Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
15-16 June 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/939
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    990 991 992 993 994 995 996 997 998 999 [Bratawait (RicHarp)| A NEw Spring SHADOVVED IN SUNDRY Piruig POEMS, FIRST EDITION, woodcut on litle, headlines cropped, marginal notes shaved on A2 verso and D1 recto, a few top corners mended, purple roan, g. e. from the collections of Thos. Jolley, E. V. Utterson and Thomas Gaisford, with the bookplates of Jolley and Gaisford and an accession note in Utterson’s hand - 4to. London, Printed by G. Eld, for Thomas Baylie es te A ** VERY RARE. Since the last sale of this copy in 1890 only two copies (Huth and Britwell) have been sold by auction in this country. [See ILLUSTRATION. | Brathwait (R.) The English Gentlewoman, FIRST EDITION, wants engraved title and leaf of explanation, Ff4 and Gg 1 slightly defective, a few small stains, half calf 4to. 1631 Brathwait (R.) The English Gentleman, engraved frontispiece and folding Draught of the frontispiece, printed title, old calf, a little broken | 4to. 1633 [Brathwait (R.)] An Epitome of All the Lives of the Kings of France, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and woodcut portraits, sheep 8vo. 1639 Brathwait (R.) The English Gentleman and the English Gentlevvoman ... The Third Edition, folding leaf before en- graved title slightly defective, folding leaf at end shaved at top, calf folio. 1641 [Brathwait (R.)] The History of Moderation . . . Written by Hesychius Pamphilus, First EDITION, calf, back defective 8vo. 1669 Breton (Nicholas) Works, edited by A. B. Grosart, FIRST COL- LECTED EDITION, 2 vol. four facsimiles, cloth gilt, t.e. 9. Ato. 1879 [Breton (N.)?] The Scholler and the Souldier. A Disputation pithily passed betweene them, the one defending Learning, the other Martiall Discipline, Slack letter, a fragment only, (F 3-4; G—14;K1), blue morocco gilt, g. e.; sold not subject to return 4to. [?159—}] ** Part 2 of The Wil of Wit. Bridges (Robert) Eden an Oratorio, no. 36 of 110 copies, am. mteresting A.L.s. from the Author giving bibliographical particulars inserted, original boards, uncut 12mo. 1891 Britton (John) Autobiography, 3 parts in 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, one of 125 copies on LARGE PAPER, tllustrations, a number of other plates and autograph letters inserted, half calf 4to. 1850—[57]
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