Lot 624
  • 624

Books

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 22 miscellaneous volumes, comprising books in Dutch, French, English, Italian and German, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
  • Paper
Including works by Jacob Cats, Karel van Mander, Fenelon, Shakespeare, Addison, and others; a complete listing is available on request or on www.sothebys.com; sold as a collection, not subject to return

Condition

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Catalogue Note

[Tytler, W.] Recherches historiques et critiques sur les principals preuves de l’accusation contre Marie Stuart, reine d’Ecosse. Paris: Edme, 1772, 12mo, nineteenth-century calf by Niedrée, gilt edges, upper cover detached
Salignac de La Motte Fenelon, F. Les avantures de Telemaque… nouvelle edition. [Stuttgart]: Wohler, 1751, 2 volumes in one, 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary vellum
Seneca. Les controverses. Lyon: C. Fourmy, 1663, 12mo, contemporary calf
Fuhrmann, M. Oesterreichische Chorographie… Dritter Theil. Vienna: J.I. Heninger, 1736, 8vo, calf-backed boards, with a postcard addressed to Leonhardt about the book inserted
Cochem, M. von. Goldener Himmel-Schlüssel. Augsburg: J. Wolff, 1772, 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary brown morocco gilt with large silver panels on each cover and a silver clasp (originally gilt, gilding has worn off), gilt edges
Foresti, A. Del mappamondo istorico. Venice: G. Albricci, 1704, 2 volumes in one, 4to, contemporary vellum
Antiquitates Belgicae, of Nederlandsche Oudtheden. Amsterdam: G. Tielenburg, 1756, 8vo, plates and maps, nineteenth-century half calf
Fleury, Abbé. De zeeden der Israeliten. Amsterdam: R. Blokland, 1702, 8vo, plates, vellum
Cats, J. Houwelyk, dat is, het gantsch beleid des egten staats. Amsterdam: P. Visser, 1708, 8vo, vellum
Almanach voor het verstand en hart voor het jaar MDCCC. Amsterdam: P.E. Briet, 1800, 16mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, gilt edges, signature “G. Leonhardt” on flyleaf
Mander, K. van. Het Leven der… Schilders. Amsterdam: S. van Esveldt, 1764, 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates, modern half calf
Shakespeare, W. The plays. London: Rivington etc, 1823, volumes 1-2, 4-9, 8vo, contemporary half calf
Addison, J. Remarks on several parts of Italy… The third edition. London: J. Tonson, 1726, 8vo, contemporary speckled calf rebacked, library stamp on title-page
The British prose writers, vol. XVI. Johnsoniana. London: J. Sharpe, 1819-1821, 8vo, contemporary half roan