Sales catalogues: Hodgson

Date:
4th- 6th March 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/10/73
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    A CATALOGUE OF Books from Various Sources INCLUDING Interesting Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Books—Chaucer’s Works, 1561—Heywood’s Troia Britannia, 1629—Baskerville Press Congreve, 3 vols—Malone’s Shakespeare, 21 vols—Library Edition of Swift, 19 vols—Books with Coloured Aquatint Plates, including Ackermann’s Oxford University, with the Founders, 2 vols, Phillips’ London Street Cries, Jarvis’s Don Quixote, 4 vols, etc.— Sowerby’s English Botany, 37 vols—Albin’s Natural History of Birds, 4 vols, old green morocco, and Edwards’ Uncommon Birds, etc., 7 vols, old red morocco—Original Edition of Wilson and Bona- parte’s American Ornithology, 12 vols, morocco—Burlington Fine Arts Club Illustrated Catalogues, Lady Dilke’s French Painters, etc., 4 vols, and other Books on Art, many well bound in morocco. MODERN PRESS BOOKS anp FIRST EDITIONS From the Library of a Collector, INCLUDING Hand-made Paper Editions of Congreve, Wycherley, etc., 18 vols, Plutarch’s Lives, 5 vols, The Book of Ruth, and others from the Nonesuch Press—Limited Edition of Kipling’s Poems, 3 vols— First Editions of Gissing, Hudson, Galsworthy, Barrie, E. C. Blunden, H. Williamson, A. E. Coppard, and H. M. Tomlinson, including The Sea and The Jungle, with Autograph Letters from Tomlinson, Rupert Brooke, H. G. Wells, and others—Well Bound Sets of Burns, Lamb, Jane Austen, Carlyle, Whyte-Melville (25 vols, half morocco), and others—Collected Edition of Bernard Shaw, 21 vols—The Dictionary of National Biography, 24 vols, etc. ALSO THE LIBRARY OF CANON E. G. WOOD (removed from St. Clement’s Vicarage, Cambridge), COMPRISING A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON CANON LAW, CHURCH COUNCILS, CEREMONIAL, ETc., WITH A SET OF THE HENRY BRADSHAW SOCIETY’S PUBLICATIONS, 66.Vols. Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. HODGSON & CO. (JOHN EDMUND HODGSON and SIDNEY HODGSON) At their Rooms, No. 115 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2 (Fleet Street End), ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4Tu, 1931, And TWO FOLLOWING DAYS, at ONE o’clock punctually. NOW ON VIEW. CATALOGUES MAY BE HAD ON APPLICATION.