Sales catalogues: Hodgson

Date:
23rd- 24th July 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/10/86
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Hodgson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CATALOGUE OF THE Library of 17th & 18th Century Books FORMED BY JOHN HARRIS, OF HAYNE, DEVON, Comptroller to George II and George III (Removed from Trewsbury, near Cirencester) SOLD ON THE DEATH OF Mrs. M. M. C. CATOR COMPRISING RARE Books ON AMERICA AND WORLD TRAVEL, TRADE, NATURAL SCIENCE, MEDICINE, ETC.—SPEED’S ATLAS, 1676—HISTORICAL WORKS RELATING TO THE STUART PERIOD—ENGLISH LITERATURE— TRANSLATIONS OF THE CLASSICS, ETC. THe WHOLE IN CONTEMPORARY CALF GILT BINDINGS, WITH OLD ARMORIAL BOOK-PLATES, AND IN CLEAN AND SOUND CONDITION. TOGETHER WITH OTHER PROPERTIES INCLUDING HILTON’s ** RELATION OF A DISCOVERY ON THE COAST OF FLORIDA,’’ 1664. Early Works on Mathematics, Astronomy and General Science, including Valdafar’s Edition of Paulus Venetus, 1476, Lucas de Burgo’s Summa de Arithmetica, 1494, Tunstall’s De Arte Supputandi, R. Pynson, 1522, and the Writings of Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Napier, Descartes and others, with the First Collected Edition of Newton’s Works, § vols. A Set of Wilkins’ Concilia Magne Britanniz, 4 vols. Standard Works in General Literature, First Editions of Modern Authors, Original Water-Colour Drawings of English Scenery by E. H. Locker, also THE ORIGINAL MS. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JONATHAN BOUCHER, Friend of Washington (1738-1804). ‘THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE W. A. LOCKER, Esq. (Sold by Order of the Executors.) Topographical Views, Albums of Engravings and Autograph Letters, THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN, A Set of the Oxford English Dictionary, in 21 vols, half morocco, etc., etc. Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. HODGSON & CO. ((OHN EDMUND HODGSON and SIDNEY HODGSON) At their Rooms, No. 115 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2 (Fleet Street End), On THURSDAY, JULY 23rp, 1931, and FOLLOWING DAY, at ONE o’clock punctually. NOW ON VIEW. CATALOGUES MAY BE HAD ON APPLICATION.