› › Catalogue Of Valuable Printed Books Illuminated Other Manuscripts Autograph Letters Historical Documents Etc Selected From The Library Of W H V Bythway From A Celebrated Library On The Continent The Property Of Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith G C Williamson

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Release : 1942-11

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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated and Other Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents, Etc., Comprising English Books of the XVI-XVIII Centuries, Many in Original Bindings, Selected from the Library at Tythrop House, Thame, the Property of Aubrey Wykcham, Esq., a Very Fine Second Folio, of a Rare Issue and in Contemporary Calf, the Property of a Lady, a Grolier Binding from the Sunderland and Hierta Libraries, the Property of M. Hjalmar Wijk, of Gothenburg, Sweden; a Few Rare and Desirable Incunables, an Early English Medical Manuscript with Anatomical Drawings, and a Extremely Fine XV Century Manuscript of English Statutes, with Royal Portraits and Armorials, Boswell's Johnson, 1791, with the Corrections and Additions, 1793, Both Inscribed by the Author to Dr. Goodall, Provost of Eton; the Property of the Honble. Violet Cust, a Good Pride and Prejudice, 1813, a Fine Evelina, 1778, and an Exceptional Collection of Scott's Novels, Uncut and in the Original Boards, Including Guy Mannering and the Rare Issue of Peveril of the Peak, Original Drawings by “Phiz” for Illustrations to Nicholas Nickleby and Martin Chuzzlewit; the Property of Lady Priestley; the Autograph Letters and MSS. Include the Diary of Lt.-Col. S. J. Hopkins During the American Civil War; the Property of His Grandson, R. Gilbert Hopkins, Esq., Fine Letters of James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, John Wesley, John Ruskin, Mary Russell Mitford, Charles Lamb, O. W. Holmes, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and W. M. Thackeray, Manuscripts of Thomas de Quincey, W. Cowper, Edward Lear, James Elroy Flecker, and a Long Holograph Letter of Jane Austen

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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated & Other Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents, &c., Comprising a Large and Interesting Collection of Rare English Books of the 15th to 17th Centuries, Many in Original Bindings, with a Few Printed Abroad Or of Later Date, Including Andreae, Quaestiones, Lettou, 1480, a Devout Treatise Called the Tree, Copland, 1534-5, Guido de Monte Rocher, Manipulus Curatorum, W. de Worde, 1502, John of Gadesdon, Rosa Anglica Practica Medicine, 1492, Lyndewood, Constitutions, Oxford, Thodoric Rood, 1483, and Tunstall, De Arte Supputandi, Pynson, 1522 (the First English Book Wholely on Arithmetic), Selected from the Library at Marbury Hall, Northwick, and Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Late Rt. Honble. Lord Barrymore; Well-decorated Manuscript Service-book, Including the Property of Colonel Walter Macfarlane; Unrecorded Editions of Rogers, A Garden of Spirituall Flowers, 1609, and Dent, A Platforme Made for the Proofe of God's Providence, 1608, Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece, 1655, a Collection of Presentation Copies of the Works of Anatole France, First Editions of The Tatler and The Guardian (complete), and of The Spectator (lacking Only Six Nos.), Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776, Boards, Uncut, Presentation Copies of Wilde's Salome and The Happy Prince, and of Early Works by George Moore, Etc., and a Very Remarkable Series of XIX Century Books (including First Editions of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Frankenstein and Braybrooke's Pepys), Uncut and in Extraordinary Original Condition, from the Library of a Gentleman, the Autograph Letters, &c. Comprise, an Important Collection of 17th Century News Letter, the Property of S. H. Le Fleming, Esq., Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Fine Letters of Sir Joseph Banks, Charles Lamb, O. W. Holmes, and Charles Dickens (mentioning Pickwick), Sketches by W. M. Thackeray (addressed to Edward Fitzgerald), an Auto. MS. of Maria Edgeworth, Correspondence of George Moore with His Publisher, a Very Fine Series of George Gissing, the Property of Algernon Gissing, Esq.; a Manuscript of Two Pages, in Verse, by Robert Burns, the Property of Capt. Victor Cazalet; and an Important Series of Letters and Papers of Lord Macaulay, Sold by Order of His Great-nephew and Literary Executor

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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated and Other Manuscripts and Autograph Letters. The Books Comprise Publications of the Doves Press, Many Printed on Vellum, the Property of the Late T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Esq.; Productions of the Kelmscott Press, the Property of the Late Howard H. Thomson, Esq., F.R.I.B.A.; Books in Fine Old Bindings, the Property of the Late Earl of Haddington, K.T.; Robert Burns, Poems, Kilmarnock Edition, 1786, the Property of W. Sheepshanks, Esq.; R. L. Stevenson, The Charity Bazar, 1868, the Property of Miss M. Moyes Black; Drawings by W. M. Thackeray, the Property of Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield; Books with Coloured Plates, the Property of a Gentleman; Shakespeare, Works, First Folio Edition, 1623, the Property of F. F. Urquhart, Esq.; and One of the Excessively Rare Harmonies of Little Gidding, the Property of the Late Mrs. Selina Gaussen; Also English Literature; Sporting Books; Americana; a Collection of Miniatures Cut from Illuminated Manuscripts; Incunabula; French XVIII Century Illustrated Books; a Portrait in Oils of Robert Burns by Nasmith; Decorated Horæ; Italian Antiphonaries, Etc. The Autograph Letters, Etc., Comprise the Bowes Family Papers, the Property of the Earl of Strathmore; Letters from Charlotte Brontë to Amelia Ringrose, and from J. A. M. Whistler to Mr. Marcus B. Huish; an Autograph Poem by Oscar Wilde; Letters and Manuscripts of Famous Musicians; a Document Signed by Edward Alleyn, 1626; Etc

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