2007, ISBN: 9783793094852

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th December, 1973. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 58 pp. 307 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Continental… Mehr…

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th December, 1973. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 58 pp. 307 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Continental books of the 15th to 18th century, including the Nuremberg chronicle, 1493, Taisnier's Opusculum...de natura magnetis, 1562, Sandrart Auf Stockau's L'academia todesca..., 1675-79, Van der Aa's Splendor magnificentissimae urbis venetiarum, (1702), and a collection of books from the Elzevier Press; colour-plate books including Ackermann's Microcosm of London, Oxford and Cambridge, Jenkin's Naval achievements, Meyer's Voyage pittoresque dans le Canton des Grisons, 1827, and Webber's Views in the South Seas, 1808; Loggan's Oxonia illustrata and Cantabrigia illustrata; Chinese rice-paper drawings; English literature, inluding Cumberland's Memoirs, 1806, annotated by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi; fine letters of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli; drawings by Anne Brontë; letters and documents of Bernard Barton, Browning, Carlyle, Coleridge, George Crabbe, Dickens, Edward Fitzgerald, Felicia Hemans, Charles Lamb, Harriet Martineau, Samuel Rogers, Southey, Tennyson, Horace Walpole, Dorothy Wordsworth (to De Quincey) and William Wordsworth; Joseph Banks, Darwin, Davy, Faraday and Jenner; George I, George II, George III, and William IV; Cromwell, Nelson, Wellington, Brougham, Disraeli and Florence Nightingale; manuscripts relating to heraldry, London, the First World War and the Victoria Cross. Some notes and marks to catalogue, otherwise Good. List of prices realized and buyers laid in., Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th December, 1973, 1973, 2.5, * Rombach-Wissenschaften - Reihe Quellen zur Kunst, 28 143493, 0<