1911-1922 Selected Catalogues from Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding

All related to the library of Henry Huth. Volumes are: Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts: First Portion (1911) Sale of the Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts: Prices and Buyers' Names (1911) Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Autograph Letters (1911) Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters: Prices and Buyers' Names (1911) Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts, Second Portion: List of Prices and Buyers Names (1912) Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts, Third Portion: List of Prices and Buyers Names (1913) Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts, Fourth Portion: List of Prices and Buyers Names (1914) Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts, Fifth Portion: List of Prices and Buyers Names (1916) Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts: Sixth Portion (1917) Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts; Seventh Portion (1918) Catalogue of Books Unsold or Returned as Imperfect at the Sales of the Huth Library (1922) Two illustrated editions with 34 plates in total. Henry Huth was an English merchant banker and prominent bibliophile. After travelling through Europe and the America's, Huth joined his father's company and settled in London where he began forming his library. Huth confined himself to no particular subject, but bought anything of real interest provided that the book was in good condition. His varied collection was especially rich in voyages, Shakespearean and early English Literature, and also in early Spanish and German works, influenced by his time in Hamburg. Huth was a member of various clubs and societies for which he printed, in limited editions, various rare works taken from his collection of manuscripts. in 1861 he caused the be translated into Spanish parts of Henry Thomas Buckle's History of Civilisation for the author. Approximately ten years before his death he commissioned a catalogue of his library, which was completed two years after his death in 1880.