Sales catalogue 13: Andrew Block

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/26/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 13: Andrew Block. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    328 Lytton (Lord) The Last of the Barons, by the Author of ‘* Rienzi,” Ist Edn., Lond., 1843, 3 vols, 8vo, orig. bds., wncut (loose in ._ cCOvers), VERY RARE. £5 329 Lytton (Lord) Sculpture: a Poem, which obtained the Chancellor’s Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1825, Ist Edn., VERY RARF, 8vo, orig. wrapps., fine. £5/5/- 330 Macdonald (George) Poems, Ist Edn., Lond., 1857, 8vo, cl., uncut (name cut from top of title-page). £1 Presentation Copy: ‘‘With kindest regards from the Author.”’ 331 Mackay (Eric) A Lover’s Litanies, port., Lond., 1890, sm. 8vo, orig. cl. (bndg. stained). 10/6 Presentation Copy: ‘‘To Andrew Tuer Esq. my first Publisher. With all good wishes. Eric Mackay.’’ Inserted is an A.L.S. presenting : the book (also the envelope). 332 [Madan (Martin)] Thelyphthora, or a Treatise on Female Ruin in its Causes, Effects, Consequences, Prevention and Remedy, considered on the Basis of the Divine Law, under the following Heads— mz., Marriage, Whoredom, and Fornica- tion, Adultery, Polygamy, Divorce, Ist Edn., Lond., 1780, 3 vols, 8vo, bds. (worn), uncut, SCARCE. £2/2/- Malthus (T. R.) Statements respecting the East-India College, with an Appeal to Facts in Refutation of the Charges lately brought against it in the Court of Pro- prietors, lst Edn., Lond.. 1817, 8vo, sewn, with the half-title. £3/3/- Inscribed by the Author ‘Sir Cullen Smith with Mr. Malthus Comp.” Presentations by Malthus are very rare. 334 Mansfield (Katherine) In a German Pen- sion, Ist Edn., Lond., n.p. (1911), 8vo, orig. cl., good copy, EXCESSIVELY RARE. £20 The Author’s First Book. 335 Mansfield (Katherine) Something Child- ish, and other Stories, lst Edn., Lond., THe 8vo, orig. cl., fine, in dust-wrappers. 15/- 336 Manuscript Sermon, c. 1640, partly in old stenography, 8vo, old cf. £2/2/- 337 Marriage.—The Art of Governing a Wife, with Rules for Batchelors; to which is added an Essay against Unequal Marriages, Lond., 1747, 8vo, bds., uncut. 30/- 338 Marriage and Parentage, or the Repro- ductive Element in Man as a Means to his Elevation and Happiness, by Henry C. Wright, Ist Edn., 8vo, sewn, SCARCE, - Stoke-upon- Trent, 1854. 7/6 339 Marriage.—A Seventeenth Century Latin Manuscript of 124 Closely Written Pages, entitled, ‘‘ De Matrimonio Tractatus,” 4to, contemp. cf. £7/7/- From the Library of Dr. Todd, President of the Royal Irish Academy, and afterwards bought by Sir Thomag Phillips, Bart., F.R.S. 340 Marryat (Capt.) The Settlers in Canada, written for Young People, Ist Edn., fronts., Lond., 1844, 2 vols, 8vo, orig. cl., uncut (joints of Vol. 1 broken). £2/2/- 333 341 Marryat (Capt.) Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific, written for Young People, ¢/us., lst Edn., Lond., 1841-42-42, sm. 8vo, orig. cl. (Vol. 3 loose in covers). £6/6/- Masefield (John, Poet Laureate) An Autograph Letter Signed, entirely in the Author’s (Left) Hand (vide Contents), from Boar’s Hill, Oxford, undated, 14 pages, §vo. £2 Re the making of Masks. Maugham (W. Somerset) Cakes and Ale, or the Skeleton in the Cupboard, Ist Edn., Lond., 1930, 8vo, orig. cl., fine. 12/6 Maugham (Somerset) The Moon and NSix- pence, lst American Edn., New York, 1919, 8vo, orig. cl., fine. 10/- The same year as the English Edition. [May (Thos.)] The Reigne of King Henry the Second, written in Seaven Bookes, port., lst Edn., Lond., 1633, 12mo, orig, cf. £8/8/- In Verse. Mayhew (Augustus) Paved with Gold, or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets: an Unfashionable Novel, with illusts. by H. K. Browne (‘‘ Phiz’”’), Ist Edn., Lond., 1858, 8vo, orig. cl. (some plts. slightly foxed), but a very good copy, uncut, SCARCE. 30/- An important book. Medical.—Mandeville (B.) A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases, in Three Dialogues, 2nd Edn., Enlarged by the Author, Lond., 1730, 8vo, old ef. (front cover missing and slight water-stain at the bottom of a few prelimi- nary pages), SCARCE. 17/6 Medical.—A Much Quicker Cure of the Secret Disease and a Gleet, and The Practical Scheme of the Secret Disease of a Gleet and a Broken Constitution, by Fast Living, Former Oures, Self Abuses, &e., with Short and Easy Cure of these Disorders, 2 rare pamphlets, bnd. to- gether, post 8vo, wrapps., Lond., 1730. £2/2/- Medicai.New Thoughts on Medical Electricity, or an Attempt to Discover the Real Uses of Electricity in Medicine, in Two Letters to a Friend, Sevenoaks, 1782, with the half-title, 8vo, sewn, RARE. 265/- Mentions Franklin’s Hypothesis of Electricity on last page. 350 Medical.—Paré (Ambrose) The/Workes/of that famous/Chirurgion/Ambrose Parey/ translated out of/Latine and compared/ with the French/by/Th. Johnson/1st Edn., profusely illus. with fine woodcuts, Lond., Th. Cotes, 1634, folio, old ef. (slight worm- hole in a few blank margins, and a tiny tear in margin of page 963, not affecting the text, bndg. worn), a fine tall and com- 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 plete copy, VERY RARE. £30 Collation: <A., TT., Xxxx—Yyyy., Frrrr in Fours. B—SS., AAA—VVVV., ZzZZZ—EEREE., GGGGG—HHHHH in Sixes.
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