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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    274 PLAYS. She Ventures, and He Wins. A Comedy, Acted at the New Theatre, in Little Lincoln’s-Inn Fields. FIRST EDITION. 4to, fine copy in half calf. London, Printed for Hen. Rhodes, 1606. £3 10s This play was written by a young lady, who signs herself Ariadne. Motteux wrote the epilogue. Small tear in E4. 275 The Lunatick. A Comedy. Dedicated to the Three Ruling B s at the New-House in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. FIRST EDITION. 4to, half morocco. London, Printed, and Sold by B. Bragg, 1705. £2 10s Slight water-stains. Published anonymously. 276 The Rape of Europa by Jupiter. A Masque; As it is Sung at the Queens Theatre, in Dorset-Garden. By their Majesties Servants. IRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, half morocco. London, Printed by M. Bennet, 1604. £3 10s 277 PLUTARGCH’S LIVES, Translated from the original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch. By John Lang- horne, D.D., and William Langhorne, M.A With frontispiece to each volume. The Third Edition, corrected. 6 vols., 8vo, contemporary tree calf, full gilt backs. London, Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778. £3 10s Frontispieces and titles a little foxed, otherwise a fine copy. 278 POEMS AND BALLADS. The Confessor. A Tale. FIRST EDITION. 10 pp., folio, half morocco, partly uncut. London, Printed and Sold by J. Roberts, 1724. £1 1s In verse throughout. 279 Mother Gin, a Tragi-Comical Eclogue: being a Paraphrastical ~ Imitation of the Daphnis of Virgil. With the Latin of the original and English imitation on opposite pages. Folio, fine copy in half calf. London, Printed for L. Giliver, and J]. Clarke, 1737. £3 15s 280 ——-— Richmond Park: a Poem. FIRST EDITION. Folio, half morocco. London, Printed for T. Cooper, 1734. . 18s 281 POPE (Alexander). Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. With engraved frontispiece by, E. Kuirkall. FIRST EDITION. CONTAINING THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF POPE’S ‘* RAPE OF THE LOCK.”’ 8vo, original calf (joints repaired). London, Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1712. £25 With the rare half-title and four leaves of Book Advertisements at end. Containing the actual First Edition of Pope’s ‘‘ Rape of the Lock,’’ the first separate edition of which was not published until two years later. Other poems are by Prior, Gay, etc. Bound with the above is the First Edition of Lord Lansdowne’s ‘‘ Poems on Several Occasions,’’ London, 1712.
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