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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    410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 105 Cranmer Court, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. 39 [BECKINGTON (Thomas)] A Journal by one of the Suite of Thomas Beckington, during an embassy to negociate a marriage between Henry VI and a Daughter of the Count of Armagnac. With notes by N. H. Nicolas. W. Pickering, 1828. £1 5s D. 8vo, half calf. FIRST EDITION. Printed on ribbed paper. A SCARCE BOOK STARRED BY KEYNES. COWLEY (Abraham) Prose Works of. W. Pickering, 1826. £1 5s 8vo, old calf, spine gilt, top of spine repaired. The well-printed edition with the Wreath Device = hese This volume includes Cowley’s important Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental tlosophy. FULLER (Thomas) The Holy State and the Profane State. W. Pickering, 1840 £1 5s Fsc. 8vo, CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BY HAYDAY, EDGES GILT. Scroll device, and words in red and black on title. Armorial bookplate of Earl Cornwallis. Starred by Keynes. FINE COPY. FULLER (Thomas) The History of the Holy War. W. Pickering, 1840. 18s Fsc. 8vo, CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BY HAYDAY, EDGES GILT. Scroll device, and words in red and black on title. Armorial bookplate of Earl Cornwallis. Starred by Keynes. FINE Copy. FULLER (Thomas) Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Good Thoughts in Worse Times, Mixt Contemplations in Better Times. W. Pickering, 1841. 18s Fsc. 8vo, CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BY HAYDAY, EDGES GILT. Words in red and black, and orna- mental headpiece on title. Starred by Keynes. With armorial bookplate of Earl Cornwallis. FINE COPY. [FULLER (Thomas)]. RussELL (Arthur T.) Memorials of the Life and Works of Thomas Fuller, D.D. W. Pickering, 1844. 16s Fsc. 8vo, CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BY HAYDAY, EDGES GILT. Words in red and black, and ornamental headpiece on title. Armorial bookplate of Earl Cornwallis. Engraved portrait of Fuller. FINE COPY. KEELING (William) Liturgiae Britannicae, or the Several Editions of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, from its Compilation to the last Revision. W. Pickering, 1842. £1 10s D. 8vo, CONTEMPORARY BLUE MOROCCO, ELABORATE GILT FLORAL BORDER ON SIDES, SPINE RICHLY GILT, INSIDE GILT DENTELLES, EDGES GILT. FIRST EDITION. Printed throughout in red and black. Neat inscription on endpaper. VERY FINE COPY. MASKELL (William) Holy Baptism. A Dissertation. W. Pickering, 1848. 16s D. 8vo, ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABEL. With 20 pp. List (dated July 1848) of Pickering’s Publications. FINE PRINTING IN LARGE TYPE. VERY GOOD COPY. MILTON (John) The Works of, in Verse and Prose. Printed from the Original Editions, with a Life of the Author by John Mitford. [In Eight Volumes]. Pickering, 1851. £4 4s 8 vols. D. 8vo, ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABELS, UNCUT (the labels are slightly rubbed and one or two of the volumes have slight damage to cloth). Engraved portrait and facsimile. Beautifully printed in old-face type. PICKERING’S DIAMOND CLASSICS. CICERO. De Offficiis, De Senectute et De Amicitia. W. Pickering, 1821. 10s 48mo, ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABEL. Engraved title and portrait. QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS. W. Pickering, 1826. 7s 6d 48mo, ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABEL. Engraved title and frontispiece. DANTE. La Divina Commedia. [Two Vols.]. W. Pickering, 1822. £1 Is 2 vols., 48mo, ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABEL. Engraved title and portrait. HOMER. Ilias and Odysseia. [2 vols.]. W. Pickering, 1831. 18s 2 vols. 48mo0, ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABEL. Engraved portrait. WALTON (Izaak) The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson. W. Pickering, 1827. £1 5s 48mo, ORIGINAL CLOTH, P. LABEL (slightly defective). Engraved frontispiece of portraits. ON LARGE PAPER. PETER Murray HILi, Ltp., 105 Cranmer Court, Chelsea, London, S.W.3.
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