Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/166
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    151 GALT (John). Bogle Corbet: or, The Emigrants. First EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, original boards, with paper labels, uncut. London (1831). &3 3s Joints a little cracked. 152 The Earthquake. A Tale. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, original boards, with paper label, uncut. Edinburgh, 1820. &3 5s 153 Eben Erskine: or, The Traveller. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, original boards, with paper labels, uncut. London, 1833. &3 3s The spine of Vol. I slightly defective. 154 The Gathering of the West. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, original wrappers, uncut. Edinburgh, 1823. 18s 155 Rothelan: A Romance of the English Histories. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 12mo, original boards, with paper labels, uncut. Edinburgh, 1824. aoe 155 Joints slightly cracked. 156 GILBERT (W. S.). The “Bab” Ballads, and More “Bab” Ballads. With illustrations by the Author. FIRST EDITIONS. 2 vols., post 8vo. Fine copy bound by Riviére in full polished calf, g.e. London, 1869 and N.p. £15 15s With the original cloth covers bound in at end of each volume. 157 GODWIN (William). Essay on Sepulchres: or, a Proposal for erecting some Memorial of the Illustrious Dead in all ages, on the spot where their remains have been interred. Frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Half calf. London, 1809. &2 2s 158 Letter of Advice to a Young American: on the Course of Studies it might be most advantageous for him to pursue. 8vo, unbound. London: M, J. Godwin and Co., 1818. &21 Extremely rare. This “‘Letter of Advice to a Young American” was one of the first publications of the firm of M. J. Godwin & Co., and there can have been but very few copies issued, for it has been practically unknown ever since. 159 Thoughts on Man, his Nature, Productions, and Dis- coveries; interspersed with some particulars respecting the author. First EDITION. 8vo. Fine copy in original boards, uncut, with the printed label. London, 1831. &6 10s 160 Thoughts on Man, his Nature, Productions, and Dis- coveries. Another Copy. First Epition. 8vo, Half calf. London, 1831. &3 3s. 161 GORDON (Adam Lindsay). Ashtaroth, a Dramatic Lyric, by the author of ‘Sea Spray and Smoke Drift.” -First Eprrion. 8vo. Very clean in original cloth. Melbourne, 1867. . &4 15s: [18]
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