Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
02-06 December 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/826
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    458 Johnson (Samuel) Dr. Johnson’s Table- Talk: containing Aphorisms on literature, life and manners . . . selected from Mr. Boswell’s Lite of Johnson, old calf 8vo. 1798 459 [JoHNnson (S.)| Marmor NorFOLCIENSE: OR AN ESSAY ON AN ANCIENT PROPHETICAL INSCRIPTION, in Monkish Rhyme, lately discover’d near Lynn in Norfolk. By Prospus BRITANICUS, FIRST EDITION, quotation from Horace written by a contem- porary hand on half-title, polished calf gilt, g.t. EXTREMELY RARE 8v0. London: Printed for J. Brett, 1739 460. [Jonson (8.)] THe RAMBLER. To BE CONTINUED ON TUESDAYS AND SATURDAYS, THE ORIGINAL FIRST 200 NUMBERS from 20 March 1749-50 to 15 Feb. 1752, bound in 2 vol. no. 45 slightly stamned and slit in one leaf (pp. 269-70), two or three slight stains BUT ON THE WHOLE IN EXTREMELY GOOD CONDITION AND ENTIRELY UNCUT, 18th Century boards, back gone foltio. 1750-2 461 JouHnson (8.) A DicTIonaRy oF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, 18th Century calf gilt, rebacked and joints repaired, A GOOD COPY Fouto. “Los 462 [JoHNson (S.)] THe PRIncE oF ABISSINIA. A TALE, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, name “Thos. Laster” on titles in an 18th century hand, contemporary half calf binding, UNCUT, FINE COPY 8vo. London: for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759 463 [JoHNson (S.)] The Idler, 2 vol. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, three pages of J. Newbery’s advertisements at end of vol. IT, margin of titles somewhat discoloured, contemporary calf 12mo, London, for J. Newbery, 1761 464 JoHNnson (S.) A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, FIRST EDITION, with the twelve-line errata leaf at end, half calf, UNCUT Sv0., We Strahan; andl. Cadell, 1775 465 Johnston (A.) Genealogical Account of the family of Johnston of that Ilk, one of 100 copies, half roan, Edinburgh, 1832— Grant (I. J.) The Grants of Corrimony, original boards, Prwately printed, Lerwick, 1895, both presentation copies from the Authors, with inscriptions 4to. (2) 466 Jonson (BEN) WoRKES, 2 vol. engraved title and portrait, title of vol. LL cleaned, old mottled calf folio. London, R. Bishop, 1640 467 Jonson (B.) Works, with Additions never before published, portrait (slightly defective at corner and backed), small stains on two or three leaves, old calf, binding worn folio. 1692 E
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