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CATALOGUE

OF THE

EXTENSIVE AND VFRY VALUABLE LIBRARY

OF

BOOKS IN ALL LANGUAGES,

MANY OF WHICH ARE ON LARGE PAPER, WITH UNCUT EDGES, OR
SPLENDIDLY BOUND BY THE BEST BINDERS;

FORMED WITH CONSUMMATE TASTE AND JUDGMENT BY THE LATE

GEORGE SMITH, ESQ.

Of 21, RUSSELL SQUARE-DEPUTY LIEUTENANT OF THE TOWER HAMLETS-

COMPRISING

BIBLES, TESTAMENTS AND LITURGIES;
English and Foreign Theology;

CLASSICS AND TRANSLATIONS; DICTIONARIES AND GRAMMARS;
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY; VOYAGES AND TRAVELS;
Geography & Topography, including Scarce Pieces relative to London;
SPLENDID WORKS OF ENGRAVINGS,

CHIEFLY IN THE CHOICEST PROOF STATES;

TREATISES ON BREWING, DISTILLING, THE MANUFACTURE OF WINES,
LIQUEURS, &c.; ARTS AND SCIENCES;

WRITINGS OF THE PRINCIPAL DRAMATISTS AND POETS,

INCLUDING VERY FINE COPIES OF THE FIRST FOUR FOLIO EDITIONS OF

Shakespeare's Tragedies, Comedies & Histories;

EARLY EDITIONS OF THE QUARTO PLAYS;

AN

EXTENSIVE SERIES OF SHAKSPEARIANA, BALLADS, SONGS & OTHER POETRY;
SATIRES, PARODIES AND POLITICAL CARICATURES;

A LARGE COLLECTION OF CHAP-BOOKS, DROLLERIES & JEST-BOOKS;

Privately Printed Publications;

AND MOST OF THE STANDARD AUTHORS IN THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN,
ITALIAN, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, RUSSIAN & NORTHERN LANGUAGES;

TOGETHER WITH

A SOLID MAHOGANY CABINET, containing Twenty-four Drawers, filled with Minerals (including
Precious Stones) beautifully Mounted and Named; SOLID OAK LIBRARY TABLE,

THE TRULY ELEGANT AND CAPITAL BOOKCASES,
Splendid Cabinets and Portfolio Stands for Engravings,

MANUFACTURED, in the best STYLE, BY MR. Seddon and MR. HOWARD;
TWO BEAUTIFUL VIOLINCELLOS AND A SPLENDID VIOLIN,

&c. &c. &c.

WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION,

BY MESSRS.

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE,

Auctioneers of Literary Property & Works illustrative of the Fine Arts,
AT THEIR HOUSE, No. 13, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.
On WEDNESDAY, 10th of JULY, 1867, and Twenty-one following Days,
(Sundays excepted), at ONE o'clock precisely.

MAY BE VIEWED TWO DAYS PRIOR, AND CATALOGUES HAD.

J. DAVY and Song, Printers, 197. Long Acre, London

B1682.18

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

JAN 20 1941

Price - Eccentral fund

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

I. The highest bidder to be the buyer; and if any dispute arise between bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided the seller cannot decide the said dispute.

II. No person to advance less than 6d.; above ten shillings, 1s.; above five pounds, 2s. 6d.; and so on.

III. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchasemoney; in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately put up again and resold.

IV. The lots to be taken away, at the buyer's expense, immediately after the conclusion of the sale; in default of which Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE will not hold themselves responsible if lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser. If, at the expiration of ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, the books or other property are not cleared or paid for, they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the expense, the same as if re-sold, will be added to the amount at which the books were bought. Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON and HODGE will have the option of reselling the lots uncleared either by public or private sale, without any notice being given to the defaulter.

V. The books are presumed to be perfect, unless otherwise expressed; but if, upon collating, any should prove defective, the purchaser will be at liberty to take or reject them, provided they are returned within ONE WEEK after the conclusion of the sale, when the purchase-money will be returned.

VI. The sale of any book or books is not to be set aside on account of any stained or short leaves of text or plates, want of list of plates, or on account of the publication of any subsequent volume, supplement, appendix, or plates.

VII. NO IMPERFECT BOOK will be taken back, unless a note accompanies each book, stating its imperfections, with the number of lot and date of the sale at which the same was purchased.

VIII. To prevent inaccuracy in the delivery, and inconvenience in the settlement of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time of sale.

IX. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the money required and deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; and if any loss is sustained in the reselling of such lots as are not cleared or paid for, all charges on such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale.

Gentlemen who cannot attend the Sale may have their Commissions faithfully executed by their humble servants,

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE,

Wellington Street, Strand.

CATALOGUE

OF THE

VERY EXTENSIVE & VALUABLE LIBRARY

OF THE LATE

GEORGE SMITH, ESQ.

FIRST DAY'S SALE.

OCTAVO ET INFRA.

LOT

Bush1 A, B, C, with the Shorter Catechism, uncut

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Edinb. 1789 2 Abélard et Eloise. Histoire des Amours et des Infortunes d'Abélard et d'Eloise mise en Vers satiri - comi-burlesques, par M. ****** (Armand), avec l'Avanture Tragi-comique et Vers burlesques contre une jeune Bâtarde, calf Cologne, 1724 The "Avanture" described by C. Nodier as une satire personnelle de la plus outrageante grossièreté," and the "Vers burlesques were only inserted in a very small number of copies. Nodier's sold for 39 francs.

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3 Abelard and Eloisa's Letters, with their Lives, Amours, &c. by
Rev. H. Mills, frontispiece
1824
Abenhamin's Guerras Civiles, or Civil Wars of Granada, translated
from the Arabic by Gines Perez de Hita, and from the Spanish
by Thomas Rodd, uncut

5 About (E.) Les Mariages de Paris

6 Abercrombie (D.) Fur Academicus

1801

Paris, 1856

uncut Amst. apud A. Wolfgang (cum Sphæra Elzevir.) 1689 7 Abercrombie (J.) Complete Wall-Tree Pruner, 1783-Abercrombie (J.) Gardener's Pocket Journal, 1808

the 8 Abridgement of the Boke of Assises

9

Bark, 10

black letter

(2)

R. Tottle, 1555

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Abus dans les Cérémonies et dans les Mœurs, développés par
M. L***, Auteur du Compère Mathieu, uncut Paris, 1788
Academy (The New) of Complements stored with a Variety of 18.
Letters of Love and Friendship, Songs à la Mode both amorous
and jovial, &c. frontispiece

fine copy in blue morocco extra, g.e. by Clarke and Bedford 1713

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