A catalogue of rare and valuable books including the collection of incunabula formed by William Blades and Talbot Baines Reed, the property of the St. Bride Foundation, sold by order of the library committee ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Hodgson & Co. (John Edmund, Sidney and Wilfrid B. Hodgson) ... on Thursday, March 6th, 1952 and following day
Publisher: Messrs. HOdgson & Co.
Published: 1952
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 568 lots.

"No. 6 of 1951-52"--Cover.

" ... comprising 93 examples from the early German, Italian, French and Dutch presses, together with other properties comprising mss. on vellum, including a fourteenth century ms. of Raimundus de Poenetentia, with contemporary coloured drawing--a fifteenth century monastic breviary, and a large antiphoner--also twenty further examples of incunables including a fine copy of Koberger's 1477 bible, 2 vols, in old French red morocco.  Scarce and interesting sixteenth century books.  Books of travel--Americana, including a fine copy of Valentyn's Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien, 5 vols--also a series of 55 interesting autograph letters from Thomas Hamilton of Greensburg and Kittanning, Pennsylvania, written between 1789 and 1818.  A beautiful copy of the 1734 edition of Moliere, 6 vols, in contemporary French red morocco. Books with coloured plates, including Furher's Flower-garden displayed-- Boydell's History of the River Thames, 2 vols--Ackermann's Public schools, and Westminster Abbey--Gold's Oriental drawings; also a series of 62 beautifully coloured miniature engravings by J.S. & H.S. Storer.  Issues from the Ashendene Press, including Boccaccio, Morte d'Arthur, Spenser, 2 vols and Don Quixote, 2 vols, with other modern press books.  Well bound sets of English authors from the library of a gentleman."

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: March 6 and 7, 1952.