Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/741
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    786 787 (ol 792 Thoroton (Robert) Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, map and plates, red morocco gilt, panelled sides with the Vernon arms in the centre, g.e. a large copy with two or three plates from a smaller copy foo. 167% Throsby (J.) Select Views in Leicestershire, 2 vol. portrait, map and plates, calf, a little dull 4to. 1789 Tissot (J. J.) The Life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, 2 vol. coloured plates, half vellum, g. t. n. d.; and others 4to. (4) [Tooke (W.)] Russia, 4 vol. plates, calf, 1780—Bell (J.) Travels from St. Petersburg, 2 vol. map, calf, Dublin, 1764—Coxe (W.) Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden, ete. 9 vol. maps and plates, calf gilt, 1802-3; and others 8vo. (18) Tournefort (Pitton de) Relation d’un Voyage du Levant, 2 vol. plans and plates, contemporary red morocco gilt 4to. Paris, 1717 Townson (R.) Travels in Hungary, map and plates, calf, 1V97— Bright (R.) Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary, map and plates, calf, Edinburgh, 1818; and another 4to. (3) Tracts. A Collection of about 150 Tracts on Law, Government, Police, Taxes, etc. in 30 vol. including: Paget’s The Humours of the Fleet, 1749; Jackson’s Enquiry into the Origin of Print- ing in Kurope, 1752; Silvester’s Causes of the present high price of Corn and Grain [1757]; Dryden’s Essay on Natural Religion as apposed to Divine Revelation, 1746; John Fielding’s Account of the Origin and Effects of a Police, 1758; Henry Fielding’s Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, &c. FIRST EDITION, 1751; Beck’s Observations on Mr. Fielding’s Enquiry, 1751; Whalley’s Enquiry into the Learning of Shakespeare, 1748; and Holt’s An Attempte to rescue that Ainciente English Poet, and Play-Wrighte, Maister Williaume Shakespere from the maney Errours faulsely charged on him, 1749, all bound in calf, unform except two vol.; the Disney- Vernon collection; sold as a collection and not subject to return 8vo. (30) ** Some vol. have MS. notes by Thomas Hollis. Tracts. A Collection of about 120 Tracts, including a few dupli- cates, on Agriculture, Game Laws, Police, Poor Law, Prisons, etc. in 23 vol. 17 vol. in half calf gilt, lettered Tracts, and sia vol. in calf, lettered Tracts by G. H.; sold as a collection, and not subject to return 8v0. (23) Travis (G.) Letters to Edward Gibbon, russia, 1794—Reid (Whitelaw) American and English Studies, 2 vol. half morocco, New York, 1913; and others 8vo, (15)
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