Hardcover
1853 · London
by Sotheby & Co
London: Davy, 1853. Hardcover. Good- (pages prior to title page and end pages are brittle and loose, boards unattached, interior is clean and readable). Marble and burgundy boards, 79 pp, no illustrations. "Catalogue of a very choice collection of prints and drawings, illustrative of London and its environs in Middlesex, Surrey & c. Being the most complete and important Body of early and rare London Topography ever submitted to public sale, and comprising drawings of the highest interest by Hollar, Wyck, Vertue, Grose, Chatelain, Sandby, De Cort, Tomkins, Capon, Shepherd, Schnebbelie & C. and rare and fine prings, by Hogenburgh, Pass, Hollar, Dunstall, Sherwin, Sutton, Nicholls, Kip & C. The whole in fine conditions, having been selected from the Towneley, Bindley, Wilson, and other celebrated Collections, and the illustrated pennants of Mr. North, Mr. Baskerfield, Sir. M. Sykes & C. which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby and John Wilkinson, auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts at their house, 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, the 18th day of July, 1853, and four following days at one o'clock."- excerpt from title page. Includes index and includes prices.
(Inventory #: 173572)