Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/693
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    149 150 151 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 Miniature Books. Schloss’s English Bijou Almanac for 1842, engraved throughout, portraits, green wrappers, gilt, g. e. im a slip case (21 mm. by 13 mm.) {1841}; and two others (3) Miniature Book. Schloss’s English Bijou Almanac for 1842, engraved throughout, portraits, green wrappers, gilt, g.e. in a slip case (21 mm. by 13 mm.) [1841] Fore-Edge Painting. Book of Common Prayer, straight grained red morocco gilt, g.e. a painting of a river scene under the gilt of the fore-edges, in a slip case of red morocco gilt 1807 Fore-Edge Painting. The Beauties of Sterne, vellum gilt, g. e. painting of a rural scene with a church, a windmill, a pond, a man ploughing, etc., under the gilt of the fore-edges, in a slip case of green morocco gilt , sold not subject to return 1783 Cervantes. Don Quixote, translated by C. Jarvis, 4 vol. plates by Stothard, etc. contemporary half calf 1801 Pepys (Samuel) Memoirs, comprisiug his Diary and Private Correspondence, edited by Lord Braybrooke, second edition (the first in octavo), 5 vol. plates, original boards, paper labels, uncut 1828 Dibdin (Dr. T. F.) A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. plates and teat illustrations, original boards, paper labels, uncut 1838 Rogers (S.) Poems ; and Italy, a Poem, 2 vol. vignettes by Turner, Stothard, etc. contemporary black morocco, g. é. 1834 Pope (Alexander) Works, with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 9 vol. plates, contemporary calf biog Nicholas (T.) History and Antiquities of Glamorganshire and its Families, illustrations, cloth, 1874—National Portraits (A Series of), Photographed, half morocco, Arundel Society (c. 1866) ; and two others (4) Johnson (Samuel) A Journey to the Western Islands of Scot- land, FIRST EDITION, with the 6-line errata leaf, calf W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775 Hawkins (Sir John) Life of Samuel Johnson, lacks portrait, half calf, 1787—Tales of the Great and Brave, Baxtertype Srontispiece, original cloth, 1838—Stevenson (R. L.) Records of a Family of Engineers, FIRST EDITION, original buckram, g. #. 1912 (3)
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