Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1903
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/141
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    1684 Warner (G. F.) Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum, miniatures, borders and initials reproduced in gold and colours, 3 series folio. 1899-1900 1685 Weakest Goeth to the Wall (The) ; asit hath been sundry times plaid by the Earl of Oxenford his Servants (second edition), title mended, half bound, RARE sm. 4to. G. P. for Rich. Hawkins, 1618 1686 Webster (John) The Devils Law Case; a Trage-Comedy, as acted by her Maiesties Servants, ORIGINAL EDITION (some words on title, dc. erased ; and margins shaved), half bound sm. 4to. A. M. for John Grismand, 1623 1687 Weigel (J. Chr.) Centi-Folium Stultorum, oder Hundert Aus- biindige Narren, in einer neu aufgewarmten Alapatrit- Pastelen, &c. 100 fine copperplate engravings, by C. Weigel, half bound Nurnburg, 1699 (*) 1688 Welch (Chas.) Modern History of the City of London, from 1770 to the Present Day, LARGE PAPER (No. 161), numerous illustrations drawn and selected by Philip Norman, cloth boards, with City arms in gold, uncut royal 4to. Blades, 1896 1689 [Wesley (John)] A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (edited with a Preface by John Wesley), FIRST EDITION, red morocco, g. @. sm. 8vo. printed by J. Paramore at the Foundry, 1780 *,* This copy belonged to R. Carr Brackenbury, a friend of John Wesley, and contains some original MS. Hymns in fly-leaves by him. 1690 Wesley (John). Imitation of Christ. The Christian’s Pattern, written originally in Latin by Thomas a Kempis, with a Preface, &c. Compared with the Original, and Corrected throughout by John Wesley, M.A. FIRST EDITION, copperplate engravings by B. Cole, old calf (re-backed) 8v0. C. Rivington, 1735 1691 Westmacott (C.) Points of Misery: or Fables for Mankind, ulustrated by Robert Cruikshank, boards, uncut royal 8vo. 1823 1692 Wewitzer (Ralph) The School for Wits ; a Choice Collection of | Bons-Mots, Anecdotes, Epigrams and other Poetical Jeux d’Esprits, &c. half morocco gilt, t. e.g. uncut, cover bound in (Gaisford ex-libris) 8vo. Sherwood, éc. 1815 1693 White (Rev. G.) Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, woodcuts, calf gult 8vo. Longmans, n. d. @ Whitgift (Archbp. John) The Life of the most Reverend and 4 Religious Prelate John Whitgift, Lord Archbishop of Canter- bury, written by Sir George Paule, woodcut portrait on reverse of title, half bound sm. 4to. T'. Snodham, 1612 1695 WHitNey (GEOFFREY) A CHOICE or EMBLEMES, and other Devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie Writers, Englished and Moralized ; and divers newly devised, FIRST EDITION, both parts, title within woodcut border, with the Earl of Leicester's arms on reverse, and numerous woodcuts of emblems within ornamental borders, 3 Il. mended, some Ul. slightly soiled ; otherwise good, calf (Miss Currer’s copy, with ex-libris), RARE sm. 4to. Leyden in the House of Chr. Plantyn by Fr. Raphelengius, 1586
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