Catalogue of valuable printed books ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W.1; days of sale: first day's sale, Monday, 20th March, 1967, lots 1-261; second day's sale, Tuesday, 21st March, 1966, lots 262-516
Publisher: Messrs. Sotheby & Co.
Published: 1967
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Notes: 516 lots.

Sale code: WELSHPOOL

Date of sale: March 20 and 21, 1967.

" ... including books from the libraries of Edward, first Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), including the presentation copy of Grotius's De iure belli ac pacis, 1625, and of Robert, Lord Clive of Passey; English literature, including Reynold's Epigrammata, 1611, Rymer's Foedera, 1739-45, Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 1767-71 and Wedgewood and Bentley's Catalogue of cameos..., 1774; Thomas Gray's copy of Evelyn's Silva, 1727, with notes in his hand; Continental books of the 16th to 19th century; publications of the Roxburghe Club; travel and topography including Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 1762-1816, Blagdon's Ancient and modern India, 1805 and other books on India of the 18th and 19th centuries; a collection of maps; natural history and colour-plate books, including Edward's Natural history, 7 vol., Dru Drury's Illustrations of natural history, 1770-82 and Audubon's Birds of North America, first American edition."

Price list tipped in.

Place of sale: London.