Bibliotheca Phillippica. New Series: Eleventh Part. Catalogue of Books Printed in England and of English Books Printed Abroad Before 1641; Second Portion: G-Q by Sotheby & Co - 1974

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th-16th June, 1970. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 149 pp, plates. Lots 1159-1374. Among the highlights noted were the following: French Manuscripts, including Medieval Deeds and Charters; Autograph Letters of Gassendi, Mersenne, Ismael Boulliau, Fenelon, Mme. Guyon, Mabillon, St. Vincent de Paul, Mme. de Sevigne and Mme. du Chatelet; an Important Archive Relating to Bossuet; Papers Concerning Voltaire; and a Partly Unpublished Letter of Napoleon I; Greek Manuscripts, including a Volume from Johannes Sambucus's Library, a Seventeenth-Century Play in Cretan Dialect and an Extensive and Highly Important Collection of the Papers of Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople; Yugoslav and Slavonic Manuscripts, including the First Croat Translation of a Kempis's Imitation of Jesus Christ, a Glagolitic Manuscript Written on the Island of Krk, 1602, and a Russian Sixteenth-Century Apocalypse with Contemporary English Marginalia;… Read More

Sotheby's, London, unillustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th & 25th November, 1975. Yellow printed wrappers, small 4to,. 86 pp, several facs. Lots 3557-3864. Among the highlights noted were the following: Literature, including Nicholas Breton, Englands Selected Characters, 1643; John Donne, Biathanatos, c. 1646; Abraham Cowley, the Mistresse, 1647; Richard Brome, Lachrymae Musarum, 1650; John Evelyn's Translation of Chrysostom, the Golden Book, 1659, and Robert Armin, the Valiant Welshman, 1663 Travel and Navigation, including Richard Boothby, a Breife Discovery of Madagascar, 1646 and J. A. Colom, Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea, 1679 Americana, including Edward Johnson's a History of New-England, 1654 and John Locke's Copy of John Josselyn, an Account of Two Voyages to New-England, 1674; Miscellaneous Subjects, including Cressy Dymock, an Invention of Engines of Motion, 1651; John Dury, the Reformed Librarie-Keeper, 1650; John Hill, a Penny Post, 1659; a… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th and 26th June, 1973. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 181 pp, numerous ills. Lots 1906-2221. Among the highlights noted were the following: Galen on the Pulse, Copied by Camillus Venetus; and the Commonplace Book of John Mavrocordato, Constantinople c. 1676-80, Containing Unrecorded Demotic Poetry, History and Drama; French Medieval and Later Documents, including Fine Collections Relating to Aquitaine, Normandy and Arras; a Sixteenth-Century Map of the Region of Chateaudun; Letters of Louis XI, Catherine des Medicis, Cardinal de Lorraine, Constable Anne de Montmorency, Henri III, Louise de Lorraine, Henri IV, Colbert, Turenne, Duc de Gesvres, Pierre Jurieu and Charles, Duke of Schomberg; Naval and Diplomatic Letters from Louis XIV and Louis XV to Members of the D'Estrees Family; and an Archive of Letters from Pontchartrain and Other Ministers to the Marechal D'Estrees, 1682-97; Charters Relating to Essex, Gloucestershire,… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June, 1974. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 154 pp, numerous ills and plates. Lots 2830-3085. Among the highlights noted were the following: Charters or Other Documents Relating to Berkshire, Cheshire, Dover, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire and Yorkshire, and Large Collections from Shropshire and Warwickshire Inventories of Richard II's Plate and Valuables, 1378, and of Simon de Burley's Possessions, 1387; Accounts of Queen Joan's Household, 1422; and an Illuminated Genealogical Roll of the Roper Family; Account Books of Sir William St. Loe, of Chatsworth, 1560, and of the Savile Family of Thornhill, Yorks., 1629-34; “Bess of Hardwick's” Autograph Lists of Her Jewels and Plate; Letters of John Clarke, Founder of Rhode Island, and Other Early Baptists to Col. Robert Bennet; a Corrected Draft of Lord Chief Justice Coke's Treatise Championing the Common Law;… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th-16th June, 1970. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 149 pp, plates. Lots 1159-1374. Among the highlights noted were the following: French Manuscripts, including Medieval Deeds and Charters; Autograph Letters of Gassendi, Mersenne, Ismael Boulliau, Fenelon, Mme. Guyon, Mabillon, St. Vincent de Paul, Mme. de Sevigne and Mme. du Chatelet; an Important Archive Relating to Bossuet; Papers Concerning Voltaire; and a Partly Unpublished Letter of Napoleon I; Greek Manuscripts, including a Volume from Johannes Sambucus's Library, a Seventeenth-Century Play in Cretan Dialect and an Extensive and Highly Important Collection of the Papers of Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople; Yugoslav and Slavonic Manuscripts, including the First Croat Translation of a Kempis's Imitation of Jesus Christ, a Glagolitic Manuscript Written on the Island of Krk, 1602, and a Russian Sixteenth-Century Apocalypse with Contemporary English Marginalia;… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th July, 1975. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 82 pp, plates (including 1 folding), ills. Lots 3389-3556. Among the highlights noted were the following: Oppian's Halieutica, copied by Frankiskos Bitalios, c. 1500; Proclus on Plato's Theologia and Cratylus, both copied by Andreas Darmarios, from Dr. Anthony Askew's Collection; and Porphyry on Ptolemy's Harmonica, from the Darmarios Scriptorium; Letters of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, of Cardinal de Granvelle concerning preparations for the Lepanto Campaign, of the Last Duke of Urbino to Claudia De' Medici, Princess of Urbino, and from the Vettori Papers; Diplomatic Correspondence of Papal Nuncios and Vice-Legates; Recommendations for Appointments to American and African Sees; the Journal and Memoirs of Abb. Gualdi; a Collection of G. B. Ciampoli's Poems; Scenari of the Commedia Dell'arte; and an Unpublished Account of Lebanon in 1667; the Historical Collections… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th and 15th June, 1971. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 165 pp, plates. Lots 1375-1709. Among the highlights noted were the following: an important Letter of Byron Concerning Don Juan, an Autograph Parliamentary Diary of Sir Edward Dering, and Letters of Ainsworth, Slingsby Bethel, William Paulet Carey, Carlyle, William Cecil, Lord Chesterfield, Richard Graves, Jefferson, Thomas Percy, John Pym, Richard Rich, Robert Southwell, John and Samuel Wesley; English Charters of the Reigns of Henry III, including the Famous Sentence of Excommunication of 1253, Edward I, Edward III, Richard II, Henry V, Henry VIII and Lady Jane Grey; Manuscripts and Charters Concerning Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, Winchester, Worcestershire and Yorkshire; Ireland and Scotland; America, Barbados, Canada, India and the East… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th- 27th November, 1973. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 156 pp, numerous plates (including some folding). Lots 2222-2541. From the introduction: "The present catalogue introduces the first sale of the new series of printed books from the Phillipps collection... A few lots may be singled out for special mention: the only known copy of a broadside with ballads by Nicholas Breton and Thomas Deloney; the fine and complete copy of the 1532 Chaucer in seventeenth-century calf (lot 2383); the first edition of Endimion and Phoebe, perhaps one of only two complete copies to survive (lot 2446); the copy of Matthew's Bible, 1537, from which the Evesham Abbey were singing the Magnificat at Evensong on 20th January, 1539 when the royal commissioners interrupted the service to expel the monks and appropriate the monastic buildings and property; the leaves of copy for an edition of James I's verse translation of the Psalms, marked up by… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th and 26th November, 1974. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 170, [2] pp, numerous plates (including some folding). Lots 3086-3388. Among the highlights noted were the following: Thomas Ravenscroft's Pammelia, 1609 and Other Collections of Music; Chapman's Bussv d'Ambois, 1608; Dekker's the Magnificent Entertainment, 1604; the First and Second Shakespeare Folios; and a Prompt Copy of Shirley's the Maides Revenge, 1639; Anglieri's the Decades of the Newe World, 1555, and de Novo Orbe, 1612; Sir Richard Whitbourne's Discovery of New-Found-Land, 1620; and Thomas James's A Strange and Dangerous Voyage, 1633; Robert Recorde's The Whetstone of Witte, 1557; the First English Treatise on Algebra; Hugh Rhodes, Stans Puer ad Mensam, J. Redman, Before 1540, the Only Known Copy; Whittinton's Vulgaria, Wynkyn de Worde, the 1524 and 1533 Editions; Fitzherbert's The Booke of Husbandrye, c. 1555, the Only… Read More

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th & 25th November, 1975. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 86 pp, one plate, several facs. Lots 3557-3864. Among the highlights noted were the following: Literature, including Nicholas Breton, Englands Selected Characters, 1643; John Donne, Biathanatos, c. 1646; Abraham Cowley, the Mistresse, 1647; Richard Brome, Lachrymae Musarum, 1650; John Evelyn's Translation of Chrysostom, the Golden Book, 1659, and Robert Armin, the Valiant Welshman, 1663 Travel and Navigation, including Richard Boothby, a Breife Discovery of Madagascar, 1646 and J. A. Colom, Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea, 1679 Americana, including Edward Johnson's a History of New-England, 1654 and John Locke's Copy of John Josselyn, an Account of Two Voyages to New-England, 1674; Miscellaneous Subjects, including Cressy Dymock, an Invention of Engines of Motion, 1651; John Dury, the Reformed Librarie-Keeper, 1650; John Hill, a Penny Post, 1659; a Discourse of the… Read More