Sales catalogue 96: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/10
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 96: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by a Gentleman for his Diversion. London, T.N. for Henry Herringman. 1679 £2 2s 8vo. 265 pp., 7 pp. advertisements. Old calf, repaired, name written on title-page, title-page and some others frayed at edges. More correctly, the author was Marie Catherine Hortense de Desjardins, Madame de Villedieu. Another version appeared in 1729, called ‘‘ The Secret History of the Court of Augustus.”’ 236 Venus Unmasked: or, An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of the Passion of Love. Interspersed with Curious and Entertaining Accounts of Several Modern Amours. London, Printed for the Author, and Sold by M. Thrush, 1765 £1 15s 12mo. 2 vols.in 1. Cloth. Scarce. 237 Walker (Capt. Charles) Authentick Me- moirs of the Life, Intrigues and Adven- tures of the Celebrated Sally Salisbury. With the Characters of her Most Consider- able Gallants. The Second Edition. With a Key to the Whole. London, Printed ithe year 1723 8vo. 150 pp. Lacks portrait. Not in Esdaile. Noted (No. 338) in Reade, ** Registrum Librorum Eroticorum.”’ Bound with :— An Account of the Tryal of Salley Salisbury 8vo. 8 pp. No title-page. And :— The Tea-Table 8vo. 51 pp. No title-page. TOWN ; 241 Account of the Societies for Reformation and Manners in England and Ireland. With a Persuasive to Persons of all Ranks to be Zealous and Diligent in Promoting the Executive of the Laws against Prophane- ness and Debauchery, for the Effecting a National Reformation. The Third Edition. London, B. Aylmer [and others], 1700 12s 6d 8vo. 132 pp., 7 leaves. Calf, rebacked. Name written on title-page, and last 7 leaves slightly wormed. By Josiah Woodward or Daniel Defoe. ‘242 Annals of the White House of Scho. [A Series of Newspaper Articles extracted from the ‘Crim. Con. Gazette,’’ circa 1839, and neatly pasted up so as to form a book] 12s 6d 8vo. About 121 printed pp. New half roan. A very curious record of this notorious Regency haunt in Soho Square. 243 Anstey (C.) The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B—r—d Familyin a Series of Poetical Epistles. London, J. Dodsley, etc., 1766 Bound with :— Poetical Epistles to the Author of the New Bath Guide from a Genteel Family in ——Shire. London, T. & J. W. Pasham, 1767 NE OAM GH CRNA Rie UY Cee And: Manley (Mary de la Riviére) The Histor of Rivella 1 8vo. 120 pp. No title-page. The 5 pieces in 1 vol. 8vo. Calf. tory. of -a\ Pilgrim, wy G “ecpeyves Dublin, Oli. Nelson, at Milton’s Heads 1753 8vo. 540 pp. Calf, rebacked. An amusing and breezy novel of the road. It might be worth recording that a pencil note ont the fly-leaf also ascribes this book to R. & Noble. in Cambridge) The Glory of God’s Revenge against the Bloody and Detestable Sins of Murther and Adultery, Expressed i -Thirty Modern Tragical Histories. which are Annexed, The Triumphs ofi Friendship and Chastity, in Some Illus-- trious Examples. London, Tho. Moore, forr Benjamin Crayle, 1685 Ss 8vo. 338 pp., 1 leaf. Calf. Title-page mounted. 1 plate. ’ This is an abridgment of John Reynolds’ ’ ‘‘Triumphs of God’s Revenge’? (see No. 214),, and the stories rather lag behind the moral | import of the title. or, The Affair 01 Ff London, Simpkin and Marshall, 7s 6d! 8vo. 186 pp. Cloth. Coloured frontispiece andi 3 plates. Honor. 1837 Bound with :— Keate (G.) The Ruins of Netley Abbey, a Poem. London, Dodsley, 1764 j Bound with :— Bo Churchill (C.). The Candidate Poem. London, Printed for the Author, 1764 © £2 10s 4 vols.in 1 vol. 4to. Old half calf, rebacked. The first work is extremely rare. ‘‘ Have youi read ‘The New Bath Guide’? It is the only thing in Fashion, and is a new and original ki of humour.’’—GRAyY. Treating, I. Of the Original and Invention of Money. II. Of the “Misery of Wanti ng: It. III. How Persons in Straits forr Money may Supply Themselves with It., IV. A New Method for Ordering ©: of! Expences. V. How to Save Money . . VI. How a Man may Keep Money in his: Pocket. VII. How a Man may Pay Debts3 without Money. VIII. How to Travell without Money. To which is added, the» Way How to Turn a Penny, or The Arti of Thriving. The Second Edition. London, A Bettesworth and M. Hotham, of! London Bridge, 1705 £1 ss 12mo. 166 pp. Modern calf. Woodcut frontis-~ piece. Name (old) written on title-page. a:
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