A Catalogue of books, including a collection of books on the history of printing, the property of the late Kenneth Povey, esq. ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Hodgson & Co. ... at their rooms, 115 Chancery Lane, W.C.2 on Thursday, February 24th, 1966 and following day
Publisher: Messrs. Hodgson & Co.
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 657 lots.

"No. 5 of 1965-66"--Cover.

Cover title.

"The original edition of Napoleon's "Description De L'Egypte", both plates and text, 23 vols., 1809-23. Blake's illustrations of the Book of Job [1825]. 16th and 17th century books - ecclesiastical history and ceremonial - Dapper's Beschryving der Middelatlantsche Zee, 1685 - Pococke's Description of the East, 2 vols. - Chalcondylas' Histoire des Turcs, 2 vols. - Heriot's Travels in Canada - Capell Brooke's Winter in Lapland - folio volumes of litho views of Russia, Italy, Spain, etc., by J.T. James, G.E. Hering, E. Lear, E.T. Lewis and others - Shepherd's Metropolitan Improvements, Beattie's Switzerland, 2 vols. and similar Books of Engravings - Hofstede de Groot's Catalogue of Dutch Painters, 8 vols. - books on entomology and natural history - sets of standard authors - issues from the Dun Emer and Cuala Presses, etc. Also, periodicals and journals, including the Dyson Perrins set of The Historical Register, 25 vols., 1716-38 - The Gentleman's Magazine, from the commencement to 1843 - notes and queries, from 1849 to 1937 - The Archaeological Journal, 30 vols, 1844-73 - series of the Shropshire and Somersetshire Archaeological Societies, Archaeologia Cambrensis, etc. and runs of Nature, from 1947 to 1964 and from 1953 to 1964."

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: February 24 and 25, 1966.