Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/560
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    521 §22 4to; America, Europe, The Song of Los, and Little Tom the Sailor, etc., in 1 vol. folio, Mutr’s Hanp- COLOURED FACSIMILE REPRINTS, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, with the original signed wrappers bound in at the end of each volume, together 5 vol. maroon crushed levant morocco, gilt inner borders, g. t., other edges uncut, contents lettered, by Riviere, A FINE SET Kdmonton, 1884-90 Bibliographica : Papers on Books, their History and Art, 3 vol. plates, some in gold and colours, facsimiles, etc., half morocco, g. t. 1895-7 FOLIO. BiaKkeE (W.) Ulustrations of the Book of Job, Invented and Engraved by William Blake, ORIGINAL EDITION, LARGE PAPER [size, l53in. by 10hin.], title and 21 engravings, PROOFS (plate 1 dated 1828), half morocco, rubbed, g. e. No. 3 Fountain Court, Strand, 1825 Jonson (B.) Workes, FIRST FOLIO EDITION, engraved title by W. Hole (cut round, mounted and loose, strip cut from 4, a few margins wormed, and last leaf wanting), old rough calf W. Stansby, 1616 Jonson (B.) Workes [ vol. 1] Lance Papsr [123in. by 82in. | engraved title by W. Hole (starned and mounted, 2pyp. soiled, 21. torn and portrait wanting), calf antique R. Bishop .. . sold by A. Crooke, 1640 AUDUBON (J. J.) BIRDS OF AMERICA, 4 vol. consist- ING OF 430 BEAUTIFULLY CCLOURED PLATES only (should be 435), each bird being represented the full size, with its prey, vol. 4 lacks 5 plates, viz. 331-5, half russia, rubbed and corners damaged, double elephant folio. For the Author, 1827-38; Ornithological Biography: an Ac- count of the Habits of the Birds of America, 5 vol. a few illustrations in the teat, a library stamp on reverse of each title, half calf, roy. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1831-49, together 9 vol. 1827-59
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