Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes

Date:
1930s
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/3/24
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    85 MONTAIGNE.—Les Essais, etc., £2/2]- frontispiece and the six characters in costume designed and engraved on wood by Blair Hughes-Stanton, 250 copies only, on Japon vellum, small folio, quarter buckram, FINE copy, Gregynog Press, 1931 21/- 469 Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books, FOURTH EDITION, FIRST ILLUS- TRATED EDITION, portrait by White (mounted) and brilliant full-page engravings, name on title, title and a few leaves dust-soiled and embrowned, folio, calf, joints weak, but covers firmly attached, Printed by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently, 1688 25/- With list of subscribers. 470 Idem, a New Edition, with Notes of various Authors, by T. Newton, 2 portraits engraved by Vertue, and plates by Hayman, 2 vols, 4to, calf gilt, Vol 1 vebacked, Vol 2, joints cracked, but sound, a well printed edition, J. and R. Tonson, 1749 21/- 47] illustrations by William Blake, 12 coloured plates, 4to, boards, linen back, unopened, Liverpool, 1906 25/- 472 Sonnets, both English and Italian, 325 numbered coptes, roy. 8vo, Halcyon Press, Maastricht, 1929 6/- 473 Minadol (Thomas) Historia della Guerra fra Turchi et Persiani, libri IV., pages embrowned, title a little torn and dis- coloured, small 4to, vellum, stained, Roma, 1587 7/6 474 Miracles.—Paris (Francois de) La Verité des Miracles opere’s par l’intercession de M. de Paris, demontrée contre M. |’ Arche- veque de Sens, par M. de Montgeron, engraved plates, 4to, old calf, joints cracked, Utrecht, 1737 6 475 Moliere (J. B. P.) Les Oeuvres, nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée & augmentée, portrait and engraved plates, 6 vols, small 8vo, contemporary calf, new letter pieces, Paris, 1716 25 /- 476 Idem, portrait and plates, name on half-titles, 8 vols, 12mo, calf gilt, backs a little rubbed, Paris, 1817 10/6 477 [Montagu (Lady Mary Wortley)] Letters, written during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, etc., in different parts of Europe, [with] Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks, with the additional volume, containing Verses writ- .ten in the Chiask at Pera, 2nd edn., 4 vols, small 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt backs, fine copy, 1763-7 25/- A surreptitious edition, edited by John Cleland, and issued a year after the death of the author. and Works, edited by Lord Wharncliffe, 3vd edn., with additions and corrections derived from the original MS. illustrative notes, and a new Memoir by W. Moy Thomas, portraits, 2 vols, 8vo, calf, gilt, Bickers, N.D. [c. 1862[ 12/6 ‘“ Lady Mary is one of the most shining characters in the world, but shines like a comet, “all things by turns, but nothing long.’’—S pence. 479 Montaigne (M.) Essays, in Three Books, with Notes and Quotations, and an Ac- count of the Author’s Life, with a short . Character of the Author and Translator, by the late Marquiss of Halifax, translated by Charles Cotton, 6th edn., with a com- plete Table to each volume, 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, joints of Vol 1 broken, 15/- 480 [Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, Baron of Bréde)| Lettres Persanes, Troisie’me Edition, name on titles, 2 vols, 12mo, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, Amsterdam, 1730 15/- 481 Persian Letters, trans., by Mr. Flloyd, [with] Memoirs of the Life of the Author, by M. D’Alembert, sm. 8vo, calf, a nice copy, 1775 7/6 482 [More (Hannah)] Coelebs in Search of a Wife, comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, FINE copy, 1808 21/- 483 [. | Florio; a Tale, for Fine Gentle- men and Fine Ladies, the Bas Bleu; or, Conversation; Two Poems, 4to, quarter morocco, 1786 6/- The Bas Bleu is missing from this copy. Unknown to Lowndes, Watt and D.N.B. 484 Morell (Sir Charles, [7.e., Rev James Ridley]) Tales of the Genii; or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar, trans., from the Persian MS., 2nd edn., engraved plates, 2 vols, 8vo, contemp. calf, 1764 10/6 Written by Ridley, this book was skilfully modelled. on the ‘“‘ Arabian Nights,’”’ and went through many, editions. 485 [Mortimer (Thomas)] The British Plu- tarch, containing the Lives of the most — eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists, of Gt. Britain and Ireland, from the Accession of — Henry VIII. to the present time, 37d edn., enlarged, frontispiece, name on titles, 8 vols, 16mo, calf, joints weak, letter-pieces missing, TIO) 8/6 |
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