Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/842
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    309 310 311 312 313 314 318 319 Ports. The Aldine Edition of the British Poets, 51 vol. only (should be 538), portraits, lacks Cowper, vol. II, and Parnell, green morocco gilt, some slightly rubbed, g. e. W. Pickering, 1845-57 Prior (James) Life of Oliver Goldsmith, 2 vol. bust portrait and facsimile, calf, 1837—-Walpole (H.) Memoirs of the reign of King George II, 2 vol. portraits, 1846—Lewis (G. H.) Life and Works of Goethe, 2 vol. portraits, 1855 ; and another (8) PurcHas (SAMUEL) Hakluytus Posthumous, or Purchas His Pilgrimes, 20 vol. map, original cloth, gq. t. Glasgow, 1905-7 Racine (J.) Ciuvres, avec les Notes de tous les Commen- tateurs, 6 vol. portrait and plates, green morocco gilt, g. e. Paris, 1844 Ramsay (Allan) Poems; with a Life of the Author, 2 vol. portrait, 1800—Burns (R.) Works; with Life by J. Currie, 4 vol. portrait, 1820—Reliques of Robert Burns, collected by R. H. Cromek, 1817, both calf gilt, lettered “ Burns’ Works, vol. 1-5 ” (7) Rawlinson (Sir G.) History of Herodotus, 4 vol. map and illustrations, calf gilt, slightly rubbed, 1862—Ranke (L.) The Popes of Rome, 2 vol. calf gilt, 1847 (6) Roscoe’s Novelists Library, Vol. I, ILI-XV, calf gilt, one back strip missing, 1831-83—Campbell (John, Lord) Lives of the Lord Chancellors, Vol. II-VIT only, calf gilt, 1845- 7; and others (a parcel) St. John (Charles) Natural History & Sport in Moray, plates, blue morocco gilt, g. e. Edinburgh, 1882 Scott (Sir W.) Poetical Works, 11 vol. portrait, engraved titles, and frontispieces, leather gilt, g. e. Edinburgh, 1825-30 ** Vol, XI is a presentation copy to J. G. Lockhart from the publishers, and belongs to a later issue. Scott (Sir W.) Miscellaneous Works, 6 vol. 1827; Poetical Works, 11 vol. portrait and engraved titles, 1830, together 17 vol. calf gilt uniform Edinburgh, 1827-30 [Scott (Sir W.)] Waverley, First EDITION, vol. II and III only (should be 3 vol), name on titles, half roan (Tin. by 44 %in.). Hdinburgh, 1814
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