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Laminated wrappers, 4to, 230 pp, plates, ills (some colour). 298 lots. Catalogue of the general library of Philip Robinson, the younger of the two brothers who founded the distinguished bookselling firm of William H. Robinson Ltd which existed in Pall Mall between 1930 and 1956, and acquired and dispersed the residue of Sir Thomas Phillipps' collection. Contents: Continental Printed Books Lots 1-49; Medieval Manuscripts 50-51; English literature and History, Political theory and Economics 52-105; Voyages and Travel 106-298 , Among some of the highlights were: Cervantes Ocho comedias,1615 in limp vellum; the Strassburg Guido Colonna, 1489, in its original deerskin binding; a John Harris pen-facsimile; eight works from John Locke's library, signed by him; papers and correspondence of Henry Strachey on the American War of Independence; four French legal incunabula, three apparently unrecorded; Oviedo Historia General de las Indias 1535, a late 13th century medical anthology from Bury St Edmunds Abbey. Part II of the Sotheby's catalogue (not included here) dealt with Robinson's collection of material relating to the earliest European contacts with China. Indexed. Very Good.

Laminated wrappers, 4to, 230 pp, plates, ills (some colour). 298 lots. Catalogue of the general library of Philip Robinson, the younger of the two brothers who founded the distinguished bookselling firm of William H. Robinson Ltd which existed in Pall Mall between 1930 and 1956, and acquired and dispersed the residue of Sir Thomas Phillipps' collection. Contents: Continental Printed Books Lots 1-49; Medieval Manuscripts 50-51; English literature and History, Political theory and Economics 52-105; Voyages and Travel 106-298 , Among some of the highlights were: Cervantes Ocho comedias,1615 in limp vellum; the Strassburg Guido Colonna, 1489, in its original deerskin binding; a John Harris pen-facsimile; eight works from John Locke's library, signed by him; papers and correspondence of Henry Strachey on the American War of Independence; four French legal incunabula, three apparently unrecorded; Oviedo Historia General de las Indias 1535, a late 13th century medical anthology from Bury St Edmunds Abbey. Part II of the Sotheby's catalogue (not included here) dealt with Robinson's collection of material relating to the earliest European contacts with China. Indexed. Top edge mildly duststained, otherwise Very Good.

193P., plus how-to order information, plus printed price list (folded for mailing), plus stapled xerox leaves reproducing Philip Robinson's printed article on certain Chinese/Jesuit maps. The usual Big Auction Cat with a great number of color plates and b&w facsimiles (two are folded, global views that open up beautifully). Catalog is paperbound, 10.7x8.2 inches, cover laminate is peeling, half-inch cut to head near the spine (affects cover and first leaf), find a stroke of ballpoint pen ink to half-title (underlines Robinson's name), the doublespreads are very slightly crimped. Good (good-only) copy of a useful item. Collector Robinson's article appeared in The Book Collector for Summer 1976, it runs forty pages or so (two per xerox leaf); it entirely concerns the aforementioned maps.