The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci.

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
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Credit: The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (then Halsey, now Huntington) ; $875 Hoe (Apr. 1911, I, n. 3415) mor., by Bedford, resold $525 Huntington (Dec. 1917, V, n. 375) ; £405 Huth (June 1920, n. 7917) calf (Daniel copy, now J. L. Clawson). WARS (The) OF CYRUS The Wars of Cyrus, King of Persia, against Antiochus, King of Assyria, with the tragical End of Panthaea [a play]. London, E. A. for William Blackzval, 1594. 40. Brit. Mus.; Huntington (Bridgewater) ; $395 Huntington (Febr. 1918, VII, n. 169) old calf (Heber-Devonshire copy), resold $1540 H. V. Jones (Dec. 1918, n. 394). WASHINGTON (George). 1732-1799 The Journal of Major George Washington sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie. Williamsburg, William Hunter, 1754. 8°. 14 leaves. Washington’s first appearance as an author. Only six copies are known: 1. $560 Brinley (March 1880, n. 4189) now New York Public Library; 2. Huntington (Church) ; 3. J. Carter Brown; 4. Pennsylvania Hist. Soc.; 5. Newbery (Ayer); 6. £405 Har¬ ford (May 1907, n. 6) bound with other tracts. WATSON (Thomas). 1557(?)-1592 The Hekatompathia or Passionate Century of Love. Lon¬ don, J. Wolfe for G. Cazvood [1582]. 40. $2000 Hoe (Jan. 1912, II, n. 3480) mor. (Bright-Daniel-Corser-Asay copy). WATTS (Isaac). 1674-1748 Hymns and spiritual Songs. London, /. Humphreys for J. Lawrence, 1707. 8°. $150-200. — £ 55 Pearson (Nov. 1916, n. 318) mor. Divine Songs attempted in easy Language for the Use of Children. London, for M. Lawrence, 1715. 8°. Only two or three copies known. £ 155 Sotheby’s, 28 July 1902, n. 24, old mor., presentation copy (now Pierpont Morgan Library) ; £ 55 Sothe¬ by’s, 15 March 1907, n. 339, old mor. (See Wilbur Macey Stone, The Divine and Moral Songs of Isaac Watts. New York, 1918. 8°).