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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    1613 £5 /5/- extracted from Biographia Brit., Vol 3. Nonesuch Press, 1931 £3/3/- COPY, £5/5/- chaste in his conversation.” — Cowper. Acad. Typograph, 1655 calf, Lugd. Bat. apud Johannem Elsevirium, 35/- court, with Introduction and Notes by R. Garnett, portrait, one of 50 copies on Japanese vellum, small 8vo, quarter parch- ment, fine, Chiswick Press, 1893 6/- 300 Dryden (John) MacFlecknoe, reprint of the first edition, 1682, limited to 550 copies, sm. 4to, wrappers, unopened, Oxford, 1924 4/6 One of the severest satires in our language. “| Satires of Juvenal and Persius translated into English Verse, by Mr. Dryden, and other eminent hands, with explanatory Notes [and] a Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, SECOND EDITION, engraved plates by Vander Gucht (foxed), a little wormed in margins, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, back slightly rubbed and wormed, J. Tonson, 1697 9/6 302 Du Fresnoy (C. A.) The Art of Painting, trans., with an original Preface, containing a Parallel between Poetry and Painting, by Mr. Dryden, [and] a short Account of the most eminent Painters, by R. Graham, frontispiece, sm. 8vo, calf gilt, a nice copy, 1769 6/- 303 Dyer (G[eorge], B.A., late of Emanuel College, Cambridge) Poems, FIRST EDITION, some ll. damp-stained, and edges frayed, lee 8 wrappers, 1792 Dyer contributed all that was original in Valpy’s Mentioned by Lamb as a gentle Classics in 141 vols. and kindly eccentric. 304 Edgeworth (Maria) Helen, a Tale, FIRST EDITION, edges of 4 leaves a little torn, 3 vols, sm. 8vo, half calf (faded), 1834 10/6 305 Moral Tales, name on titles, 3 vols, sm. 8vo, calf, one back a little torn, 1816 4/6 Life, 6 vols, sm. 8vo, half calf, some joints a litile weak, 1809-1812 7/6 307 Emblems.—[HarveEy (C.)] School of the Heart ; or, the Heart (of itself gone away from God) brought back again to Him and instructed by Him, 47 engravings, sm. 8vo, half calf, 1778 3/6 308 Heilige Augen- und Bemiiths- Lust vorstellend alle Sonn-, Fest- und Feyrtag- liche nicht nur Evangelien, Sondern auch Epistelen und Lectionen, numerous en- graved plates of biblical subjects by Johann Ulrich Kraus, folio, contemporary stamped vellum, binding stained, Augsburg, [1706] 1 309 Huco (H.) Pia Desideria; or, Divine Addresses, Englished by E. Ar- waker, 2nd edn., with Additions, 47 copper plates, sm. 8vo, calf, blind tooled, gilt edges, 1690 5/- 310 ~Typus Mundi in quo ejus Cala- mitates et Pericula nec non Divini, humanique Amoris Antipathia emble- matice proponuntur a R.R.C.S.1.A., en- graved plates, 12mo, vellum. Antverpiae, 1652 4/6 311 Etherege (Sir George) Works, containing his Plays and Poems, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, names on title, some pages a little stained, and tear in one leaf neatly repaired, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, vebacked, J. Tonson, 1704 io 25 fe 312 Eugene of Savoy (Prince) Life and Military Actions, with an Account of his Death and Funeral, portrait, sm. 8vo, calf, 1739 1
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