Description

Sotheby's, London, 1989. Paperback, 245 pages. Catalogue for auction held Thursday 20th July 1989 in London. Includes detailed descriptions many with illustrations and estimates for 479 lots. Includes laid-in prices realized sheet. In good+ condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing with a bit of fraying to the corner hips. Binding tight. Light damp-staining to first page. Otherwise pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Highlights include: Shakespeare's Fourth Folio (1685); An elaborate presentation binding by Elkanah Settle Captain Cook's signed sailing order to his second-in-command on his last voyage; A SERIES OF OVER 100 LETTERS BY NELSON'S FRIEND THOMAS MASTERMAN HARDY A COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND PAPERS OF THE REGENCY PUBLISHER WlLLIAM HONE; Robert Southey's "Little Book in green & gold"; The autograph draft of Charles Stewart Parnell's appeal "To the Irish People of America"; A series of over 300 letters, many illustrated, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones; A collection of books relating to the Bloomsbury Group and the Cambridge Apostles; About fifty letters by E.M. Forster to his Indian friend Syed Ross Masood; The limited illustrated edition of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom; The revised galley proofs of George Moore's Heloise and Abelard; Bronze death mask of James Joyce; A COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS OF IAN FLEMING; Agatha Christie's recorded dictation of her last thriller