auction house |
Hereditas Antikvárium |
date of auction |
d-m-Y H:i |
title of auction |
Fair Partner ✔ 16. Könyvárverés |
date of exhibition |
2025. május 26 - június 5. | hétköznap 11.00 - 17.00 óráig |
auction contact |
+36 30 442 1386 | info@hereditasantikvarium.hu | www.hereditasantikvarium.hu |
link of auction |
https://axioart.com/aukcio/2025-06-06/16-konyvarveres-hereditas |
13. item
Jókai, (Mór) Moritz: Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War. From the Hungarian of ~. With a prefatory notice by Emeric Szabad.
Edinburgh, 1854. Thomas Constable and Co. (2)+XV+305+(3)p. (The Miscellany of Foreign Literature. Vol. I.)
The original was published in 1850 titled as „Forradalmi és csataképek 1848 és 1849-ből”.
This item is an extraordinary relic of the great writer’s British reception. According to the bequest bookplate inside, it enriched the library of one of the greatest English writers, Charles Dickens. After Dickens’ death, his library was auctioned, and the pieces that went under the hammer were provided with such an ex libris.
Restored, original cloth.
Poss.: „From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870.”