Catalogue of valuable books selected from the library at Quantock Lodge, Bridgwater, the property of E.A.V. Stanley, Esq. ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Thursday, 2nd of December, 1920, and following day
1920
Catalogue of valuable books selected from the library at Quantock Lodge, Bridgwater, the property of E.A.V. Stanley, Esq. ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Thursday, 2nd of December, 1920, and following day
1920
61 p., [3] leaves of plates : 25 cm 476 lots Sale code: Claudius At head of title: Lord Taunton heirlooms Place of sale: London Date of sale: Dec. 2-3, 1920 Including the extremely rare first issue of the first edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote, 1605; the excessively rare "Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginai," by Thomas Harriot, 1590; collections of De Byy's voyages, in 13 volumes; of the works of Daniel Defoe, in 77 volumes, the majority first editions; of the comedies of Lope de Vega, in 44 volumes; Horace Walpole's collections of XVIIIth century poems, in 22 volumes, and of XVIIIth century tracts, in 59 volumes, with his manuscript notes; XVIIIth century French illustrated books; fine old French morocco bindings, etc
