Sales catalogue 110: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/18
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 110: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Published from Original MSS. [Edinburgh], 1788 10s 12mo. 120 pp. Calf. Name of editor added in ink on title-page. Edited by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. : 297 Marlowe (Christopher) All Ovids Elegies ; 3 Bookes. By C. M. Epigrams by J. D. At Middlebourgh [c. 1635] £15 Sm. 8vo. A-F8. Brown crushed morocco, gilt edges. Margin of sign. B8 defective and repaired, to the loss of a few words of text. This edition of Marlowe and Sir John Davies is that designated ‘‘C’”’ by Dyce and Bullen. It is the Third. ‘The First appeared c. 1590 & was suppressed and ordered to be burnt by Archbishops Whitgift -and Bancroft. All the first four editions had ‘“‘ Middle bourgh ” on the title-page, though it is possible that the present one was printed in London. It contains an alternative version of the 15th Elegy of Book I, by Ben Jonson, which did not appear in the first edition. This edition is very rare, & Only 1 copy (B.M.) is recorded in the S.T.C., (18932). 298 Marmontel (Jean Francois) The Tripod of Helen: a Grecian Tale. From _ the French of Marmontel. By a Lady. Wit- ney, Oxon: Printed by 8S. Biggers (1822) Tall 12mo. 46 pp. Quarter cloth. 299 Marvell.—The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq., Poetical, Controversial, and Political, Containing many Original Letters, Poems, and Tracts, never before Printed. With a New Life cf the Author, by Capt. Edward Thompson. London, Printed for the Editor, by Henry Baldwin, and Seld by Dodsley (and others), 1776 £20 4to. 3 vols. Contemporary red morocco, panelled gilt sides, gilt-tooled backs, sides & backs ornamented with Hollis’s emblematical devices, gilt edges. 2 portraits. This is a superb -& notable copy of Marvell’s Works in contemporary red morocco. The editor was rendered some assistance by Thomas Hollis, the ** republican,’’ who was in the habit of having books bound for his own library, & for presentation to his friends, with emblematical ornaments on the covers. This copy is so decorated, & the two engraved por- traits are from portraits “‘ in the possession of Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn.” Each volume bears the bookplate of the latitudinarian Dr. John Disney, to whom Hollis’s heir, Thomas Brand Hollis, left his estates. [he bookplate of the Earl of Cromer is also in each volume. 300 [Masaniello]. — Midon (Francis) The History of the Rise and Fall of Masaniello, the Fisheyman of Naples, Containing an Exact and Impartial Relation of the Tumults and Popular Insurrections, that happened in that Kingdom (in the year 1647) on Account. of the Tax upon Fruits. London, C. Davis and T. Green, 1729 15s 8vo. 226 pp., 1 leaf. Calf, rebacked. Portrait (has been tinted).. 301 Mauger (Claudius) French and English Letters, upon all Subjects, Mean and Sub- lime. Enlarged: with Fifty New Letters, many of which are on the late great Occur- rences and Revolutions of Europe. All much Amended and Refined according to the most quaint and Courtly Mode ; wherein yet the Idiom and Elegancy of both Tongues, are far more exactly suited than formerly. The Second Edition. London, Tho. Roy-. croft, 1676 15s: 8vo. 304 pp. Calf, rebacked. Slight worming on inside blank margins. London, Printed: and Sold by the Book-. sellers [1710] 18s: 8vo. 63 pp. Unbound. Luke Milbourne was the Antagonist of Dryden, and: in 1698 attacked him in his ‘‘ Notes on Dryden’s: Virgil.”? He was rector of St. Ethelburga, Bishops-- gate. with Prefatory Characters of the several. Pieces; The Life of Milton; a Glossary,,. and an Index. Edinburgh, A. Donaldson,. 1767 6s: Tall 12mo. 2 vols. Old calf. 3 plates. A few leaves slightly wormed in Vol. 1. Monthly Magazines, . Reviews, &c., and New Publications of! Merit in Prose and Verse. Edinburgh,. Printed for R. Morison & Son (etc.), 1796) 10s; 12mo. 240 pp. Calf. 7 plates. Bears the autograph of John L. Motley, Beston,. 1825: probably the historian. Remarks upon Men, Manners, Religion and_ Policy, to which is Prefixt, a Dedication) to the most Famous University of Oxford.. London, Printed by N. Mist in Great Carter Pane. 2 ND e G2 b's) £1 5s: 12mo. 307 pp. Calf. Anearly publication of Nathaniel Mist’s. The papers: date from Wed., Nov. 6, 1717, to Wed., Aug. 27, 1718. The first number of Mist’s famous “ Weekly, Journal,’ in which Defoe was so much involved, appeared on Dec. 15, 1716. of the Natural History of the Various: Orders of Monks, after the Manner of the- Linnaean System. Translated from the: Latin, Printed at Augsburg. London, J.. Johnson, 1783 15s: 8vo. xxxii, 48 pp. Recent boards. 3 folding: plates. Attributed to Ignatius de Borne. of the Right Hcnourable Lady M—ry; W——y M——e: Written, during her: Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The: Third Edition. London, T. Becket and! P. A. de Hondt, 1763 78 6d: Sm. 8vo. 3 vols. Calf (joints cracked). Morall, Politike, and Militarie Discourses of! Lord Michael de Montaigne, Knight. . .~ The Third Edition. Whereunto is nowi newly’ added an Index of the principal] Matters and Personages mentioned in this: Booke. London, Printed by M. Flesher,. for Rich. Royston, 1632 £3 3s: Folio. 631 pp. (misprinted 161), 6 leaves. Old: calf, sides covered with velvet. LEdges of engraved: title-page frayed & the surface slightly waterstained:
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