Catalogue of valuable books selected from a country house library ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Wednesday, 7th of November, 1923, and two following days
1923
Catalogue of valuable books selected from a country house library ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Wednesday, 7th of November, 1923, and two following days
1923
44 p. ; 25 cm 467 lots Date of sale: Nov. 7-9, 1923 Place of sale: London " ... comprising a very large number of finely illustrated works, ao the 18th and early 19th centuries, on art, antiquities, costume, heraldry, natural history, sport, travel, topography, etc., many with coloured plates and many in handsome contemporary bindings; Laborde, Choix de chansons, 1773, and other French illustrated books of the 18th century; Schedel, Nuremberg chronicle, 1493; J. De Franchieres, La fauconnerie, 1567; and a few other books of earlier periods; Audubon's Birds of America, 1827-39; Alken, National sports, 1823; Catlin, North American Indian portfolio, 1844; Daniel and Ayton, Voyage around Great Britain, 1814-25; Heideloff, Gallery of fashion, 1794-1802; Redoute, Les liliacees, 1807, and Les roses, 1817-24; etc."
