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GB: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. With folding leaflet of estimates. Very clean tight text but some wear and minor damage to covers. . G++.

London: Sotheby & Co., 1970 53 pp. +1; TPB

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June, 1978. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 87 pp, plates (frontispiece in colour) , ills. 182 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: "French manuscript and printed music of the late XVIIth and early XVIIIth century, mainly operas and ballets, including 30 works by Jean- Baptiste Lully and works by Campra, Colasse, Couperin, Desmarets, Destouches, de la Coste, collections of Motets by Lalande, and works by other composers of the period; and a manuscript gradual and antiphoner written by Philidor l'Aisné for the Chapel Royal of Louis XIV; books on travel and topography, including Krusenstern, Voyage round the world, 2 vol. in 1, 1813; English and Continental literature of the XVIth to the XIXth century, including "three- decker" English novels; St. Anselm, Opuscula, (Strassburg, c.1500); Cicero, (Opera), 10 vol. in 5, Narcissus Luttrell's copy, Venice 1583; Leonardo da Vinci,… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th and 19th November 1974. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 117 pp, 25 plates (3 in colour), ills. 423 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: A Fine Anglo-Dutch Manuscript Tulip Book, [c. 1640-1660]; Belon's La Nature des Oiseaux, 1555, Candolle's Plantarum Succulent Arum Historia, [1793-1832], Corpus's Annotations . . 1561, Fuchs's Den Nieuwen Herbarius, [1545?], Linnaeus's Hortus Cliffortianus, 1737, Liron d'Airoles's Album de la Civeliere, 1855, Miller's Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei, 1777, Redoute's Les Roses, 1817-24, a large paper copy, and 1824-26, Roscoes Monandrian Plants, 1828, Sander's Reichenbachia, 1888-94, Schneevoogt's Lcones Plantarum Variorum, 1792-93, Sweert's Florilegium, 1647-54, and Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, 1737-45; Books by Buchoz, Catesby, Clusius, Curtis, Dodoens, Jacquin, Loudon, Maund and Sweet Elliot's Birds of… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th and 18th October, 1960. Green printed wrappers, 4to,. 98 pp, 27 plates. 415 lots (715-1129). Among the highlights noted were the following: French and Italian Renaissance bindings, including examples for P.L. Farnese and sir William Pickering; two bindings by Jakob Krause; John Stanbridge, Vulgaria Sanbrige, Wynkyn de Worde, N.D.; books from the Aldine, Elzevir, Baskerville and Strawberry Hill Presses; English and Continental embroidered bindings; Restoration bindings by the Saumel Mearne bindery, the Queen's Binders, Alexander Cleeve, Roger Bartlet and Richard Balley; 18th century bindings for Elkanah Settle and by Moore of Cambridge, Richard Montagu, Wier, Staggmeier and Welcher, and the Edwards of Halifax bindery; French bindings for Mme. de Pompadour, and by A.M. Padeloup le jeune and N.D. Derôme le jeune, and Voltaire's Henriade, Didot, 1819, bound for presentation to Louis XVIII; fore-edge… Leer más

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th November, 1978. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 59 pp, plates, ills. 316 lots. Good. List of estimates laid in.

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Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June, 1978. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 87 pp, plates (frontispiece in colour) , ills. 182 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: "French manuscript and printed music of the late XVIIth and early XVIIIth century, mainly operas and ballets, including 30 works by Jean- Baptiste Lully and works by Campra, Colasse, Couperin, Desmarets, Destouches, de la Coste, collections of Motets by Lalande, and works by other composers of the period; and a manuscript gradual and antiphoner written by Philidor l'Aisné for the Chapel Royal of Louis XIV; books on travel and topography, including Krusenstern, Voyage round the world, 2 vol. in 1, 1813; English and Continental literature of the XVIth to the XIXth century, including "three- decker" English novels; St. Anselm, Opuscula, (Strassburg, c.1500); Cicero, (Opera), 10 vol. in 5, Narcissus Luttrell's copy, Venice 1583; Leonardo da Vinci,… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th and 5th December 1961. Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. 83 pp, 6 plates. 409 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: an extensive series of works on North and South America, the Caribbean, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand; a fine colored copy of Blaeu's Theâtre du monde; Choris's Vues et paysages des régions equinoxiales, 1826; the autograph manuscript of Cullum's On the manners and customs of the North American Indians, with 16 drawings, unpublished; a presentation copy to Peter Collinson of Lewis Evans's Map of the Middle British Colonies, 1755, with others in a volume; an unrecorded memorial of Fernandez de Quiros concerning the discovery of Australia (Madrid); a finely coloured set of wall-maps of the continents by Sanson; letters of Benedict Arnold, Cadwallader Colden, George Washington and Ulysses Grant (to Abraham Lincoln); early documents relating to Georgia;… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 20th and 21st December 1965. Green printed wrappers, 8vo,. 156 pp, facs. 721 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Boyle's The sceptical chymist, 1661, first edition; Einstein's Relativitats-theorie, 1916; Fracastorius's De sympathia, 1546; Kelvin's Notes of lectures on molecular dynamics, 1884; Thomas Gray's copy of Linné's Systema plantarum; Smyth's Development of methos of using atomic energy for military purposes, 1945, and Vassaeus's Litel treatise conteyning the Iujement of Urynes, 1553, the only English edition; a collection of alchemical books; natural history books including Gould's Birds of Australia, Mammals of Australia and Family of kangaroos; Ackermann's Oxford and Cambridge and Boydell's River Thames; English and Continental books of the 15th to 19th century, including Sade's La nouvelle Justine, 1797; letters of Pepys, Burns, Johnson,… Leer más

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th June, 1977. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 82 pp + 31 plates. 76 lots. From the preface: "Sion College was founded by the bequest of Thomas White, D.D., who died in 1624. The Library grew with the help of many small donors including Matthew Forster's Gift in 1646 of Caxton's First Book, the Recuyell of the Histories of Troye, Printed at Bruges in 1474-75 (Lot 36). Another early bequest was from the Library of Walter Travers (1548 ?-1635), Puritan Divine. This Included a Mercator Atlas (Lot 42) with a manuscript inscription dated 1636. However, the college buildings and a third of the books were lost in the Great Fire of 1666. The first of the larger donations was thc library of Sir Robert Coke, bequeathed to the college by Coke's nephew by marriage, George, Earl of Berkeley (1628- 1698). Items from this bequest may usually be identified by their specially printed book-labels, and include the two other… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th and 9th May, 1961. Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. 117 pp, 10 plates (including 2 folding), facs. 508 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: William Bourne's A Regiment for the Sea [c. 1576]; and a Manuscript Partly in Maya Quiché, 1555-67; a Book from Jane Austen's Library Presented by Charlotte Bronte to Mrs. Gaskell; Fine Colour-Plate Books and Memorials of the Bewick Family; Boyle's The Sceptical Chemist, Second Edition, 1680; Beaumont's Experiments on the Gastric Juice, 1833; and John Evelyn's Copy of William Croone's de Ratione Motus Musculorum, 1664; A Collection of Bodoni Press Books; Duplessi-Bertaux's Drawings for the 1780 Edition of Voltaire's la Pucelle d'Orléans; Autograph Letters of Anna Seward, Sir John Moore, the Duke of Wellington, William Beckford of Fonthill, John Mytton, Disraeli, John Ruskin and Wilbur Wright ; an Autograph… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th December, 1973. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 58 pp. 307 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Continental books of the 15th to 18th century, including the Nuremberg chronicle, 1493, Taisnier's Opusculum...de natura magnetis, 1562, Sandrart Auf Stockau's L'academia todesca..., 1675-79, Van der Aa's Splendor magnificentissimae urbis venetiarum, (1702), and a collection of books from the Elzevier Press; colour-plate books including Ackermann's Microcosm of London, Oxford and Cambridge, Jenkin's Naval achievements, Meyer's Voyage pittoresque dans le Canton des Grisons, 1827, and Webber's Views in the South Seas, 1808; Loggan's Oxonia illustrata and Cantabrigia illustrata; Chinese rice-paper drawings; English literature, inluding Cumberland's Memoirs, 1806, annotated by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi; fine letters of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli; drawings by Anne Brontë; letters and… Leer más

London: Sotheby & Co.. Very Good-. 1974. First Edition; First Edition. Original Stapled Wrappers. 45 pages. With frontispiece & (folding) plates. A few pages slightly dog-eared. Annotation on title page. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. Front and back covers partially faded along spine and fore edge. Slight fading to top margin back cover as well. ; Paperback; Octavo (standard book size); Full Title: Catalogue of valuable printed books, including important atlases, also autography letters and historical documents including Blaeu's Atlas Major, 11 vol. , 1662, Camden's Britain, 1637, Sylvanus Morgan's Copy, Dudley's Dell'arcano del mare, 1646, Speed's The theatre of the empire of Great Britain, Coronelli's Prima Parte della specchio del mare, 1698, and other atlases; Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, Merian's Topographia provinciarum austriacarum ..., and other works, Zeiller's Topogria Galliae, and Roberts's Holy… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the second sale held on 27th and 28th March, 1972 . Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 101 pp, 4 plates, facs. Lots 89-477. Among the highlights noted were the following: Lepitaphe de Frere Olivier Maillard, [c. 1502], Dante's Le Terze Rime, [1503], Printed on Vellum, Huygens's Astroscopia, 1684, Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie, 35 Vol., Richardson's Nouvelles Lettres Angloises, 1770, bound for Madame du Barry, and Other Decorated Bookbindings; English Literature of the 15th to 18th century, including Wotton's Speculum Christiani, De Machlinia, c. 1486, and an Apparently Unique Cato Disticha de Moribus, Wynkyn de Worde, 1508; an Extensive Collection of Upwards of 15,000 Book-Plates; Colourplate and Natural History Books, including Jenkins's the Naval Achievements of Great Britain, Boydell's River Thames, Lear's Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, Presentation Copy, Alyon's Elemens de Botanique, 1788,… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th & 5th October, 1971. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. Unpaginated approximately 110 pp, plates, ills. 426 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Aesop, Venice, 1505; Ambrosius, Expositio, Augsburg, 1476; Bacon, Two Books of Learning, 1605; Instauratio Magna, 1620; Bandellus, Libellus, Milan, 1475; the Baskerville Ariosto, 1773, in contemporary morocco; Blarru, Nanceidos, 1518; Boccaccio, Genealogie des Dieux, Paris, 1531, Fall of Princes, 1554 and 1555, the Decameron, First English Edition, 1620; Boswell, Life of Johnson 1791; Bourdigne, Hystoire d'Anjou, Paris, 1529; Brandt, Ship of Fools, 1570; Browne's Hydrotaphia, 1658; Campo, Cremona Fidelissima, 1585, in contemporary morocco; Caorsin, Rhodiae Descriptio, Ulm 1496, the Ibarra Cervantes 1780, in Morocco; Chappe d'Auteroche, California1778; Colonna, Poliphile, Paris, 1554; Cook, Voyages, 1773-85; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719: Drayton, Poly-Olbion,… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th July 1973. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 52 pp,ills. 265 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: English literature including Scot's Discovery of witchcraft, 1651, Defoe's The immorality of the priesthood, 1715, Johnson's A dictionary of the English language, 1755, and Boswell's The life of Samuel Johnson, 1791; Continental books; colour-plate and natural history books; albums, scrapbooks and collections of valentine and greeting cards; letters and documents of Charles I, Charles II, Queen Anne, William III, Queen Victoria; Sir Christopher Hatton, Canning, Disraeli, Wellington, Garibaldi and Florence Nightingale; William Godwin, Bertrand Russell, Edmond Malone, Dr. Fell and Sir William Hamilton; Matthew Arnold, Bridges, Carlyle, Coleridge, De Quincey, Dickens, Harriet Martineau, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Rochester, Ruskin, Shadwell, Southey, Thackeray and Wordsworth; an important autograph meteorological journal… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the second sale held on 27th and 28th March, 1972 . Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 101 pp, 4 plates, facs. Lots 89-477. Among the highlights noted were the following: Lepitaphe de Frere Olivier Maillard, [c. 1502], Dante's Le Terze Rime, [1503], Printed on Vellum, Huygens's Astroscopia, 1684, Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie, 35 Vol., Richardson's Nouvelles Lettres Angloises, 1770, bound for Madame du Barry, and Other Decorated Bookbindings; English Literature of the 15th to 18th century, including Wotton's Speculum Christiani, De Machlinia, c. 1486, and an Apparently Unique Cato Disticha de Moribus, Wynkyn de Worde, 1508; an Extensive Collection of Upwards of 15,000 Book-Plates; Colourplate and Natural History Books, including Jenkins's the Naval Achievements of Great Britain, Boydell's River Thames, Lear's Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, Presentation Copy, Alyon's Elemens de Botanique, 1788,… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 19th - 20th May 1975. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 83 pp. 420 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Natural History and Colour-Plate Books, Including Crispin Van de Pass's Hortus Floridus, 1616, A Complete Set of Curtis's THE Botanical Magazine, 1787-1974, Desmarest's Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, . . 1805-07, Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica, 1812 and 1817, Bonpland's Plantes Rares Cultivées à Malmaison, 1813, Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology, 1833-44, Lewin's Birds of New South Wales, 1838, and Smith's Wild Flowers of Nova Scotia, [1840] ; A Collection of Fine Botanical Drawings; Repton's Observations ..1803, and Fragments ..1816, Barker's the Fine Arts, 1824, Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry Into Ancient Armour, 1824, and Logan's The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, 1845-47; English Literature of the 16th to 19th century, Including Higden's… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the second sale held on 27th and 28th March, 1972 . Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 101 pp, 4 plates, facs. Lots 89-477. Among the highlights noted were the following: Lepitaphe de Frere Olivier Maillard, [c. 1502], Dante's Le Terze Rime, [1503], Printed on Vellum, Huygens's Astroscopia, 1684, Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie, 35 Vol., Richardson's Nouvelles Lettres Angloises, 1770, bound for Madame du Barry, and Other Decorated Bookbindings; English Literature of the 15th to 18th century, including Wotton's Speculum Christiani, De Machlinia, c. 1486, and an Apparently Unique Cato Disticha de Moribus, Wynkyn de Worde, 1508; an Extensive Collection of Upwards of 15,000 Book-Plates; Colourplate and Natural History Books, including Jenkins's the Naval Achievements of Great Britain, Boydell's River Thames, Lear's Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, Presentation Copy, Alyon's Elemens de Botanique, 1788,… Leer más