Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated & Other Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents, Etc., Comprising a Small Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts and Illuminations, the Property of a Gentleman who is Giving Up His London Residence, a French Horae, Ca. 1500, with Fine Miniatures in "camaieu Gris”, the Property of Aubrey Wykeham, Esq.; a Collection of Old Jain Manuscripts and Fragments; Good Copies of Linschoten's Discours, 1598, and of Ortelius' Atlases of 1592 and 1624; Mrs. Thrale's Shakespeare; Gabriel Harvey's Terence; an Apparently Unrecorded Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, Printed at Edinburgh in 1683, the Property of Mrs. Liddell; and an Extremely Large and Partly Uncut First Folio, Lacking Five Leaves, and Having a Leaf in "Hamlet" in Unrevised State, the Property of Major G. Harcourt Vernon; Among Modern Books are a Small Collection Mainly on the Fine Arts, the Property of Laurence Binyon, Esq., C.H., LL.D.; a Fine Set of Herring's Portraits of St. Leger Winners, 1828, and Others with Coloured Plates, Interesting Inscribed Copies of Byron's Works and Don Juan, and of Coleridge's, Prospectus of The Friend and a Good Omar Khayyam, 1859, with Wrappers Preserved, the Property of Helen, Lady Acland; the Autograph Letters, &c. Include the Auto. Will of George Whitefield; a Collection of 35 Letters Signed by Napoleon I During the Italian Campaign; Good Letters of R. B. Sheridan, Lord Nelson, Thomas Carlyle, Florence Nightingale, Correspondence of Andrew Lang (sold by Order of the Executors of Mrs. Lang), Including Letters Addressed to Him by R. L. Stevenson; Papers of Messrs. Taylor & Hessey, Publishers of the “ London Magazine” Including Letters of Lamb and a Long MS. of Hazlitt, Etc.; and an Extremely Fine Ms. by Charles Dickens, of the "Ivy Green" Verses Published in "Pickwick", the Property of Miss Knox
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated & Other Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents, Etc., Comprising a Small Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts and Illuminations, the Property of a Gentleman who is Giving Up His London Residence, a French Horae, Ca. 1500, with Fine Miniatures in

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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated and Other Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents, Etc., Comprising English Books of the XVI-XVIII Centuries, Many in Original Bindings, Selected from the Library at Tythrop House, Thame, the Property of Aubrey Wykcham, Esq., a Very Fine Second Folio, of a Rare Issue and in Contemporary Calf, the Property of a Lady, a Grolier Binding from the Sunderland and Hierta Libraries, the Property of M. Hjalmar Wijk, of Gothenburg, Sweden; a Few Rare and Desirable Incunables, an Early English Medical Manuscript with Anatomical Drawings, and a Extremely Fine XV Century Manuscript of English Statutes, with Royal Portraits and Armorials, Boswell's Johnson, 1791, with the Corrections and Additions, 1793, Both Inscribed by the Author to Dr. Goodall, Provost of Eton; the Property of the Honble. Violet Cust, a Good Pride and Prejudice, 1813, a Fine Evelina, 1778, and an Exceptional Collection of Scott's Novels, Uncut and in the Original Boards, Including Guy Mannering and the Rare Issue of Peveril of the Peak, Original Drawings by “Phiz” for Illustrations to Nicholas Nickleby and Martin Chuzzlewit; the Property of Lady Priestley; the Autograph Letters and MSS. Include the Diary of Lt.-Col. S. J. Hopkins During the American Civil War; the Property of His Grandson, R. Gilbert Hopkins, Esq., Fine Letters of James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, John Wesley, John Ruskin, Mary Russell Mitford, Charles Lamb, O. W. Holmes, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and W. M. Thackeray, Manuscripts of Thomas de Quincey, W. Cowper, Edward Lear, James Elroy Flecker, and a Long Holograph Letter of Jane Austen
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated and Other Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents, Etc., Comprising English Books of the XVI-XVIII Centuries, Many in Original Bindings, Selected from the Library at Tythrop House, Thame, the Property of Aubrey Wykcham, Esq., a Very Fine Second Folio, of a Rare Issue and in Contemporary Calf, the Property of a Lady, a Grolier Binding from the Sunderland and Hierta Libraries, the Property of M. Hjalmar Wijk, of Gothenburg, Sweden; a Few Rare and Desirable Incunables, an Early English Medical Manuscript with Anatomical Drawings, and a Extremely Fine XV Century Manuscript of English Statutes, with Royal Portraits and Armorials, Boswell's Johnson, 1791, with the Corrections and Additions, 1793, Both Inscribed by the Author to Dr. Goodall, Provost of Eton; the Property of the Honble. Violet Cust, a Good Pride and Prejudice, 1813, a Fine Evelina, 1778, and an Exceptional Collection of Scott's Novels, Uncut and in the Original Boards, Including Guy Mannering and the Rare Issue of Peveril of the Peak, Original Drawings by “Phiz” for Illustrations to Nicholas Nickleby and Martin Chuzzlewit; the Property of Lady Priestley; the Autograph Letters and MSS. Include the Diary of Lt.-Col. S. J. Hopkins During the American Civil War; the Property of His Grandson, R. Gilbert Hopkins, Esq., Fine Letters of James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, John Wesley, John Ruskin, Mary Russell Mitford, Charles Lamb, O. W. Holmes, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and W. M. Thackeray, Manuscripts of Thomas de Quincey, W. Cowper, Edward Lear, James Elroy Flecker, and a Long Holograph Letter of Jane Austen

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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated and Other Manuscripts and Autograph Letters. The Books Comprise Publications of the Doves Press, Many Printed on Vellum, the Property of the Late T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Esq.; Productions of the Kelmscott Press, the Property of the Late Howard H. Thomson, Esq., F.R.I.B.A.; Books in Fine Old Bindings, the Property of the Late Earl of Haddington, K.T.; Robert Burns, Poems, Kilmarnock Edition, 1786, the Property of W. Sheepshanks, Esq.; R. L. Stevenson, The Charity Bazar, 1868, the Property of Miss M. Moyes Black; Drawings by W. M. Thackeray, the Property of Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield; Books with Coloured Plates, the Property of a Gentleman; Shakespeare, Works, First Folio Edition, 1623, the Property of F. F. Urquhart, Esq.; and One of the Excessively Rare Harmonies of Little Gidding, the Property of the Late Mrs. Selina Gaussen; Also English Literature; Sporting Books; Americana; a Collection of Miniatures Cut from Illuminated Manuscripts; Incunabula; French XVIII Century Illustrated Books; a Portrait in Oils of Robert Burns by Nasmith; Decorated Horæ; Italian Antiphonaries, Etc. The Autograph Letters, Etc., Comprise the Bowes Family Papers, the Property of the Earl of Strathmore; Letters from Charlotte Brontë to Amelia Ringrose, and from J. A. M. Whistler to Mr. Marcus B. Huish; an Autograph Poem by Oscar Wilde; Letters and Manuscripts of Famous Musicians; a Document Signed by Edward Alleyn, 1626; Etc
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated and Other Manuscripts and Autograph Letters. The Books Comprise Publications of the Doves Press, Many Printed on Vellum, the Property of the Late T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Esq.; Productions of the Kelmscott Press, the Property of the Late Howard H. Thomson, Esq., F.R.I.B.A.; Books in Fine Old Bindings, the Property of the Late Earl of Haddington, K.T.; Robert Burns, Poems, Kilmarnock Edition, 1786, the Property of W. Sheepshanks, Esq.; R. L. Stevenson, The Charity Bazar, 1868, the Property of Miss M. Moyes Black; Drawings by W. M. Thackeray, the Property of Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield; Books with Coloured Plates, the Property of a Gentleman; Shakespeare, Works, First Folio Edition, 1623, the Property of F. F. Urquhart, Esq.; and One of the Excessively Rare Harmonies of Little Gidding, the Property of the Late Mrs. Selina Gaussen; Also English Literature; Sporting Books; Americana; a Collection of Miniatures Cut from Illuminated Manuscripts; Incunabula; French XVIII Century Illustrated Books; a Portrait in Oils of Robert Burns by Nasmith; Decorated Horæ; Italian Antiphonaries, Etc. The Autograph Letters, Etc., Comprise the Bowes Family Papers, the Property of the Earl of Strathmore; Letters from Charlotte Brontë to Amelia Ringrose, and from J. A. M. Whistler to Mr. Marcus B. Huish; an Autograph Poem by Oscar Wilde; Letters and Manuscripts of Famous Musicians; a Document Signed by Edward Alleyn, 1626; Etc

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Catalogue of the Library, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Maps and Prints
Catalogue of the Library, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Maps and Prints

Author: Gerald Ephraim Hart

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Published: 2016-08-15

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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Library, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Maps and Prints: Forming the Collection of Gerald E. Hart, Esq., Of Montreal N. P. Willis. Numerous fine steel plates. 2 vols. In imperial 8 half morocco, gilt edges. London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated & Other Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents, &c., Comprising a Large and Interesting Collection of Rare English Books of the 15th to 17th Centuries, Many in Original Bindings, with a Few Printed Abroad Or of Later Date, Including Andreae, Quaestiones, Lettou, 1480, a Devout Treatise Called the Tree, Copland, 1534-5, Guido de Monte Rocher, Manipulus Curatorum, W. de Worde, 1502, John of Gadesdon, Rosa Anglica Practica Medicine, 1492, Lyndewood, Constitutions, Oxford, Thodoric Rood, 1483, and Tunstall, De Arte Supputandi, Pynson, 1522 (the First English Book Wholely on Arithmetic), Selected from the Library at Marbury Hall, Northwick, and Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Late Rt. Honble. Lord Barrymore; Well-decorated Manuscript Service-book, Including the Property of Colonel Walter Macfarlane; Unrecorded Editions of Rogers, A Garden of Spirituall Flowers, 1609, and Dent, A Platforme Made for the Proofe of God's Providence, 1608, Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece, 1655, a Collection of Presentation Copies of the Works of Anatole France, First Editions of The Tatler and The Guardian (complete), and of The Spectator (lacking Only Six Nos.), Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776, Boards, Uncut, Presentation Copies of Wilde's Salome and The Happy Prince, and of Early Works by George Moore, Etc., and a Very Remarkable Series of XIX Century Books (including First Editions of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Frankenstein and Braybrooke's Pepys), Uncut and in Extraordinary Original Condition, from the Library of a Gentleman, the Autograph Letters, &c. Comprise, an Important Collection of 17th Century News Letter, the Property of S. H. Le Fleming, Esq., Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Fine Letters of Sir Joseph Banks, Charles Lamb, O. W. Holmes, and Charles Dickens (mentioning Pickwick), Sketches by W. M. Thackeray (addressed to Edward Fitzgerald), an Auto. MS. of Maria Edgeworth, Correspondence of George Moore with His Publisher, a Very Fine Series of George Gissing, the Property of Algernon Gissing, Esq.; a Manuscript of Two Pages, in Verse, by Robert Burns, the Property of Capt. Victor Cazalet; and an Important Series of Letters and Papers of Lord Macaulay, Sold by Order of His Great-nephew and Literary Executor
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated & Other Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents, &c., Comprising a Large and Interesting Collection of Rare English Books of the 15th to 17th Centuries, Many in Original Bindings, with a Few Printed Abroad Or of Later Date, Including Andreae, Quaestiones, Lettou, 1480, a Devout Treatise Called the Tree, Copland, 1534-5, Guido de Monte Rocher, Manipulus Curatorum, W. de Worde, 1502, John of Gadesdon, Rosa Anglica Practica Medicine, 1492, Lyndewood, Constitutions, Oxford, Thodoric Rood, 1483, and Tunstall, De Arte Supputandi, Pynson, 1522 (the First English Book Wholely on Arithmetic), Selected from the Library at Marbury Hall, Northwick, and Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Late Rt. Honble. Lord Barrymore; Well-decorated Manuscript Service-book, Including the Property of Colonel Walter Macfarlane; Unrecorded Editions of Rogers, A Garden of Spirituall Flowers, 1609, and Dent, A Platforme Made for the Proofe of God's Providence, 1608, Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece, 1655, a Collection of Presentation Copies of the Works of Anatole France, First Editions of The Tatler and The Guardian (complete), and of The Spectator (lacking Only Six Nos.), Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776, Boards, Uncut, Presentation Copies of Wilde's Salome and The Happy Prince, and of Early Works by George Moore, Etc., and a Very Remarkable Series of XIX Century Books (including First Editions of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Frankenstein and Braybrooke's Pepys), Uncut and in Extraordinary Original Condition, from the Library of a Gentleman, the Autograph Letters, &c. Comprise, an Important Collection of 17th Century News Letter, the Property of S. H. Le Fleming, Esq., Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Fine Letters of Sir Joseph Banks, Charles Lamb, O. W. Holmes, and Charles Dickens (mentioning Pickwick), Sketches by W. M. Thackeray (addressed to Edward Fitzgerald), an Auto. MS. of Maria Edgeworth, Correspondence of George Moore with His Publisher, a Very Fine Series of George Gissing, the Property of Algernon Gissing, Esq.; a Manuscript of Two Pages, in Verse, by Robert Burns, the Property of Capt. Victor Cazalet; and an Important Series of Letters and Papers of Lord Macaulay, Sold by Order of His Great-nephew and Literary Executor

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