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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    522 Cr CaS) oe) D350 Goldsmith (O.) Miscellaneous Works, now first collected by J. Prior, 4 vol. vignette titles, spotted diced calf, worn, 1837—Gibbon (E.) Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- pire, 12 vol. portrait, calf, worn, 1 vol. broken, and some labels wanting ; and 6 others (22) Gray (T.) Poems ... adorned with plates, with mscription on title, ““ To Fred. Foster from the Duchess of Devonshire, Bath, 1804,” straight-grained morocco, 1800—De Stael Holstein (Mdme. La Baronne) Reflexions sur Le Suicide, with inscription, “from the Author to EH. Devonshire, 1813,” calf gilt, with monogram, 1813; and 2 others (4) Johnson (S.) The Lives of the English Poets, 3 vol. portrait, diced calf, 1806—Boswell (J.) The Life of Samuel Johnson, with notes, ete. by J. W. Croker, 5 vol. portraits, calf gut, backs chafed, and one label missing, 1831 Kipling (R.) The Day’s Work, 1898—Barrie (J. M.) Senti- mental Tommy, 1896, FIRST EDITIONS, original cloth ; and 1 other (3) Moliere. Ocuvres, 8 vol. portrait and plates, half French morocco, Paris, 1768—Memoires du Chevalier D’ Arvieux, old red smooth morocco, gilt, arms on sides, and cypher on backs, Paris, 1735; and others 2 parcels Mudie (R.) British Birds, 2 vol. coloured plates by G. Baxter, original cloth, 1834—The Floricultural Cabinet, vol. XVIII to XXIX, 10 vol, 2 vol. cloth, remainder half morocco, 1850-60 (12) [Surtees (R. S.)] Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities, with 16 coloured wlustrations by H. Alken, fourth edition, half morocco, g.e. loose, 1874—Penell-Elmhirst (Capt.) The Cream of Leicestershire, colowred plates and other illus- trations, half morocco, 1883 (2) with lustrations by the author and others, half calf gilt, Mm. e. 1869 Wilkinson (Sir G.) Manners and Customs of the Ancient Kgyptians, both series, and vol. of plates, 6 vol—Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, 2 vol.; together 8 vol. coloured and other plates, etc. original cloth 1841-2
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