MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneer of Literary Property
and Works Illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their
House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on FRIDAY, December 20, 1850, and
following day, at One o'clock precisely, the VALUABLE LIBRARY of the late
JAMES BROWN, Esq., for many years a Clerk in the General Post Office,
comprising Comte Lamberg, Collection des Vases Grecs, expliquée et publiée
par La Borde, 2 vols., a beautiful and interesting work; La Borde, Voyage
Pittoresque en Autriche, 3 vols., plates finely coloured; La Borde,
Descripcion de un Pavimento de Mosayco, with coloured plates; the Fine
Picturesque Works of Coney, Neale, Haghe, Lawis, Müller, Nash, and Wilkie,
all fine and picked sets, complete; an Interesting Collection of
Illustrious and Noble Foreigners, arranged in 5 vols.; Genealogical
Illustrations of the Ancient Family of Gruee, a splendid Heraldic
Manuscript, written by P. Absalom, Esq.; Dugdale, History of St. Paul's,
fine copy, illustrated with extra portraits; Illustrations of the Noble
family of Howard, finely emblazoned by P. Absalom, illustrated with upwards
of seventy scarce portraits of the family; Lysons, Magna Britannia, 8 vols.
in 9; Equestrian Portraits of the Family of Nassau and Orange, the Fine
Work on Early German Stained Glass, published by Weale; Chalmers, General
Biographical Dictionary, 32 vols. half russia; Lodge, Portraits of
Illustrious Persons, 12 vols.; Neale. Views of the Seats in Great Britain;
Sir W. Scott, Novels and Tales, 25 vols., fine copy, in calf, marbled
leaves; Shaw, General Zoology, coloured plates, 30 vols.
To be viewed two days prior, and Catalogues had; if in the Country, on
receipt of Six Postage Stamps.
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