Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March-April 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/841
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    831 832 833 834 836 83% 838 840 Behn (Mrs.) Histories and Novels, entire in one vol. fifth edition, rebound calf 1705 Caradoc Press. Grevil (Sir Fulke) The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney, one of 11 copies on vellum, printed.in red and black, crushed morocco gilt, with inlays in corners 1906 Hieronymus (S.) Epistolae, pars secunda, italic type, wood- cut frontispiece, with inscription on fly-leaf, “ Wm. Wordsworth from Walter Savage Landor,’ old stamped . calf s. loa. (c. 1566) Taylor (Jeremy, Bp.) The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living, 1651; The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying, First EDITION, wanting two leaves. sig. K6 and 1%, engraved titles, uniform panelled calf, g. e.; and another (3) double columns, title and last leaf defective, some leaves stained, old stamped calf, with clasps Pars, J. Pett, 1503 Fore-EpGE Parntinc. Book of Common Prayer, straight- grain dark blue morocco, with a finely executed PAINTING ON THE FORE-EDGE of a country house, situated on a slight eminence, park with figures, etc. in the foreground Paris, 1791 portrait, ttle foxed, old calf, rebacked, 1726—Rochester (John, Earl of) Works, portrait, morocco, g.e. 1732— Quarles (F'.) Divine Poems, engraved title, margins of last two leaves defectwe, boards, 1664 (3) | Defoe (D.)| Memoirs of a Cavalier, FIRST EDITION, name on title and small piece torn from upper margin, tear in lower margin of sig. 08, some leaves stained, contem- porary calf, worn n. d. [1720 | Cheke (Sir J.) The hurt of Sedition howe greueous it is to a Communewelth, FIRST EDITION, Sfact fetter, woodcut border of title shaved, some margins cut close, old calf, worn J. Day, 1549 Guicciardini (L.) Description of the Low Country, gathered into an Epitome [by T. Danett], title and some leaves stained, margin of title and first three leaves frayed, corner torn away from sig. BT, old calf, worn 1593
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