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Important Sale of Rare Books, Books of Prints, and Illuminated Manuscripts.
MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, January 9, 1854, and Three following Days, at 1 o'clock precisely, an Important COLLECTION of RARE BOOKS, Books of Prints, Illuminated and Historical Manuscripts, from the Library of a distinguished Amateur, deceased:—comprising, The Grand Work on Egypt, executed under the munificent direction of Napoleon I., the original edition on vellum paper, 23 vols. The Beautiful and Interesting Series of Picturesque Voyages by Nodier, Taylor, and De Cailleux; Barker, Webb et Berthélot, Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries, a magnificent work, in 10 vols. with exquisitely coloured plates; Algérie. Historique, Pittoresque et Monumentale, 5 vols. in 3; Le Vaillant, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, on vellum paper, the plates beautifully coloured, 3 vols.; Melling, Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople, 2 vols. in 1; Montfaucon, Antiquité Expliquée, avec Supplément et les Monumens de la Monarchie Françoise, 20 vols., a most beautiful copy, in morocco, of the best edition, on large paper; Sebæ Rerum Naturalium Thesaurus, 4 vols., an exceedingly choice copy in rich French morocco; Museum Worsleyanum, 2 vols., on large paper; Shaw, Illuminated Ornaments, on large paper, the plates exquisitely illuminated in gold and colours; Beroalde de Verville, Le Moyen de Parvenir, a very fine copy of the rarest Elzevir edition; Cieza, Historie del Peru, 1560-64, rare; Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Ven. 1492, extremely rare; Consolat dels Fets Maritims, very rare; Denyaldi, Rollo Northmanno-Britannicus, fine copy, and very scarce; Henninges, Theatrum Genealogicum, 4 vols. in 5; Le Merre, Recueil des Notes concernant les Affaires du Clergé de France, 13 vols., a beautiful copy; Mandeville, Le Grande Lapidaire, 1561, an extremely rare edition; Renversement de la Morale Chrétienne, rare; Verheiden in Classem Xerxis Hispani Oratio, very rare; Rare Works relating to England; Books of Emblems; A curious and interesting Volume in German, giving an Account of the Crusades against the Turks by the Christians, printed by Bämler. in 1482; Some highly interesting Historical and other Manuscripts; Finely illuminated Horæ and Missals; and an interesting Fragment in the Autograph of Rousseau.
To be viewed Two Days prior, and Catalogues had; forwarded Free on receipt of Six Postage Stamps.
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