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Total number of records: 5

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	2
English Literature	1
Herbert Read Collection	1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
early printed books	5
armes	2
armor	2
art objects	2
arts decoratifs	2
books	2
clocks and watches	2
decorative arts	2
furniture	2
illustrated books	2

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Place	Count
England	2
Europe	1
Great Britain	1
Groombridge (England)	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	2
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)	2
Sotheby'S (Firm)	2
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759)	1
Caxton, William (1422-1492)	1
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)	1
Eckman, S	1
Herbert, William (1718-1795)	1
Thoresby Hall	1
Worde, Wynkyn De	1

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Earliest date	Count
From 1800	1
From 1900	4

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1899	1
Up to 1999	4

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Groombridge Place : Groombridge Kent : the contents including furniture and clocks... : days of sale Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th September 1992

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sotheby's (Firm)

[1992]

Auction catalog. Sale code: GROOMBRIDGE. At head of title: By direction of the trustees of the estate of the late Walton Mountain. Sale held at Groombridge Place. Catalog contains lots 1-565, ...

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Typographical antiquities; or the history of printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland: containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them. Begun by the late Joseph Ames, F.R. & A.SS. Considerably augmented by William Herbert, of Cheshunt, Herts; And now greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings; comprehending the history of English literature, and view of the progress of the art of engraving, in Great Britain

Ames, Joseph (1689-1759); Herbert, William (1718-1795); Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847); Caxton, William (1422-1492); Worde, Wynkyn de

[between 1810 and 1819?]

Augumented and extra-illustrated copy of the 1809 [?] edition; includes numerous bound-in letters, and leaves printed by Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde. Includes two copies of the following title-p.: Ty...

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Thoresby Hall

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sotheby's (Firm)

[1989]

Auction catalog. Sale code: THORESBY. Estate sale held on premises. Catalog contains lots 1-513, 600-735, 750-845, 1000-1268, 1300-1521, 1550-1932. Place of sale: Thoresby Hall, Newark, Nottingham...

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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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Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters and historical documents... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1, on Monday, the 16th March, 1964

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters and historical documents, the property of... Baron Dimsdale ... John Maitland ... Robert Gathorne-Hardy ... Mrs. V.M. Richards ... t...

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