8 of 1969/1970. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1969. First edition. Paper wrappers. Book seller's label tipped in to front wrapper else a very good copy. 148 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 469 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1969. First edition. Paper wrappers. Book seller's label tipped on to front wrapper else a near fine copy. 93 pp. 8vo. 649 lots. No. 1 of 1969/70. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1969. First edition. Paper wrappers. Near fine with book seller's label tipped on to front wrapper. 106 pp. 8vo. No. 9 of 1968/69. 803 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1966. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy clean and crisp paper clip impression on rear wrapper prices realized laid in loose . 52 pp. Illus. with 23 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. . including Theodosus's In somnium scipionis 1535 in a polychrome binding for Jean Grolier and giustiani's De origine urbis Venetiarum 1534 bound for Jean Grolier; Colonna's Hypnerotomachia poliphili 1499 in a fine 16th century Antwerp binding by Claus van Duermale; the Fermiers Generaux La Fontaine in a "reliure de présent" by Derome le jeune and Longus's Daphnis et Chloé 1718 bound by A.-N. Padeloup le jeune. Buffon's Histoire naturelle 1749-1804 partially bound bor Maria-Leczinska and books bound for Madame de Pompadour Cardinal Rospigliosi and Pier-Luigi Farnese. A 16th century Venetian purple vellum binding and other fine Italian bindings; manuscript Venetian ducali of the 16th-18th century. An important early 15th century Austrian cuir-ciselé binding and a fine 17th century north German or Dutch silver binding; Thomas's Antiquitates bound by Roger Payne for Sir Richard Colt Hoare. 199 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1968. First edition. Paper wrappers. Scuff mark on bottom edge of front wrapper else a near fine copy. 77 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. 383 lots. Prices realized laid in loose. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1973. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good clean copy. 96 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and reproductions. Sm. 4to. 458 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1975. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with sunned wrappers. 116 pp. plates. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Includes The Infant's Library and The Juvenile or Child's Library series. 1484 lots. Estimates laid in loose. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1975. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A near fine copy. 60 pp. Sm. 4to. 422 lots. Estimates laid in loose Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1974. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good clean copy with a paper clip impression on front wrapper and first few leaves. 57 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and reproductions. Sm. 4to. 334 lots. Prices realized laid in loose. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1973. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good clean copy with book seller's label tipped in to sunned front wrapper. 55 pp. Sm. 4to. 491 lots. The property of W.W. Smithson. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1974. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good clean copy with a paper clip impression on front wrapper. 86 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 273 lots. Prices realized laid in loose. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1972. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with a few creased corners. 123 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. . including Arne's Artaxerxes 1762 Bickham's The musical entertainer 1737-38 Keller's A compleat method of attaining to play a thorow bass . 1707 and complete editions of Lully Mozart and Palestrina; autograph musical manuscripts of Bartok Alban Berg Brahams Britten Chopin Debussy Kodaly Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Ravel Saint-Saëns Satie and Sullivan; autograph letters Brahms Cherubini Chopin Elgar Grieg Holst Liszt Rossini Schoenberg Sibelius Richard Strauss Verdi and Webern; an autograph "conversation leaf" of Beethoven; books drawings prints and letters relating to the theatre and ballet including George Coleman's copy of Gay's Polly 1729 interleaved and annotated for the first production in 1777; a collection of 18th century theatrical maquettes; an extensive collection of material relating to Ellen Terry; a very large collection of letters of theatrical interest and an important collection of playbills of the 18th and 19th centuries; a papal brief perhaps in the hand of Arrighi; an extensive series of letters of the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna; important manuscripts of the Zionist leader Dr. Max Nordau 1849-1923; letters of Berthier Cocteau Dumas Victor Hugo Maeterlinck Mazarin and Ludovico Sforza. 584 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1973. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A near fine copy. 68 pp. Sm. 4to. 463 lots. No. 15 of 1972/73. Property of Sir Eric Sachs; First Edition Bookshop; H.C. Percy; Bertram Shuttleworth; Mrs. M. Marshall; Nora Baron; Dina Caney. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1973. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy. frontis 80 pp. Sm. 4to. 498 lots. No. 13 of 1972/73. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1972. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy clean crisp and unmarked. Unpaged. Sm. 4to. . books from the Doves and Nonesuch presses including the Nonesuch Dickens; books on art artists and works of art including the Chester Beatty Catalogue of Indian miniatures; continental books and books in Russian. 319 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1973. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy. 80 pp. Sm. 4to. 545 lots. No. 16 of 1972/73. The properties of: His Honour Judge Morgan Mrs. M. Crick Dr. E. Feuchtwanger the late Mrs. H.M. Beale and others. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1974. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with sunned wrappers. 45 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 244 lots. Prices realized laid in loose The Blau went for 25000 pounds. . Sylvanus Morgan's copy Dudley's Dell'arcano del mare 1646 Speed's The theatre of the empire of Great Britain more. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1973. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. 118 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w plate. Sm. 4to. 650 lots. Property of Lt. Col. A. Meredith Hardy; Florence M. Holmes; Mrs. B.M. Marsden; Mrs. William Ross née Jessica Adams; Mrs. R.R. Hartigan; Mrs. F.K. Hanham. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1975. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy clean and crisp with sunned wrappers. 47 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 250 lots. Estimates laid in loose. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1974. First edition. Paper wrappers. Near fine copies. 74 pp.; 54 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. 590 lots. No. 1 and No. 2 of 1974/75. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1973. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with light soiling on front wrapper. 113 pp. Sm. 4to. 935 lots. . including a collection of books on African art; Continental books of the 16th to 19th century; English literature of the 16th to 20th century; press books library sets colour-plate books; natural history science and medicine. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1972. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with a bumped corner. 32 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and reproductions. Sm. 4to. 52 lots. Sotheby & Co. unknown
London: Sotheby & Co. 1974. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy. 69 pp. Sm. 4to. 517 lots. No. 5 of 1974/75. . and Statutes of England 50 vol. 1968-73; House of Commons journals v.1-84 and Index 1742-1829; Blackstone Commentaries on the laws of England 4 vol. 1766-69; a complete collection of the books printed at the Kelmscott Press 54 vol. including Chaucer Works pigskin gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe 1896; a collection of books and a manuscript by August Bournonville; a collection of books relating to 'The second empire; English and Continental literature and history of the eighteenth to the twentieth century including The Holy Bible 3 vol. in 2 with 56 photographs by Frith Glascow 1862-63; Cameron The baths of the Romans 1772; Fielding History of Tom Jones 6 vol. 1749; Greville Memoirs 8 vol. 1938; Shaw Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages 2 vol. 1843; Bibliography and a collection of books on glass; topography travel and maps including the English pilot the second part 1731; Moll British atlas 1753 and A set of 15 maps of the counties of England and Wales 1739; Rubens Palazzi moderni di Genoua 1652; Sanson Atlas nouveau vol. 1 1692; Wilkinson Londina illustrata 2 vol. 1819-25. Sotheby & Co. unknown
Sotheby's London 1958. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 24 pages. 24 lots. With plates & illustrations. Small annotation on title page. Slight wear to spine covers & corners. Full Title: CATALOGUE OF AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF EARLY BIBLES MOSTLY ENGLISH The Property of George Goyder Esq. INCLUDING WILLIAM TYND ALE'S VERSION OF THE Pentateuch 1530-34; AND RARE EDITIONS OF HIS New Testament 1536 1548 1549 and 1550; COVERDALE'S Bible 1537 AND HIS New Testament 1538; FIRST EDITIONS OF THE “MATTHEW'S” VERSION 1537 THE “GREAT” BIBLE 1539 THE GENEVAN VERSION 1560 AND THE DOUAI VERSIONS 1582-1610 WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION . On Monday the 23rd June 1958 Size: Octavo standard book size. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Auction Catalogues; Religion; Christianity; Book History Book Binding Book Collecting & Bookseller Catalogues; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013238. . Sotheby's unknown
Sotheby's London 1980. First edition. Original Wrappers. Good. 87 pages. With plates. Slight rippling to pages and plates. Annotation on title page. Slight wear to spine covers & corners. Full Title: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING BOOKS ON SCIENCE MUSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY NATURAL HISTORY AND TRAVEL; ATTRACTIVE CONTINENTAL BOOKS OF THE FIFTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MANY WITH FINE ENGRAVED PLATES INCLUDING SAINT AUGUSTINE De Civitate Dei NAPLES 1477; PLINY Natualis Historiae PARMA 1481; ULRICH VON REICHENTAHL Das Concilium AUGSBURG 1536; SCHEDEL Buch der Chroniken NUREMBERG 1493; RUXNER Thurnirs in Teutscher Nation SIMMERN 1530; FUCHS De Historia Stirpium BASLE 1542; JOHANN STUMPF Chronick ZURICH 1548; MERIAN Insectorum Surinamensium THE HAGUE 1726; LE ROY Theatre de Brabant THE HAGUE 1730; VISCHER Topographia Austriae VIENNA 1672; THE WORKING LIBRARY ON PHILOSOPHY AND ALLIED SUBJECTS COLLECTED BY THE LATE DR. F. R. COWELL INCLUDING MANY BOOKS BY OR ABOUT LEIBNITZ which will be sold by auction . Monday 14th July 1980 . Tuesday 15th July 1980 Size: Octavo standard book size. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Auction Catalogues; Book History Book Binding Book Collecting & Bookseller Catalogues; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013237. . Sotheby's unknown
Sotheby's London 1979. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 115 pages. 209 lots. With coloured frontispiece & b/w plates & illustrations. Annotation to front cover. Small annotation to recto frontispiece. Loosely inserted estimates and results sheets. Slight wear to spine covers & corners. Full Title: CATALOGUE OF CONTINENTAL AUTOGRAPH LETTERS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS INCLUDING IMPORTANT WORKING NOTES BY EINSTEIN ABOUT THE RELATIVISTIC THEORY OF GRAVITATION. THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF GIDE’S “LE VOYAGE D’URIEN”. AUTOGRAPH DRAFT OF A LETTER BY PHILIP MELANCHTHON. ARCHIVE OF PAPERS OF CHRISTOFERO NEGRI FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. REMARKABLE AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY DON JUAN OF AUSTRIA. AN IMPORTANT GNOSTIC CONTESSERATION BY PAUWELS DE KEMPENAER. Fine series of documents and letters by Ferdinand I and Philip III. LETTERS OR DOCUMENTS BY CATHERINE THE GREAT CHARLES V CLAUDEL COCTEAU DEGAS TO RENOIR FERDINAND AND ISABELLA FREDERICK II IBSEN JOHN II OF CASTILE LOUIS XVIII MELLARMA MONET MUSSOLINI OLIVARES PHILIP II ABOUT THE DEATH OF CHARLES V RILKE AND RODIN which will be sold by auction by . Day of Sale: Wednesday 30TH May 1979 Size: Octavo standard book size. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 750 grams. Category: Auction Catalogues; Spanish History & Topography; Book History Book Binding Book Collecting & Bookseller Catalogues; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 013240. . Sotheby's unknown
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co London 1979. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 288 lots. 70 pages. With frontispiece & plates. Light creasing to frontispiece. Spine covers & corners slightly worn. Full Title: Catalogue of VALUABLE ENGLISH PRINTED BOOKS OF THE XVth TO THE XVII CENTURY COMPRISING English Literature and History of the xvth to the xviith century including Aelianus A registre of hystories 1576 and The Tacticks 1619; Beaumont and Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies 1647; Boccaccio The Decameron 2 vol. in 1 1620; Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae translated by Chaucer Caxton c. 1478; Lathbury Liber moralium super threnis Jeremiae Oxford Theodoric Rood 1482; Dryden Love triumphant 1694; Fabyan The Chronicle 2 vol. in 1 1559; Florio A Worlde of Wordes 1598 Natural History and Agriculture including Blagrave The Epitome of the art of Husbandry 1675; Blith The English Improver 1649; Dodoens A Niewe Herball 1586; Estienne and Liebault Maison Rustique 1600; Fitzherbert Boke of Hus¬bandry Bertholet 1534; Gerarde The Herball 1633 and 1635; Heresbach Foure Bookes of Husbandrie 1586; Latham Falconry 1633; Turbeville The noble art of Venerie 1611; Tusser Five Hundreth Pointes of good Husbandry 1586; WIL- lughby and Ray The Ornithology 1678 Military and Naval Books including Barret The theorike and Practike of moderne warres 1598; Cataneo Most briefe Tables 1574; Cruso Militarie Instructions for the Cavallrie 1632; Elton Compleat Body of the Art Military 1668; Feli- cius The Conspiracie of Cataline 1557; Hexham Principles of the Art Military 1642- 43; La Nove Politike and Military Discourses 1587; Macchiavelli Arte of War re 1560-62; Markham Arte of Archerie 1634; Neade The Double-armed Man 1625; Rawlings The compleat Soldier 1681; Rohan The complete Captain 1640; Smythe Certain discourses 1590; Venn Military and Maritime discipline 1672; Vegetius Foure Bookes 1572; Ward Animadversions of Warre 1639 Topography and Travel including Poyntz The present prospect of Tobago 1683; Caradoc of Llancarfan Historie of Cambria 1584; Dugdale Warwickshire 1656; Leland Laboryouse Journey and Serche 1549; Plot Natural History of Staffordshire 1686; Weldon Description of the people and country of Scotland 1659 Economics including Davenant Discourses on the Publick Revenues 1698 Gardiner England's grievance discovered in relation to the Coal-Trade 1655; Petty Political anatomy of Ireland 1691 and Political Arithmetic 1691; Pratt Regulating silver coin 1696; Sea-Coale Char-coale and Small-coale 1643 which will be sold by auction by SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET & CO. . Day of Sale: Monday 24th September 1979 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: 013219. . Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co unknown
Sotheby's London 1979. First edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 63 pages. With plates. Small annotation on title page. Light wear to spine covers & corners. Full Title: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS MAINLY RELATING TO THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES INCLUDING BOOKS BY JOHN BALE ROBERT BARNES RICHARD BAXTER HEINRICH BULLINGER JOHN CALVIN MILES COVERDALE THOMAS CRANMER JOHN FOXE JOHN FRITH WILLIAM FULKE THOMAS FULLER STEPHEN GARDINER RICHARD HOOKER JOHN JEWEL JOHN KNOX WILLIAM LAUD THOMAS MARTIN MATTHEW PARKER JEREMY TAYLOR WILLIAM TYNDALE JAMES UDALL AND ULRICH ZWINGLI; BIBLES LITURGIES AND PROCLAMATIONS. ALSO BOOKS BY THOMAS BROWNE JOHN DONNE JOHN EVELYN THOMAS HOBBES HENRY HOLLAND SENECA AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE which will be sold by auction by SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET & CO. . Day of Sale: Monday 2nd April 1979 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: 013223. . Sotheby's unknown
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
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