Catalogue of The Celebrated Collection the Property of C.E. Kenney, Esq., F.B.A., F.R.I.C.S. The First Portion: Trade and Economics,Geography, Navigation, Maps, Surveying, and Social History Part I A-K . [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale dates: 10-11 May, 1965. ]

Sotheby & Co., London, unillustrated auction catalogue for the sales held on 10th-11th May, 1965. Yellow printed wrappers, 8vo,. 103 pp, facs. Lots 1-555. Among the highlights noted were the following: Braun and Hogenburg's Beschreibung von den vornembsten Stetten der Welt, 6 vol., Kip's Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne, 6 vol., Buck's Antiquities and views, 3 vol., Blundeville's Universal mappes and cardes, 1589, Boteler's Colloquia maritima, 1688 and Adams's Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam descriptio, 1588; Guide books, road maps and atlases; Fonduli's Pratiche de fioretti merchantili, 1560, Barbon's Coining the new money lighter, 1696, Gardiner's England's grievance discovered in relation to the coal-trade, 1655; and other books on economics, surveying and the Bedford Level; trade directories and almanacs; Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie; a complete set of the Encyclopae méthodique, 1782-1832; Johnson's Dictionary of the English language, first edition; and other dictionaries and encyclopaedias; social history, including Beck's Le charactere universel, 1657, Day's The English secretorie, 1592, Advice to the women and maidens od London, 1678, and The case of Edmund Heming who first set up new lights in the city of London, 1689; books on drawing and engraving, including Albert Dürer revived, [c. 1690], and Goeree's Introduction to the general art of limning, 1674. A few notes on front wrapper and to text, otherwise Good.