Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Wiseiana Formed by Sir Maurice Pariser, Together with Properties... de Sotheby & Co., London

London: Messrs. Sotheby & Co.. Good. 1958. Softcover. Tearing to the spine. ; Separate printed sheet with prices realized and buyers' names included. Handwritten note re a lot purchased by Quaritch being offered in their catalog. .

London, Sotheby & Co., [, 1972. Hardcover. Backstrip and cover edge sun-darkened; front cover slightly sprung; page margins very faintly foxed; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). ]. 112p. plus 32 plates. Illus. Quarto. Auction catalogue. (Bibliotheca Phillippica; Medieval Manuscripts; New Series, part 7).

Sotheby & Co., London, 1969 Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th November, 1969 First edition paperback 63 pages, light soiling to covers and light creases to some pages but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request

(WISE) SOTHEBY & CO. CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF WISEIANA FORM BY SIR MAURICE PARISIER. London: 1967. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece, 139 pages. First edition. A comprehensive collection of Wiseiana, prices realized laid-in. Over half of the catalogue was purchased by L.D. Feldman for Texas.

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th-16th June, 1970. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 149 pp, plates. Lots 1159-1374. Among the highlights noted were the following: French Manuscripts, including Medieval Deeds and Charters; Autograph Letters of Gassendi, Mersenne, Ismael Boulliau, Fenelon, Mme. Guyon, Mabillon, St. Vincent de Paul, Mme. de Sevigne and Mme. du Chatelet; an Important Archive Relating to Bossuet; Papers Concerning Voltaire; and a Partly Unpublished Letter of Napoleon I; Greek Manuscripts, including a Volume from Johannes Sambucus's Library, a Seventeenth-Century Play in Cretan Dialect and an Extensive and Highly Important Collection of the Papers of Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople; Yugoslav and Slavonic Manuscripts, including the First Croat Translation of a Kempis's Imitation of Jesus Christ, a Glagolitic Manuscript Written on the Island of Krk, 1602, and a Russian Sixteenth-Century Apocalypse with Contemporary English Marginalia;… Leer más

Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th and 5th December 1967. Green printed wrappers, 8vo,. 139 pp, 1 plate, facs. 522 lots. A splendid sale including all save three of the forgeries then identified, and much else: the catalogue summary stated: "An almost complete run of the notorious forgeries, including the "Reading Sonnets", Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 1842 and one of three known copies of the counterfeit edition of Matthew Arnold Alaric at Rome 1840. A massive assemblage of Thomas J. Wise's private printings, including many proof copies; with a high percentage of presentation copies, often of special association interest. The only recorded copy of the first issue of the first edition of Wise's Verses, 1882, presented to his closest friend. A virtually complete collection, with many presentation copies, of Wise's extensive output of bibliographies and catalogues, including manuscript material, corrected proofs, etc. A substantial section of… Leer más

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th November, 1975. Blue printed wrappers, 8vo,. 86 pp, plates, ills. 263 lots. Wrappers slightly faded, otherwise Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names and list of estimates laid in.

London: Sotheby & Co, 1967. Near Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Faint paper clip impression to front wrap. A necessary tool for the collector of T. J. Wise and his circle. 522 lots. A few llustrations. Prices realized booklet laid in. Auction catalog. Dec 4 & 5, 1967. Sotheby & Co. Bound in the original green wraps, stamped in black. Title continues: "Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Wiseiana formed by Sir Maurice Pariser, Together with Properties of John Carter, Graham Pollard, and Mrs R W Chapman. An almost complete run of the notorious forgeries, including the "Reading Sonnets," Tennyson MORTE D'ARTHUR 1842 and one of three known copies of the counterfeit edition of Matthew Arnold ALARIC AT ROME 1840. A massive assemblage of Thomas J. Wise's private printings, including many proof copies; with a high percentage of presentation copies, often of… Leer más

London, 1965.. 108, (4)pp., 30 plates. 4to. Boards.

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… Leer más