Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters & historical documents. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 4-6 April 1955 ].

Sotheby & Co.

Verlag: Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th to 6th April 1955, 1955

Modern cloth, original green printed wrappers bound in, gilt spine-title, 8vo, 25 cm, 89 pp, 12 plates. 576 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: a further portion of the library from Maddingly Hall, Cambridgeshire, the property of the Trustees of the late W. A. H. Harding, Esq.; the well-known E. P. Goldschmidt Collection of Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, including incunabula in monastic bindings, a very rare Italian panel-stamp of the crucifixion, bindings with the emblems of Vautrollier and the Angeuers, a superb Viennese cuir-ciselé binding, and the celebrated Venetian painted vellum binding; an extremely rare Horae, Use of Sarum, Paris, 1497 the property of Colonel T. A. H. Coltman; Fine French, Italian, Austrian and Spanish Bindings, mostly from the Liechtenstein Collection the property of E. V. D. Wight, Jr.; a collection of heraldic manuscripts the property of Mrs. Jane S. Napier; Playing Cards ; Stuart Pamphlets ; The Author's Proof-Copy with original drawings of Mrs. Bowditch's The Fresh-Water Fishes of Great Britain, 1828 ; Atlases by Blaeu and Speed ; Des Barres, The Atlantic Neptune, 1777 ; Grynaeus, Die Nieuwe Weerelt, Antwerp, 1563, in contemporary pigskin ; a fine copy of Cortes, Breve Compendio de la Sphera y de la Arte de Navegar, 1551; etc.; Presentation Copies to Lady Ottoline Morrell of works by W. B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf, the property of Mrs. Julian Vinogradoff; a binding by Cobden-Sanderson ; a very fine letter of Robert Burns ; Byron's Hints from Horace, the manuscript sent to the printer with extensive revisions in the poet's hand ; and letters and a manuscript of W. B. Yeats, The Property of Sir Sydney Cockerell; Letters or Mss. of Samuel Pepys, Evelyn, W. Shenstone, Duke of Marlborough, Wellington, Thomas Percy, James Hogg, Horace Walpole, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Macaulay, Faraday, Edmund Blunden, Fenelon, Buffon, Mirabeau, Pasteur, Barbey D'aurevilly, Victor Hugo, Mallarme, Flaubert, Heine and Tolstoy ; interesting naval mss. ; Mata Hari's albums ; the dossier of Edith Cavell's trial ; and the typescript of Lady Windermere's Fan, with extensive corrections by Wilde, the property of Major H. T. H. Foley,the property of Michael Sadlier, esq. the property of Lady Palmer also MSS. donated on behalf of the Keats-Shelly Memorial Association; and two highly important manuscript Relations of Columbus from the Archives of a Venetian Patrician Family. On the front wrapper the list of consignors has been neatly struck through to leave just "the E.P. Goldschmidt Collection of Bindings"with a note added of the lot numbers 247-303. In the catalogue these lots are ruled in red and priced. List of prices realized and buyers' names bound in at the end. Near Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-62473

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Titel: Catalogue of valuable printed books, ...
Verlag: Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th to 6th April 1955
Erscheinungsdatum: 1955
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage