HOUGHTON Jr Arthur A.MareMagnum
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2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (one in colour), 5 coloured plates, 93 plates in monochrome, and very numerous reproductions and facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; original printed boards, upper boards with triple gilt frame border, lower boards blocked in gilt, one small tear at tail of second backstrip else a near fine set. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED (first list present in photofacsimile). The set comprises: Part I: A-L (1979); Part II: M-Z (1980). This remarkable sale comprises 850 lots. 'The collection is primarily of English literature, with emphasis on the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The few excursions outside that range are exceptional books and manuscripts. Almost all that Houghton acquired is of superlative quality and interest - frequently the kind of item that causes one to be astonished that it should even exist. For example, of just over seventy-five Short-title Catalogue books appearing in the first part of the sale, more than a dozen are either unique, or the only known perfect copy, or the only one yet remaining in private hands'. Foreword. Houghton's watchwords were association, condition and rarity. Among the manuscripts are long runs of letters from Elizabeth and Robert Browning, two letters from Evelyn to Pepys, and the earliest holograph draft of Locke's 'Essay', arguably the most important of all English philosophical manuscripts in private hands. The descriptions are appropriately detailed, with full collations and standard references for virtually every item, making the two volumes a valuable bibliographical resource. A BRIGHT SET OF AN IMPORTANT CATALOGUE.
4to., with a fine portrait frontispiece of Churchill and very numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. This remarkable sale comprised 534 lots of outstanding manuscripts, letters, other documents, and signed and presentation copies of books. Among the highlights are A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SERIES OF LETTERS BY WINSTON CHURCHILL TO HIS BROTHER JACK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, T.E. Lawrence's corrected typescript of his early abridged version of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', and the autograph manuscript of General Montgomery's message to the Eighth Army before El Alamein.
4to., with a fine coloured frontispiece, 90 fine coloured facsimiles (the great majority full-page) in the text and decorative endpapers; original printed boards framed in gilt, a near fine copy. The world-famous Da Vinci manuscript is reproduced page by page, with the facsimiles on the versos and corresponding descriptions, summaries and catalogue notes (supported as appropriate by smaller facsimiles) on the facing rectos. The MS was purchased by Bill Gates for the sum of GBP2.2 million.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition [Illustrated Issue], with portrait frontispiece, 2 fine coloured frontispieces, 183 fine plates (16 in colour) and several facsimiles in the text; original printed boards, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean set. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. Complete set of the MSS sale catalogues of one of the greatest private collections of the first half of the twentieth century. The sale realised a total of £888,370. COMPLETE SETS OF THE ILLUSTRATED ISSUE WITH PRICE LISTS ARE VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition [Unillustrated Issue]; original printed wrappers, covers lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. The calaogue lists 50 lots.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with fine coloured facsimile as frontispiece, 12 fine coloured facsimiles (8 full-page) and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in monochrome; original green boards printed in black, a near fine copy. WITH THE PRINTED LIST OF ESTIMATES LOOSELY INSERTED. The catalogues lists 19 lots. The catalogue includes an introduction to the John Carter Brown Library by Thomas Adams and list of sources. The Ottobeuren Gradual was purchased by Kraus for over GBP700,000.
516885Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile grise, XXXIX-516 pp. dont 52 pp. d'illustr. en noir, index, bibliogr. (Ancient Near Eastern Texts & Studies, 4).
591548Le Caire, IFAO, 1973. Grand in-4, demi-basane brune à coins, plats de percaline brune, dos à nerfs titré, V-383 pp., tableau chronologique h.-t. (Bibliothèque d'étude, t. 50).
89065Leiden, Brill, 1997.
Large folio, First Edition, some moderate age-staining, a handful of leaves expertly remargined; strongly bound in early twentieth-century terracotta buckram, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small, neat stamp on title verso. The Lansdowne MSS are a significant named collection forming part of the holdings of the British Library. They include State papers and correspondence of Lord Burghley, Papers of Sir Julius Caesar, Papers of Dr. White Kennett (his manuscripts passed to James West and so to Lansdowne), historical papers from the 15th-18th centuries, William Petyt's parliamentary papers and papers of legal interest, and topographical and heraldic collections of great importance. The MSS were purchased by the british Museum at Sotheby's auction in 1807. The catalogue comprises: Part I: The Burghley Papers; Part II: the remaining papers (each part having its own separate index), together with a transcript of the Commons Address, the Royal Commission with Caley's Order and a detailed contectural Preface by Henry Ellis. A REMARKABLY FRESH, CRISP COPY OF AN INVALUABLE AND EXTREMELY SCARCE WORK.
Folio, First Edition, on laid paper, some minor spotting (mainly marginal) and some light offsetting in the text; mid-nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards with some shelf-scuffing to paper surfaces, sprinkled edges, back tooled in gilt and blind with five raised bands, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR ANTHONY WAGNER, ARGUABLY THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST EMINENT GARTER KING OF ARMS. ITS BEARS HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION 'Anthony R. Wagner, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms, 4 Oct 1933' ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. In the late eighteenth century, the BM thoroughly revised the previous Cottonian catalogue (Smith, 1696) under the principal editorship of Planta. The mammoth revision was completed in 1800 and published on the instructions of the Royal Commission on public records. It remains the best published catalogue. Joseph Planta (1744-1827) succeeded his father as assistant librarian at the BM in 1773, was promoted to Keeper of Manuscripts in 1776 and finally to Principal Librarian from 1799-1827. See CDNB: III, 1397. Interestingly the printer, Luke Hansard, began printing the 'House of Commons Journal' in 1774; it is commonly known as 'Hansard' to this day. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY. Gross/Graves, 994.
First Edition, 4to, xvi,148pp., some light foxing to first and last few leaves, frontis., portrait, 27 illustrs., buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Pfaff, pp.288-91. The last of MRJ's catalogues of medieval MSS to be published.
First Edition, 4to, xvi,148pp., some light foxing to first and last few leaves, frontis., portrait, 27 illustrs., orig. buckram, gilt. Pfaff, pp.288-91. The last of MRJ's catalogues of medieval MSS to be published.
Small faint stains to front wrap and spine (water-staining? ). Creasing along spine and to lower rear corner. Small corner chipped off wraps. ; 15 pp + XVI pl. ; Acta Classica; 15 pages
Budapest, Akademiai Nyomda, 1965, in-8, br. editoriale, pp. numerate da 100 a 118. Con illustrazioni. Dedicato ad un codice appartenuto a Matteo Corvino.
4to, xxxii,410pp., 108 photogravure plates, orig. buckram, gilt, spine faded otherwise a nice copy. Pfaff, pp.272-3. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).
Gift inscription from "Mat" [Jan-Mathieu Carbon] to Slater and Dunbabin in pen to ffep. ; 9.4 X 6.7 X 0.1 inches; 150 pages
8vo., First Edition; original wrappers printed in red, sewed as issued, a fine copy. Library Publication No. 1. The guide comprises Western MSS (medieval and modern), Oxyrhyncus Papyri and Oriental MSS. SCARCE.
19663124291Chicago: Argonaut 1966. (14), 343 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
Faint yellowing to wraps. 1 small stain to front wrap. ; Opuscula Graecolatina (Supplementa Musei Tusculani) Vol. 3; 53 pages
Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Former owner's name to ffep. ; 341 pages
Minor fraying to head of spine. Endpapers foxed. Light bumping along lower edges of boards. ; 341 pages
66387Oxf., OUP, 1960.
153548Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1946 - 1948.
