Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
17-18 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/979
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    564 565 566 567 568 ts) —D69 Ix 570 571 572 XVIII CENT. BATEMAN (JAMES) THE ORCHIDACEAE OF MEXICO AND GUATEMALA, 40 coloured plates of orchids, leather gilt with the Author’s arms on sides, g. e. (284 im. by 204i.) [1843] ** With the Book are six of the original water-colour draw- ings, framed and glazed, corresponding with plates nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 17; the last three being signed “ Mrs. W ithers, delt, Flower Painter to the Queen Dowager.” Knight (T. A.) Pomona Herefordiensis, 30 coloured plates, half calf, 1811; ete. (2) Album of Water-Colour Drawings, Pen and Pencil Sketches, ete. formerly belonging to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George III, stamped leather with clasps ** Includes portraits of Harl of St. Albans, Edward Somerset, First Marquis of Worcester, Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, by Gardiner; Prince Rupert; Studies of Flowers, and Birds, etc. Heron-Allen (E.) De Fidiculis Bibliographia. Bibliography of the’ Violin, 11 parts, wants final part (title imdezes, etc.), original wrappers; sold not subject to return 1890-93 Walton (1.) and C. Cotton. The Complete Angler, with Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, 2 vol. portraits and plates, original cloth 1860 London Library. Catalogue. By C. T. H. Wright and C. J. Purnell, 2 vol. buckram 1913-14 English Dialect Dictionary, Edited by Joseph Wright, 6 vol. including Supplement, Bibliography and Grammar, original cloth 1898-1806 Selden (J.) The Historie of Tithes, rirsT EDITION, old calf, one cover detached, 1618—Langley (B.) The Young Builder’s Rudiments, plates, a little stained throughout, calf, rubbed, 1730 (2) Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 vol. coloured plates, half roan, worn | 1858
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