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Catalogue of valuable printed books : including a collection of books on bookbinding ; XVIIIth century French books from the collection of Admiral Duff (1777-1858), many in attractive contemporary bindings ; incunabula and early printed books, including Higden, Polychronicon, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495 ; Paleotti, Esplicatione del Lenzuolo, Bologna, 1598 ; M. Sceve, Savlsaye, Lyons, 1547 ; Horae, Use of Rome, Paris, c. 1518, printed on vellum ; colour plate and illustrated books, including Lory, Voyage pittoresque de Geneve à Milan, 1811, extra-illustrated with 6 original watercolours ; Ottley and Tomkins, Marquess of Stafford's Collection of pictures, 5 vol. 1818, one of a few copies with the illustrations coloured and mounted ; Doyle, Political sketches, 11 vol. 1829-51, one of only four complete coloured copies ; G.B. Piranesi, Della magnificenza d'architectura de Romani, Rome, 1761-65 ; Watteau, Figures, Paris, c. 1735 ; Piazzetta, Studi de pittura, Venice, 1760 ; English literature of the XVIIth to the XIXth century, including Burton, Anatomy of melancholy, 1621 ; Shakespeare, third folio, 1664 ; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 3 vol., first edition, 1771 ; a large collection of the works of Charles Dickens ; French and German literature from the XVIIth to the XXth century, including works by La Fontaine, Crebillon, Baudelaire, Goethe, Heine, Wieland and Jung-Stilling |
