Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated and other manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, 16th of February, 1931, and two following days
Publisher: Sotheby and Co.
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Notes: 654 lots.

Sale code: Bacchus.

Dates of sale: February 16, 1931 through February 18, 1931.

" ... comprising English literature, including Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress (Cresset Press), on vellum; De Quincey's Confessions of an English opium-eater, 1822; Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield, 1766; Bret Harte; S. Johnson's Rasselas; Le Sage's Gil Blas, 2 vol. Tonson, 1716; Sir Isaac Newton's Principia, 1687; XVII century horn book; etc., including the property of Richard A. Loeb, Esq.; and the property of Miss Edith Wright, 5, Beechwood Crescent, Harrogate; decorative and armorial bookbindings especially a tortoiseshell binding (XVIII cent.), and a XVII century needlework binding, the property of Mrs. M.L. MacGillycuddy, Devonshire House, Youghal, Co. Cork; a fine collection of early classical and other manuscripts (XII-XVII centuries), including Apuleius: Metamorphoses, Aristiedes: de musica, Cicero, Dares Phrygius, Dioscorides, Ptolemy: Almagest, Valerius Maximus, etc., selected from the library of a deceased nobleman; the autograph letters include B. Franklin, Jefferson and other Americans; Oliver Goldsmith, Jenner, Keats, Lamb, Shelley, Shenstone, Wesley, Wordsworth, the property of Mrs. H.E. Darbishire, Windy Heath, Caldy, Cheshire; Cromwell, Nelson, Washington, Byron, etc. A very fine series of Gissing letters, the property of Algernon Gissing, Esq., and other properties."

Place of sale: London.