Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![briefe treatises: 1. Their Antiquity; 2. Their Ancient Dignity ; 3. The True Use of their Quality, FIRST EDITION, woodcut border round title, LARGE COPY, sewn printed by Nicholas Okes, 1612 A FINE COPY OF THIS EXTREMELY SCARCE WORK, of consider- able interest to the Shakespearean student, both on account of its contents, and because of the reference on the last leaf to the Shakespeare volume of poems just then published under the title of The Passionate Pilgrime. Frontispiece by Gravelot, trifling worm-hole in blank margin, a large and fine copy in original calf Lie ——-The Most Important Transactions of the lst Parliament of George II; Excise Bill for repealing Subsidies on Tobacco, etc. (1733)—The Two Candidates, or Charge and Discharge (1749)—Collection of Advertisements and Hand-Bills pub- lished on both sides during the Election for the City of Westminster (1749)—-The King’s Speech a Thousand Years Hence, 1743—-A View of the Taxes, Funds and Publick Revenues of England, 1743—-The Importance of Effectually supporting the RoyAL AFRICAN COMPANY OF ENGLAND impartially considered, shewing THAT A FREE AND OPEN TRADE TO AFRICA AND THE SUPPORT AND PRESERVATION OF THE BRITISH COLONIES AND PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA depend upon maintaining Forts and Settlements, etc. 2 folding maps, 1745—THE AFRICAN TRADE THE GREAT PILLAR AND SUPPORT OF THE BRITISH PLANTATION TRADE IN AMERICA, page 1 stained, 1745— A SnHorT VIEW OF THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE MERCHANTS OF LONDON, BRISTOL AND LIVERPOOL, AND THE ADVOCATES OF A NEW JOINT STOCK COMPANY CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF THE AFRICAN TRADE, 1750—The Plan of an Academy for Painting, Sculpture, etc. (the origin of the Royal Academy), 1755— A Parallel between the Power of a King of England and that of a Statholder of the United Provinces, 1754; in 1 vol. old sprinkled calf From the Strawberry Hill collection, with Horace Walpole’s book-plate and a list of the contents in his handwriting inside cover. FOLIO. Brognolus]|, EDITIO PRINCEPS, roman letter (the Greek quota- tions in Greek type), long lines, 34 toa full page, without marks, modern brown pigskin, with blind and gilt ornaments, g. e. by Ramage, FINE COPY, VERY RARE umpressum Venetiis per Nicolaum Jenson Gallicum, Anno Domini MCCCCLXXV, die xl Aug.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31648204_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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