Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June-July 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/623
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    223 bo ow bo Moore (T.) Irish Melodies, illustrated by D. Maclise, engraved throughout, green crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled borders and back, using the harp, shamrock, etc. g.e. by Zaehnsdorf sm. 4to. 1846 Palgrave (F_T.) The Golden Treasury, half parchment, 1890; The Treasury of Sacred Song, original morocco, 1889 ; both limited editions on LARGE PAPER, signed by the editor ; and others | sm. 4to. (13) Propert (J. L.) A History of Miniature Art, FIRST EDITION, plates, original cloth, uncut 1887 Rabelais (F.) Gargantua and Pantagruel, translated by Sir T. Urquhart and P. A. Motteux, with Introduction by A. de Montaiglon, 2 vol. 20. 8 af 210 copies on Japanese vellum, plates by L. Chalon, original cloth, uncut 1892 Ruskin (J.) Modern Painters, 5 vol. 1857-60; The Stones of Venice, 3 vol. plates, 1858-67; and others, all in original cloth (10) Seebohm (H.) Ihe Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriide, coloured plates original cloth, uncut [1888] Spenser (E.) Complete Works, in Verse and Prose, edited by A. B. Grosart, 9 vol. (all published), one of 100 copies on LARGE PAPER, original boards, uncut Printed for Private Circulation, 1882-4 Straparola. The Nights, now first translated by W. G. Waters, no. 9 of 210 copies on Japanese vellum, plates by HE. Rf. Hughes, boards, parchment backs, uncut 1894 Tupor TRANSLATIONS (THR), edited by W.E. Henley : Florio’s Montaigne, 3 vol.; Berner’s ‘Froissart, 6 vol.; North’s Plutarch, 6 vol.; Holland’s Suetonius, 2 vol. ; Urquhart and Motteux’s Rabelais, 3 vol.; Machiavelli, 2 vol.; The Decameron, 4 vol.; The English Bible, 6 vol.; together 32 vol. original half buckram, uncut sm. 4to. 1892-1909 Williamson (G. C.) Richard Cosway and his Wife and Pupils, LARGE PAPER, plates, original cloth, g. t. 1897 Williamson (G. C.) and H. L. D. Engleheart. George Engle- heart, Miniature Painter to George III, no. 11 0f 53 copies containing 10 hand-coloured plates, original linen, g. t. Privately Printed, 1902 Williamson (G. ©.) Andrew and Nathaniel Plimer, Miniature Painters: Their Life and Works, no. 2 of 75 copies, con-
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