Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/108
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    54 [BOYLE (Roger, Earl of Orrery).] English Adventures. By a Person of Honour. First EDITION. Sm. 8vo, original calf (rebacked). In the Savoy, Printed by T. Newcombe, for H. Herringman, 1676. £7 10s Although this scarce piece concludes :—‘‘ The End of the First Tome of English Adventures,’’ none others were published. 55 BRAGGE (Robert). A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and Flemish Pictures of Mr, Robert Bragge; consisting of several excellent Paintings by N. Poussin, G. Poussin, Albano, Vander Meulen, Rysdael, Rembrandt, Fouquiere, Van Uden, W. ‘Vandevelde, etc. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mess. Cock and Langford, on Thursday and Friday the 5th and 6th of May, 1748. 4pp., 4to, uzbound. (London, 1748.) £1 1s Priced in MS. throughout. With a further MS. priced list of the same Sale and another list of the Medals and Coins of the late Sir Rich. Levinge. BROADSIDES. 56 Charles Il. Hine Illae Lacrymae, or some Pious Tears affectionately Shed on the Hearse of Charles the II, Second to none but Charles the I. Broadside in verse. Printed on one side of a folio sheet, wzthin black border. (London, 1685.) £1 10s 57 Earl Mortimer’s Speech. Broadside in verse. Printed on one side of a folio sheet, uxcut. Circa 1710. 15s 58 The Four Indian Kings. Part I. How a beautiful Lady conquered one of the Indian Kings. Part I]. The Lady’s Answer to the Indian King’s Request. Four folio Broadside Ballads. Being the same poem in four different printings. Curious woodcut at the head of three. Each uncut, and mounted together as a 4to volume, half morocco gilt. (London, circa 1780-1800.) £10 10s The Indian Chiefs of the Five Nations were brought to England by Col. Nicholson, once Governor of Maryland, in 1710, and on April 19 were received in Audience by Queen Anne. They came to ask certain concessions for the ‘‘ Five Nations ”’ Indians, that the English officers chosen to be in their district might be those who could speak their language, etc. An account of them was published in London the same year, entitled ‘‘ The Four Kings of Canada.”’ This poem is based on the supposed incident of the youngest of the Indian Chiefs having fallen in love with a young lady whom he had seen when walking in St. James’s Park, and having ask her to become his wife promising ‘‘ to advance her in our fine America.’? The young lady declines even to send him a proper answer until he ‘‘ first be turned from his gross Idolatry.’’ What the final result of his courting was the poem does not state, but probably he was unlucky.
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