Sales catalogue 333: Ellis

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/19
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 333: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    68 69 70 71 72 Old and Rare Books 17 HOOKER (W. J.), Journal of a Tour in Iceland. Second Edition, with additions. London, 1813. 2 vols. 8vo, coloured frontispiece, 3 maps, and 4 plates, half morocco, £1 10s. [HOPTON (Susanna)], Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices. With Psalms, Hymns and Prayers, for every Day of the Week, and every Holiday in the Year. Reformed by a Person of Quality, and Published by George Hickes. London, Printed by T. Mead for John Nicholson at the King’s Arms ; and John Sprint, at the Bell, in Little Britain, 1701. 12mo, with *“* The Tunes to the Hymns,” contemporary red morocco, gilt panelled sides, gilt back, gilt edges, £3 3s. [HOROLOGION. Liturgy in Slavonic. Moscow, 1639.] Sm. 8vo, printed in red and black, with ornamental woodcut headpieces, in the original wooden boards covered with stamped leather, £18 10s On a flyleaf at the beginning is the signature ‘‘ Thomas Pargiter, his booke 1641.”’ At the end is a Latin inscrip- tion stating that the volume belonged to John Selden the antiquary and was given by him to John Davis. Books printed at Moscow in the early part of the seventeenth century are very rare. HOWELL (James), Epistole Ho-Eliane. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren ; Divided into Six Sections, partly Historicall, Politicall, Philosophicall, upon Emergent Occa- sions: By J. H. Esq.: One of the Clerks of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council. London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1645. Sm. 4to, First Epirion, with brilliant impression of the engraved frontispiece in compart- ments, containing a portrait of the Author, old calf gilt, RARE, £8 10s. First Issue, before the addition of the introductory portion of ‘‘ An Extract of the choicest matters that go interwoven ’mongst these Letters,’’ consisting of 4 leaves, which, apparently printed as an afterthought, are found in the later issue. HUMBLE ADDRESS (The) of the Distressed Protestants in France, As it was delivered to the French King. And now published both in French and English, for the satis- faction of all true Protestants. London, Printed for N.C. 1681. Folio, unbound, i2s.
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