6 OF THE EXTENSIVE, IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, AND ENGRAVINGS, OF THE LATE SIR WILLIAM TITE, C.B. M.P. F.S.A. F.R.S. F.G.S. &c. WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MESSRS. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, AT THEIR HOUSE, No. 13, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W.C. AT ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY. MAY BE VIEWED TWO DAYS PRIOR, AND CATALOGUES HAD. DRYDEN PRESS: J. Davy and Sons, 137, Long Acre. JUL 221929 LIBRARY Prok. Hydow & Poriin, CONDITIONS OF SALE. B I. The highest bidder to be the buyer; and if any dispute arise between bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided the seller cannot decide the said dispute. II. No person to advance less than 6d.; above ten shillings, 1s.; above five pounds, 2s. 6d.; and so on. III. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchasemoney; in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately put up again and resold. IV. The lots to be taken away, at the buyer's expense, immediately after the conclusion of the sale; in default of which Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE will not hold themselves responsible if lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser. If, at the expiration of ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, the books or other property are not cleared or paid for, they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the expense, the same as if re-sold, will be added to the amount at which the books were bought. Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON and HODGE will have the option of reselling the lots uncleared either by public or private sale, without any notice being given to the defaulter. V. All the books are presumed to be perfect, unless otherwise expressed; but if upon collating, any should prove defective, the purchaser will be at liberty to take or reject them, provided they are returned within ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, when the purchase-money will be returned. VI. The sale of any book or books is not to be set aside on account of any stained or short leaves of text or plates, want of list of plates, or on account of the publication of any subsequent volume, supplement, appendix, or plates. All the manuscripts, autographs, all magazines and reviews, all books in lots, and all tracts in lots or volumes, will be sold with all faults, imperfections, and errors of description. The sale of any illustrated book, lot of prints or drawings is not to be set aside on account of any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or errors of description. VII. NO IMPERFECT BOOK will be taken back, unless a note accompanies each book, stating its imperfections, with the number of lot and date of the sale at which the same was purchased. VIII. To prevent inaccuracy in the delivery, and inconvenience in the settle. ment of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time of sale. IX. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the money required and deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; and if any loss is sustained in the reselling of such lots as are not cleared or paid for, all charges on such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale. Gentlemen who cannot attend the Sale may have their Commissions faithfully executed by their humble servants, SOTHEBY WILKINSON & HODGE, Wellington Street, Strand. OF THE EXTENSIVE, IMPORTANT & VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, OF THE LATE SIR WILLIAM TITE, C.B., M.P., F.S.A. F.R.S. F.G.S. &c. FIRST DAY'S SALE: SIZES MIXED. LOT Mitchell 1 Aberdeen (G. Earl of) on Grecian Architecture, 1822-Burgess (R.) on the Circus on the Via Appia, plates, 1828 calf extra post 8vo. in one vol. 1 3 Quaritch 2 Accords (G. Tabourot, Seigneur des) Ses Bigarrures et Touches, avec les // Apophtegmes du Sieur Gaulard et les Escraignes Dijonnoises, morocco extra, g. e. by Trautz-Bauzonnet 12mo. Paris, 1662 From this scarce and curious book of drolleries Swift took many of 3 ACKERMANN (R.) MICROCOSM OF LONDON, 3 vol. proof and coloured / 10 A. PUGIN added, half red morocco extra, g. e. A. Pugin's own copy, roy. 4to. 1808-9 Quaritch 4 ACTES OF THE DISPUTACION IN THE COWNCELL OF THE EMPYRE HOLDEN D. black letter, morocco extra, by F. Bedford, VERY SCARCE, 16mo. M.D.XLII 5 ACUNA (C. DE) NUEVO DESCUBRIMIENTO DEL GRAN RIO DE LAS EXCESSIVELY RARE This work was rigidly suppressed as soon as published, in order to B Adams (J.) Anatomy and Diseases of the Prostrate Gland 8vo. 1853 Westell Adams (J. W. Writing Master, Deptford) plete Set of Alphabets, ancient and modern, 2 vol. MANUSCRIPT, a curious specimen of caligraphy, calf gilt, 8vo. SEC. Xix 10 Addison (J.) Evidences of the Christian Religion, 1730-Remarks on Italy, russia, 1736-Miscellaneous Works, 3 vol. calf, 1753- Dictionary of the Bible, 1796-Towgood (M.) on Dissent, portrait, 11 ADDISON'S AUTOGRAPH. Casa (Giovanni della) Rime et Prose, having Ellis & his on titlepage" J. Addison, Sep. 28, 1700," and on fly-leaves 8 pages in his AUTOGRAPH, Venetia, 1563-Case (J.) Galateus, numerous passages marked by Addison and quoted in Tatler, Guardian, &o. red morocco, g. e. in red morocco case *** A most interesting memorial of England's chief essayist. 12 Adelung (J. C.) Auszug aus dem grammatisch-kritischen Wörterbuche Quantch 13 Adelung (J. C.) Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in bey nahe 500 Sprachen und 14 Adolphus (J.) Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian, 2 vol. portrait, with 5 autograph letters of Adolphus and his portrait added, 8vo. 1839 ESOP'S FABLES, with Life, 2 vol. very fine impressions of the 112 plates, Mitchell green morocco extra, g. e. by F. and T. Aitken imperial 8vo. 1793 Esop's Fables in Chinese, by Mun Mooy Seen-Shang, with a free and a literal Translation by his Pupil Sloth, half calf, folio. Canton, 1840 Agassiz (L.) and A. A. Gould, Principles of Zoology, woodcuts, 12mo. Salkeld Boston, U.S. 1848-Agassiz (L.) and A. A. Gould, Outlines of comparative Physiology, 390 woodcuts, tree-marbled extra, fcap. 8vo. 22 Ainger (A.) on Cast-Iron Trusses, plate, 8vo. 1825-Building Act, with chell 23 Akerblad (J. D.) sur l'Inscription de Rosette, plates, 8vo. Paris, 1802 aurice 24 Akerman (J. Y.) Tales of other Days, with illustrations by G. Cruikshank, Pickering 26 Albin (E.) Natural History of English Song-Birds, part of Ei in MS. Bud Weld 27 Quaritch 28 3 small 8vo. 1779 12mo. Amst. 1734 Alciphron's Epistles (translated by W. Beloe) russia roy. 8vo. Oxford, 1789 5. Parsons 30 ALE. The Ex-Ale-tation of Ale (in Verse), Haurice 31 small 8vo. 1671 Alfieri (V.) Vita scritta da esso, 2 vol. port. half calf, 8vo. Firenze, 1822 Alfred (King) Will in Anglo-Saxon and English, 1828-Boethius' Metres in Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred, with English Translation and Notes by Rev. S. Fox, 1835, calf gilt 8vo. in one vol. R. Smith 33 Alfred's (King) Poems in English Metres by M. F. Tupper, 12mo. 1850 34 Allies (J.) on the Ignis fatuus and Fairies, half morocco Svo. 1846 Salkeld bethur 35 ALLOT (R.) ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS: or the choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, slightly cut in margins, but has at end the rare leaf "Fames windy trump," mentioned by Lowndes as frequently wanting (and justly so, as it is undoubtedly inserted from some other work by a totally different printer), calf, sold with all faults, very scarce 16mo. 1600 Containing extracts from Shakespeare, Spenser, Gascoigne, Dekker, Quarteh 36 ALLOTT (R.) ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS: or the choysest Flowers of our 16mo. 1600 Withdrawn 37 Alphabeta varia, scilicet; Brammhanicum, Rome, 1771—Indica, ib. 1791 title mended, else fine copy in blue morocco extra, g. e. a very rare Mitchell 1 17 40 AMERICA. MUNDUS NOVUS, Albericus Vespucius Laurentio Petri de 42 10 beautiful copy of a very rare edition of the Latin version of Vespucius's small 4to. Magister johānes otmar: vindelice impressit Auguste, 150£ |