A catalogue of books ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Hodgson & Co. ... at their rooms, 115 Chancery Lane, W.C.2 on Thursday, May 26th, 1966 and following day
Publisher: Messrs. Hodgson & Co.
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 602 lots.

"No. 8 of 1965-66"--Cover.

Cover title.

" ... comprising interesting books of the 17th and 18th centuries - Lodge's Looking Glasse for London, 1617 - a collection of Oxford-printed books - Boyle's Tracts on the Saltness of the Sea, 1674 - Keller's Rules for Playing a Thorough Bass [1710] - Prior's poems on large paper, with verses in comtemporary MS. - first editions of Voltaire's Candide, both first and second issues, 1759, and Rousseau's Confessions, 2 vols., 1782 - Horace Walpole's copy of Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson - a fine set of Grose's Antiquities of England, etc. 10 vols., in red morocco - presentation copy of Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medici, 2 vols., 1795 - Le Moisne. Les Xylographies des 14e-15e Siècles, 2 vols. - a set of the English Dialect Society's publications, in 32 vols. - The Florence Press Romaunt of the Rose, in full crushed morocco extra, 1908. First editions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, 3 vols., 1847 and other modern poets and novelists - coloured costumes of Switzerland and Poland - Chatterton's Sailing Models - modern art books - The British Printer, 33 vols. 1888-1926. Also, books on Medieval liturgies and ritual, writings of the fathers, English theology, etc."

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: May 26 adn 27, 1966.