Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated & other manuscripts, autograph letters, historical documents, drawings, relics, &c. ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, the 29th of June, 1925, and two following days
Publisher: Sotheby and Co.
Published: 1925
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: 789 lots.

Sale code: Verres.

" ... comprising first editions editions W.H. Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, Richard Jeffries, R.S. Surtees, etc.; books with coloured plates; sporting books; publications of the Kelmscott Press, etc.  The property of the late Thomas William Makin, Esq. and the property of the late Henry Heath Cochrane, Esq., Eshwood Hall, Durham; Daniell & Ayton's Voyage round Great Britain, 1814-25, the property of the Misses Hadden; original drawings by W.M. Thackeray, the property of late Mr. Joseph Swain; a choice collection of books on angling, the property of the late Richard Benyon Croft, R.N.; works on ornithology, the property of George Coventry, Esq.; Napoleon's copy of Volney's Voyage en Egypte, with autograph notes, the property of Col. J.C.L. Knight Bruce; also a presentation copy of Jane Eyre, 1847; an uncut copy of Philip Vincent's True relations, 1638; important early English literature; French eighteenth century books; Americana, etc.; with a selected portion of the Schlesinger collection of musical manuscripts.  An important series of letters addressed to Jacob Tonson, the property of H. Clinton Baker, Bayfordbury, Herts. and that unique memorial of the great war, the British Legion Album."

Priced.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: June 29, 1925.