Catalogue of Valuable printed books including fine natural history books, autograph letters and literary and historical manuscripts. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 18-19 November 1974 ]

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 Paradise, 1873, Ernst's Papilloris D'europe, 1779-92, Gould's Family of Toucans, 1834, Birds of Australia, 1848-69, Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73, Famty If Humming Birds, 1861-87, and Birds of New Guinea, 1875-88, Harris's Tame and Wild Animals of South Africa, 1840, Hayes's British Birds, 1775, and Levaillant's Oiseaux d'Afrique, 1805-08; Continental Books of the 15th to 18th century, including Rodericus Zamorensis's Historia Hispanica, c. 1470, Eyb's Margarita Poetica, 1477, Durandus's Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, 1478, Perez's Commentum in Psalmos, Valencia 1484, Herbarius Latinus, 1491, Brandt's Stultifera Navis, 1498, Gabriel de Taregua's Summa Diversarum Questionum Medicinalium, Bordeaux 1520, Vitruvius' de Architectura, 1521, Matthiolus's Herbar..1596, Pluvinel's Maneige Royal, 1624, and the Oudry la Fontaine, 1755-59; English Books of the 16th to 18th century and Interesting English Book-Bindings of the 16th century; An Autograph Notebook Containing An Otherwise Unknown Sequence Or Love Poems by Robert Sidney (1563-1626); Documents of Henry VII, Elizabeth I and Charles II; Two Interesting Swan Books of the 16th and 17th Centuries; An Autograph Diary of Richard Colebrande (c. 1614-74); Letters and Manuscripts of John Locke, Stratford Canning, Thomas Erskine, Nelson, Lady Hamilton, John Stuart Mill and Livingstone; Sheridan, Henry Mackenzie, Cassandra Austen, Wordsworth, Browning, Leigh Hunt and Edward Bulwer Lytton; A Portrait of Robert Burns; the Manuscript of An Interesting Unrecorded Play, c. 1832, Based on Beckford's Vathek; Letters relating to Postal History in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Front wrapper detached with loss of spine-panel, contents Good.