Fine books; with drawings by William Blake, George Cruikshank and others ...
Subtitle: public auction Tuesday, 13 January [1970]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Notes: 168 lots.

"Sale number 2967"--Prelim.

Date of sale: January 13, 1970.

" ... including: two leaves from the Gutenberg bible, the Nuremberg chronicle, 1493, Higden, Polycronicon, London, 1495, Biringuccio, De la pirotechnica, Venice, 1540, with other incunables and early Continental books, volume of coiffures, with drawings, from the Petit Trianon, the Kehl edition of Voltaire in contemporary green morocco, Hamilton Campi Phlegraei, 1776-79, Rowlandson Loyal volunteers, 1798-99, Williamson and Howitt Oriental field sports, 1807, Ackermann, Microcosm of London, 1808-11, Jenkins, The naval achievements of Great Britain, 1817, Shoberl The world in miniature, 43 vol., 1821-27, Alken The national sports of Great Britain, 1823, Du Petit Thouars Voyage autour du monde, 1840-55, Gould Partridges of America, 1850, a group of early works on Australia and New Zealand, Whithering An account of the foxglove, 1785, the only known copy of Hargrove The weaver's draft book, Baltimore 1792, Genet On the upward motion of fluids, 1825, Darwin On the origin of the species, 1859, books from the Kelmscott, Ashendene and Golden Cockerel Presses, three drawings of visionary heads by William Blake, two original drawings by H.K. Browne for Martin Chuzzlewit, the original drawings by F.W. Pailthorpe for Great expectations, from the collection of the late Dr. John Hadmar Sticht and other owners."

Price list tipped in.

Place of sale: New York.