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Sale date: |
Books & Prints Sale To include "The Vessey Collection" on Thursday 17th January 2008 |
Lot numbers: |
121-150 of 589 |
Lot |
Description & Estimate |
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Hammer Price £ |
121 |
HOUSMAN, A.E. The Classical Studies of A.E. Housman, ed. J. Diggle and F. Goodyear. Cambridge University Press, 1972. 3 vols, buckram, dust-wrappers; and 24 others, classical texts and studies. (2 boxes) £80-120 | Nil |
240 | |
| 122 | PFEIFFER, Rudolf. History of Classical Scholarship 1300-1850. Clarendon Press, 1976. Buckram, dust-wrapper; and 38 others, classical texts and studies. (2 boxes) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 123 | LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY. Ca. 34 vols, most in dust-wrappers. (Box) £40-60 | Nil |
55 | |
| 124 | BUCKLAND, W.W. A Text-Book of Roman Law. Cambridge University Press, 1966. Buckram; and over 40 more, classical texts and studies. (3 boxes) £80-120 | Nil |
70 | |
| 125 | HORACE. Works. Translated…with Life and Notes by Theodore Martin. Blackwood, 1881. 2 vols., cloth, presentation inscription from the translator; KENYON, F.G., ed. The Poems of Bacchylides. British Museum, 1897. Cloth; and 40 others, classical studies and texts. (2 boxes) £80-120 | Nil |
70 | |
| 126 | HORACE, Opera Omnia. Medici Society, 1910. One of 1,000 numbered copies. Limp vellum gilt, silk ties, slipcase, Eton leaving inscription from Cyril Allington; and 4 vols of Catullus, Virgil and Caesar in the same series, quarter holland, boards, labels. (5) £40-60 | Nil |
45 | |
| 127 | GLYN, Jenifer. Prince of Publishers: a biography of George Smith. Allison & Busby, 1986. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 15 other publishing histories - Cape, Collins, Longmans, Allen & Unwin, Mandrake Press, Secker et al. (16) £50-100 | Nil |
45 | |
| 128 | NIXON, Howard. English Restoration Bookbindings. British Library, 1974. 4to, cloth; MAGEE, David. Victoria R.I., a collection of books, manuscripts, autograph letters etc. San Francisco, 1969. 3 vols 4to, patterned wrappers; and other catalogues and booklets of bibliographical interest. (30+) £80-120 | Nil |
70 | |
| 129 | CROFT, Peter. Autograph Poetry in the English Language.Cassell, 1973. 2 vols folio, dust-wrappers, slipcase; LEE, Brian North. British Bookplates. David & Charles, 1979. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and another. (3) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 130 | MUNBY, A.N.L. Essays and Papers. Scolar Press, 1979. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 21 others on books, printing, collecting &c. (22) £50-100 | Nil |
40 | |
| 131 | SIMON, Andre. Bibliotheca Bacchica, bibliographie raisonnee des ouvrages imprimes avant 1800 et illustrant la Soif Humaine. Tome I: Incunables. Maggs, 1927. One of 250 numbered copies. 4to, quarter cloth, boards, marked, presentation inscription from Simon to H.A. Vachell. £80-120 | Nil |
120 | |
| 132 | SLATER, Michael, ed. The Catalogue of the Suzannet Charles Dickens Collection. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1975. Cloth, dust-wrapper; KEYNES, Geoffrey. A Bibliography of Dr John Donne. Cambridge University Press, 1932. One of 350 copies, 4to, cloth; and 4 other bibliographies. (6) £50-80 | Nil |
40 | |
| 133 | HOLLOWAY, Owen. French Rococo Book Illustration. Alec Tiranti, 1969. 4to, buckram, dust-wrapper, book-label of Ruari McLean; MARTIN, Douglas. The Telling Line, essays on fifteen contemporary book illustrators. Julia MacRae, 1989. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; LEVI, Peter. In Memory of David Jones. The Tablet, 1975. Printed wrappers, a.l.s. and 2 post-cards from author inserted; and 12 others on printing, book illustration &c. (15) £50-100 | Nil |
55 | |
| 134 | CARTER, Sebastian. Twentieth Century Type Designers. Lund Humphries, 1995. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; STEER, Vincent. Printing Design and Layout. Virtue, nd. 4to, cloth; and 10 others, printing, book design &c. (12) £50-100 | Nil |
50 | |
| 135 | MORAN, James. Stanley Morison, his typographic achievement. Lund Humphries, 1971. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and 6 others on Morison, Officina Bodoni, Caseg Press. (7) £50-80 | Nil |
45 | |
| 136 | SPARROW, John. Visible Words, a study of inscriptions in and as books and works of art. Cambridge University Press, 1969. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; MUNBY, A.N.L. Phillipps Studies. Sotheby Parke-Bernet/Cambridge University Press, 1971/56. 2 vols, cloth, dust-wrappers; and 9 others, type design, bibliography &c. (12) £80-120 | Nil |
100 | |
| 137 | TSCHIHOLD, Jan. Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering. Omega, 1985. 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and 22 others, lettering and calligraphy. (23) £50-100 | Nil |
80 | |
| 138 | BROAD, C.D. Typescript autobiography, apparently unpublished, of Charles Dunbar Broad, Fellow of Trinity, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy. 2 vols, folio; and 31 others, twentieth century literary biography and letters. (2 boxes) £50-100 | Nil |
40 | |
| 139 | CROFT-COOKE, Rupert. Feasting with Panthers. W.H. Allen, 1967. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 23 other biographies, letters &c of Wilde, Alfred Douglas and other 1890s writers. (25) £80-120 | Nil |
70 | |
| 140 | GIBSON, Ian. The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After. Duckworth, 1979. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 15 others. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
50 | |
| 141 | HYDE, H. Montgomery. The Cleveland Street Scandal. W.H. Allen, 1976. Boards, dust-wrapper; GRAVES, Robert. They Hanged my Saintly Billy. Cassell, 1957. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 12 others on Jack the Ripper and other crime. (14) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 142 | SCHOENBAUM, S. William Shakespeare, a documentary life. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975. Buckram, dust-wrapper; and a large quantity of others, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on Shakespeare and the Shakespeare/Bacon debate: over 50 vols plus numerous pamphlets and magazines. (Five Boxes) £100-200 | Nil |
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| 143 | FOXON, David. Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991. 4to, buckram, dust-wrapper; MACK, Maynard, Alexander Pope. Yale University Press, 1985. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 32 others, eighteenth century literary biography. (34) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 144 | KEYNES, Geoffrey. The Life of William Hervey. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1966. Cloth, dust-wrapper; CAVENDISH, George. The Life of Cardinal Wolsey. Rivingtons, 1852. Half calf gilt, marbled boards; and 38 others, sixteenth and seventeenth century biography. (2 boxes) £80-150 | Nil |
60 | |
| 145 | VAN ASH, Gay. Master of Villainy. A biography of Sax Rohmer. Stacey, 1972. Boards, dust-wrapper; BISHOP, Elizabeth. One Art. Letters selected and ed. Robert Giroux. Chatto & Windus, 1984. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 31 others, twentieth century literary biography and letters. (2 boxes) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 146 | EDEL, Leon. Henry James. Hart-Davis, 1953-72. 4 vols (of 5), cloth, dust-wrappers; D'ARCH SMITH, Timothy. Love in Earnest. Routledge, 1970. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 14 others, late Victorian/Edwardian literary biography. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
45 | |
| 147 | GLENDINNING, Victoria. Trollope. Hutchinson, 1992. Boards, dust-wrapper; ASHTON, Rosemary, George Eliot, a life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 39 others, Victorian literary biographies. (2 boxes) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 148 | WARD, Elizabeth. David Jones, Myth-Maker. Manchester University Press, 1983. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 26 others, twentieth century literary biography. (27) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 149 | CLARE, John. Sketches in the Life of John Clare, ed. Blunden. Cobden-Sanderson, 1931. First edn. Cloth, label; Van THAL, H. Edward Lear's Journals, a selection. Arthur Barker, 1952. Cloth; and 38 others, nineteenth century literary biography, letters &c. (2 boxes) £80-120 | Nil |
65 | |
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150 |
MOULTON, JAMES Hope, and G. MILLIGAN. The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament illustrated from the papyri. Hodder, 1930. 4to, two-tone buckram; OPIE, Iona and Peter. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959. Buckram, dust-wrapper; and 11 others on words, language &c. (13) £50-80 |
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