Sales catalogues: Hodgson

Date:
28th- 29th November 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/10/56
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Hodgson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CATALOGUE RARE & VALUABLE BOOKS COMPRISING An Illuminated MS. Hore on Vellum—Lucas de Burgo’s Summa Arithmetica, 1494— Rare Tudor and Elizabethan Books in Black-Letter, including Langland’s Piers Plowman, 1550, The Appelation of John Knox, 1558, Holland’s Suetonius, 1606, etc. —Large Paper Copy of Bacon’s De Dignitate Scientiarum, 1623—First Collected Edition of Chapman’s Homer, 1616-24—First Folio Edition of Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, 1624—Parkinson’s Paradisi in Sole, 1629. A FINE COPY OF THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF MILTON’S LYCIDAS, 1638, Interesting 18th Century Books, including First Editions of Swift’s Tale of a Tub, and Gulliver’s Travels, 2 vols, Gray’s Odes, and Garrick’s Verses to Gray, Uncut Copy of Richardson’s Clarissa, 7 vols, Gibbon’s Roman Empire, 6 vols, Johnson’s Dictionary, 2 vols, Rasselas, 2 vols, etc. ; also a slightly imperfect Copy of the rare Kilmarnock Burns. Autograph Presentation Copy of Pope’s Works, 5 vols, 1736. Books from the Libraries of Mrs. Thrale’s Three Daughters, including Hester Thrale’s copy of the First Edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 2 vols. UNIQUE COPY OF COLERIDGE’S LYRICAL BALLADS, 1798, ALSO MSS. AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, AND HIS BIBLE WITH MS. NOTES. Original of the Will made by Lord Byron in 1809 and The First Edition of Don Juan {Cantos I-II], boards, uncut. Beautifully Bound Sets of the Barbou and Cazin Classics, in Contemporary French Red Morocco Extra. A Splendid Set of Blaeu’s Atlas, 11 vols, contemporary red morocco—A Collection of American Maps, c. 1768-76—Coloured Copies of Boydell’s River Thames, 2 vols, red morocco, Ackermann’s Microcosm of London, 3 vols, and Oxford University, 2 vols—Original Edition of Rawstorne’s Gamonia—also a Collection of Rare Coloured Views of Brighton. FINE BOOKS FROM MODERN PRESSES COMPRISING The Doves Press Bible, 5 vols—Issues from the Kelmscott Press, 24 vols, including Morris’s Earthly Paradise and Sigurd the Volsung—Golden Cockerel Press Chaucer and Lucian, etc.—Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Froissart, 2 vols in 8. Rare First Editions of Rudyard Kipling, with Sporting Books and Coloured Swiss Views (The Property of a Collector). FINE FIRST EDITIONS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy, Rupert Brooke, Joseph Conrad, and others, including several Interesting Presentation Copies. Which will be Sold by Auction by 3 At their Rooms, No. 115 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2 (Fleet Street End), On THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH, 1929, And FOLLOWING DAY, at ONE o’clock punctually. NOW ON VIEW. CATALOGUES MAY BE HAD ON APPLICATION.
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