The Evelyn library; sold by order of the trustees of the wills of J.H.C. Evelyn, deceased and Major Peter Evelyn, deceased. Part 1, A-C § Part II, D-L § Part III, M-S § Part IV, T-Z, Addenda § The Evelyn family library; sold by order of the trustees of the wills of J.H.C. Evelyn, deceased, and Major Peter Evelyn, deceased (catalogues for auctions conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1977-13 July 1978)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1977-1978
Five volumes (24-25 cm), I (22-23 June 1977): 124 pp., folding colour frontispiece, 42 p. of plates (pls.1-42, with pls.35-42 in colour). 438 lots. II (30 November-1 December 1977): 155 pp., frontispiece, 8 colour plates (pls.A-H), 28 p. of black & white plates (pls.1-28). Lots numbered 439-936. III (15-16 March 1978): 179 pp., colour frontispiece, 8 colour plates (pls.A-H), 24 p. of plates (pls.1-24). Lots numbered 937-1439. IV (12-13 July 1978): 114 pp., frontispiece, 8 colour plates (pls.A-H), 22 p. of plates (pls.1-22). Lots numbered 1440-1737. [V] (12 October 1977): 55 (1) pp., frontispiece. Lots numbered 1-314. Publisher’s printed boards (vols. I-IV); publisher’s printed wrappers (vol. V). - Evelyn’s library had been deposited at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1949, the property of a “settled trust” established by J.H.C. Evelyn (1876-1922), which was meant to ensure its preservation in perpetuity. After the death of his son, Cecil John Albin (”Jack”) Evelyn in 1976, the Trustees determined that the sale of the Library was necessary, and their obligation to obtain the maximum price required its sale piecemeal by auction. Nicolas Barker, “The sale of the Evelyn Library, 1977-8” in The Book Collector, Summer 1995, pp.210-217. Not present here is “The last scraping of the Evelyn barrel, including odd volumes and bought-in lots as well as some new material” sold by Christie’s, 8 November 1978 (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Summer 1979, p.267). ¶ Parts I-IV are excellent, unmarked copies, with printed Lists of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted; the catalogue of the “Evelyn Family library” has occasional annotations, and no Price list.
- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1977
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1977-1978
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1978
- Authors/Creators
- Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
- Owners
- Evelyn family
- Evelyn, Cecil John Alvin, 1904-1976
- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706
- Auction date
- 19770622
- 19771012
- 19771130
- 19780315
- 19780712
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Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
The Evelyn library; sold by order of the trustees of the wills of J.H.C. Evelyn, deceased and Major Peter Evelyn, deceased. Part 1, A-C (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22-23 June 1977)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1977(25 cm), 124 pp., folding colour frontispiece, 42 p. of plates (pls.1-42, with pls.35-42 in colour). 438 lots. List of estimates loosely inserted. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed boards. - This session made £136,846 with three lots totalling £75 unsold. The top price was £18,000 paid by Traylen for a New Testament translated in Algonquin Indian and printed in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1661 (lot 155); the same dealer paid £13,000 for Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist of 1661, a presentation copy “Ex dono Authoris” (lot 237). Quaritch bought 61 lots, concentrating on anything with Evelyn’s marks or notes (thirty-five of these were for the British Library, which later “retrieved” from booksellers twelve lots on which they had been underbidder). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1977
- Authors/Creators
- Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
- Owners
- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706
- Auction date
- 19770622
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Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
The Evelyn library; sold by order of the trustees of the wills of J.H.C. Evelyn, deceased and Major Peter Evelyn, deceased. Part II, D-L (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 30 November-1 December 1977)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1977(25 cm), 155 pp., frontispiece, 8 colour plates (pls.A-H), 28 p. of black & white plates (pls.1-28). Lots numbered 439-936. List of estimates loosely inserted. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed boards. - “In contrast to last summer’s sale from the collection prices exceeded expectations only for the most outstanding works; prices for minor items were lower than expected” (sale report by Geraldine Norman, in The Times, 1 December 1977, p.16). The first session (authors D-G) made £71,385 with 3% unsold; the second session realised £78,846 and less than 1% unsold. Hooke’s Micrographia bound for Evelyn in contemporary calf made £7500 (Nico Israel). The British Library acquired thirty-eight books. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1977
- Authors/Creators
- Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
- Owners
- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706
- Auction date
- 19771130
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Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
The Evelyn library; sold by order of the trustees of the wills of J.H.C. Evelyn, deceased and Major Peter Evelyn, deceased. Part III, M-S (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 15-16 March 1978)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1978(25 cm), 179 pp., colour frontispiece, 8 colour plates (pls.A-H), 24 p. of plates (pls.1-24). Lots numbered 937-1439. (List of Estimates printed with the text.) List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed boards. - Evelyn’s annotated set of the first 289 issues of the Philosophical Transactions (1665-1704) sold for £26,000 to Quaritch for the British Library (the Library’s most expensive single purchase). The British Library also bought “the copy of Snape’s Anatomy of the Horse 1678, in Evelyn’s red morocco, the very book he holds in the Lely portrait” (Nicolas Barker, “The sale of the Evelyn Library, 1977-8” in The Book Collector, Summer 1995, p.215). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1978
- Authors/Creators
- Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
- Owners
- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706
- Auction date
- 19780315
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Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
The Evelyn library; sold by order of the trustees of the wills of J.H.C. Evelyn, deceased and Major Peter Evelyn, deceased. Part IV, T-Z, Addenda (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 12-13 July 1978)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1978(25 cm), 114 pp., frontispiece, 8 colour plates (pls.A-H), 22 p. of plates (pls.1-22). Lots numbered 1440-1737. (List of Estimates printed with the text.) List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed boards. - Evelyn’s copy of his work Sculptura (1662) was sold to Quaritch for £7500 (lot 1705), again on behalf of the British Library. ¶ Few marks on upper wrapper; otherwise an excellent, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1978
- Authors/Creators
- Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
- Owners
- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706
- Auction date
- 19780712
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Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
The Evelyn family library; sold by order of the trustees of the wills of J.H.C. Evelyn, deceased, and Major Peter Evelyn, deceased (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 12 October 1977)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1977(24 cm), 55 (1) pp., frontispiece. 314 lots. List of estimates loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Annotated copy. No Price list.- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1977
- Authors/Creators
- Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
- Owners
- Evelyn family
- Auction date
- 19771012
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