Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
July 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/529
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    951 952 954 955 956 959 960 representing the Power and Progress of Genius, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, and 24 plates drawn and etched by Princess Elizabeth, presentation copy. to Queen Charlotte, with the Princess’s signature, old half calf, 1806 (3) Gardiner (S. R.) Oliver Cromwell, FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies on Japanese paper, coloured frontispiece, portraits and plates, with a duplicate set in unlettered proofs, on Japanese paper, original cloth, wncut 1899 Wanley (N.) The Wonders of the Little World, or, a General History of Man, old calf 1678 Mason (Thomas) Christs Victorie over Sathans Tyrannie, FIRST EDITION, black letter, old calf 1615 Brydges (Sir Egerton) Stemmata Illustria, FIRST EDITION, 9 full-page heraldic plates, only 100 copies printed for private distribution, uncut roy. folio. Paris, 1825 Froissart (J.) Le Premier (le Second, le Tiers et le Quart) volume de Froissart des Chroniques de France/ d’angle- terre/ d’escoce / d’espaigne / de bretaigne / de gascogne / de flandres et lieux circonvoisins, 4 vol. in 3, gothic letter, double columns, ornamental woodcut initials (plain front margins and a few leaves in last volume neatly repaired, and a few worm-holes in vol. II), old half roan Paris, F. Regnault et Jehan Petit, 1518 Crinitius (P.) De honesta disciplina lib. XXV, De poetis latinis, lib. V et poematum, lib. II, title in red with printer’s device in black, MS. marginal notes in an old hand and Index supplied in MS. by the same hand, a few Ul. at end a little wormed affecting some words, half calf [Lyons], 1508; and another; the lot sold not subject to return (2) Guillim (J.) A Display of Heraldrie, woodcut arms blazoned in colours by hand, a few slight defects, calf 1638 Bacon (Sir F.) The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry VII, 1629—Godwin (F.) Annales of England, containing the Reignes of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queene Mary, translated by M. Godwyn, portraits, 1630, in 1 vol. numerous MS. notes, calf ; and another (2) Hamerton (P. G.) Man in Art, plates, LARGE PAPER, vellum gilt. enclosed in a lettered box ; 1892 Verdier (F.) L’Histoire des Actions extraordres. de Samson, dedication and 40 plates after Verdier (no title leaf), calf, rebacked with the autograph signature of Wm. Hogarth inside cover oblong. Paris, 1698
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