Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/595
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    213 214 215 216 218 219 220 1815-21, relating to Napoleon’s Life at St. Helena, 50 copies only printed, cloth, uncut, Privately printed by A. L. Hum- phreys, 1901—With Napoleon at Waterloo, ete. edited by Mackenzie Macbride, z/lustrations, linen gilt, t. e.g. 1911— Browning (Oscar) Napoleon: The First Phase, ¢llustrations, decorated cloth, t. e. g. 1905 ; and others on Napoleon I (7) Machen (Arthur) Works, Caerleon edition, 9 vol. no. 424 of 1000 numbered sets signed by the author, portrait, cloth gilt, t. e.g. with dust covers as issued M. Secker, 1923 Stevenson (R. L.) Weir of Hermiston, buckram, t. e. g. 1896 ; Catriona, buckram (louse), t. e. g. 1893; Across the Plains, buckram (back faded), t. e.g. 1892; all FIRST EDITIONS; ete. (5) Swinburne (A. C.) A Channel Passage and other Poems, cloth gilt, uncut, 1904—Meredith (George) Poems, cloth, uncut, 1892—Symonds (J. A.) New and Old, a Volume of Verse, cloth, 1880; all ¥IRST EDITIONS; ete. (5) Masefield (John) On the Spanish Main, map and illustrations, cloth, 1906—Ferraro (Guglielmo) The Greatness and Decline of Rome, translated by A. E. Zimmern, 5 vol. frontispiece, presentation stamp on title, cloth gilt, backs faded, uncut, 1907-9 ; etc. (9) Wilde (Oscar) Intentions, FIRST EDITION, or7ginal green cloth gilt (stained), uncut, 1891—Moore (George) The Brook Kerith, half calf, 1916—Beerbohm (Max) Works, with a Bibliography by John Lane, red cloth, 1896 ; ete. (8) Walton (Izaak) Life of Mr. George Herbert, FIRST EDITION, wants portraits, a few corners frayed, 1670; The Testament of the I'welve Patriarchs, woodcuts, some head-lines shaved, 1671; bound together, boards—I.udlow (Edmund) Memoirs, 3 vol. portrait, calf, rebacked, Vevey, 1698-9 ; ete. (15) Gaskell (. C.) Life of Charlotte Bronté, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, Ffrontispieces, cloth (dull), uneut, 1857-—Dobell (Sydney) Life and Letters, 2 vol. 2l/ustrations, cloth, uncut, 1878 ; ete. (7) Langhorn (Daniel) Elenchus Antiquitatum Albionensium, calf, 1673—Owen (John) and E. Bown: Britannia Depicta, or Ogilby Improv’d, engraved throughout, panelled calf rebacked, 1724—Von Troil (Uno) Letters on Iceland, map and plate, polished calf gilt, 1780; ete. (18) Quillet (Claude) Callipaedia, calf, Paris. 1656—Tacitus : Opera, curante A. J. Valpy, 5 vol. russia gilt, 1812; etc. (19) [Scott (Sir Walter)] Woodstock, 3 vol. FIRST EDITION, half calf, 1826—[Irving (Washington)] Bracebridge Hall, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, half calf gilt, 1822—Johnson (Samuel) Rasselas,
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