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Sotheby & Co. (London, England)	6
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Eckman, S	1
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Signet Library	1
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English literature and history : London, Wednesday 18th December 1985 at 10.30

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

[1985]

Comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts: including the archive of John Lane, at the Bodley Head, publisher of The Yellow Book; the letter by Charlotte Brontë sending the manuscrip...

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Catalogue of rugs and carpets... tapestries and textiles ... works of art ... Continental furniture ... which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries ... : Day of sale: Friday, 15th November, 1974

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1974

Cover title: Catalogue of Continental furniture, works of art, tapestries and textiles, rugs and carpets, including property from the collection of the late Mrs Eric Bullivant (removed from Anderson M...

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Catalogue of valuable printed books, the property of S. Eckman Jr, Esq., C.B.E. : comprising Continental books, including the Jenson Bible, 1479 with contemporary decorations, the Nuremberg chronicle, 1493, and Divina commedia, Parma 1795, presented by Kenyon to Wordsworth; English literature, including Donne's Pseudo-martyr, 1610, Drayton's Poly-Olbion, 1622, Exquemelins' Bucaniers of America, 1684-85, Coleridge's Fall of Robespierre, 1794, Leigh Hunt's copy of Hazlitt's Criticisms on art, 1843 and the Haggadah (1939), on vellum; first editions of Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Goldsmith, Rider Haggard, Leigh Hunt, Keats, Shelley, Thackeray and Trollope, including many presentation or association copies; colour plate books, including Boydell and Edy's Scenery of Norway, 1820, Dodwell's View's in Greece, 1821, Edward's Natural history, 7 vol., bound by Richard Montagu for Thomas Hollis, Fielding's English lakes, 1821, Hakewill's Jamaica, 1825, Janscha and Ziegler's Vues du Rhin, 1798, McKenney and Hall's Indian tribes, 1838-44, Roscoe's Monandrian plants, 1828, Sauvan's Tour of the Seine, 1821, and Smith's Insects of Georgia, 1797; a series of books from the Doves Press bound by the Doves Bindery, and books from the Ashendene, Caradoc, Essex House, Fanfrolico, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, Kelmscott, Nonesuch, Riccardi and Shakespeare Head Presses; a fine series of extra-illustrated books. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co.... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1 : days of sale, Tuesday, 21st November, 1967 ... Wednesday, 22nd November, 1967, Thursday, 23rd November, 1967 ... [etc.]

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1967

Includes bibliographical references.

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The Signet Library

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1960

Cover title: The Signet Library, part 3: catalogue of a selection from the library of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet, removed from Edinburgh, the 3rd portion: books printed in Great Br...

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Catalogue of valuable printed books : comprising a selected portion of the library at Powderham Castle, Devonshire; early English books and early science... many with the Courtenay arms, the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Devon, The historie of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus, 1622, the only copy known of this edition: not in STC, the property of Douglas Davidson, Esq.; the first (suppressed) edition of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, 1865; a group of Norman Douglas first editions with inscriptions by the author; early atlases and maps ... sporting and botanical books with coloured plates and a series of water-colour drawings of birds, a Baskerville Prayer book bound by Edward[s] of Halifax and a fine German Renaissance gilt binding for Johann Fugger, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Cotteloe ... the Rt. Hon. Sir Percy Loraine ... R.O. Whalley ... Brigadier J.E. Stirling ... early Italian literature and books on the fine arts, the property of the late Charles Loeser, removed from Torre Gattaia, Florence, twenty-three original drawings by Thomas Bewick for his History of British birds and his History of quadrupeds, and the Julia Boyd collection of 423 engraved woodblocks from Thomas Bewick's workshop, as used for her Bewick gleanings, 1866, the property of Mrs. Hester Haig, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries ... on Monday, the 15th February, 1960 and the following day

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1960

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Catalogue of nineteenth-century and modern English and French first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters, literary manuscripts etc, comprising... the property of Leonard Amster ... John Sparrow ... Michael Sadleir ... J. Middleton Murry ... Messrs. Chatto & Windus ... Archibald Douglas ... J.M. Dawkins ... Lady Cynthia Asquith and Peter Davies ... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1 on Monday, the 25th November, 1957, and the following day ... [etc.]

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1957

Cover title: Catalogue of nineteenth-century and modern English and French first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters, literary manuscripts, etc.... and the final portion of the J.M. Barri...