Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/676
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    43/70 page 37
    396 O97 400 401 404 405 406 407 Diekens (C.) Hard Times, original cloth, soiled and torn, 1854—Browning (R.) Sordello, ex-library copy, stamp on title, original cloth, 1840, both FIRST EDITIONS; and others (10) Stevenson (R. L.) Kidnapped, sowed, a few margins torn, fly-leaf missing, covers stained, 1886—Masefield (J.) A Sailor’s Garland, 1906—Hope [Hawkins] (Sir A.) The Prisoner of Zenda [1894], FIRST EDITIONS, original cloth ; and others . (9) Nichols (J.) The Oration and Sermon made at Rome, title and a few leaves defective, vellum, sm. 8vo, J. Charlewood, 1581—sop. Fabulae, Greece, full-page woodcuts, some coloured, vellum, Venice, 1644—Ruscelli. Precetti della Militia Moderna, title defective, stained, vellum (sm. 4to), Venice, Sessa, 1583; and 2 others (5) [AUSTEN (JANE)]| Emma: a Novel, 3 vol. FIRST EDITION, wanting the half-title in vol. IT, some leaves foxed, half calf 12mo. John Murray, 1816 THACKERAY (W. M.) The Book of Snobs, FIRST EDITION, woodcuts, original green wrappers, back slightly defective Punch Office, 1848 Gay (John) The Beggar’s Opera ... The Seventh Edition : To which is Prefix’d the Ouerture in Score: And the Musick to each song, frontispiece, wrappers For John Watts, 1754 Westwood (J. O.) Arcana Entomologica, 2 vol. coloured plates, original cloth, uncut 1841-5 Darwin (C.), R. Fitzroy and P. P. King. Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, with Supplement, 4 vol. FIRST EDITION, maps and plates, original cloth 1839 Wood (W.) General Conchology, coloured plates, half morocco gilt, g.e. 1835; Index Testaceologicus, coloured plates, cloth, 1828 (2) Wood (W.) Index Entomologicus, coloured plates, cloth, 1839 —Kirby and Spence. Introduction to Entomology, 4 vol. plates, a few coloured (leaf of explanation in vol. I slightly defective), calf, g. e. 1828; and another (5) Landor (W. 8.) Imaginary Conversations, 5 vol. FIRST EDI-- TIONS, calf, rubbed 1824-9 Gilbert (Benjamin) Narrative of his Captivity, half sheep- skin, 12mo0, Philadelphia, Printed: London: Reprinted 1785; and others (5)
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3