Sotheby's (London)
English literature and history, private press and illustrated books and related drawings : Including books from the library of George Goyder, chiefly relating to the English reformation, including rare works by Bunyan, Cranmer, Erasmus, Tyndale and Milton; the first printed version of the story of Hamlet, the third and fourth folios of Shakespeare and the first quarto of the Two Noble Kinsmen; the autograph collection of Hannah More’s sister; collections of books and papers of the Pigot family and of Doris Langley Moore relating to Lord Byron; the indenture for the 1840 purchase of the South Island of New Zealand from the Maoris by W.C. Wentworth; and important series of letters, typescripts and working proofs by Ludwig Wittgenstein relating to his Tractatus; letters by Sir Winston Churchill, including an important one to Jellicoe about Fischer and the Dardanelles; letters by G.B. Shaw, including a group relating to his will; the drawings by H. Iorys Hughes for the Mulberry Harbours used in the D-Day Landings (catalogue for an auction sale conducted by Sotheby's, London, 19-20 July 1993)
London, Sotheby's, 1993
£ 18