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Credit: Sales catalogue 96: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Pr ee 1ST. 221 [Segrais (Jean Regnauld de)] The Prin- cess of Cleves: the Most Famed Romance. ‘Written in French by the greatest Wits of ‘France... Rendred into English by a _ Person of Quality, at the Request of some ‘Friends. London, R. Bentley and M. “Magnes, 1679 £5 5s 7. Not noted in Block, ‘‘ The English Novel.” Sm. 8vo. 259 pp., with license leaf and 8 leaves of advertisements at end. Calf. By Segrais, the Comtesse de la Fayette, and the Duc de Rochefoucauld. _ Very rare. Esdaile quotes only the Term _ Catalogue, apparently not having seen a copy. It is, therefore, clear that there is no copy in any of the major English public libraries. 3 Segrais (Jean Regnauld de) Zayde: a ‘Spanish History, or Romance. Originally Written in French, by Monsieur Segray. Done mco, Pnelish by P. Porter, Esq.. The _ Second Edition, Corrected. London, _ Francis Saunders, 1690 £2 15s 8vo. 271 pp. Calf. Has the leaf before title- page, ‘‘The Bookseller to the Ladies.’”’ Part 2 has no separate title-page, and as the pagination and signatures are continuous, there probably was not one. ‘ [Sheridan (Frances)] The History of Nourjahad. By the Editor of Sidney Be uiph. London, J. Dodsley, 1767 25s 12mo. 240 pp. Modern half calf. Name written on and slight tear in title-page (dust- soiled), Tear on C.12. Some leaves spotted. First EpIrIon. Working copy of a book of some interest in the development of English-Oriental. 29 Skimmer (The): or, The History of -Tanzai and Neadarne. London, F. Galicke, 1735 £1 10s 7 12mo. 2 vols.in 1. Frontispiece. No title-page in Vol. 2 (probably cancelled). Slight repair to frontispiece, title-page and Al. Small ink stain on fore-edge of about 12 leaves. q Rare. Translated from the Chinese (but the writer of the Preface favours the word Japonese) by Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, fils. This is the First EnciisH Epirion. There was another in 1742. ‘ 6 [Sorel (Charles)] The Comical History of Francion, wherein the Variety of Vices atesabuse the Ages are Satyrically SLimn’d in their Native Colours : Inter- “woven with many Pleasant Events, and . if oral Lessons, - Entertainment of the Gravest Head, as fe lachtest Heart. By. Monsieur “De oulines, Sieur de Parc, a Lorain gentle- man. Done into English by a Person of onor. London, Printed for Francis ; Beach, 1655 £4 4s Sm. folio. Sheep. Margin of title-page cut close and frayed. 127. Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom’s . With Twenty-seven Illustrations Wood, by George Cruikshank, Esq. London, John Cassell, 1852 15s --8vo. 391 pp. Half calf, marbled edges. With _ the handwriting of Harriet Beecher Stowe. First ENGLISH EDITION. 28 Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several . Barone Nations of the World. In Four g CABLE ADDRESS : » ee OE PPV Os a ee ergy (ee se Parts, By Lemuel) -Gulliver.. . London; Benjamin Motte, 1726 £8 8s 8vo. 2 vols. Calf (joints weak). Portrait. 5 maps, 1 plate. First Epirion: Third issue, with continuous. pagination. Portrait in the second state. 229 Swindling Unmasked.—Authentic Anec- dotes of Henrietta Keneritz, alias Baroness de Menckwitz: otherwise Miss Price— Lady Douglas—Mrs. Douglas—Mrs. Wray —Mrs. Hughes, etc. With an Account of Joham Henrich Ferdinand, Baron de Menckwitz, Now Confined in the Fleet Prison . . . Displaying the Most Wonder- ful Acts of Defraud than were ever Prac- tised in this Kingdom. London, S. Percy (circa 1805) 7s 6d 8vo. 87 pp. Half calf. Portrait. 230 Templar (The): A Novel. By the Author of “‘ Hymenaeus.’’ London, Hugh Cunningham, 1844 7s 6d 8vo. 144 pp. Boards, linen back. A little story of murder, rather definitely from the legal point of view. Perhaps an early Victorian. precursor of later tendencies towards the crime novel. Ascribed in Block, ‘‘ The English Novel,” to W. M. Cooke. 231 Theobald (Lewis) The History of the Loves of Antiochus and Stratonice : In which are Interspers’d some Accounts Relating to Greece and Syria. London, Jonas Browne, 1717 15s. 12mo. 290 pp. Calf, rebacked. 232 Travels (The) and Adventures of William Bingfield, Esq., Containing as Surprizing a Fluctuation of Circumstances, both by Sea and Land, as ever Befel. one Man. With an Accurate Account of the Shape, Nature, and Properties of that mest Furious and Amazing Animal, Bird. Printed from his own Manuscript. London, E. Withers, 1753 £1 15s Tall 12mo. 2 vols. in 1. Calf (joints weak). Folding frontispiece. Not noted in Block, ‘‘ The English Novel.” 233 Trotter (John)] Travels in Phrenologasto, by Gio. Battista Balscopo. Translated from the Italian. London, Saunders ‘and Otley, 1.8295 15s 8vo. 217 pp. New half calf, uncut. A satire on phrenology ‘and incidentally of aviation interest, as the author sets out in a balloon on his imaginary journey. 234 Troubles of a Good Husband (The). Northampton, 1818 5s. 12mo. 142 pp. Boards, uncut. Not noted in Block, ‘‘ The English Novel.” 235 Unfotunate (sic) Heroes (The), or The Adventures of ‘Ten Famous Men, viz., Ovid, Lentulus, nius, Cepion, Horace, Virgil, Cornelius Gallus, Crassus, Agrippa, Banished from the Court of Augustus Caesar. In Ten Novels composed by that Great Wit of France, Monsieur de Villa Dieu. Englished. WALLINGFORD. ee <5 as *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33159142_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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