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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The catalogue includes the Properties of The Estate of Walter A. Jasiorkowski and The Estate of Rev. A.D. Bestebreurtje and various others. The catalogue is in a nice clean condition. See my other listings for more similar catalogs.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The catalogue includes the Properties of Mr. Leonard Linton. The Estate of Florence Gould, The Wadsworth Atheneum. Property Sold on behalf of Planned Parenthood of New York and from various sources. Writing in felt pen against one lot (suggesting alternative name for provenance, and another lot has a few words underlined otherwise the catalogue is in very nice clean condition. See my other listings for more similar catalogs.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Handwritten marks or prices against approx. 10 lots otherwise interior in good condition.

Small folio. Original red boards lettered in gilt, very good. Please note that additional postage charges may be necessary. US$8.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 186 pp, colour ills. 359 lots. Part I: fine bindings and literature; 19th and 20th century literature; private press and illustrated books; part II: early printed books and fine classics; continental literature; English literature. Indexed. Several scribbled prices and notes and a few corners folded, otherwise Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names for Part II only laid in.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 93pp. Colour frontis. Illustrated 1980 Auction catalogue. Gilt titles to spine and front board. Slightest wear to boards. A very decent copy. (bs43).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Slight damp mark on first page. Some light waving throughout otherwise interior good and clean. No deliberate marks. May show signs of usage.

Printed wrappers, 4to, 122, [2] pp, 1 plate, facs. 391 lots. Estimates printed at end. Slight fading to wrappers, otherwise Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sale catalogue - day of sale: Tuesday November 7, 1989 at 7.00 p.m.

Cloth, laid-on cover illustration, 4to, 28 cm, 121 pp, : colour ills. 100 lots. From Nicolas Barker's 4 pp introduction: " in the years between the end of the war and 1952, Donald and Mary Hyde came to enjoy Rosenbach's company, and to buy, among other things, many of the quarto plays and other books that had delighted an earlier generation of collectors, continuing when John Fleming took over the direction of the business after 1952. In this company, she is almost the last .The offering, now, of 100 lots of plays and other texts relevant to the theater, both in its Elizabethan and Jacobean heyday and in its Post-Restoration revival, is an opportunity that can hardly recur. Some of them come from the famous collections of the past; Dekker's The second part of the Honest Whore (1630) and Dekker and Webster's West-ward Hoe (1607) are from the great collection of Richard Heber, as is the anonymous Pathomachia: or The Battell of affections (1630). The second part was bought at Heber's sale by William 'Measure' Miller, and thus came from the Britwell Court sale, whence also came Petowe's Elizabetha quasi vivens; Eliza's Funerall, a fewe April Drops, Showr'd on the Hearse of the Dead Eliza (1603). A different early English provenance is represented by the Newdigate-Mostyn copy of Chapman's May-day, a Wittie Comedy (1611). The ne plus ultra in this direction is Wilson's A right excellent and famous comoedy called The Three Ladies of London (1592), which belonged successively to Lord Mostyn and Clawson. .The copy of A Pleasant Comedie called Summers's Last Will and Testament (1600) by Thomas Nash, pne of the most original and vigorous of Shakespeare's contemporaries, is in a modern binding. But the fine set of Ben Jonson's Works (1616-1640) is in contemporary calf, as is the copy of Lyly's Sixe Court Comedies (1632). There is no sign of the earlier source of Middleton's The Familie of Love (1608), but his The Phoenix (1630) is in early vellum, a rare survival, as is Dymock's translation of Guarini's II Pastor Fido, or the Faithful Shepheard (1602), while the late edition of Ruggle's famous Ignoramus (1659) is in contemporary blind-ruled calf. Tpnkis's Lingua (1622), Fletcher's Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1640), and two anonymous plays, A Pleasant Comedie called Wily Beguilde (1638), and Lusts Dominion or The Lascivious Queen (1657?) have survived without indication of whence they came. The works of the playwrights who returned to the stage after the Restoration form a separate chronological section It leads off with the Duchess of Newcastle's P/ays (1662). Aphra Behn, the first woman writer to make her mark on the Restoration stage, is also to the fore, with The Town-fopp (1677), The feign'd curtizans (1670) and The Younger Brother (1699), the first and last in copies that belonged to a great woman writer of the last century.Finally, there are the Shakespeare holdings, in a class by themselves. Besides the Second Folio, cheerfully admitted by the collector to be 'the world's worst copy', the Third, the Kingsley copy, and a fine copy of the Fourth, in all but contemporary calf, the Yarborough-Hamsworth copy, there is a whole run of quartos. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1611, ex-Jones and CW. Clark, is the Third Quarto, but. with the First and Second of 1603 and 1604 all in institutional libraries and likely to remain so, this was already the earliest obtainable edition when Mary bought it, and so it remains today. This Joined the Fourth Quarto, bought at the A.E. Newton sale, and the Symonds copy of the Fifth (1637). There Is also the Restoration revival text (1683), and a whole range of later editions.". Covers a trifle scuffed, otherwise Near Fine.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 32 pp, colour ills. 1 lot. Price noted in pencil, otherwise Near Fine.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 87 pp, colour ills. 156 lots. A few prices marked, lot numbers noted and corners folded, otherwise Very Good.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback, 111pp, [1] unnumbered page of publisher ads, illus. Slightest wear to covers. A very pleasing copy. (q19).

Cloth, 4to, 163 pp, ills. . 211 lots. From the foreword: "Eric Sexton (1902-1980) was a book collector for over fifty years.The chief interest of his library.was undoubtedly his collection of incunabula described in this catalogue. Its theme is the spread of printing in the fifteenth century and Sexton secured examples from 114 different towns including the first or sole books printed in Augsburg, Cividale, Constantinople (albeit a single volume only), Dijon, Foligno, Genoa, Lauingen, Marienthal, Rougemont, Scandiano and Vercelli. Unlike many collectors of the more obvious examples of this kind of book, he was keenly aware of, and guided by, the significance and the rarity of his purchases. Seventy-eight titles are recorded by Goff in three copies or fewer, six more are unrecorded by Goff and indeed, three of his books are the only copies known: Thomas Aquinas, De periculis contingentibus circa sacramentum eucharistiae, Ghent [between 1483 and 1489] (lot 71); Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, Paris 1489 (lot 118); Theodorus, Vita, Pavia 1500 (lot 133). A number of the books are in important contemporary bindings." Spine-ends and corners slightly bumped, otherwise Near Very Good. .

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 228 pp, colour ills. 253 lots. Near Fine.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm, 201 pp, colour ills. 305 lots. Highlights included: the very rare anatomical atlas of Mascagni, Anatomia universe XLIV tabulis aeneis iuxta archetypum . repraesentata 1823-32, with superb colour-printing from engraved plates; Auvert Selecta praxis medico-chirurgicae 1848-51; Carswell Pathological anatomy 1838; Fabrici De venarum ostiolis 1603; Gamelin Nouveau recueil d'ostologie et de myologie 1779; Gautier d'Agoty Essai d'anatomie 1745-8. A few lots marked, several corners folded, otherwise Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 87 pp, ills (including a few in colour). 71 lots. Near Fine.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 196 pp, colour ills. 295 lots. Neatly but unfortunately colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with three coloured tape bands around the spine, otherwise Very Good. Print-out of prices realized laid in.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 190 pp, colour ills. 214 lots. The sale included some "Further Selections from the Winston Spencer Churchill collection of Malcolm S Forbes, Jr": Lots 1-5, 7-22 and 24-27. Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 53 pp, colour ills. 1 lot. Lower fore-edge corners slightly creased, otherwise Near Fine.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 201 pp, colour ills. 59 lots. Near Fine.

Printed wrappers, 4to, 122, [2] pp, 1 plate, facs. 391 lots. Estimates printed at end. Near Fine.

Cloth, large 8vo, 79 pp, plates (including 1 folding), chiefly in colour). 58 lots. Near Fine.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 115 pp, colour ills. 150 lots. Very Good. List of prices realized laid in.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 178 pp, colour ills. 402 lots. Near Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 251 pp, colour ills. 232 lots. Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 281 pp, colour ills. 623 lots. The sale sections included: Old Master Prints - lots 1-40; Ninetenth Century Prints 41-90; American Prints 91-138; Twentieth Century Prints 139-623. With an Index of Artists. Two lot numbers on front wrapper, those lots marked, one corner folded, otherwise Near Fine.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 212 pp, colour ills. 585 lots. The sale sections comprised: Property from the Collection of Barbra Streisand Lots 1-103; Rugs & Carpets 104-133; Silver 134-173; 19th Century Paintings 174-215; Prints 216-239; Old Master Paintings 240-319; European Furniture & Decorative Arts 320-585. Neatly but regrettably colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with 5 coloured tape bands around the spine. Several lots priced in ink and 1 or 2 notes, otherwise Very Good.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 410 pp, colour ills. 617 lots. Near Fine.

Printed wrappers, 4to, 128 pp, plates (some colour), 216 lots. Estimates printed within catalogue. Lots 194 to 213 comprise fine bindings from the famous Leipzig Exhibition of 1914. Wrappers browned at edges, otherwise near Very Good.