A Catalogue of Books both Old and Modern from Various Sources [ Hodgson & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 19-20 November 1930 ].

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Printed wrappers, 8vo 61 pp. 971 lots. The sale comprised "Comprising Interesting Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Books, including Lanfranc s Woorke of Chirurgerie, 1565, Purchas his Pilgrimage, 1613, Drayton s Poly Olbion, 1622, Black-Letter Tracts in Dutch relating to the East and West Indies, etc. - Oxford Facsimile of the First Folio Shakespeare, and Malone s Edition, 21 vols - Original Issue of Wheatley s Edition of Pepys, 10 vols -Oeuvres de Moliere, par Bret, 6 vols, 1773 -Oeuvres de Voltaire, 92 vols, contemporary red morocco, 1785-9 - First Editions of Johnson s Dictionary, 2 vols, 1755, The First Two Volumes of Sterne s Tristram Shandy, 1760, and The Sentimental Journey, 2 vols, 1768. Malton s Views of Dublin, and other Folio Books of Engravings - Cook s Voyage in the Southern Hemisphere, 3 vols, 1773 - Mackenzie s Voyages through North America, 1801, Howard Family Memorials, 1834, and other Books on English Topography and Antiquities - Books relatings to the Alps, including a Set of the Alpine Journal, from the Library of the late F. Fox Tuckett, Esq., removed from Frenchay, Glos. - Triggs Formal Gardens - Thorburn s British Birds, 4 vols - A Set of Sowerby s English Botany, with Hooker s Supplement, 40 vols - Woodward s Eccentric Excursions, First Edition of Egan s Life in London, Real Life in London, 2 vols, and other Books with Coloured Plates - First Collected Edition of Shelley, 4 vols - Malory s Morte D Arthur, illustrated by Beardsley, 2 vols - First Editions, Presentation Copies of Modern Authors, Also Albums of Engravings and Autograph Letters - including a Letter from Dickens to Stanfield - Baxtertypes of the Reception and Massacre of John Williams in the South Seas, with the Text, etc." Pencil note of W.G. Jenks (bookseller) that he consigned lots 421-426, with these lots priced in pencil, some slight foxing, staples rusted, otherwise Near Very Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-60557

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