Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
05-07 May 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/846
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    370 371 302 373 374 375 376 55 Second Day Hughes (Thomas) Life and Times of Peter Cooper, presentation copy from the Author with inscription on half-title, and 4 pp. A. L.s. referring to the book, which was supressed, inserted, original cloth 1886 Rossetti (C.) Time Flies: A Reading Diary, presentation to the Author’s mother with autograph inscription, and the autograph signature of W. M. Rossetti, original cloth Boston, 1886 Tasso (T.) La Gerusalemme Liberata, portrait, J. Addington Symonds’ copy with his autograph signature, “ Venice 1868 ” in pencil, and annotations in text and on the fly-leaves, half vellum 18mo. Firenze, 1862 QUARTO. Baldassare Pisanelli. Trattato della Natura de Cibi et del Bere, SouTHEY’s AND WorDSWoRTH’s copy, bearing the autograph signature of the former on title, and inscription by the latter on fly-leaf, old calf, one cover loose In Torino, 1587 FOLIO. Beaumont (F.) anp J. Fiercuer. Comedies and Tragedies, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, portrait, tears in the lower margins of two leaves, sig. ceccecc 4 and Ddddddd 2, not affecting text, the fore-margins of sheets Aaaa and Bbbb shorn and frayed, tear in centre of page in sig. S34, some leaves stained, and small tears in margins, writing on blanks, old calf 1647 SHADWELL (T.) Complete Collection of 17 Plays: A True Widow, 1679; The Woman Captain, 1680; Bury Faire, 1689; The Amorous Bigotte, 1690; Psyche, 1690; The Humourists, FGO4 The Royall Shepherdess, 1691; The Virtuoso, 1691; The Miser, Sullen Lovers, 1693; The Volunteers, 1693; Epsom-Wells, 1693; Timon of Athens, 1696; The Libertine, 1697; The Squire of Alsatia, 1699, mostly FIRST EDITIONS, Some head- lines shaved, some leaves stained; in 1 vol. calf, rebacked 1679-99 A Heap or Sir Watter Scort, in plaster, taken from his death mask, on socle, 134 in. 1, 2A , ; . G/ 149 / sa Arne a aaf Keng ) 5] - ies Pas 33 fal 3
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