[Sale Catalogue of] The celebrated Library of Boies Penrose. Removed fom Barbados Hill, Devon, Pennsylvania. NEAR FINE COPY

Sotheby,, 1971. 2 vols., 4to., with folding coloured frontispiece, 16 plates (2 folding) and very numerous facsimiles (a number full-page and one folding) in the text; original boards, a near fine copy. A highly important collection of works on travel, exploration, navigation and trade.

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Book number: 171

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[Sale Catalogue of] Important Tribal Art. 21 June 1993. Sale Code: OLIVE.

Sotheby,, 1993. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The sale comprises 351 lots.

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Book number: 20996

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[Sale Catalogue of] Old Master Paintings. Day Sale. 8 December 2005. Sale Code: L05034. FINE COPY

Sotheby,, 2005. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured reproductions (many full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the auctioneer's complements slip loosely inserted. The catalogue lists 366 lots with index of artists.

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Book number: 21375

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[Sale Catalogue of] Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. 13 July 2005. Sale Code: L05211. FINE COPY

Sotheby's,, 2005. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured photographs (a number folding or full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, a fine copy. This outstanding sale comprises lots 101-272. Includes chronology.

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Book number: 22436

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[Sale Catalogue of] Music. 1 December 2005. Sale Code: L05412. NEAR FINE COPY

Sotheby's,, 2005. 4to., First Edition, with numerous facsimiles (several full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 22483

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[Sale Catalogue of] Old Master Drawings. 8 July 2004. Sale Code: L04040. FINE COPY

Sotheby,, 2004. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured reproductions (many full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The catalogue lists 173 notable lots with index of artists.

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Book number: 22502

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[Sale Catalogue of] Important British Drawings, Watercolours and Portrait Miniatures. 25 November 2004. Sale Code: L04128. FINE COPY

Sotheby's,, 2004. 4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured reproductions (a number folding or several full-page) throughout; original coloured pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The sale comprises 230 lots with index of artists.

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Book number: 22542

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[Sale Catalogue of] Continental Books, Manuscripts and Science. 30 November 2004. Sale Code: L04411. FINE COPY

Sotheby's,, 2004. 4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The sale comprises 151 lots.

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Book number: 22585

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Keywords: continental books, sale catalogues, sotheby sale catalogues, sotheby's, sale, catalogue, continental, books, manuscripts, science

[Sale Catalogue of] Sotheby's at Scone Palace, Perthshire by kind Permission of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Mansfield. 14-15 April 1980. Sale Code: TARGE.

Sotheby's,, 1980. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions and facsimiles throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 22929

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[Sale Catalogue of] Civil War Papers of King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine and Sir Thomas Fairfax. 21 July 1980. Sale code: nil. CIVIL WAR PAPERS OF CHARLES I

Sotheby's,, 1980. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The sale comprises 58 lots from the collection of Colonel Alan Gandar Dower, among the finest letters and papers from the English Civil War to have been offered for sale at auction.

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Book number: 34051

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Keywords: mstock, english civil war, charles I, thomas fairfax, alan gandar dower, sale catalogues, sotheby, sotheby's,

[Sale Catalogue of] The Collection of the late Lionel Robinson. 26-27 June 1986. Sale code: REDWALLS NEAR FINE COPY

Sotheby's,, 1986. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 896 lots and includes introduction and index. The collections was particularly strong in early works relating to Latin America

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Book number: 39212

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[Sale Catalogue of] The Alexander Davison Collection. 21 October 2002. Sale code: L02963. NEAR FINE COPY WITH PRICE LIST

Sotheby's,, 2002. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. The catalogue of this world-renowned Nelsonian collection lists 92 lots. With computer-generated list of prices realised loosely inserted.

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Book number: 39214

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[Sale Catalogue of] The Library of Camille Aboussouan. 17-18 June 1993. Sale code: BYBLOS. NEAR FINE COPY WITH PRICE LIST

Sotheby's,, 1993. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in cream, upper board with mounted illustration, green endpapers, a near fine copy. With the printed list of prices realised loosely inserted. The catalogue lists 1097 lots.

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Book number: 39216

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[Sale Catalogue of] Impressionist Paintings and Drawings [with] Old Master and 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Drawings from the Estate of Florence J. Gould. 24-25 April 1985. Sale code: 5307 VINCENT. NEAR FINE SET WITH PRICE LIST

Sotheby's, New York NY,, 1993. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; green cloth (first volume), upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, laid endpapers, in unclipped dustwrapper, pictorial wrappers (second volume and price list), a near fine set in publisher's green cloth slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt. With the printed list of prices realised contained in matching folder. The catalogues list 56 and 180 lots respectively.

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Book number: 39217

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ABBEY Major J.R.

[Sale Catalogue of] Valuable Printed Books and Fine Bindings from the Celebrated Collection. The Property of Major J.R. Abbey. [With an Introduction.] 21-23 June 1965. Sale Code: GAUFFECOURT. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION WITH ERRATA SLIP

Sotheby,, 1965. Roy. 8vo., ILLUSTRATED AND BEST EDITION, with fine coloured frontispiece, 2 coloured plates, 128 monochrome plates of bindings on 84 and several facsimiles in the text; original green boards printed in black, a near fine copy. WITH THE ERRATA SLIP, and several relevant cuttings loosely inserted. This is the first and most important of the renowned Abbey sales. The catalogue (of which this is the best issue) lists 694 lots, with introduction and indexes of books on vellum, binders, booksellers, previous owners and armorial bindings. An unillustrated issue was produced in conventional Sotheby wrappers.

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Book number: 3150

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