Catalogue of valuable printed books, and a few manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents, etc., comprising a selection from the library at Moncreiffe House, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, sold by order of the Moncreiffe family, including Boswell's Dorando, 1767; works of natural history and others with coloured plates; and a very extensive collection of English XVII century tracts; a small but choice collection of fine bindings, the property of a gentleman, including examples bound for Grolier, Maioli, Pier Luigi Farnese, Henri II and Diane de Poitiers, Henri III, Francis I, Count Mansfeld, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, and Thomas Wotton, the majority from well-known libraries; an interesting series of printed and manuscripts material regarding the government of Spanish S. America, XVI-XVIII cent.; Smart's Song to David, 1763, the property of Captain Harrison-Broadley; a few rare American tracts, the property of J. H. Green, Esq.; a book inscribed by Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop, the property of Major A. Wallace Dunlop; original drawings of Canadian scenes in 1843-5, by General Sir H. J. Warre; etc., the autograph letters and manuscripts include the last three stanzas of Byron's "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"; interesting letters of George Washington and James Boswell; an extremely fine series of letters of S. T. Coleridge, the property of the grand-daughter to the addressee; and fine letters of W. M. Thackeray and Robert Burns, addressed or belonging to the late John Blackwood of "Blackwood's Magazine", which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. (G. D. Hobson, M.V.O., F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C., C. G. Des Graz, B.A., Miss E. Barlow, C. V. Pilkington, B.A.), auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the Fine Arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1), on Monday, 9th of November, 1931, and following day, at one o'clock precisely
Catalogue de vente- Auteur
- Sotheby's
- Date
- 1931
- Période
- 20e siècle
- Sujet
- Vente. Art. Londres. 1931-11-09
- Vente. Livres. Londres. 1931-11-09
- Vente. Manuscrits. Londres. 1931-11-09
- Collection. Art. Moncreiffe
- Collection. Art. Harrison-Broadley (captain)
- Collection. Art. Green, J. H. (esquire)
- Collection. Art. Dunlop, A. Wallace (major)
- Collection. Art. Forbes (lord)
- Collection. Art. Sheridan, A. T. B. (esquire)
- Collection. Art. Blackwood, John
- Description matérielle
- 1 volume (71 pages-[13] pages de planches) : illustrations ; in-8°
- Informations bibliographiques
- Cote de l'original : VP 1931/606 ; Cote du microfilm : Mfilm 35 1931 11 09 (bobine 436)
- Lieu de publication
- London
- Editeur
- Sotheby's ; J. Davy & Sons
- Note
- La maison de vente Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, créée par Samuel Baker en 1744, prit le nom Sotheby & Co. en 1924 et déménagea de Wellington Street pour New Bond Street en 1917
- Note de contenu
- Contient 508 lots et 13 planches
- Note complémentaire
- Les noms de Geoffrey Dudley Hobson (1882-1949), Felix Walter Warre (1879-1953), C. G. Des Graz, Miss E. Barlow et C. V. Pilkington apparaissent sur la page de titre en tant qu'associés chez Sotheby's
- Langue du document
- Anglais
- Date de numérisation
- 2014
- Nombre de vues
- 51
- Identifiant numérique
- NUM CV15859_19311109
- Bibliothèque d'origine
- Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet
- Conditions d'utilisation du document
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