Catalogue of medical and other valuable printed books, music, autograph letters, and historical documents
Subtitle: comprising medical books, and Newton's copy of Homer, the property of the late Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, C.B.E., F.R.S., Ll.D., the well-known collection of books on obstetrics, the property of Sir Eardley Holland, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., fine colour-plate books; travel and atlases; Milton's Paradise lost, 1667, with the "second" title; a volume of rare English 16th century religious tracts; the sale catalogue of the Chelsea Factory, 1755; volumes of scarce poems by Alexander Pope and his contemporaries; Lope de Vega's Rimas, Lisbon, 1605, the rare first edition; incunabula; music, and books on music, including the property of the Duke of Leeds, the property of Col. C.T. Mitford-Slade, the property of Dennis Arundell, autograph music of Samuel Wesley; letters of Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, Charles I, Vanburgh, Clive, Warren Hastings, General Burgoyne, George III, Thomas Percy, John Wesley, Horace Walpole, Fanny Burney, Flaxman, Rev. John Newton, Dickenson, Ruskin, Florence Nightingale, Darwin, Faraday, Edith Cavell, Mark Twain, Henry James, G. Bernard Shaw, and a fine series of Ellen Terry; documents relating to Sussex; a fine contemporary copy of the Treaty of Westfalia; autograph commonplace books of John Taylor, Keats's publisher; and autograph poetry of Van Gogh; including the property of Lord Bossom of Maidstone
By: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... on Monday, the 24th July, 1961, and the following day ...
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1961
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Medicine; Bibliography; Catalogs; Manuscripts; Rare books
Notes: 510 lots.

Sale code: HAKIM.

Date of sale: July 24 & 25, 1961.

Place of sale: London.