OF THE VALUABLE AND EXTENSIVE LIBRARY OF PRINTED BOOKS AND Elluminated & other important Manuscripts OF THE LATE HENRY WHITE, Esq. J.P. D.L. F.S.A. ETC. INCLUDING MANY FINELY ILLUMINATED HORE & OTHER SERVICE BOOKS, WRITINGS OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSIC AUTHORS, THE FATHERS, INTERESTING HISTORICAL AND POETICAL MANUSCRIPTS, EDITIONES PRINCIPES, BOOKS PRINTED UPON VELLUM, A fine Series of Printed Bibles and Testaments, FINE BOOKS OF PRINTS, WORKS ILLUSTRATED BY ROWLANDSON AND CRUIKSHANK, AND Works of a General Literary Character. WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MESSRS. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, Auctioneers of Literary Property & Morks illustrative of the Fine Arts, MAY BE VIEWED TWO DAYS PRIOR. CATALOGUES MAY BE HAD. DRYDEN PRESS: J. DAVY AND SONS, 137, LONG ACRE, LONDON. 245146 ASTOR, LENOX AND 1902 CONDITIONS OF SALE. I. The highest bidder to be the buyer; and if any dispute arise between bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided the Auctioneer cannot decide the said dispute. II. No person to advance less than 1s. ; above five pounds, 2s. 6d. ; and so on in proportion. III. In the case of lots upon which there is a reserve, the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the Seller. IV. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchasemoney; in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold, V. The lots to be taken away, at the buyer's expense, immediately after the conclusion of the sale; in default of which Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE will not hold themselves responsible if lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser. If, at the expiration of ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, the books or other property are not cleared or paid for, they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the expense (the same as if re-sold) will be added to the amount at which the books were bought. Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE will have the option of re-selling the lots uncleared either by public or private sale without any notice being given to the defaulter. VI. All the books are presumed to be perfect, unless otherwise expressed; but if, upon collating, any should prove defective, the purchaser will be at liberty to take or reject them, provided they are returned within ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, when the purchase-money will be returned. VII. The sale of any book or books is not to be set aside on account of any worm-holes, stained or short leaves of text or plates, want of list of plates or blank leaves, or on account of the publication of any subsequent volume, supplement, appendix, or plates. All the manuscripts, autographs, all magazines and reviews, all books in lots, and all tracts in lots or volumes, will be sold with all faults, imperfections, and errors of description. The sale of any illustrated book, lot of prints or drawings, is not to be set aside on account of any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or error of description. VIII. NO IMPERFECT BOOK will be taken back, unless a note accompanies each book, stating its imperfections, with the number of lot and date of the sale at which the same was purchased. IX. To prevent inaccuracy in the delivery, and inconvenience in the settlement of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time of sale. X. Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money required and deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; and if any loss is sustained in the re-selling of such lots as are not cleared or paid for, all charges on such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale. Gentlemen who cannot attend the sale may have their Commissions faithfully executed by their humble servants, SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, 13, Wellington Street, Strand, London. 3 BELARDUS (Petrus) et Heloise conjuga eius. Opera, NUNC 2 Abregé du Faux Clerge Romain (L'), folding frontispiece and 50 satirical FINE COPY B 6 Ægidius (de Columna) Romanus. In Libros de Physico auditu Aristotelis Commentaria; ejusdem Questio de gradibus Formarum, lit. goth. (some ll. stained and wormed), calf sm. fol. Venet. O. Scot, 1502 7 Elianus. Histoires Diverses d'Élien, traduites du Grec avec des Remarques, LARGE AND FINE PAPER, old French calf gilt, with the arms of Marie Josephine Louise de Savoie Comtesse de Provence, g. e. roy. 8vo. Paris, Moutard, 1772 8 Eneas Silvius. Pius Papa Secundus eloquentissimus q obiit Anno MCCCCLXIIII in Anchona dum proficisci proposuerit CONTRA TURCOS composuit, &c. EDITIO PRIMA, lit. goth. long lines, 27 to a full page, without marks (Hain *171), rubricated, brown morocco with antique blind stamped ornaments, g. e. by Hayday sm. 4to. absque ulla nota [COLON. U. ZELL, ante 1470] *** VERY RARE; this copy contains a leaf of Latin verses at the beginning of the volume, printed on the recto only, in the same type as the rest of the book, which neither Hain nor Brunet mention. It consequently has 54 11. instead of 53 as enumerated by them. The page has 24 lines only, and begins 0 "Qui te pallio amat veiat quo te qz gaudz" and ends "Claudite ia rivos pueri sat prata biberut." Every two lines occur in the margin the letters d and M alternately, but the first of the last four lines has a in the margin. 9 Eschylus. Tragoediae VII, Gr. cum Scholiis Græcis, P. Victorii cura et diligentia, large copy, KING JAMES I.'S COPY, bound in old English calf, gilt lions and lines on back, line frame sides with thistles in corners, and the ARMS OF THE KING in centres, original silk ties, IN MOST EXCELLENT CONDITION. [See PLATE] sm. 4to. (Lut.) in officina H. Stephani, 1557 10 Agrippa (H. Corn.) De Occulta Philosophia lib. III, &c. head of Agrippa on title, woodcuts and ornamental woodcut initials, oaken boards, pigskin stamped with figures and ornaments in compartments, clasps folio. s. l. et nom. impr. 1533 Ainsworth (W. F.) The Earth Delineated with Pen and Pencil, numerous illustrations, tree-calf extra, g. e. 4to. C. Griffin, n. d. 11 12 Ainsworth (W. H.) The Tower of London, FIRST EDITION, illustrations by G. Cruikshank, calf extra, inside dentelles, art end papers, g. e. by Tout Svo. R. Bentley, 1840 13 Ainsworth (W. H.) Windsor Castle, new edition, illustrated by G. Cruik shank and Tony Johannot, calf gilt, m. e. Colburn, 1844; Guy Fawkes, illustrations by G. Cruikshank, half morocco, Routledge, 1857 8vo. (2) 14 Ainsworth (W. H.) The Siege of Manchester, ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, 400 pages, red morocco 4to. Sept. 13, 1876 15 Ajello de Tovar. Carta Executoria de Hidalguia a Pedimiento di Alonso Aiello de Tovar, Vezino de la Villa de Almagro, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (51 l. 12 by 8 in.) of a Patent of Nobility granted by Philip II of Spain, finely written in gothic letters, the first two pages FINELY PAINTED AND ILLUMINATED with the Ajello arms, the Candidate kneeling before the Virgin, St. Jago on a white horse on the opposite side, 19 fine large illuminated ornamental initials on red and blue grounds, fine border to last page but one, with a miniature of the King enthroned, and numerous official signatures, original vellum binding sm. folio. 1563 |