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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    213 MANLEY (Mrs. Mary). Almyna: or, The Arabian Vow. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market, by her Majesty’s Servants. FIRST EDITION. 4to, half morocco. Londcn, Printed for William Turner, 1707. £4 15s A little discoloured with age, but a tall copy with many leaves uncut at foot. — Lucius, the first Christian King of Britain. A Tragedy. As it 214 is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty’s Servants. FIRST EDITION. 4to, half morocco. London, Printed for John Barber, 1717. £3 12s 215 —-—— The Royal Mischief. A Tragedy. As it is acted by His Majes- ties Servants. FIRST EDITION. 4to, half morocco. London, Printed for R. Bentley, F. Saunders, and J]. Knapion, 1696. £5 5s The plot, as the author informs us in her preface, is taken from a story in Sir John Chardin’s Travels. 216 MANWOOD (John). A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest: Wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of Forrestes: And what a Forrest is in his owne proper nature, etc. Also a Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what Pourallee is, etc. Collected, as well out of the Common Lawes and Statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient Aucthors, and out of the Assizes, etc. Small 4to, fize copy in original calf. London, Printed for. the Societie of Stationers, 1615. £5 5s Of considerable Shakespearean interest. Cited by Isaac Reed in his edition of ‘‘ As You Like It.’’ From this work Shakespeare undoubtedly obtained his knowledge of Forestry, which he cites so often in his ‘‘ As You Like It ’’ and other of his Plays. 217 MARMET (Monsieur de, Lord of Valcroissant). Entertainment of the Cours: or, Academical Conversations. Held upon the Cours at Paris, by a Cabal of the Principal Wits of that Court. Rendered into English by Thomas Saintserf, Gent. With engraved title. Small 8vo, original calf. London, Printed by T. C., 1658. £2 2s 218 MARTEN (Col. Henry). Coll, Henry Marten’s Familiar Letters to his Lady of Delight. Also Her kinde Returnes. With His Rivall R. Pettingalls Heroicall Epistles. Printed by Edmundus De Speciosa Villa (Edmund Gayton). FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, fine copy in calf. (Oxford), Printed for Richard Davis, 1662. £4 4s Containing some genuine letters from Marten to his mistress, Mary Ward, together with a letter in justification of his share in the execution of Charles Ist. Gayton added a preface, some mock heroic compositions of his own, and notes.
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