"Much Ado About Nothing" (1600), first edition, BI W 155. (1021) Higden's "Polychronicon," Caxton (1482), lacking two leaves, £477 138. (Peffected later by Dodd, 701 Mead & Co.) go Leo1 88) George Smith Library Sold by Sotheby, July ïoImAugust 4, 1867; First folio, 122 by 83%, red morocco, by Clarke & Bedford, £410.0 14 \ Benjamin Godfrey Windus Library Sold! by Sotheby, March 23-26, 1868, 4 sill mil Dibdin's "Tour in France and Germany, extended to six volumes, 130 drawings, 242 plates, 240 (From the libraries of Sir G. H. Freeling and J. W. K. Eyton. Resold at Rice sale, in 1870, for $1,920, and again on February 6, 1896, d for Smith's "General History" (1632) large paper, measuring 81⁄2 by 1234 inches on the leaf. (The dedication copy, with the arms of the Duchess of Richmond, and, Lenox. Resold at Brinley sale for $1,800 and now in Lenox Library.) Bolton Corney sale. 1871.eld 2 day 2:02 Vespucius "Paesi, Novamente Retroati" (1507), Henry Perkins Library. Sold by Gladsden, Ellis & Co. at Hanworth Park, June 3-6, 1873, 850 lots, realizing £26,149 14s. Rev. Thomas Corser Library. Sold by Sotheby, -om July 28-30, 1868; March 1720, August 6 9; 1869; February 23-26, July 11-15, 1870; February 13 15, July 1o 12, 1871, and June 25-28, 1873.7 Final part sold in Manchester by Capes, Dunn R&Pilchery December 13-15, 1877. 1917 Walton's Angler," first five editions, £140, (Rev. H. S. Cotton's copies, first three in original binding. "Wio 2014 goo Bankes' "Maroccus Extaticus" (1595), calf, Lio. Block book, "Historia Sancti Johannis Evangelista,etc., green morocco, 445 (The Brienne Laire, Roscoeland Gardner copy. Brought £94 at Gardner sale in 1854.) 9lbud to 241 353 Chute's Beauty Dishonored" (1593), purple morocco, by Lewis, £131. Gutenberg Bible, vellum, two leaves said to be in si fac simile, 3.400. (Resold at Ashburnham sale for £4.000, the highest recorded price.) Gutenberg Bible (paper), 2,690. (Now in Huth Library. Cost Perkins 175)ða 4 ore in Nichols Leicestershire," large paper. £260. Vitas Patrum, de Worde (1495). (Highest recorded price.) i de ba al Ives sale in 1891 for $360.); אל, "Dives and Pauper," Pynson (1493) brown mo- d 7007 rocco, by Bedford. 1042) ops) esiyon I Guy de Warwick, romance, red morocco,/ by Purgold, 282. degli mi woda „dzy #qo First Folio, letter press of title page in fac simile, 125% by 84,60m idi oferind Venus and Adonis" (1636), blue morocco, by Bedford, £55 (Only other perfect copy in British Museum Resold at Ives sale for $1.150.) Warren's Nursery of Names" (1581), £100. VL(Steevens, Roxburghe and Jolley copy.) ni T Vitas Patrum, "de Worde (1495), blue morocco, 101⁄2 by 78, 142111.72 1.0 % 5% V Caxton's Knight of the Tower" (1484), darkgreen morocco, by Lewis, £569, rid of Caxton's "Life of Our Lady" (1484), lacking nine leaves, blue morocco, by Lewis, 110. (Fetched £215s at Farmer sale in 1798, 17 at Blandford sale and £32 at Utterson sale:)pud vdodiak, Caxton's "Fayt of Arms" (1489), olive morocco, by Lewis, title page inlaid, 4250; dio, Iur. "Golden Legend" (1493). printed by del Worde, with Caxton's types, lacking six leaves, morocco, by Lewis, 147. (Brought 29 at Utterson sale in 1852.) James Dix Library. Sold by Sotheby, February 11-12, 1870; 442 lots, realizing 870′ 185, 6d, Wycliffe's "Creede, l'ater, Noster and Ave Maria Explained" (1527), £100. vrard I lil ni Wycliffe's "Consolation for Troubled Consciences" ~2(1527), L105." und boron 295157 olled setti 180. (Resold at iydi, I bioma) Sir William Tite Library. Sold by Sotheby, May 18 to June 18, 1874: 3.937 lots; realizing £19.943 6s. 150. Block book, Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis," 24 zd sheets, morocco, by Lortic, £285. Caxton's "Polychronicon" (1482), four leaves in fac simile, brown morocco, by Bedford, fac simile, morocco, by Clarke, £190. (The Caxton's "Fayt of Arms" (1489), two leaves in Crawford copy, which sold £77 in 1849.)" Caxton's Mirror of the World" (1490), Brought £91 at Hurt sale in 1853-) First Folio, 122 by 715-16, 440. (Resold at Cooke sale in 1883 with a set of the folio for for $2 900 and separately at the Ives sale in 1891 for $4,200; the largest sum yet paid at auction for a first folio,) 455. Lyndsey's "Dialogue Betwixt Experience and Ane Courteour" (1554), blue morocco, by Lewis, £121. Henry Stevens sale; Sotheby, July 11-15, 1881; 1,625 lots; realizing £2,387 16s. 6d. De Bry's "Great Voyages," £125. Hakluyt's "Voyages" (1599-1600), with the "Voyage to Cadiz" and the very rare map, three volumes in two, red morocco, by Riviere, £131. Sunderland or Blenheim Library. Sold by Puttick, & Simpson, December 1-12, 1981; April 17-27, July 17-27, November 6-17, 1882, and March. IO 22, 1883. "Anacreon" (1554), vellum, £221. Appollonius, Florence (1496), vellum, £160. Livy, "Vindelin de Spira," Venice (1470), vellum, £520. L'Orme's "Architecture" (1567), bound for Henri Petrarch, Vindelin de Spira, Venice (1470), vellum, £280. Petrarch, Venice (1488), with the engravings, £1.950. Pliny, Jensen, Venice (1472), vellum, £220. Grolier's copy of Sannazarius (1533), £150. Augustinius, Vindelin de Spira's edition (1470), Grolier's copy of the first Aldine Valerius, £225. vellum. £280. Augustinius, Jenson's edition (1475), vellum, £1,000. Gutenberg's "Catholicon" (1460), £285. (Resold at Ives sale in a Matthews binding for $1,700.) First Latin Bible with a date, £1,600. (Now in Lenox Library.) Great Bible (1541), £115. Biblia Angelica, Oxford (1717), vellum, £255. Valdarfer Boccaccio, lacking five leaves, £585, Boniface VIII., "Decretals," Fust and Schoeffer (1465), £170. (Resold at Ives sale in a Matthews binding for $450. Bouchet's "Amoureaux Transy sans Espoir," Paris (1503), £640. De Bry's "Grand Voyages," nine parts in three volumes (1590-1602); "Grand Voyages," thirteen parts in two volumes; "Small Voyages," twelve parts in three volumes, £720. Cæsar, "Opera," Sweynheym and Pannartz (1409), £195. Caxton's "Chronicles," Machlinia's Press, mended, £226. Cicero's "De Officiis," etc., first (1465), vellum, £100. (First classic printed.) Cicero, Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome (1467), £295. Clemens V., "Constitutiones," Fust and Schoeffer (1460), £240. "Constitutiones," Schoeffer (1467), £170. Dante (Naples, 1475), £205. "Durandus," Fust and Schoeffer (1459, £790. Gellius, "Noctes Atticæ," Sweynheym and Pan nartz (1469), vellum, £790. Gower's "Confessio," Pynson (1513), £145. Horace, Florence (1482), vellum, £150. Horace, Caen (1480), vellum, £290. Josephus, Verona (1480), vellum, £196. Justinianus, "Institutionum," Schoeffer (1468), vellum, £140. Virgil, de Spira (1470), vellum, £810. (First Virgil with a date; resold at Ives sale in 1891 for $3,000.) Frederick Onvry Library, Sold by Sotheby, March 30-April 5, 1882; 1,628 lots; realizing £6,169 2s. First Folio, 12% by 84, red morocco, by Clarke & Bedford, £420. (Apparently the George Smith copy.) February 15, 1881, Gutenberg Bible, Old Testament only, £760. William Beckford Library. Sold by Sotheby, June 30-July 13, December 11-23, 1882; July 2-14, November 27.30. 1883. Vespucius, "Paesi Novamenti Retrovati" (1507), red morocco, by Payne, £270. Grolier and de Thou's copy of Apuleius (1521), £158. Du Fresnoy's copy of Aretino (1535), £175. Anne Douglas's St. Augustine (1622), Catherine of Braganza's copy, later Webb's and Horace Walpole's, £102. Grolier's copy of Argurellius (1505), £250. "Imitation de Jesus Christ" (1690), beautifully bound by Le Monnier, £356. Jenson's Latin Bible (1476, vellum, oak boards, £330. (Willett's copy, which brought £168. Blake's "Milton," blue morocco, by Mackenzie, £230. Lacantius, Sweynheym and Pannartz (1465), Champlain's "Voyages" (1620), calf, by Kalthoe£210. ber," £166. De Bry, "Emblamata Nobilitati" and "Emblemata Sæcularia" (1593-96), £290. Chauncey's, which brought 12 12S., later Heber's.) Marguerite de Valois' copy of "Poetarum Italorum" (1579), £242. Catullus (Paris, 1543), bound by Le Monnier in citron morocco, £141. Frobisher's "Three Voyages," bound with Keymis' "Second Voyage," £300. Grolier and de Thou's copy of Franchini's "Poemata" (1554), £230. Gohory's "Prince Jason's Conquest" (1553), brown morocco, by Nicholas Eve, with arms of Duc de Guise on sides, £405. Gringore's "Fantasies" (1516), blue morocco, by Padeloup, 180. (Brought £9 9s. at Hibbert sale in 1829.) Marguerite de Valois' copy of Guerini's "Opere Giradot de Prefon's copy of Harrisli, bound by Henri III.'s copy of "Historie de Barlaam" (1578), bound by Nicholas Eve, £195. "Apoclypse" (1541), with arms of Louis III. and Anne of Austria, 255. De Thou's copy of Jovii (1549), £189. Lactantius (1465). Sweynheym and Pannartz, £285. (Resold at Ives sale for $540.) "Livre de Bien Vivre," Paris (1492), vellum, £330. (Sold for £27 at Hibbert sale.) "Longi Pastoralia," Paris, Dido Press (1802), with the original drawings, blue morocco, by Lewis, £900. (Fetched £73 10s. at Duke of Abrantes sale.) "Entree Triomphante du Roy et Anne d'Autriche" (Lyons, 1723), dedication copy to Louis XIII., £235. Grolier's copy of Lucanus (1515), £290. De Thou's copy of Marcolino's "Le Sorti," etc. (1440), £140. (Brought £6 15s. at Hibbert's sale.) "L'Heptameron des Nouvelles" (1559), Louis XIV.'s copy, £400. Grolier's copy of Marulli (1497), £275. Montaigne, Paris (1588), first edition, containing Mornay's own copy of his "Verite de la Religion Chrestienne" (1581), £245. Grolier's copy of Philostrati (1501-2), £300. (Brought 255f. at MacCarthy sale, 21 10s. at Hibbert sale.) Poliphili (1499), £130.. Queen Louise de Lorrain's copy of "Poliphile," Paris (1561), bound with another book, by Nicholas Eve, £220. Marguerite de Valois' copy of Ronsard, bound in brown morocco by Clovis Reeve, £430. Smith's "Virginia" (1624), large paper, said to be the dedication copy. Canevari's copy of Tiorante il Bianco, Aldus (1538), LIII. "Virgilles des Mors, Paris (1500), blue morocco, by Derome, £345. (Brought 150f. at the Le Valliere sale, 225f. at the MacCarty and £20 at the Hibbert.) Voltaire (1785 9), large paper edition of the works in red morocco by Kalthoeber, £161. 1884 First Folio, £750. Sir John Thorold Library, with editions by the son, Sir John Hayford Thorold. Sold by Sotheby, December 12-20, 1884; 2,110 lots; realizing £28,000 15s. 6d. Gutenberg Bible, paper, £3,900. Fust and Schoeffer's Bible (1462), Prince Eugene's copy, £1,000. Gutenberg's "Catholicon," red morocco, by Hering, £400. (Sykes' copy, which fetched £65 25. 1824.) Boccaccio, Paris, Verard (1500), vellum, £670. Caxton's Mirror of the World" (1481), lacking a blank leaf, £335. Hieronymi "Epistolæ, Schoeffer (1470), vellum, blue morocco, by Staggemeier, £149. (Fetched £52 10s. at Sykes sale in 1824.) "Josephus," Paris (1492), vellum, blue morocco, by Boyet, £275. (Only other vellum copy is in National Library, Paris. Resold at Ives sale for $725. Now in Lenox Library.) Lascaris of 1476, Milan; red morocco, by Lewis, £105. (The first book printed in the Greek language. Resold at Ives sale for $340.) Grolier's copy of "Lucanius," Venice (1516), £132. Natalles' "Cathalogue des Saincts et Sainctes," Paris (1523-4), vellum, de Bourbon copy, later Count Hoym's, £530. Psalter of 1459, £4,950. (The most costly of printed books. MacCarthy and Sykes copy). First Folio, title page and verses inlaid, 133% by 85%, red morocco, by Payne, £590. Verardus, drama, with Columbus Letter (1494), £125. The Earl of Jersey Library. Sold by Sotheby, May 6-13, 1885; 1,937 lots; realizing £13,007 9s. Caxton's "King Arthur" (1485), £1,950. (One of two known copies; the other being in the Spencer-Rylands Library; purchased for Mrs. Pope.) Coverdale' "Bible," dated 1536 on title page and 1535 at end; blue morocco; by Lewis; £680. Caxton's "Tully of Old Age" (1481); Harley copy, slightly wormed, £350. Caxton's "Confessio" (1483), with blank leaves; £810. Caxton's "Recuyell" (1472-4), with original blank leaves; green morocco; by Lewis; 1,800. Ovid, Paris, Verard (1493); vellum; illuminated (for Henry VII.?); £510. Rev. John Fuller Ru-sell Library. Sold by Sotheby June 26 30, 1885, and February 1-4, 1886. Caxton's Mirror" (1490); second edition; £265. (Brought 6 at Farmer sale in 1798; £55 13s. at Blandford sale in 1819; 36 4s. 6d. at Hibbert sale in 1829.) Poliphili; morocco; by Bedford; £137. Shakespeare's "Poems"; morocco; by Lewis ; £106. Lord Chancellor Hardwicke Library. Sold by Christie, June 29, 1888. Verardus, Drama, with Columbus Letter (1494); First issue of Brereton, bound with Hamor's" Vir£110. F. S. Ellis sale; Sotheby, November 1628, 1885; 3,201 lots; realizing £15.996 18s. First Folio, verses inlaid, 12 7.16 by 8; morocco; by Bedford; £105. Michael Wodhull Library. Sold by Sotheby, January 11-21, 1886; 2,804 lots; realizing 11,973 4s. 6d. Gutenberg's "Catholicon"; russia; by Roger Payne; £310. Bruno's "Speccio de la Besta Trionfante" (1584), citron morocco; by Boyet; £360. Bruno's "Cena de la Ceneri" (1584); citron morocco; by Le Monnier; £365. Caxton's "Tully" (1481); slightly wormed; russia; by Mrs. Weir; £250. Homer of 1488; blue morocco; by Derome; £200. First Aldine Virgil (1501); blue morocco; by Kalthoeber; slightly wormed and mended; £145. (Resold at Ives sale for £260.) Samuel Addington Library. Sold by Sotheby, May 24-25, 1886. First Folio, verses inlaid, 125% by 84; red morocco; by Belford; £280. Third Folio, second issue; original calf; many rough leaves; 13% by 8%, £130. Earl of Crawford Library. Sold by Sotheby, June 13-24, 1887, and June 19-22, 1889; 3,254 lots; realizing £26,397 14S. Tyndale's "Pentateuch"; morocco; Pentateuch"; morocco; by Lewis; £225. New Testament, Lyons (1474); morocco; by Lortic; £200. Block Book, fourth impression; £500. Gutenberg Bible, on paper; original boards; in two brown morocco cases; £2,650. James T. Gibson Craig Library. Sold by Sotheby, June 27 July 7, 1887; March 23, 14 days, 1888, and November 15-17, 1888; 9,283 lots; realizing £30,219 145. Burns, Kilmarnock; some uncut leaves; III. Camerarii, "Prædestinatione"; bound for Henri II. and Diane de Poitiers; £146. Earl of Aylesford Library. Sold by Christie, March 6.16, 1888; 1.983 lots; realizing £10,575 14s. Fabian's "Chronicles of England," Pyson (1517); morocco; by Hering; £250. First Folio, title page mounted; verses from second folio; five leaves stained; 12 by 8; £200. Robert Samuel Turner Library. Sold by Sotheby, June 18-30 and November 23 and eleven days following, 1888; 7,568 lots; realizing £17,376. ginia" Smith's "New England Trials," Cotton's Abstract" and others, thirteen in all; £555. (Now in John Carter Brown Library.) Eliot's "Bible" (1663); original dark blue morocco; size of leaf 75% by 7%; £580. (One of the largest and finest known.) Caxton's "Game of Chess" (1475-6); six leaves. lacking; £260. Earl of Hopetown Library. Sold by Sotheby, February 25-28, 1889; 1,263 lots; realizing £6,117 6s. Gutenberg Bible, on paper; first three leaves in second volume damaged and wormed; £2,000. Petrarch (1501); vellum; first Aldine edition; morocco; by Padeloup; £300. (Resold at Howard Wills sale in 1894 for £165.) Virgil, Rome (1469); Sweynheym and Pannartz; £590. John Mansfield Mackenzie Library. Sold by Sotheby, March 11, and seven days, 1889; 2,368 lots; realizing £7,072. Tuer's "Bartolozzi"; two volumes extended to five, with 397 plates and 76 letters; morocco; by Bedford; £215. (Resold at Howard Wills sale in 1894 for £176.) Duke of Buccleuch Library. Sold by Sotheby, March 25-27, 1889; 1012 lots; realizing £3.705 4s. 6d. Caxton's "Dictes" (1477); morocco; by Lewis; £650. Caxton's "Chronicles" (1480); morocco; by Hering; £470. "Description of Britain," Caxton (1480); made-up copy; £195. Caxton's "Royal Book" (1487); lacked one leaf, others mended; £365. Frederick Perkins Library. Sold by Sotheby, July 10-16, 1889; 2,086 lots; realizing £8,222 78. First Folio, title page and verses mounted; morocco; size not given; £415. "Romeo and Juliet" (1599); headlines cut into, title mounted; £164. 'Richard the Third" (1594); £100. (Only perfect copy known.) "Merchant of Venice" (1600); J. Roberts; 121. "Henrie the Fourth" (1600); 225. (Heber copy, which in 1834 fetched 49 12s.) "Henrie the Fifth" (1608); £99. "Othello" (1622); £130. "Lucrece" (1594); small hole in £200. two leaves; Earl of Crawford Library; 1889 sale. Gutenberg's "Catholicon" (1460); vellum, original boards; £300. Budæi, "Commentarii Linguæ Graccæ"; bound for Diane de Poitiers; £305. Caxton's "Tulle" (1481); morocco; £320. Petrarch of 1570; vellum, Vindelin de Spira; morocco, by Belford; £121. Thomas Gaisford Library. Sold by Sotheby, April 23-30, 1890; 2,290; 2,218 lots; realizing £9,182 15s. 6d. Kilmarnock Burns; morocco, in Payne style; by Bedford; £120. Shakespeare's "Love's Labors Lost" (1598); few headlines cut into; morocco; by Bedford; £140. "Midsummer Night's Dream" (1600); 116. "Much Ado About Nothing" (1600); V. S. for Wise and Aspley; morocco; by Belford; £130. "Merry Wives" (1602); morocco; by Bedford; £385. Frederick William Cosens Library. Sold Novem ber 11-22, 1800; 4,995 lots; realized £5,571 6s 6d. "Merchant of Venice" (1600); J. Roberts; morocco; by Bedford; £270. W. H. Crawford Library. Sold by Sotheby, March 12-23, 1891; 3,528 lots; realizing £21,255 19s. 6d. Valdarfer Boccaccio, lacking five leaves; £230. Caxton's "Mirror of the World" (1481), lacking blank leaf; A1; morocco; by Bedford; £160. Dante, Florence (1481); morocco; by Lewis; £360. Caviceo, vellum (1527); morocco; by Jerome; £355. Shakespeare's "Lucrece" (1594), morocco, by Bedford, £250. Virgil of 1472, morocco, £120. Caxton's "Golden Legend" (1484), imperfect, morocco, by Pratt, £465. "Merchant of Venice" (1600), J. Roberts, hole in one leaf, morocco, £146. First Folio, nearly all the verses in fac simile, title page and four other leaves mended and restored, morocco, by Bedford, 12% by 8, £255. June 19, 1894. Haklupt (1599-1600), wanting "Voyage to Cadiz," but with the map, of "which twelve copies are known," £375. Third Folio, first issue, with spurious plays at end of volume, preceded by 1664 title page, old calf, 133% by 8%, £435. Sir Joseph Hawley Library. Sold June 24, 1894. Third Folio, second issue, portrait, verses, with two preliminary leaves inlaid, leaf of verses from 1663 edition inserted, morocco, by Bedford, 133% by 85%, £205. Wm. Stuart Library. Sold March 6, 1895. Biblia Pauperum, two leaves in fac simile, morocco, by Thouvenin, £355. Earl of Orford Library. Sold June 10-11. 1895. Ariosto (1556), Catharine de Medici's copy, calf, £130. "Le Patissier Francois," (1655) the very rare Elzevir, modern French morocco, Yemeniz copy, 100. (5 by 2 15-16.) April, 1895. Third Folio, first issue, with 1664 title page and portrait inserted, morocco, by Clarke, £280. (1234 by 8 9-16). July 18, 1895. Ovid (1333-34), Grolier's copy, three volumes, large paper, beautiful edition, £425. Second Folio, original calf, £540. ("Largest and finest copy known." 133 by 94.) Stelia, "Meditations," declaration copy to Henry III., Paris (1586), £145. "New Testament," Paris (1712), bound by Le Monnier, £345. Third Folio, second issue, original calf, with extra leaf, with verses, £350. (13 by 8 14-16.) Voltaire's Works (1785-89), 70 volumes, large paper, morocco, by Derome, with letters, extra plates, etc, £2565. John Tudor Frere Library. Sold Feb. 14-18, 1896. Ames' "Typographical Antiquities," Sir John Fenn's copy (1785-90), 4 vols., fourth volume made up of specimen leaves from early English printed books, from Caxton to Waldegrave, £248. Feb., 1826. Kilmarnock Burns, morocco, by Bedford, 8 by 5, £121. Goldsmith's "Traveller" (1774), morocco, by Riviere, £96. (Only other copy of this edition is in Locker Library.) Feb., 1896. Chaucer's "Tales," Caxton (1478), 353 leaves out of 372, £1,320. H. J. F. Atkinson's Library. Sold March 11-14, 1896. Cloverdale's "Bible," imperfect morocco, by Pratt, £165. |