Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/851
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    326 Ireland (S.) Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Intruments, under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare, facsimiles, two in colours, tree calf folio. 1796 ; 327 [Irving (Washington)]| Tales of a Traveller, rirst EDITION. 2 vol. original boards, paper labels, UNcuT. 1824; Rip Van Winkle. coloured plates by A. Rackham, original cloth, 1905 ? 8vo and 4to. (3) 328 Jackson (IF. G.) A Thousand Days in the Arctic, 2 vol. maps and plates, original cloth, 1899—Scott (Capt. R. F.) The Voyage of the “Discovery,” 2 vol. maps and plates, half morocco, 1905, . 8vo. (4) 3829 Jaillot (Hubert) Atlas Francois, engraved title, portrait, 115 coloured outline maps, old calf, broken folio... Paris, 1695 330 James I. Works, published by Iames, Bishop of Winton, FIRST EDITION, engraved title, portrait after Pass, vellum, CONTEM- PORARY BINDING FOR ANNE OF DENMARK, CONSORT OF JAMES I, a border of stars within gold rules with a thistle stamp at corners, large Jacobean corner-preces of interlacing design on a powdered gold ground, the arms of Anne of Denmark in the centre, with initials A. R. at top, the background filled in with a semis of stars, the back decorated with a semis of a small diamond floral stamp, ties missing, g.e.; sold as a binding and not subject to return for any wmperfections in the text, A FINE COPY folio. London: Printed by Robert Barker and John Bull, 1616 ** Binding with the arms of Anne of Denmark are rare. Mr. Hobson was able to group no more than five in his notes on plate XX XIX of “ Bindings in Cambridge Libraries,” and of these five only one has any decoration of importance apart from the coat-of-arms, namely, the fine binding of the Queen’s copy of Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, London, 1611, which belongs to Trinity College, Cambridge. The corner-pieces are found on two bindings with the arms of Charles I, one formerly in the Corfield collection (lot 62), the other at Windsor (Holmes, pl. 23). [See ILLUSTRATION. |] 331 Jesse (J. H.) London and its Celebrities, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. original cloth, one end-paper defective, 1850—Balfour (Sir G.) Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. portraits, original cloth, 1901; and another 8vo. (5) 332 Johnson (Samuel) Works; with An Essay by A. Murphy, 12 vol. portrait, calf 8vo. 1792