A Catalogue of Miscellaneous Books including Folio Fine-Art Books and Books with Engravings. [ Hodgson & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 5-7 January 1909 ].

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Printed wrappers, 8vo 54 pp. 990 lots. The sale comprised: "Black Letter Acts and Year Books, Seventeenth-Century Literature, some with curious woodcuts - Michaelis, History of a Magician, 1613, Books relating to America by John Norton, John Cotton and the Mathers - Walton, Cotton, and Venables. The Complete Angler, 1661-76 - A copy of the First Edition of White s Selborne, 1780 - Maps to Vancouver s Voyage - Forbes Oriental Memoirs, 4 vols. - Picturesque Tour in Switzerland, by Raoul-Rochette, and other Books with coloured plates - Coloured Panoramic View of the City of Dacca, India - An Album of Coloured Military Engravings by Heath, &c, The Choiseul Cabinet, Engraved by F. Basan, 1771, in French red morocco, with the Arms of the Duchesse de Choiseul on sides, An Unique Set of the Bibliothèque de Carabas, 10 Vols, Large Paper, With a suppressed Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, Smith s Catalogue Raisonné, 9 vols, half-morocco - The Vale Shakespeare, 39 vols - William Morris's Works, Kelmscott Golden Type Edition, 8 vols - Pepys s Diary by Wheatley. 10 vols - Fielding s Works, 16 vols - The Library Edition of Thackeray, 26 vols Gautier's Works, 24 vols, half-morocco - Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf by Rennell Rodd, with Introduction by Oscar Wilde, Philadelphia, 1882, and the Chameleon, in the original wrapper - The Illustrated Benares Edition of the Arabian Nights, 17 vols - Forlong s Rivers of Life, 3 vols - Lydekker s Royal Natural History 6 vols - Green s Short History of the English People, Illustrated Edition, 4 vols, and other Standard Works in General Literature, a selection of recent books from a Reviewer s Library. The English Dialect Dictionary, 6 vols. - Century Dictionary, 8 vols, half morocco - A Set of the Classical Review, from 1897 to 1908 - Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1880-1900 - Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, 1837-1898, &c. &c. Also a few of the Arundel Society s Chromolithographs, including 'The Primavera' and 'S. Catherine borne to the Tomb' in handsome oak frames." Ink no. and pencil signature of W.G.Jenks (bookseller) on front wrapper, wrappers slightly spotted and spine and edges browned, a few pencil notes and marks to contents, otherwise Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-60542

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