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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    809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 818 [ Beckford (William)] Popular Tales of the Germans: Trans- lated from the German, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. some leaves stained, diced calf gilt 1791 Beckford (W.) Thoughts on Hunting, plates, old calf, Albion Press, 1810—Scrope (W.) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, coloured and plain illustrations, cloth, 1854; and others (4) Bennett (I. D.) Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, 2 vol. half calf, 1840—Guise (R. A.) Journal of a Ten Months’ Residence in New Zealand, coloured frontispiece, calf, 1823—Postans (Mrs.) Cutch or Random Sketches of Neve ee India, coloured plates, calf, 1838 (4) Beresford (James) The Miseries [and More Miseries| of Human Life, 3 vol. folding coloured plates, 1806-7; The Pleasures of Human Life, colowred plates by Rowland- son, some shaved at fore-edge, 1807, ely 4 vol. uniform calf (4) Borrow (George) The Zincali; or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain, 2 vol. 1841; The Bible in Spain, 3 vol. wanting half-titles, 1843, FIRST EDITIONS, calf gilt, backs rubbed —Lobo (J.) A Voyage to Abyssinia... with Dissertations on Various Subjects, by M. Le Grand, Translated by Samuel Johnson, diced calf gilt, 1789 (6) Boswell (James) An Account of Corsica, . . . and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, First EDITION, folding map, wanting half-title, contemporary calf Glasgow, 1768 Britain [Edited by R. Anderson], 13 vol. engraved titles, old red straight-grained morocco, panelled gilt backs, gilt borders round sides, contents lettered, g. é. [1795] British Noveuists, with Essay and Prefaces by Mrs. Barbauld, 50 vol. calf gilt 12mo. 1820 British Essayists, with Prefaces by A. Chalmers with Index, 38 vol. portraits, calf gilt 12mo. 1823 Burns (Robert) Works, with an account of his Life, 4 vol. portrait, 1803; and Reliques of Robert Burns . . . col- lected by R. H. Cromek, 1808, together 5 vol. untform contemporary calf gilt 1803-8.
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