Valuable printed books, autograph letters, and historical documents. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 21-22 July 1975 ]

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st - 22nd July 1975. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 95 pp. 530 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: English Literature of the 16th to the 19th century, including Lomazza's A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Painting . . 1598, the Rheims New Testament, 1582, and the Douai Bible, 1609-10, Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne, 1600, the Second Folio Shakespeare, 1632, Banks's The Destruction of Troy, 1679, Vertue Betrayed, 1682, and the Island Queens, 1684, Bunyan's Christian Behaviour, [1680], and A Collection of Works of Defoe; Bligh's A Narrative of the Mutiny..1790, Hearne's A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort. . ., 1795, and Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, 1676; Continental Books of the 16th to the 19th century, including Matthiolus's Herbar . . ., Prague 1596, Boccaccio's Il Decamerone 1757, Large Paper Copy, and Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico, 1813; Natural History and Colour-Plate Books, including Buffon's Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux, 1771-83, Large Paper, Edwards's A Natural History of Uncommon Birds and Gleanings of Natural History, 7 Vol., 1743-64, Horsfield's Zoological Researches In Java, 1824, Selby's British Ornithology, 1833-34, Greene's Parrots in Captivity, 1884-87, Ackerman's Oxford, and Microcosm of London, Gell's The Topography of Troy, 1804, Gerning's Tour Along the Rhine, 1820, and Mckenney's Indian Tribes of North America; Chinese Drawings on Rice Paper; Letters or Documents of Charles I, Charles II, George I, George III, George IV, William IV, and Victoria; Fox, Pitt, Disraeli, Warren Hastings, Franklin, Stanley and Ghandi; Bessemer, Dr. Peter Chamberlen (1601-83), Davy, Faraday, Stephenson and James Watt; Constable, Holman Hunt, Landseer, Lawrence, Ruskin, Sandby, Turner and Watts; Burns, Carlyle, Dickens, Scott, Sheridan, Tennyson, Thackeray and Wordsworth; Correspondence of James Murray (1786 ?-1851), Promoter of Popular Education; Naval and Military Manuscripts, including Important Series of Letters (1737-45) Relating to the War of Austrian Succession and (1808-12) to the Peninsular War; Topographical Manuscripts and Manuscripts relating to Banking and Commerce. Front wrapper marked: "RLD Estimated" and second day's lots annotated with estimated prices, otherwise Good.