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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Comprising Colour Plate Books ... English Literature ... Fine Architectural and Design Books of the 18th Century, Munster's Cosmographia, 1554, Saxton's Atlas, [c. 1689], and Speed's Atlas, 1611 and 1627, Continental Books ... Letters and Manuscripts ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Sotheby & Co. ... at Their Large Galleries ...

Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

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Page : 96 pages

File Size : 17,78 MB

Release : 1969

Category : Atlases

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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, Comprising Fine Colour-plate Books of Views, Costume, Botany, Etc. Including a Fine Copy of The Temple of Flora; Collections of Flower-drawings and a Collection of Drawings of Indian Birds; Rare Incunabula, Including the Only Perfect Copy Known of the Libro de la Virtu de Le Herbe, Venice 1493; English Literature, Including a Presentation Copy to Lady Holland of Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, with Two Letters; Travel and Atlases; Science and Medicine, Including Jan Ladmiral's Extremely Rare Anatomische Voorwerpen; Autograph Letters of Nelson, Faraday, Pasteur, Southey, Cobden, Dickens, Livingstone, Cardinal New and Meredith; and Autograph Mss. of Pasteur and Jean- Jaques Rousseau; Letters and Mss. from the Papers of Thomas Pennant (1726-98), The Traveller and Naturalist, Including Letters of J.R. Forester, Gronovius, Francis Grose, John Lightfoot, E. Zimmermann and P.S. Pallas

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Page : 99 pages

File Size : 11,73 MB

Release : 1963

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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, Comprising Travel and Atlases, Fine Colour-plate Books, Including Ackermann's Microcosm of London, Rowlandson's Loyal Volunteers, Thornton's Temple of Flora and the Ornithological Collection of the Late A.L. Butler, Including Beebe's Pheasants, Elliot's Hornbills; a Volume of Views in South Wales, and Other Volumes of Drawings; Fine Bindings, Including a Magnificent Inlaid Binding by Staggemeier and Welcher; Books Printed on the Continent; and English Books, Including the Sixth Edition of Bacon's Essays, 1612 and the Presentation Copy of the Duchess of Buckingham of Alexander Pope's Works, 1735-37; Letters, Or Autograph Manuscripts, of Charles IX, Cathérine de Médicis, Constantin Huygens, A.C.W. Staring, Garibaldi, and a Fine Series of Letters of Benjamin Constant; Pepys, Bolingbroke, Godolphin and a Fine Series from Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough; George III, Chesterfield, the Younger Pitt, Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Thrale, John Wesley, Jenner, Gibbon, Gainsborough, and Robert Burnes (two Fine Letters and an Autograph Document); Nelson, Lord Hastings, Sir Timothy Shelly (about His Son, the Poet), Hazlitt, Wordsworth, Malthus, Faraday, Darwin, Thackeray, Carlyle, Charlotte, Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Lewis Carroll, Mary Russell Mitford, Edward Lear, Florence Nightingale, Sullivan and Conan Doyle; a Series of Autograph Manuscript of Thomas Tomkins, 1780-82; and an Important Six Page Autograph Musical Manuscript of G.F. Handel

Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

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Page : 100 pages

File Size : 19,36 MB

Release : 1963

Category : Auction catalogs

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