Sales catalogue: Collins & Collins

Date:
01 April - 02 April 1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/119
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Collins & Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Conditions of Dale. de 1.—The highest bidder to be the buyer; and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. 2.—No person to advance less than 1s.; above five pounds, 5s.; and so on in proportion. 3.—In the case of lots upon which there is a reserve, the auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller. 4.—The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 5s. in the pound, or more, in part of payment or the whole of the purchase-money, if vequived, in default of which the lot or lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold. 5.—The lots to be taken away and paid for, whether genuine and authentic or not, with all faults and errors of description at the buyer’s expense and risk, within oNE Day from the sale; Messrs. CoLLINS AND Cotuins not being responsible for the correct description, genuineness or authenticity of, or any fault or defect in, any lot, and making no warranty whatever. 6.—To prevent inaccuracy in delivery and inconvenience in the settle- ment of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time of sale, and the remainder of the purchase-money must absolutely be paid on the delivery. 7.—Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; all lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or private sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulter at this sale. 8.—Booxs. The books are presumed to be perfect unless otherwise expressed ; but if, upon collating, any should prove defective, the same may be returned within a week, or an allowance made thereon. g.—Booxs. The sale of any book or books is not to be set aside on - account of any stained or short leaves of text or plates, want of list of plates, or on account of the publication of any subsequent volume, supple- ment, appendix or plates. All the manuscripts and autographs, all periodicals, transactions, magazines and reviews, all books in lots and tracts in lots or volumes, will be sold with all faults, imperfections and errors of descriptions. The sale of any lot of prints or drawings is not to be set aside on account of any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or errors of description.
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