Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/684
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    328 329 330 331 332 333 334 Other Properties. OCTAVO ET INFRA. Miniature Books. Bijou Almanack, 1848-50, 3 vol. clustrations, 1 vol. cloth gilt, g. e., 2 vol. leather gilt, g. é. (30 mm. by 24 mm.) London, Rock Brothers & Co. {1847-9] Miniature Books. The Bijou Almanack for 1849, 2 vol. a different publication from the above, illustrations, coloured wrappers with design in gilt, g. e. (25 mm. by 18 mm.) London, D. Bogue, Fleet Street |1848| Miniature History of England, 2 vol. dllustrations, wrappers (defective, one cover missing), in a leather case (31 mm. by 24 mm.), London, T. Goode, 8 St. James’s Walk, Clerkenwell, n. d.—The Dairyman’s Daughter; an authentic narrative Communicated by a Clergyman Of the Church of England, leather gilt, inside borders, g.e.(51 mm. by 29 mm.), Bungay : Printed and Sold by J. M. Morris, 1843 (2) Miniature Books. Comic Bijou, ¢lustrations, c. 1840; Bijou Pictures of Paris, c. 1840; both 14 in. by 1 in., leather— Almanack for 1839, folding view, leather gilt, in a case; and other tiny Books, in a cardboard box (9) Beckford (Peter) Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting, plates, a few slight stains, calf 1796 Boswell (J.) Life of Samuel Johnson, 4 vol. original boards, defective 1823 Merle (W. H.) Odds and Ends In Verse and Prose, 12 woodcuts and an etching by George Cruikshank, the author’s copy, with a number of pen-and-ink and pencil sketches (? the original designs for the illustrations), manuscript and printed poems, etc. inserted, half roan gilt, g. é. 1831 Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, z¢nscribed by the author “ Lady Inglis, with the best wishes of David Living- stone, London, 29th Octr. 1857,” coloured frontispiece, maps and plates, original cloth 1857 [Dodgson (C. L.)] Through the Looking-Glass, 50 dlustrations by Tenniel, original cloth gilt, faded, g. e. 1872—Gilbert (W. S.) The “Bab” Ballads, cllustrations, original cloth gilt, g. é. 1869—Kipling (Rudyard) Kim, illustrations, cloth gilt, t.é.g. 1901; Traffics and Discoveries, cloth gilt, t. e.g. 1904 ; all FIRST EDITIONS (4)
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