Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/706
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 [Holles (Denzil, Lord)] The Grand Question concerning the Judicature of the House of Peers ... and the Case of Thomas Skinner Merchant, complaining of the Hast India Company, headline touched on p. 21%, calf gilt, 1669—Britton (John) Britton, The second edition, Faithfully corrected ... by Edm. Wingate, Sfact Jetter, a few headlines shaved, calf, jot broken, 1640 (2) Legende de Domp Claude de Guyse, Abbé de Cluny, FINE cCoPY, original vellum 1581 Le Verrier de la Couterie. L’Ecole de la Chasse aux Chiens Courants, woodcuts, half morocco gilt, t. e.g. Paris, 1845 —Vair (Léonard) Trois Livres des Charmes, Sorcelages, ou Enchantemens ... mis en Frangois par Julian Bandon, vellum, 1b. 1583 (2) Schottenius (Hermann) Ludus Imperatorius sive Caesareus ... Cui accedit, & Ludus Martius, Cologne, Quentell, 1527; Huttichius (Joannes) Imperatorum Romanorum hibellus, title within woodcut border, many woodcut por- trats, white on black, small defect in F1, Strassburg, 1526; and another, in 1 vol. vellum [Bunyan (John)| The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, z 6 shaved at fore-edge, canvas for E. Johnston ... MDCXVXXIV (sic) [Defoe (Daniel)] A Journal of the Plague Year, First EDITION, with half-title, panelled calf 1722 Wesley (Charles) Hymng and Sacred Poems, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, calf gilt, joints weak Bristol, 1749 Defoe (D.) Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol. plates by Stothard, wants portrait of Defoe, also list of plates, old tree-calf ; sold not subject to return Stockdale, 1799 Cook (J.) A Collection of Voyages. round the World, per- formed by Royal Authority, containing a Complete His- torical Account of Capt. Cook’s Voyages, 6 vol. plates, wants “ Directions to Binder,’ at end of vol. VI, old old tree-calf; sold not subject to return 1799 Shakespeare (William) Poems, LARGE PAPER copy, measuring 73 in. by 4 in. original wrappers [1775 | * “This edition was printed in the same style as Capell’s 1767-68 issue of the Works, and intended to be supple- mentary to it ... A large paper copy (the only one recorded), measuring Y4in. by 44in. is in the writer’s collection.”—Jaggard, p. 435.
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