25th Mar, 2025 10:00
The March Auctions 2025
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Fine Modern Bindings
Fine Modern Bindings to include: Cervantes (Miguel de) The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha, London: Constable and Company, 1922, 4to, illustrated by Jean de Bosschere, full calf gilt bound by Asprey, marbled endpapers, aeg, tipped in cover, frontispiece and multiple further plates; Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Faust, translated by Abraham Hayward with illustrations by Willy Pogany, London: Hutchinson & Co. [circa 1908], 4to, full red calf gilt with black stamped title to cover, bound by Henry Sotheran, marbled endpapers, aeg; Davenport (Marcia) Mozart, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932, 8vo, full art deco style calf with blind tooled title to spine (3)
Chorley's bi-annual auction of Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts includes a wide variety of works including a page from the Gutenberg bible.
Sold for £550
Fine Modern Bindings to include: Cervantes (Miguel de) The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha, London: Constable and Company, 1922, 4to, illustrated by Jean de Bosschere, full calf gilt bound by Asprey, marbled endpapers, aeg, tipped in cover, frontispiece and multiple further plates; Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Faust, translated by Abraham Hayward with illustrations by Willy Pogany, London: Hutchinson & Co. [circa 1908], 4to, full red calf gilt with black stamped title to cover, bound by Henry Sotheran, marbled endpapers, aeg; Davenport (Marcia) Mozart, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932, 8vo, full art deco style calf with blind tooled title to spine (3)
Fine Books & Manuscripts
Chorley's bi-annual auction of Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts includes a wide variety of works including a page from the Gutenberg bible.
Mozart: covers lightly sunfaded to the edges, top edge gilt, small white spot to spine and top back cover, black pastedown a little rubbed in parts, internally good and bright,
Faust: front board with slight abrasion to centre, gilding bright with top edge slightly spotted, internally good with light toning to pages
Don Quixote: light scuffs and water spotting to cover, half title, title and first few pages spotted, minor marginal foxing, pages lightly toned
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Auction: The March Auctions 2025, 25th Mar, 2025
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