Sales catalogue 631: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/168
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 631: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    177 MELVILLE (Herman). Works. Standard Edition. Complete Set, forming 16 vols., 8vo, original cloth, uncut, t.e.g. London, 1922-3. £10 10s One of 750 copies. Contains:—Typee; Mardi, 2 vols.; Moby Dick, 2 vols.; Redburn; Omoo; White Jacket; The Piazza Tales; Pierre; The Confidence Man; Israel Potter; Billy Budd, etc.; Clarel, 2 vols., and Poems. 178 MILITARY. MARBOT (Alfred de) et DUNOYER DE NOIR- MONT. Costumes militaires francais, depuis Vorganisation des premiéres troupes réguliéres en 1439, jusqu’en 1789. Dessins et texte par MM. De Noirmont et Alfred de Marbot. Parts 1 to 42 containing 250 coloured plates. Folio, original wrappers. Paris, (1830+1860). £10 From the Library of the Comte de Chambord (Henry V of France). 179 MINIATURES. ALBA (Duque de Berwick y de). Catalogo de las Miniatures y pequenos retratos pertenecientes al excmo. Sr. Duque de Berwick y de Alba por D. Joaquin Ezquerra del Bayo. With 33 plates (13 in colour) of the most important miniatures. Small folio, bound in leather gilt. Madrid, 1924. &3 3s 180 FOSTER (J. J.). Miniature Painters. British and Foreign, with some account of those who practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated with numerous examples, selected from celebrated collections. The Edition de Luxe. 2 vols., folio, full vellum, uncut, t.e.g. London, 1903. &3 5s 181 MOORE (Thomas). Poetical Works. With frontispieces, and vignette titles. 10 vols., 12mo, half morocco, t.e.g. London, 1869. &2 15s 182 NAPOLEON AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. CONSTANT. Memoirs of Constant, the Emperor Napoleon’s Head Valet, contain- ing details of the private life of Napoleon, his Family and his Court. Now first translated by Percy Pinkerton. With 4 portraits. 4 vols., 8vo, half morocco, gilt emblematic tooling on back, uncut, t.e.g. London: Nichols, 1896. &3 15s 183 LAVALETTE (Count; Adjutant and Private Secretary to Napoleon and Postmaster- General under the Empire). Memoirs. Illustrated with 5 portraits. Royal 8vo, half morocco, gilt back, containing Napoleon’s emblematic designs in the various panels, viz., the “Crowned N” and Bee, uncut, t.e.g. Philadelphia, 1894. £2 28 One of 25 copies printed. 184 MALLET DU PAN. Memoirs and Correspondence, illus- trative of the French Revolution. Collected and arranged by A. Sayous. 2 vols., 8vo, half morocco gilt, uncut, t.e.g. London, 1852. &1 5s 185 MERY. Napoleon en Egypte, Waterloo et le fils de Vhomme, par Barthélemy et Méry. Précédés d’une notice lit- téraire par M. Tissot. With 17 full-page illustrations on India Paper and numerous other illustrations in the text. Royal 8vo, half morocco, emblematically gilt tooled back, t.e.g. Paris, N.D. £1 10s [21]
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