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Bertram Rota (Firm)1
Eckman, S1
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)1

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Archive Print Item: Elliott Collection Corvo 3 SOT

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

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