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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    84 Bullen (Frank T.) A Sack of Shakings, lst Edn., 8vo, orig. buckram, t.e.g., wncut, Lond., 1901, fine. 25/- 85 [Bunyan (John)]. — [Fowler (Edward)] Dirt wipt off, or a Manifest Discovery of the Gross Ignorance, Erroneousness, and most Unchristian and Wicked Spirit of one JOHN Bunyan, Luy Preacher in Bedford, Jond., R.N., for Richard Royston, 1672, sm. 4to, hf. cf., VERY RARE. £4/4/- 86 [Burke (Edmund)] Answer to the Reflec- tions of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, by M. Depont, with the Original Notes, Ist Edn., 8vo, sewn, uncut. 10/6 With the half-title. Burnet (Gilbert) The History of the Re- formation of the Church of England, lst Edn., with engd. title and ports., Lond., 1679, folio, orig. cf., gt. back. £3/3/- A Fine copy with brilliant impressions of the Plates. Burns (Robt.) Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, port., ist Edinburgh Edn., Hdin., for the Author, 1787, contemp. mor. gt. extra, g.e., a fine tall copy. £21 The lst Issue with ‘‘ Duke of Boxburgh’”’ for “Roxburgh ’”’ in the list of Subscribers. Burton (Sir Richard F.) The Book of the Sword, with numerous illusts., 1st Edn., Lond., 1884, folio, orig. cl., unopened copy. £3/3/- ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING. Butler (Samuel) ‘‘ Fobello, a Christening,” on canvas, unframed, restored in places, size 3 ft. by 2 ft. 4 in., unsigned, from the Charles Gogin Collection (c. 1887). £40 Gogin was present with Butler on his Italian travels and collaborated with him in illus- trating ‘‘ Alps aind Sanctuaries.’’ This painting was evidently done for inclusion in the book but was afterwards discarded. 91 Byrne (Donn) The Wind Bloweth, Lond., N.D. (1922), 8vo, orig. cl. (last end-paper 90 missing), fine, in dust-wrappers. 15/- The first issue in the Red Cloth. 92 Byron (Lord) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage : a Romaunt, lst Edn., Zond., 1812, 4to, a fine tall copy, in contemp. diced cf., neatly rebacked. £400 PRESENTATION COPY: ‘To the Wiscount Valentia, from his friend the Author, March ing the above is a letter from the Bodleian Library authenticating the writing. (See Frontispiece). Presentation Copies of Byron’s Works are superlatively rare. Byron (Lord) Hebrew Melodies, Ist Issue of the Ist Edn., Zond., 1815, orig. wrapps., uncut, £16 With the title-page for the Works, Byron (Lord) Hebrew Melodies, Ist Edn., Lond., 1815, 8vo (unbound and no half- title). 15/- Byron (Lord) The Prisoner of Chillon, and other Poems, Ist Issue of the Ist Edn., Lond., 1816, 8vo, orig. wrapps., uncut. £10 The Recto of Signature E.8 blank. See Wise, pp. 49-50. 96 Calvin (John) Foure Sermons, entreating of Matters very Profitable for our Time, as may bee seene by the Preface, with a Briefe Exposition of the LX X XVII. Psalme, trans. out of Frenche into Englishe, by John Fielde, London, for Thos. Man, 1579, sm. 4to, sewn, RARE, fine. £2/10/- 97 Carlyle (Thos.) French Revolution: a His- tory, 2nd Edn., Lond., 1842, 3 vols, 8vo, orig. cl. (one vol loose and 2 vols slightly worn at joints), SCARCH, uncut. 30/- 98 Carlyle (Thomas) Shooting Niagara: and after, lst Edn., Lond., 1867, 8vo, orig. wrapps., uncut. 30/- 99 Carman (Bliss) Behind the Arras: a Book of the Unseen, with designs by T'. B. Mete- yard, 1st Edn., Bostonand N.Y., Lamson, Wolffe & Co., 1895, orig. bds. (back broken), uncut, RARE. 10/- 100 Carroll (Lewis) A Most Interesting 2 Small 8vo Page Letter, entirely in the Author’s hand, written in the familiar violet ink, dated Mar. 8, ’83, signed C. L. Dodgson. £10 “In view of the somewhat inexact statements put forth by Mr. Labouchere . publish in a cheap popular form, the marrow of his excellent little book on ‘“ Disestablishment and Disendowment’”’ . 101 Carroll (Lewis) One 8vo Page Letter, entirely in the Author’s hand, written, in violet ink, dated May 26. £4 “My dear Owen, I shall have much conven- tional pleasure in dining with you to-morrow, Yours sincerely (in the sense in which the word is generally understood), C. L. Dodgson. 102 Catherine 11.—The Life of Catharine II, of Russia, by W. W. Dawkins, fronts., Lond., 1799, 2 vols, 8vo, hf. cf. 10/- 103 Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles.—Les Dix Dizaines des Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. Avec Notice, Notes & Glossaire par Paul Lacroix, Dessins graves de Jules Garnier, 4 vols, Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1874, 8vo, hf. cf. gt., fine. £3 Printed on Van Gelder paper. With plates in 2 states. 10t Cervantes (Miguel de) Histoire de l’ad- mirable Don Quichotte de la Manche, illus., large copy, Paris, 1798, 4 vols, 8vo, old cf. (worn). 21/- Don Quixote de la Mancha, trans. by several Hands, and published by Mr. Motteux and Mr. Ozell, Glasgow, Foulis, 1771, 4 vols, 12mo, contemp. cf. (worn at joints). 21/- 106 China.—Osbeck (Peter) A Voyage to China and the East Indies, together with a Voyage to Suratte, by Olaf Toreen. And an Account of the Chinese Husbandry by Capt. ©. G. Eckeberg, trans. from the German hy J. R. Forster; to which are added a Faunula and Flora Sinensis, plts., Lond., 1771, 2 vols, 8vo, contemp. cf. £2/2/- There are a few marginal notes in a contem- porary hand,
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