Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
30 July-01 August 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/582
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    191 193 194 196 hy 198 199 200 Sterne (L.) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gen- tleman, FIRST EDITION (eacept vol. I and II, fourth edition), frontispiece by Hogarth in vol. I and in vel. ILI (in the latter a little cropped), with the author’s autograph signature in vol. V, Vil and LX, old calf 1760-7 Stevenson (R. L.) The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, FIRST EDITION, with Chatto’s List (32 pp. Sept. 1886) at end, half-title pencilled, cloth 1887 Walton and Cotton. The Complete Angler, MAsor’s FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, plates, india proofs, and woodcuts, green morocco, g. €. 1823; and others (4) White (Rev. Gilbert) A Naturalist’s Calendar, with Observations in various branches of Natural History, FIRST EDITION, coloured Hybrid Bird” plate, original boards, uncut 1795 QUARTO. Berners (Dame Juliana) The Boke of Saint Albans, containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour, repro- duced in facsimile, with an Introduction by W. Blades, blind-stamped parchment, 1486, reprinted 1881—A Col- lection of nearly 200 Drawings of Oriental Flowers, on rice-paper, named, limp native silk, early XLX cent. (2) Turberville (G.) The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 7. Purfoot, 1611; The Booke of Falconrie or Hawking, title laid down, 7b. 1611; together 2 vol. in 1, black letter, ewood- cuts, stained, some defects caused by worm-holes, calf (back worn) ; sold not subject to return (1) Vancouver (Capt. G.) A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World, 3 vol. plates, no atlas, old-tree calf 1798 [White (Rev. Gilbert)] The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, FIRST EDITION, folding frontispiece and plates, with the errata leaf, con- temporary half calf 1789 FOLIO. Browne (Sir Thomas) Works, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, por- trait by R. White, old calf (repaired) 1686 Dodoens (R.) Histoire des Plantes, traduite par C. de l’Escluse, title within woodcut border, and woodcuts throughout, all with (early) colouring, a few letters defective in two pre- liminary leaves, old sheep Anvers, 1557
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