Catalogue of rare and valuable books selected from the ancient & clelebrated library of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, the property of Sir Francis Newdigate-Newdegate, K.C.M.G. ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction ... on Thursday, January 22, 1920, and following day
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: 362 lots.

Sale code: Referee.

" ... comprising important Shakespeariana, including a very large and fine copy of the first folio, 1623; R. Greene's Pandosto, 1595; T. Lodge's Rosalynd, 1598; Shakespeare's Poems, 1640; the Taming of a shrew, 1607, etc.; rare books of the Elizabethan period, including plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, G. Chapman, J. Fletcher, T. Heywood, C. Marlow, P. Massinger, T. Middleton, T. Nabbes, J. Shirley, etc.; N. Breton's A poste with a madde packet of letters, 1602, and The mothers blessing, 1602; Edward Gosynhill's The prayse of all women, n.d.; H. Lok, Sundry Christian passions, 1593edward More's Defence of Women, c. 1560, etc.; valuable Americana, including four of the folio tracts on King Philip's war, 1675-6; Re, John Eliot's Brief narrative, 1671; articles of peace between Charles II and several indian kings, 1677; J. Josselyn's An account of two voyages to New England, 1674; Peter Martyr's The decades of the Newe Worlde, 1555; N. Morton's New England's memorial, 1699; the four Indian kings speeches to her Majesty, 1710, etc.; and many other notable books, including T. Carew's Coelum Britannicum, 1634; T. Gray's An elegy wrote in a country churchyard, 1751; R. Herrick's Hesperides, 1648; Homer, Opera omnia, 1488; R. Lovelace's Lucasta, 1659-60; J.B.P. de Moli©·re, Oeuvers, 6 vols., 1734; G.B. & F. Piranesi. Opere, 15 vols., 1762-91; T. Randolph's Poems, 1638; C. Saxton's Maps, 1579."

Comprising important Shakespeariana, including a very large and fine copy of the first folio, 1623; R. Greene's.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: Jan. 22-23, 1920.