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Archive Print Item: Elliott Collection Corvo 3 SOT

Catalogue of valuable printed books, the property of S. Eckman Jr, Esq., C.B.E. : comprising Continental books, including the Jenson Bible, 1479 with contemporary decorations, the Nuremberg chronicle, 1493, and Divina commedia, Parma 1795, presented by Kenyon to Wordsworth; English literature, including Donne's Pseudo-martyr, 1610, Drayton's Poly-Olbion, 1622, Exquemelins' Bucaniers of America, 1684-85, Coleridge's Fall of Robespierre, 1794, Leigh Hunt's copy of Hazlitt's Criticisms on art, 1843 and the Haggadah (1939), on vellum; first editions of Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Goldsmith, Rider Haggard, Leigh Hunt, Keats, Shelley, Thackeray and Trollope, including many presentation or association copies; colour plate books, including Boydell and Edy's Scenery of Norway, 1820, Dodwell's View's in Greece, 1821, Edward's Natural history, 7 vol., bound by Richard Montagu for Thomas Hollis, Fielding's English lakes, 1821, Hakewill's Jamaica, 1825, Janscha and Ziegler's Vues du Rhin, 1798, McKenney and Hall's Indian tribes, 1838-44, Roscoe's Monandrian plants, 1828, Sauvan's Tour of the Seine, 1821, and Smith's Insects of Georgia, 1797; a series of books from the Doves Press bound by the Doves Bindery, and books from the Ashendene, Caradoc, Essex House, Fanfrolico, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, Kelmscott, Nonesuch, Riccardi and Shakespeare Head Presses; a fine series of extra-illustrated books. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co.... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1 : days of sale, Tuesday, 21st November, 1967 ... Wednesday, 22nd November, 1967, Thursday, 23rd November, 1967 ... [etc.]

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1967

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Archive Print Item: Elliott Collection Corvo 3 SOT

Catalogue of valuable printed books : comprising a selected portion of the library at Powderham Castle, Devonshire; early English books and early science... many with the Courtenay arms, the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Devon, The historie of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus, 1622, the only copy known of this edition: not in STC, the property of Douglas Davidson, Esq.; the first (suppressed) edition of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, 1865; a group of Norman Douglas first editions with inscriptions by the author; early atlases and maps ... sporting and botanical books with coloured plates and a series of water-colour drawings of birds, a Baskerville Prayer book bound by Edward[s] of Halifax and a fine German Renaissance gilt binding for Johann Fugger, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Cotteloe ... the Rt. Hon. Sir Percy Loraine ... R.O. Whalley ... Brigadier J.E. Stirling ... early Italian literature and books on the fine arts, the property of the late Charles Loeser, removed from Torre Gattaia, Florence, twenty-three original drawings by Thomas Bewick for his History of British birds and his History of quadrupeds, and the Julia Boyd collection of 423 engraved woodblocks from Thomas Bewick's workshop, as used for her Bewick gleanings, 1866, the property of Mrs. Hester Haig, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries ... on Monday, the 15th February, 1960 and the following day

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1960

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Archive Print Item: BC Read D5674

Catalogue of valuable printed books, natural history, fine bindings, autograph letters and historical documents... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1, on Monday, the 10th February, 1964 and the following day

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of valuable printed books, natural history, fine bindings, autograph letters and historical documents, comprising the property of... the trustees of the 5th Earl of Ilchester's ...

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Archive Print Item: BC Read D5676

Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters and historical documents... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1, on Monday, the 16th March, 1964

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters and historical documents, the property of... Baron Dimsdale ... John Maitland ... Robert Gathorne-Hardy ... Mrs. V.M. Richards ... t...

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Archive Print Item: BC Read D5678

Catalogue of modern French and German illustrated books... modern lithographs, etchings and woodcuts ... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1 : day of sale, Tuesday, 12th May, 1964

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of modern French and German illustrated books... modern lithographs, etchings and woodcuts, comprising the property of ... Gilbert Koolhaas ... Harry Tobey ... Terje Lothe ... A...

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Archive Print Item: BC Read D5680

Catalogue of the very important collection of Japanese colour prints and illustrated books : the property of the late John Mellor, Esq. of Blundellsands, Lancs.... which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co. ... days of sale, Tuesday, July 9th, 1963, and three following days

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1963

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