Sales catalogue 31: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:
Autumn 1949
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 31: Peter Murray Hill Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 SHELLEYANA. BarTON (Bernard) Verses on the Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Balduin, Cradock and Foy, 1822. £2 2s 8vo, half calf, by Bayntun. FIRST EDITION, complete with the half title. Ashley Catalogue, V; Dalia. THOMSON (James, F.R.S.) A Letter to the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, on protection to Original Designs and Patterns, printed upon woven fabrics. Illustrated with plates. Second Edition. Clitheroe H. Whalley, N.D. [1840]. With : THOMSON (James) A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. on Copyright in Original Designs and Patterns for Printing. Clitheroe, H. Whalley, N.D. [1840]. With : THOMSON (James, F.R.S.) Notes on the Present State of Calico Printing in Belgium, with prefatory observations on the Competition and Tariff of different Countries. Clitheroe, H. Whalley, N.p. [1841]. £2 10s 3 vols. in 1. 8vo, CONTEMPORARY CLOTH. FIRST EDITION of 2 and 3. . The first pamphlet has a coloured frontispiece and fifteen coloured plates of patterns, etc. FINE COPY OF THREE VERY UN-= COMMON AND IMPORTANT PAMPHLETS. TRIAL. The Trial of Robert Sawle Donnall, Surgeon and Apothecary late of Falmouth, for the wilful murder, by Poison, of Mrs. Elizabeth Downing, widow, his mother in Law, at the Assize at Launceston. Taken in shorthand. Falmouth, F. Lake, 1817. £1 1s Demy 8vo, ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, spine defective. FIRST EDITION. The Surgeon was acquitted and his Prosecutors were ordered to pay £250 THE YOUNG LADY’S BOOK : A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises and Pursuits. Vizetelly, Branston, 1829. £1 5s 12mo, CONTEMPORARY HALF MOROCCO GILT. FIRST EDITION. With special engraved title in gilt Many full page ‘‘ embellishments ” and numerous wood engravings in text. There are chapters’ on Moral Deportment, The Toilet, Escritoire, Embroidery, etc. A book that went through many editions. ADDENDA OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM AND B. M. PICKERING. [ANDERDON (John L.)] The River Dove, with some quiet thoughts on the happy practice of Angling. W. Pickering, 1847. £1 15s Fsc. 8vo., ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABEL. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY OF A SCARCE AND CHARMING BOOK. Wi1TH AMUSING PICTURE BOARDS. BATEMAN (Thomas) The Acre-ocracy of England. A List of all Owners of Three Thousand Acres and Upwards... culled from The Modern Domesday Book. Basil Montagu Pickering, 1876. | £1 5s Cr. 8vo, ORIGINAL QTR. CLOTH, PRINTED PICTURE BOARDS QUARTERED WITH CARICATURES OF TYPICAL ARISTOCRAT, SQUIRE, MONEY-LENDER AND INFANT HEIR IN BABY CHAIR. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY OF A MOST UNCOMMON BOOK IN ORIGINAL STATE. BLAKE (William) Poetical Sketches. Now first reprinted from the Original Edition of 1783. Edited by R. H. Shepherd. B. M. Pickering, 1868. 18s Fsc. 8vo, ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABEL. A CHARMING EDITION. BRAITHWAITE (Henry Thomas) The Desert Isle and other Poems. W. Pickering, 1849. 15s ae 8vo, full blue straight grained morocco, inside gilt dentelles, edges gilt by Riviére. FIRST EDITION INE COPY. ; [BRAITHWAITE (Henry Thomas)] The Reign of Avarice. W. Pickering, 1851. 16s Fsc. 8vo, full blue straight-grained morocco, inside gilt dentelles, edges gilt by Riviére, uniform with previous item. FIRST EDITION. FINE COPY.*
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