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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin

Sotheby's, London

Date of the auction: 11.07.2017

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Lot number 31
MILTON, PARADISE LOST, 1678 (1 VOL.)

8vo (164 x 102mm.), third edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary or near contemporary...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£400 - £600
ca. US$514 - US$771
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Lot number 32
MILTON, THE POETICAL WORKS..., 1695 (1 VOL.)

folio (319 x 190mm.), engraved illustrations to "Paradise Lost", Notes and Table at the end...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£300 - £500
ca. US$385 - US$642
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Lot number 33
MILTON, THE WORKS OF MR. JOHN MILTON, 1697 (1 VOL.)

folio (313 x 200mm.), contemporary calf, rebacked, new endpapers...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£300 - £500
ca. US$385 - US$642
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Lot number 34
MILTON, PARADISE LOST; PARADISE REGAIN'D, 1711-13 (2 VOL.)

2 volumes, 12mo (124 x 72mm.), engraved frontispiece portraits and plates after Medina, manuscript...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£700 - £900
ca. US$900 - US$1,157
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Lot number 35
MILTON, FOUR EDITIONS OF 'PARADISE LOST' AND 'PARADISE REGAIN'D', 1747-52...

i) Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books... revised by John Hawkey. Dublin: For the Editor, 1747...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,285 - US$1,928
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Lot number 36
MILTON, FOUR 18TH CENTURY WORKS ON HIM, 1750-1796 (4 VOL.)

i) [Lauder, William]. An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns, in his Paradise Lost...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$771 - US$1,028
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Lot number 37
MILTON, PARADISE LOST; PARADISE REGAIN'D, 1777 (2 VOL.)

half-title with publisher's advertisements on verso, engraved frontispiece, conclusion part of...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£2,000 - £2,500
ca. US$2,571 - US$3,214
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Lot number 38
OVID, METAMORPHOSIS ENGLISHED BY... SANDYS, LONDON, 1640, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED...

folio, translation of the first book of Virgil's Aeneid at the end, engraved frontispiece portrait...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£3,500 - £5,000
ca. US$4,500 - US$6,429
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Lot number 39
SHAKESPEARE, WORKS, 1904-1907, NUMBER 11 OF 12 COPIES ON VELLUM (10 VOL.)

10 volumes, 4to, NUMBER 11 OF 12 COPIES ON VELLUM, title-pages printed in red and black, engraved...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$32,146 - US$45,005
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Lot number 40
SHAKESPEARE]--MARSHALL, WOODEN CASKET CARVED FROM SHAKESPEARE'S MULBERRY...

220 x 160 x 120mm., the lid bearing the arms of William Shakespeare surrounded by branches of...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,857 - US$6,429
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Lot number 41
ADDISON AND STEELE, THE TATLER, 1710-1711 (4 VOL.)

4 volumes, 8vo, issues 1-271 [all published], list of subscribers in each volume, initials "E.P". on...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£1,200 - £1,500
ca. US$1,543 - US$1,928
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Lot number 42
ADDISON AND STEELE, THE SPECTATOR, 1711-1712 (2 VOL.)

2 volumes, 8vo, complete set of the original series of 555 numbers, each number a printed leaf on...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£2,000 - £4,000
ca. US$2,571 - US$5,143
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Lot number 43
AESOP, FABLES, 1793 (2 VOL.)

2 volumes, 8vo, engraved titles and 110 engraved plates, early twentieth-century straight-grained...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£500 - £800
ca. US$642 - US$1,028
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Lot number 44
BASKERVILLE PRESS, BUCOLICA, GEORGICA, ET AENEIS, 1757 (1 VOL.)

4to, FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION, state of title-page with slightly damaged 'R' in 'Maronis', with all...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,028 - US$1,543
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Lot number 45
BIBLE], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW, 1763 (1 VOL.)

folio, ONE OF 1,250 COPIES, third state (with list of subscribers ending with "York"), separate...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£9,000 - £12,000
ca. US$11,572 - US$15,430
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Lot number 46
CONGREVE, A COLLECTION OF POEMS, OCCASIONALLY WRITTEN UPON THE VICTORIES OF...

folio, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF TWO KNOWN COPIES AND THOUGHT TO BE FROM THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£6,000 - £9,000
ca. US$7,715 - US$11,572
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Lot number 47
COOKE], THE BATTLE OF THE POETS, 1725, FIRST EDITION (1 VOL.)

folio, FIRST EDITION, disbound, some spotting and browning...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,285 - US$1,928
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Lot number 48
FABER, THE KIT-CAT CLUB DONE FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS, 1735, TOGETHER...

folio (449 x 293mm.), FIRST EDITION, 48 portraits on 47 mezzotint plates by John Faber the younger...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£2,500 - £4,500
ca. US$3,214 - US$5,786
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Lot number 49
FIELDING, THE WEDDING-DAY, 1743 (1 VOL.)

8vo, first edition, impression A (press figures pp. 8-3, 10-4, 22-1, 31-3, 37-2), title page with...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$514 - US$771
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Lot number 50
FIELDING, HISTORY OF TOM JONES, 1749 (6 VOL.)

6 volumes, 12mo, FIRST EDITION, errata leaf in volume 1, contemporary calf, gilt double-fillet...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$771 - US$1,028
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Lot number 51
GARRICK], SEVEN PLAYS IN ONE VOLUME FROM GARRICK'S LIBRARY (1 VOL.)

i) Dodsley, R. The Toy-Shop. For Gilliver, 1735, third edition, half-title and final advertisement...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£900 - £1,200
ca. US$1,157 - US$1,543
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Lot number 52
GAY], A LETTER TO MR JOHN GAY, 1717 (1 VOL.)

8vo, FIRST EDITION, disbound, occasional spotting...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,028 - US$1,543
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Lot number 53
GAY, FABLES, 1793 (1 VOL.)

8vo, FIRST EDITION, 70 fables in poems, 12 engraved plates by William Blake, early twentieth-century...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£500 - £800
ca. US$642 - US$1,028
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Lot number 54
GIFFORD AND OTHERS, THE ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE, 1797-1798 (1 VOL.)

36 issues, complete in one volume, each issue with three-halfpenny tax stamp, half calf...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£700 - £900
ca. US$900 - US$1,157
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Lot number 55
JOHNSON, A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES OF THE MOST FAMOUS...

folio, FIRST EDITION, catchword "As" on the first page of the introduction, title page printed in...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,857 - US$6,429
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Lot number 56
JOHNSON, THE RAMBLER, 1751 (1 VOL.)

folio, numbers 1-208 [all published], complete in 1 volume, earliest issue of the title page for the...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,500
ca. US$1,928 - US$3,214
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Lot number 57
JOHNSON, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA, 1759 (2 VOL.)

8vo, 2 volumes, first edition, second state with "Contents of the second volume" on A2r of volume 2...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,028 - US$1,543
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Lot number 58
JOHNSON, A COLLECTION OF FIVE WORKS, 1765-1788 (12 VOL.)

Mr. Johnson's Preface to his edition of Shakespear's Plays. For J. and R. Tonson et al., 1765, first...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
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£700 - £900
ca. US$900 - US$1,157
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Lot number 59
LEWIS, THE LIFE OF MAYSTER WILLIAM CAXTON, 1737 (1 VOL.)

8vo, first edition, limited to 150 copies, engraved frontispiece, engraved initials and headings...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,028 - US$1,543
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Lot number 60
MILLER], ARE THESE THINGS SO?, 1740, SECOND EDITION (1 VOL.)

folio, second edition "corrected: with the addition of twenty lines omitted in the former...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£250 - £450
ca. US$321 - US$578
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