Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/711
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    653 Wielding (H.) The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, FIRST EDITION, original calf 1755 ** With an inscription dated 1814 on the end-paper recording that this volume was presented by Fielding’s widow to Mrs. Round (née Faithful). 654 JoHNSON (S.) The Prince of Abissinia A Tale In Two volumes. 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION, contemporary calf gilt, with ea- libris of Francas Longe, Skipworth Park, Norfolk, and the Longe crest stamped in the centre of each cover, a fine copy 18mo. London Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall; and W. Johnston, wv Ludgate-street MDCCLIX | 1759 » 655 Johnson (S.) Histoire De Rasselas, Prince d’Abissinie. Par M. Jhonnson, Auteur du Rambler, & traduite de V’Anglois Par Madame Bxxxx. Premiere Partie, FIRST EDITION in French, 2 vol. in 1, contemporary calf A Amsterdam, Et se trouve a Paris, Chez Prault Fils, Quaa des Augustines, au coin de la rue Git-r1e-Coeur. M.DCCLX 1760 QUARTO. 656 Dryden (J.) Don Sebastian, a tragedy, boards 1692 ** In the Dedication is an allusion to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. 65% Plays. St. Serfe (Thos.) Tarugo’s Wiles, 1668—Rivers, The Traytor, 1692—D’Urfey (Thos.) The Marriage-Hater Match’d, 1692—Dilke (T.) The Lover’s Luck, 1696—Trotter (C.) Agnes de Castro, 1696; and The Revolution of Sweden, 1706— Motteux (P.) The Temple of Love, 1706—Centlivre (S.) A Bickerstaff’s Burying (1710), and Mar-Plot, 1711, all First EDITIONS, some head-lines and bottom edges cut into, unbound; sold not subject to return (9) FOLIO. 6574 |Swirr (JonATHAN)| A Hug AND Ory AFTER DisMAL; Being a full and true Account, how a Whig L——d was taken at Dunkirk, in the Habit of a Chimney-sweeper, and carryed before General Hill, one leaf, printed on one side only, title (in gothic and italic letter), 4 lines, teat 56 lines, uncut, unbound (124 in. by Thin.) London, Printed in the Year, 1712 xy HITHERTO UNKNOWN, EXCEPT FOR SWIFT’S OWN MENTION OF IT IN THE Journal to Stella (letter dated London, 17 July, 1712; Methuen’s edition, 1901, p. 449), in the following words: “Since Dunkirk has been in our hands, Grub Street has been very fruitful. Pdfr has writ five or six Grub Street papers this last week.
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