A catalogue of books, mss. and engravings ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Hodgson & Co. ... at their rooms, 115 Chancery Lane, W.c.2 on Thursday, March 24th, 1966 and following day
Publisher: Messrs. Hodgson & Co.
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 614 lots.

"No. 6 of 1965-66"--Cover.

Cover title.

" ... including interesting 16th and 17th century books - Bertius. Tabulae Geographicae, 1600 - first edition of Holland's Pliny, 2 vols., 1601 - Gerarde's Herbal, 1636 - Beaumont & Fletcher's Dramatic Works, 1679, and Davenant's Works, 1673 - Mercurio. La Commare o Raccoglitrice, 1642 - the poems and plays of Randolph and Brome, and a collection of Restoration Plays, in 2 vols. Walker's Costume of Yorkshire, morocco extra, 1814, Jenkins's Martial Achievements, Daniell's Voyage to India and other books with coloured plates - Schranz. Views of the Bosphorus - Sowerby's English Botany, 36 vols. - Jackson's History of English Plate, 2 vols. - Hobson's Worcester Porcelain - first edition of Goldsmith's Beau Nash, 1764 - sets of Dekker, Milton, Shadwell, Pope, Boswell's Johnson, Coleridge, E.A. Poe and others. Presentation copy of Sir Winston Churchill's World Crisis: Eastern Front, 1931, first edition of Liberalism and the Social Problem, 1909, and others by or relating to the same. An extensive collection of books, engravings, and watercolour drawings relating to the County of Sussex, including original drawings by S. & N. Buck, S.H. Grimm, F. Grose, James Lambert, Robert Dighton, James Rouse and others - also MSS. and autograph letters, including three letter-books containing correspondence of Hugh Seymour Conway, (Secretary of State) to governors of American colonies covering the period of 1765-66, and other letters of French Canadian and Spanish interest."

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: March 24 adn 25, 1966.