Catalogue of Valuable printed books, science and medicine, autograph letters and historical documents. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 20-21 December 1965 ]

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, Browning, Coleridge, Dickens, Leigh Hunt, Scott, Thackeray and Wordsworth; Elizabeth I, Charles I, Cromwell, Charles II, George III, Nelson, Disraeli, Gordon and Livingstone; Schiller, Beaumarchais, Strindberg and Chekhov; an apparently unique version of John Earle's Microcosmography, dated 1627; the diplomatic correspondence of Francois Gaultier and papers relating to Covert Garden Theatre Near Very Good.