Catalogue of valuable books and illuminated and other manuscripts
1921
109 p. ; 25 cm 785 lots " ... comprising the property of F. Capel Cure, Esq., Badger Hall, Wolverhampton, including Chapman's Homer, first edition, n.d.--Dickens The chimes, 1845--Donne Poems, 1633--Lovelace Lucasta, 1649--Shelton's Don Quixote, 1620--Sterne, Tristam Shandy, 9 vols., 1760-7--Waller Poems, 1645-- and other notable English literature--fine bindings--handsomely illustrated books, etc.; the property of the governors of Christ's hospital, including the Rev. John Eliot's Indian bible, 1663-1[sic]--Hakluyt, Principal navigations, 1599-1600--Purchas, His pilgrimes, 5 vols. 1625-6--Ackermann's Microcosm of London, 3 vols.--Higden, Policronicon, 1495, etc.; the property of Col. Wyndham, 1, Lowndes Street, S.W., including plays by Massinger, Shirley, and other seventeenth century dramatists; the property of the Baroness Amherst of Hackney (deceased), sold by order of the executor, including rare incunabula; Aristotelis Ethicorum libri X, the second book printed at Oxford, 1479; Bartholomaeus De proprietatibus rerum, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495; Ciceronis Officia, etc., Mainz, 1465, etc.; rare early bibles, testaments, and liturgical books; finely illuminated manuscripts on vellum; rare books of travel; early English literature, etc.; the property of Lady Bowman; including an unusually good copy of the third folio of Shalespeare; first edition of Milton's Paradis lost; an interesting collection of tracts relating to Ireland, etc." Date given as Jan. 17, 1921 and tow following days Place of sale: London Date of sale: Jan. 17-19, 1921
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