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London: Messrs. Sotheby & Co.. Good. 1958. Softcover. Tearing to the spine. ; Separate printed sheet with prices realized and buyers' names included. Handwritten note re a lot purchased by Quaritch being offered in their catalog. .

London, Sotheby & Co., [, 1972. Hardcover. Backstrip and cover edge sun-darkened; front cover slightly sprung; page margins very faintly foxed; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). ]. 112p. plus 32 plates. Illus. Quarto. Auction catalogue. (Bibliotheca Phillippica; Medieval Manuscripts; New Series, part 7).

(WISE) SOTHEBY & CO. CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF WISEIANA FORM BY SIR MAURICE PARISIER. London: 1967. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece, 139 pages. First edition. A comprehensive collection of Wiseiana, prices realized laid-in. Over half of the catalogue was purchased by L.D. Feldman for Texas.

Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th and 5th December 1967. Green printed wrappers, 8vo,. 139 pp, 1 plate, facs. 522 lots. A splendid sale including all save three of the forgeries then identified, and much else: the catalogue summary stated: "An almost complete run of the notorious forgeries, including the "Reading Sonnets", Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 1842 and one of three known copies of the counterfeit edition of Matthew Arnold Alaric at Rome 1840. A massive assemblage of Thomas J. Wise's private printings, including many proof copies; with a high percentage of presentation copies, often of special association interest. The only recorded copy of the first issue of the first edition of Wise's Verses, 1882, presented to his closest friend. A virtually complete collection, with many presentation copies, of Wise's extensive output of bibliographies and catalogues, including manuscript material, corrected proofs, etc. A substantial section of… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th-16th June, 1970. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 149 pp, plates. Lots 1159-1374. Among the highlights noted were the following: French Manuscripts, including Medieval Deeds and Charters; Autograph Letters of Gassendi, Mersenne, Ismael Boulliau, Fenelon, Mme. Guyon, Mabillon, St. Vincent de Paul, Mme. de Sevigne and Mme. du Chatelet; an Important Archive Relating to Bossuet; Papers Concerning Voltaire; and a Partly Unpublished Letter of Napoleon I; Greek Manuscripts, including a Volume from Johannes Sambucus's Library, a Seventeenth-Century Play in Cretan Dialect and an Extensive and Highly Important Collection of the Papers of Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople; Yugoslav and Slavonic Manuscripts, including the First Croat Translation of a Kempis's Imitation of Jesus Christ, a Glagolitic Manuscript Written on the Island of Krk, 1602, and a Russian Sixteenth-Century Apocalypse with Contemporary English Marginalia;… Read More

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th November, 1975. Blue printed wrappers, 8vo,. 86 pp, plates, ills. 263 lots. Wrappers slightly faded, otherwise Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names and list of estimates laid in.

London: Sotheby & Co, 1967. Near Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Faint paper clip impression to front wrap. A necessary tool for the collector of T. J. Wise and his circle. 522 lots. A few llustrations. Prices realized booklet laid in. Auction catalog. Dec 4 & 5, 1967. Sotheby & Co. Bound in the original green wraps, stamped in black. Title continues: "Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Wiseiana formed by Sir Maurice Pariser, Together with Properties of John Carter, Graham Pollard, and Mrs R W Chapman. An almost complete run of the notorious forgeries, including the "Reading Sonnets," Tennyson MORTE D'ARTHUR 1842 and one of three known copies of the counterfeit edition of Matthew Arnold ALARIC AT ROME 1840. A massive assemblage of Thomas J. Wise's private printings, including many proof copies; with a high percentage of presentation copies, often of… Read More

London, 1965.. 108, (4)pp., 30 plates. 4to. Boards.

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th November 1975,. Printed boards, large 8vo,. 92 pp, + 36 plates (including 4 in colour). Lots 814-850. Among the highlights noted were the following: a very rare 14th century Bestiary from the Carthusians of Erfurt; the richly illuminated Breviary of Veronika von Freudenberg, a Cistercian nun of the Abbey of Seligenpforten, at Neumarkt in Bavaria; one of the earliest manuscripts of Josephus's Jewish War in the original Greek from the monastery of Meteoron in Thessaly; a late 13th century volume containing two lives of Thomas a Becket; an early 12th century Missal, decorated with a splendid pen-and-ink drawing of the Crucifixion, intended for use in the diocese of Augsburg or Wurzburg; a 12th century commentary on Kings of Rabanus Maurus, Abbot of Fulda; an 11th century Gospels of Breton origin; handsome humanistic manuscripts of the Rhetorica ad Herennium and of Lorenzo Valla's translation of Thucydides. Most lots priced… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, unillustrated auction catalogue for the sales held on 10th-11th May, 1965. Yellow printed wrappers, 8vo,. 103 pp, facs. Lots 1-555. Among the highlights noted were the following: Braun and Hogenburg's Beschreibung von den vornembsten Stetten der Welt, 6 vol., Kip's Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne, 6 vol., Buck's Antiquities and views, 3 vol., Blundeville's Universal mappes and cardes, 1589, Boteler's Colloquia maritima, 1688 and Adams's Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam descriptio, 1588; Guide books, road maps and atlases; Fonduli's Pratiche de fioretti merchantili, 1560, Barbon's Coining the new money lighter, 1696, Gardiner's England's grievance discovered in relation to the coal-trade, 1655; and other books on economics, surveying and the Bedford Level; trade directories and almanacs; Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie; a complete set of the Encyclopae méthodique, 1782-1832; Johnson's Dictionary… Read More

London: Sotheby & Co.. Very Good-. 1963-4. Softcover. First catalog: front cover has a tear parallel to the spine at the upper end. Front cover has a chip to the lower spine corner and wear to the outer edge. Second catalog has some tearing to the spine ends. ; In Two Parts: First Auction 18th & 19th November, 1963. Second Auction 6th, 7th, & 8th April, 1964. Separate sheets with prices realized included for both auctions. .

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June, 1974. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 154 pp, numerous ills and plates. Lots 2830-3085. Among the highlights noted were the following: Charters or Other Documents Relating to Berkshire, Cheshire, Dover, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire and Yorkshire, and Large Collections from Shropshire and Warwickshire Inventories of Richard II's Plate and Valuables, 1378, and of Simon de Burley's Possessions, 1387; Accounts of Queen Joan's Household, 1422; and an Illuminated Genealogical Roll of the Roper Family; Account Books of Sir William St. Loe, of Chatsworth, 1560, and of the Savile Family of Thornhill, Yorks., 1629-34; “Bess of Hardwick's” Autograph Lists of Her Jewels and Plate; Letters of John Clarke, Founder of Rhode Island, and Other Early Baptists to Col. Robert Bennet; a Corrected Draft of Lord Chief Justice Coke's Treatise Championing the Common Law;… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th and 26th June, 1973. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 181 pp, numerous ills. Lots 1906-2221. Among the highlights noted were the following: Galen on the Pulse, Copied by Camillus Venetus; and the Commonplace Book of John Mavrocordato, Constantinople c. 1676-80, Containing Unrecorded Demotic Poetry, History and Drama; French Medieval and Later Documents, including Fine Collections Relating to Aquitaine, Normandy and Arras; a Sixteenth-Century Map of the Region of Chateaudun; Letters of Louis XI, Catherine des Medicis, Cardinal de Lorraine, Constable Anne de Montmorency, Henri III, Louise de Lorraine, Henri IV, Colbert, Turenne, Duc de Gesvres, Pierre Jurieu and Charles, Duke of Schomberg; Naval and Diplomatic Letters from Louis XIV and Louis XV to Members of the D'Estrees Family; and an Archive of Letters from Pontchartrain and Other Ministers to the Marechal D'Estrees, 1682-97; Charters Relating to Essex, Gloucestershire,… Read More

Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th and 5th December 1967. Green printed wrappers, 8vo,. 139 pp, 1 plate, facs. 522 lots. A splendid sale including all save three of the forgeries then identified, and much else: the catalogue summary stated: "An almost complete run of the notorious forgeries, including the "Reading Sonnets", Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 1842 and one of three known copies of the counterfeit edition of Matthew Arnold Alaric at Rome 1840. A massive assemblage of Thomas J. Wise's private printings, including many proof copies; with a high percentage of presentation copies, often of special association interest. The only recorded copy of the first issue of the first edition of Wise's Verses, 1882, presented to his closest friend. A virtually complete collection, with many presentation copies, of Wise's extensive output of bibliographies and catalogues, including manuscript material, corrected proofs, etc. A substantial section of… Read More

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th November, 1975. Blue printed wrappers, 8vo,. 86 pp, plates, ills. 263 lots. Wrappers slightly duststained and marked, otherwise Good. List (slightl foxed) of prices realized and buyers' names and list of estimates laid in.

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th March, 1967. Green printed wrappers, small 4to,. 73 pp, 8 plates. 318 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: " incunabula, including Crescentius, Ruralia commoda, 1471, Serapious Liber aggregatus, 1479, Herbarius Latinus [c.1485], and Hortus sanitatis, 1487 and 1491; Continental books of the 16th to 19th century, including Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarium, [c.1500], Herolario volgare, 1523, Le grant herbier [c. 1525], Brunfels, Herbarum eicones, 1532-1536, Ruellius, De natura stirpium, 1536, Fuchs, De historia stirpium, 1542, Thurneisser's Descriptio plantarum, 1578, Herbarz Polski, 1595, Crispin de Pas, Hortus floridus, 1614-1617, Hernandez, Plantarum...Mexicanorum historia, 1651, and Linné's Hortus Cliffortianus, 1747; The Grete herball, 1527, bound with Brunschwig's The distyllacyon of the waters [1527], and The vertuous handy warke of surgeri, 1525;… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the second sale held on 19th May, 1958. Green printed wrappers, small 4to, 25 cm,. 20 pp, 10 plates (including some in colour). 15 lots. A sale of the largest collection of books illustrated by Blake in private ownership. Among the highlights noted were the following: the Gaisford copy of the Book of Thel, 1789; an uncut copy of Songs of Innocence, 1789; the Hanrott copy of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789-94, contemporary red morocco; Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 1793; Europe, 1794; and the only copy in private ownership of the Song of Los, 1795, bound in one volume; the Crewe copy of America, 1793; Blair's Grave, Thornton's Virgil, Illustrations of the Book of Job, and a superbly coloured copy of Young's Night Thoughts; a Tempera Painting of St Matthew together with three of the twelve known illustrations for Tiriel... and an unpublished design for Blair's The Grave, the Property of Eustace Bishop, Esq.… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th-16th June, 1970. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 149 pp, plates. Lots 1159-1374. Among the highlights noted were the following: French Manuscripts, including Medieval Deeds and Charters; Autograph Letters of Gassendi, Mersenne, Ismael Boulliau, Fenelon, Mme. Guyon, Mabillon, St. Vincent de Paul, Mme. de Sevigne and Mme. du Chatelet; an Important Archive Relating to Bossuet; Papers Concerning Voltaire; and a Partly Unpublished Letter of Napoleon I; Greek Manuscripts, including a Volume from Johannes Sambucus's Library, a Seventeenth-Century Play in Cretan Dialect and an Extensive and Highly Important Collection of the Papers of Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople; Yugoslav and Slavonic Manuscripts, including the First Croat Translation of a Kempis's Imitation of Jesus Christ, a Glagolitic Manuscript Written on the Island of Krk, 1602, and a Russian Sixteenth-Century Apocalypse with Contemporary English Marginalia;… Read More

London: Sotheby & Co, 1956. First edition. Stapled soft cover. Very good (base of spine chipped).. 125p + a few plates, 1 folding and 1 in color. Auction catalogue of a wide variety of manuscripts and maps, all described in detail--561 lots in all. The sale was held on June 27-28, 1956. See photo 2 for a summary of the contents, including alchemy, science, letters and royal household accounts, geography, "an important collection on the history of the Philippine Islands," and the "manuscript of Caxton's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 1-9, 1480." Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th and 19th November 1963. Green printed wrappers, small 4to,,. 95 pp, 11 plates, facs. 533 lots. Among the highlights noted were: Voyages and General Works including Abelin's rare Newe welt, 1631; the nine Spanish tracts of Bartholomé de las Casas; Consolat de mar, 1539; Bernal Diaz's Conquista de la Nueva España, 1632, the first edition; D'Orbigny's Voyage dans l'Amerique Méridionale; Frank von Word's Weltbuch, 1567; d'Hastrel's Costumes Américains; Herrera's Historia general; Lopez de Gomara's Historia general, 1554; Schouten's Voyage dans les Indes, 1618; Spilbergen's Miroir Oost et West- Indical, 1621; and the voyages of Acuña, Colnett, Dalrymple, Dumont d'Urville, Hakluyt, Hawkins and Juan and Ulloa; books on Brazil, including Chamberlain's Views of Rio de Janeiro, 1822, and the voyages of Debret and Rugendas; books on Chile… Read More