Sales catalogue: Puttick and Simpson

Date:
21st May 1867
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/16/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Puttick and Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [HARRISSE (Henry)] Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima. A Description of Works Relating to America Published Between the Years 1492 and 1551. [With:] Additions. Geo. P. Philes, New York & Librairie Tross, Paris. (An unacknowledged reprint of the 1861-1872 Edition). [Paris, c.1880]. £295 2 Vols., 4to, [8],liv,519; [4],xl,199,{13]pp., corrections to text in pencil (for a new edition?), red half morocco, a nice copy. HAZLITT (W. Carew) Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britian, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration. John Russell Smith. 1867. £45 First Edition, xii,701,[2],56pp., orig. quarter morocco, rubbed. HEILBRONNER (Walter L.) Printing and the Book in Fifteenth-Century England. A _ Bibliographical Survey. Bibliographical Society, Virginia. 1967. £28 First Edition, orig. cloth. Bibliographical survey of works dealing with fifteenth-century English printed books. HELY-HUTCHINSON (J.W.) Catalogue of the Celebated Library of Valuable Printed Books, Fine Bindings and Manuscripts... With a Foreword by A.N.L. Munby. Sotheby & Co. 1956. £48 Folding Frontis., 34 plates (mostly of bindings), list of prices and buyers’ names inserted, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, half calf, slightly rubbed, 640 lots. NIXON. Five Centuries of English Bookbindings. ‘‘Important source for the history of bookbinding.’’ HEWETT (Mary Crane) Compiler. Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. New York. Ree of the 1918-20 Edition) 1994. £75 2 vols., in one, 4to, limited to 150 copies, orig. cloth. The catalogue is of importance because of the detailed collations provided for this vast library of 22,000 volumes on horticultural and botany. Plate count is provided, as are details concerning contents and editions. HEWSON (John) Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books... Comprising Splendid Works in Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Medicine and General Literature... Which will be sold by Auction by Puttick and Simpson. 1867. £25 Disbound, 348 lots. HOBSON (G.D.) English Binding Before 1500. Cambridge University Press. 1929. £265 First Edition, folio, one of 500 copies, 3 small neat library stamps, 60 pages followed by 55 full page plates of bindings, re-cased, orig. buckram, t.e.g. This book is divided into two sections, the Early Bindings, before 1300 and the Gothic Bindings, c.1450-1500. Given at the Sandars Lecture for 1927. HOE (Robert) A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art. Delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885. The Grolier Ciub, New York. 1886. £195 First Edition, 4to, one of 200 copies, 63 plates, later cloth-backed boards, uncut.
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