Sales catalogue 599: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/139
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 599: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANDERSON (Hans Christian)—continued. PRESENTATION Copy. [7] DA SPANIERNE VAR HER. First Epirion. F’cap. 8vo. Original boards. Kyobenhavn, 1865. 47 158 Presentation copy to Agnes Lange with signed autograph inscription on fly-leaf. The translation of the inscription reads as follows :— “The actress of Hermania Miss Agnes Lange my deepest and sincerest thanks. H. C. Andersen.” Miss Agnes Lange took the part of Hermania in this Play. PRESENTATION Copy. [8] KUNSTENS DANNEVIRKE. Post 8vo. Boards. Kyjobenhavn, circa 1848. £6 158 Presentation copy. Pasted on the fly-leaf is a signed autograph inscription from the Author to Adam Oehlenschlager. The inscription translated reads as follows :— ““Denmark’s Adam Oehlenschlager with admiration and love. H. C. Andersen.” A. Oehlenschlager was crowned in Lund as the “King of poets of Scandinavia.” PRESENTATION Copy. [9] RAVNEN: Eventyr-Opera I FIRE ACTER. First Epirion. 8vo. Boards. Kjobenhavn, 1865. £4 4s Presentation copy to Professor Gonts with Hans Andersen’s signed autograph inscription on title. [10] ARNOLD (Matthew). Ataric at Rome. A Prize Poem, recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL. Tue Excessivety Rare First Epirion. 8vo. Bound by Riviére in full levant morocco, t.e. g. Rugby, Combe and Crossley, 1840. £60 The present copy agrees with Mr. Wise’s collation in the Ashley Catalogue, namely: Title- page (with blank reverse), pp. 1-2; and Text of the Poem, pp. 3-11. The reverse of p. 11 is blank. Mr. Wise, in his Catalogue, writes: “‘Alaric at Rome’ holds a high place in the rank of modern poetical rarities. To Mr. Edmund Gosse belongs the credit of unearthing the first recovered copy, and of identifying the author. Some ten examples in all have now been brought to light. Mr. Buxton Forman’s copy sold for $900 in March, 1920.” ASHENDENE PRESS. [11] APULEIUS. Tue XI Booxs or THE GoLDEN AssE, containing the Metamor- phose of Lucius Apuleius, interlaced with Sundry Pleasant and Delectable Fables. With an Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche set out in the Fourth, Fifth and the Sixth Bookes. All translated out of Latine into English by William Adlington. Small folio. Boards, uncut. 1924. $30 One of 165 copies.
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