A selected portion of the library at Sprotborough Hall, Doncaster, the property of the rt. hon. Lord Cromwell
Publisher: Sotheby's
Published: 1925
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Catalogs; Sprotborough Hall (Doncaster)
Notes: Sale code: GETA.

Including an unrecorded poem "On the late massacre in Virginia," by Christopher Brooke, 1622; Milton, Paradise lost, 1667, in unique state, having both the first title and the argument; a collection of early year books, printed by Pynson & Redman, and of the greatest rarity; Shakespeare, Historie of Henry the fourth, 1639, and second folio, 1632; also The troublesome raigne of King John (both parts), 1591; Pyne, Anagrammata regia, 1626; A great and glorious victory against the Turke, 1595; The strange and dangerous voyage of Captain Thomas James, 1633; exceptional sets of Mercurius Aulicus, Britanicus, Pragmaticus and politicus, and other publications of the civil war period. Rare English tracts, poems and plays of the 17th and 18th centuries; etc.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: Nov. 23-25, 1925.