Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
02-04 March 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/905
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 Sweet (Robert) The British Warblers, sixteen coloured plates, plate VI loose and torn at inner margin, boards, 1823— Shaw (G.) General Zoology, vol. I to. IIT and vol. VII only, in 8 vol. plates, old calf, 1800-09 (9) Thackeray (W. M.) History of Pendennis, 2 vol. plates by the Author, 1849-50; The Newcomes, 2 vol. plates by R. Doyle, 1854, together 4 vol. uniform half russia; The Virginians, 2 vol. plates by the Author, wanting half- titles, half calf, 1858, all FIRST EDITIONS (6) Walton (I.) and C. Cotton. The Complete Angler, with Lives by Sir J. Hawkins, Bagster’s second edition, portrait and plates, half calf, 1815—[Cox (N.)| The Gentleman’s Recreation, siath edition, plates, some fold- ing, old calf, 1721 (2) QUARTO. Boisgelin (. de) Ancient and Modern Malta, 3 vol. in 2, folding map, portraits and plates, old calf, 1804— Maurice (T.) History of Hindostan, 2 vol. plates, a slit in the folding plate in vol. II, russia gut, 1795 (4) Browne (Sir Thomas) Pseudodoxia Epidemica, whereunto are now added Discourses of Urn-Burial, and the Garden of Cyrus, with the longitudinal label before the title of Hypriotaphia, two plates and one illustration in the text on sig. 5¥ 2, plate II is from a smaller edition and is pasted over a duplicate of plate I, old calf 1658 Butler (A. G.) British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, Order Passeres, 6 vol. coloured plates by F. W. Frohawk, original cloth n. d. Cervantes. (M. de) Life and Exploits of the ingenious gentle- man Don Quixote, Translated by C. Jarvis, 2 vol. plates, a few imprints shaved, old calf 1742 Chinese Illustrations on Rice Paper, twelve coloured views of river scenery, etc. hand painted, original binding of coloured silk n. d. Cook (Carr. James) [First, SECOND AND ‘THIRD VOYAGES, viz:] Account of the Voyages for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, edited by J. Hawkesworth, -PIRST EDITION, 3 vol. 1773; A Voyage towards the South Pole, 2 vol. second edition, 1777; A Voyage to the Pacific
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