Volume 1

Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day.

  • Joseph Frank Payne
Date:
1912
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Credit: Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    17-1 Butler (Samuel) Hudibras, The First Part, Written in the Time of the late Wars (wants leaf of Imprimatur), printed by J. G.for Richard Marriot, 1663 ; Hudibras, The Second Part by the Author of the First (with leaf of Imprimatur), printed by T. R.for John Martyn and, James Allestry, 1664 (both first authorised editions in this size) ; cr. 8VO, original calf; Hudibras, First and Second Parts, Corrected and Amended, T. N.for John Martyn, etc. 1674 ; The Third and Last Part, FIRST edition {title mended, soiled, head-lines cut into), printed, for S. Miller, 1678 (in 1 vol.) ; Butler’s Ghost, or Hudibras the Fourth Part, half bound, printed for Jos. Hindmarsh, 1682 ; Posthumous Works, third edition, calf gilt, R. Baldwin, 1732 cr. 8vo. (5) 175 Byron (Lord) The Age of Bronze, J. Hunt, 1823 ; Werner, J. Murray, 1823; Manfred, ib. 1817; Mazeppa, ib. 1819; Hebrew Melodies, ib. 1815; Marino Faliero, The Prophecy of Dante, uncut, ib. 1821 ; Sardanapalus, Two Foscari, Cain, uncut, ib. 1821 ; Chikle Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III, IV, ib. 1816-1818; Siege of Corinth, Parisina, ib. 1816; Lara, and Jacqueline, uncut, ib. 1814 ; The Corsair, ib. 1814 ; The Prisoner of Chi 11 on, etc. ib. 1816 ; all first editions ; with later editions of other Poems of Byron, etc. bound in vols. and separately 8vo 176 Camerarius (Joach.) Commentarii utriusque Linguae, Gr. etLat. vellum, 11 pro Leon. Ilospiniano ” and stamp of “ Bibliotheca Bernensis” on title folio. Basil. Jo. Hervagius, 1551 177 Casa (J. de la) Le Galatee, premierement compose en Italien, & depuis mis en Francois, Latin, Allemand & Espagnol {the French text printed in “ Caracteres de Civilite”), limp vellum Y2mo. [Lyon], Jean de Tournes, 1609 178 Catullus. Carmina; now first completely Englished into Verse & Prose by Sir R. Burton and L. C. Smithers, portrait, un- cut, 1894 — Aristotle’s Politics, with English Notes by R. Congreve, Longmans, 1874 — Juvenal and Persius, Satires, translated by Wm. Gifford, 2 vol. 1817 —Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, in English by M. J. Chapman, 1836 8vo. (5) 1(9 Cavendish (George) Life of Card. Wolsey, with notes and other illustrations by S. W. Singer, second edition, portraits and plates, half calf gilt, m. e. Harding & Lepard, 1827—More (Sir Thos.) Life, by his Great Grandson Thos. More, portrait, outline portrait of the More Family after Holbein inserted, caB g{it, g.e. J. Woodman, etc. 1726—Roper (Wm.) Life of Sir Ihos. More, with notes, etc. by S. W. Singer, portrait, calf gilt, m.e. Chiswick, 1822 8vo. (3) 180 Cervantes. The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight- Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, translated out of the Spanish (by Thos. Shelton), now newly corrected and amended old panel calf (rebacked) * * sm. folio. R. Hodgkinsonne for A. Cooke, 1652 * First edition of Shelton’s Don Quixote in folio. This copy
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