Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/521
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    57 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 Holderness. [Thompson (T.)] Ocellum Promontorium, or Short Observations on the Ancient State of Holder- ness, FIRST EDITION, engraved title (dated 1824), printed title (dated 1821), map, plates, interleaved, and a few MS. notes on the interleaves, half calf, Hull, 1824; A History of the Church and Priory of Swine in Holderness, en- graved title, plates, original boards, uncut, Hull, 1824 ; etc. (6) Hollingshead (J.) Miscellanies, 3 vol. portrait, 1874—The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, plates, one of 50 copies, parchment, gilt, uncut, t. e. g., 1890—Edmund Yates, 2 vol. portraits, 1884—Bellamy (G. A.) An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, 5 vol. half calf, 1785 (16) Hone (W.) Table Book, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, woodcuts, one by G. Cruikshank, some Il. slightly foved, original boards, uncut 1827, 8 Hora B. M. V. French illuminated MANUSCRIPT OF THE XVTH CENTURY ON VELLUM, neatly written in gothic characters on 206 Il., 7 miniatures with borders beautifully painted in gold and colours, 5 with diaper backgrounds, numerous capitals in gold and colours with pen ornamenta- tion and marginal decorations, without the Calendar, and a few ll. misbound [measures 5in. by 34in.], French calf XV CENT. x* The miniatures represent (1) The Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection; (2) St. Catherine disputing with the Philosophers ; (3) The Last Supper ; (4) Christ in Gethsemane ; (5) Christ before Pilate ; (6) The Reconciliation ; (7) The Congregation of Saints. Hull. Gent (T.) Annales Regioduni Hullini, folding maps (2 wanting and supplied in facsimile), some Il. cut into, rebacked, 1735 ; etc. (3) Hull. Lamplough (E.) Hull and Yorkshire Frescoes, printed for private circulation, Hull, 1888—Greenwood. Picture of Hull, LARGE PAPER, plates on india paper, 1835—Whiting (H. J.) Portraits of Public Men, half bound, Hull, 1858 ; ete. (9) Hunt (L.) The Liberal, 2 vol. half morocco 1822, 3 Hunt (Leigh) Autobiography, edited by R. Ingpen, 2 vol. portraits, buckram, uncut, 1908—Glyde (J.) The Life of Edward Fitz-Gerald, portraits, buckram, uncut, t. e. g., 1900 ; etc. (6) Huxley (L.) Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley,
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