Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/690
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    27/110 page 23
    243 244 245 246 248 249 200 [Thackeray (W. M.)] The Irish Sketch-Book, 2 vol. First EDITION, wlustrations by the author, original cloth, two joints damaged 1843 Bury (Lady Charlotte) Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV, 2 vol. half green morocco gilt, t. e.g. 1838— Elliott (G. D.) Journal of my Life during the French Revolution, portrait, half crimson morocco gilt, t. e.g. 1859 | (3) Johnson (Samuel) Lives of the most Eminent English Poets, 4 vol. portrait, advertisement leaf at end of vol. IV (wants pp. 175-6), name on title of vol. I, sprinkled calf, backs gilt; sold not subject to return 1781 British HEssayists (The), with Prefaces by A. Chalmers, 45 vol. portraits, 1808; Drake (N.) Essays, 5 vol. 1805; together 50 vol. uniform cream straight-grained calf, mM. @. 12mo. (50) Swainson (W.) Zoological Illustrations, both series, 6 vol. coloured plates (Plate I missing in vol. I, first series, has duplicate inserted in place from vol. I, second series), half morocco, g. €.; sold not subject to return 1820-35 Antiquarian Itinerary, 7 vol. LARGE PAPER (84 in. by 54 in.) plates, a few slightly foxed, half morocco, g. t. 1816—Moss (F.) Pilgrimages to old Homes, tlustrations, original buckram, g.t. Didsbury, 1903 (8) De la Mare (Walter) Broomsticks and other Tales, with designs by Bold, one of 278 copies signed by the author, half holland, gq. t. 1925 A May-Day Interlude by Gerald Bishop, one of 24 copies printed, woodcut on title, Essex House Press, unbound as issued 1904 [Swift (J.)] Travels into several Remote Nations of the World, 2 vol. second edition, portrait and maps, polished calf, panelled sides 1726 Rousseau (J. J.) Emile, ou de l’Education, 2 vol. plates, after Eison, calf, Paris, 1762—Voltaire (F. M. A. de) Letters concerning the English Nation, sheepskin, 1733— Baconiana, portrait, sheepskwn, rubbed, 1679; and others (6)
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3