Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
January-February 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/725
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lor 369 —continued. * All the above are presentation copies with author’s in- scriptions. 370 Browning. Historiae Romanae Epitome (Lucius Julius Florus, Paterculis, Eutropius, etec.), old morocco gilt 18mo. Amst. 1625 ** From Robert Browning’s library, with the inscription in Mrs. Browning’s hand, “ Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, e libris” on fly-leaf. 3871 Wit of the Day, or, the Humours of Westminster, 1784— Hill (Rowland) Expostulatory Letter to the Rev. W. D. Tattersall (on the bad tendency of Stage Amusements), 1795—Description of the Isle of Thanet, particularly Margate, frontispiece, 1765—The Practical Distiller, frontispiece, 1718; and other Tracts (a parcel) 3872 [D’Oyly (Sir Charles)| Tom Raw, the Griffin, FIRST EDITION, with 25 coloured plates, half calf gut Ackermann, 1828 373 [Thorton (A.)] The Adventures of a Post-Captain, by a Naval Officer, with characteristic engravings by Mr. Williams, coloured title and 24 plates, half calf gult n. d. 374 [Combe (W.)| The Tour of Dr. Syntax in search of the Picturesque, ninth edition, calf, 1819; Dr. Syntax in Paris, half calf, 1920—Tour through London, wanting one leaf of text, half morocco, 1920, colowred plates by Rowlandson, some torn, and mended, and slightly soiled; sold not subject to return (3) 375 Scott (W.) Peveril of the Peak, 4 vol. Edinburgh, 1822—— Anne of Geierstein, 3 vol. 1829, FIRST EDITIONS, former bears the signature “Chas. Lamb” on titles, original boards, backs defectwe, uncut (7) 376 Montalembert (Le Comte de) Les Moines d’Occident, 7 vol. half calf Paris, 1860 377 Grimm (M. M.) German Popular Stories, 2 vol. with plates by G. Cruikshank, FIRST EDITION, plates in vol. I printed in brown, polished levant morocco, g. @. 1823-6 378 [Combe (W.)] The Grand Master, or, Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan, wants pp. 31-2, also half-title, FIRST EDITION, coloured plates by T. Rowlandson, polished calf, g.e. with the errata slip; sold not subject to return 1816 pH 2
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