Fine bindings and library sets
Collection of works, English literature and European literature in translation, 18th-19th century
£630
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
All 8vo unless otherwise stated, various ownership inscriptions, works comprise:
[Carlyle, Thomas]. German Romance: Specimens of its Chief Authors. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1827. First edition, 4 volumes, contemporary green calf, sides panelled in gilt, engraved additional vignette title page to each volume, volume 2 front inner hinge cracked and vignette title page slightly damp-stained;
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy. From the Danish. Translated by Mary Howitt. London: Richard Bentley, 1845. 2 volumes, contemporary blue-green half calf;
Brunton, Mary. The Works. Edinburgh: for Manners and Miller, 1820. 7 volumes, contemporary green calf, engraved portrait frontispiece;
[Paalzow, Henriette Wach von]. The Citizen of Prague. Translated by Mary Howitt. London: Henry Colburn, 1846. First edition in English, 3 volumes, contemporary blue-green half calf;
Bremer, Frederika. The Home: or, Family Cares and Family Joys. Translated by Mary Howitt. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. First edition in English, 2 volumes, contemporary red half morocco;
Idem. The Neighbours: a Story of Every-Day Life. Translated by Mary Howitt. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First edition in English, 2 volumes, contemporary red half morocco uniform with the preceding;
Gray, Thomas. The Works. A New Edition. London: for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1825. 2 volumes, contemporary green morocco richly gilt, all edges gilt;
Disraeli, Benjamin. Coningsby; or, the New Generation. London: Henry Colburn, 1844. Second edition, 3 volumes, contemporary red half calf;
Smollett, Tobias. The History of England … A New Edition. London: for T. Cadell, 1794. 8 volumes, 12mo, contemporary tree sheep, engraved plates;
Cervantes y Saavedra, Miguel. The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha. Edinburgh: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822. 5 volumes, contemporary green calf, spines sunned; and 1 other (40)
Provenance
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.