Sales catalogue 29: Leonard Phillips

Date:
1948
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/90
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 29: Leonard Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    178 DICKENS (C.) A Christmas Carol, a facsimile of the original manuscript, 4to, wrappers (the original front wrapper re- mounted). London, 1898 12s 6d 179 DORSET.—Rosinson (C. E.) A Royal Warren: or Picturesque Rambles in the Isle of Purbeck, with fine etchings and photogravings by Alfred Dawson, numerous woodcuts and map, 4to, buckram, hand- made paper, t.e.g. London, 1882 £1 180 ECONOMICS. — Martineau (Harriet) Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated, 4 tales in 2 vols, 12mo, boards. London, 1833-34 £1 15s First Edition. Comprises: The Parish, The Hamlets, The Town, The Land’s End. 181 ECONOMICS.—Brassey (T.) Work and Wages; Practically Illustrated, 8vo, orig. cloth. London, 1872 (ays With a preface by Arthur Helps. 182 ELOCUTION.—CampseE Lt (H.), BREWER (R. F.), NEVILLE (H.), and others. Voice, Speech and Gesture; a Practical Hand- book to the Elocutionary Art; including Essays on Reciting and Recitative, and on Recitation with Musical Accompaniment, with upwards 100 illustrations by Dargavel and Ramsey, 8vo, half calf, rubbed. London, 1895 15s 183 EMBLEMATA Moralia, scripta quondam hispanice a Johanne de Boria, Latinitate autem donata a L.C.V.P., 100 engraved emblems, sm. 4to, calf. Berolini, 1697 £1 15s 184 ENGINEERING.—Batue (G. and D.) Oliver Evans, a Chronicle of Early American Engineering, 49 plates, 12 maps, and illus. tn text, 4to, cloth. Philadelphia, 1935 £4 15s Edition limited to 500 copies. Mint copy. The first authoritative account of the life and work of Oliver Evans (1755-1819), the famous American engineer and millwright. A magnificent work. 185 ESCOTT (T. H. S.) England: its People, Policy, and Pursuits, 8vo, orig. cloth. London, 1890 12s 186 EUCLIDE.—Danti (Egnatio) La Pros- pettiva Di Euclide, Nella quale si tratta di quelle cose, che per raggi diritti si veggono ; et di quelle, che con raggi restessi nelli Specchi apprisscono. Con alcune sue Annotationi de ‘luoghi piu importanti. Insieme Con la Prospettiva de Eliodoro Larisseo. Diagrams in text, 4to, vellum. Fiovenza, Guinti, 1573 £5 5s Riccardi Bib. Math. Ital. 1. 39-392. 187 FEATLY (D.), M. Day, T. FuLier, R. Srss, and others. The House of Mourn- ing, furnished with directions for pre- parations to meditations of consolations at the hour of death, delivered in LVI sermons, sm. folio, old calf, front joint cracked. 1672 £1 35s Best edition, with additional sermons. 188 FRANCE.—Cox (T.) Jehan-Foucquet, Native of Tours, with 52 illustrations veproduced in colotype, roy. 8vo, orig. cloth, d.w., as new. London, 1931 £1 PHILLIPS, 189 FRANCE.—-Corttin (Mme Sophie Ristaud) Oeuvres complétes de Mme Cottin, engraved portvait, 9 vols, half red calf, gilt backs. Paris, 1823 £2. 5s Nice set. 190 FRANCE.—GaiLtarp (H.) Histoire de la Querelle de Philippe de Valois et d’ Edouard III, continuee sous leurs succes- seurs. Pour servir de suite et de seconde Parte a l’Histoire de la Rivalite de la France et de l’Angleterre, 4 vols, calf, red edges. Paris, 1774 £1105 From the library of Lord Kimberly, with his bookplate. 191 FRANCE.—GEnLIs (Mme) Annales de la Vertu, ou Cours d’Histoire a l’usage des Jeunes Personnes, par l’auteur du Theatre d’Education, 2 vols, calf. Paris, 1784 18s From Lord Kimberly’s library with his bookplate. 192 FRANCE.—GeENLis (Mme de) Theatre d’Education, 2 vols, sm. 8vo, half calf. Paris, 1829 10s 193 FRANCE.—Mo tire. Oeuvres de Moliére, avec des remarques grammaticales, des avertissements, et des observations sur chaque piece, par M. Bret, 8 vols, 8vo, mottled calf, head-bands of some vols worn, name inside covers. Paris, 1786 £2 2s 194 FRANCE.—Moysant et DE LEvizac. Bibliotheque Portative des Ecrivains Fran- cois ou Choix des Meilleurs Morceaux extraits de leurs Ouvrages, 3 vols, calf, joints cracked, second edition. Londres, 1803 15s 195 FRANCE.—MvtrHEap (J. P.) The Vaux- de-Vire or Maistre Jean le Houx, Advocate, of Vire, with port. and other illus., 8vo, orig. cloth, unopened. London, 1875 7s 6d 196 FRANCE.-—SicueLt (E.) Catherine de’ Medici and the French Reformation, 12 piates, some slight foxing, cloth worn. 1905; and SICHEL (E.) The Later Years of Catherine de’ Medici, 13 plates, 8vo, the two volumes uniformly bound, orig. cloth. London, 1905-8 £1 5s 197 [FULLER (T.)] Anglorum Speculum ;, or, The Worthies of England, in Church and State, alphabetically digested into several Shires and Counties. Sm. 8vo, old calf, front hinge worn, inscription on half- title. London, 1684 £3 10s The Preface to the Reader (4 pp.) signed G.S. At page 831, under Warwickshire, there is an account of Shakespeare, where it says ‘‘His learning being very little, Nature seems to have practised her best rules in his production,’’ The work is really an abridgment of Fuller’s Worthies. 198 GAMES.—Hoy te (E.) The Polite Game- ster: containing short Treatises on the Games of Whist, with an Artificial Memory, Quadrille, Back-Gammon, Piquet and Chess .. . Essay towards making the Doctrines of Chances, sm. 8vo, calf. Dublin, 1782 £1 10s Separate title-page to each section. Signature in ink written across the front cover, otherwise good copy.
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