Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 341: William Ridler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![54 ABERDEEN.—The Generall Demands of the Reverend Doctors of Divinitie and Ministers of the Gospell in ABERDENE concerning the late Covenant in SCOTLAND, with the Answers, Re- plyes, Duplyes, Order of Parliament, etc., sm. 4to, with the Royal Arms of Charles I., and Aberdeen repeated back of titles, FINE OOPY, brown calf neat, VERY RARE, £2 28 ABERDENE, J. FoRBES, 1663 A VERY EARLY BOOK PRINTED AT ABERDEEN BY ONE OF ITS FIRST PRINTERS. The Craig copy sold for £5 5s. 55 ABERDEEN.—<Accompt of the lLairD oF ARDINGTON to Widdow Burnet of ABERDEEN, 1677, with other curious Accounts at ABERDEEN, &c., sm. folio, MSS., bds., 10s 6d 1677 A curious volume to the Aberdeen Collector. 56 ABURY and SronEHENGE.—Temples of the Ancient British Druids, described by Wm. Stukeley, 2 vols in 1, thick folio, Best EDITION, port. and very numerous plates of Views and uNncuT, £2 5s 1740—3 Copies have sold, Baker’s £10 5s, Nassau’s £10 10s. 57 ABYSSINIA.—Valentia (Lord) Voyages and Travels in InpIa, CEYLON, ABYSSINIA, and Eayet, 1802—6, 3 vols, roy. 4to, LARGE PAPER, maps, and 69 very fine plates by Angus, Land- seer, etc., PROOFS, open letters, handsome half calf gut, £1 1s 1809 A most interesting book of Travels. Hibbert’s copy sold only 160 copies printed. 58 ACCOUNT of WonDERFUL CHARACTERS, com- prising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the most Remarkable Persons of every Age and Nation, by H. Wilson, 3 vols, 8vo, with a PROFUSION OF MOST CURIOUS PLATES, boards, uncut, clean copy, VERY SCARCE, £1 5s 1830 59 ACHILLES, 'the Life and Death of, by V. Janssen, ob. folio, 14 curious plates, including title in the style of CaLLot, neat bourds, RARE, 10s 6d N.D., 16— Evans’ copy sold for £3 8s. 60 ACTS (Public) of Parliament from Queen Anne to GEORGE 2ND, 9 vols, thick 12mo, bright old gilt calf nt., 88 6d 1718—32 Contains many Acts relating to Trade and Commerce, Scotland, America, and the various Counties of England. 64 ADAMS’ (Thos.) Poetical Works, with Sonas, cr. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, woodcuts by BEWICK, half mor. nt.. gilt top edges, 6s Alnwick, 1811 62 ADDISON (J.) Works, including his Plays and Poems, 4 vols, 4to, LarcE Papgr, Proor por- trait, by Vertue and plates, Fing Copy, old gilt calf neat, old bookplate, 16s Tonson, 1721 Lowndes only mentions one copy on large paper, Wil- lett’s, that sold for £4 4s. 63 ADVENTURES of the Valiant Knight, Tzwr- DANCKH, thick folio, black letter, facsimile of the RARE EDITION of 1518, with 118 large and spirited Woopcuts by Hans SCHEUFELEIN, cloth boards neat, £1 11s 6d (the original has sold for £100 1884 Only a very few copies printed. 64 ADVENTURES of A Hunowsack, folio, Larck PapEr, numerous beautiful plates by Smirke, Proors on InpIA Paper, Fine Copy, half calf gilt, £1 1s 1814 Only a few copies issued in this choice state at £6 6s. 6 5 ADVENTURES and Tour of Docror Syntax to the Lakgs in Search of the Picturesque, roy. 8vo, front. and many droll coloured plates by ROWLANDSON, FINE copy, old brown calf neat, SCARCE, £1 8s 1815 66 ADVENTURER, Guarpran. Spectator, and TaTLER large type library edition, 17 vols, 8vo, plates and vignettes, uniform marbled calf gilt neat, £2 23 (ORIGINAL cost £20) 1794, &c, These amusing works shew the Customs and manners of over a CENTURY AGO. Welsh «bookplate in each volume, Nice set of Books for the library. 67 ANA] VICI Augustarum Imagines, sm. 4to, LARGE THICK PAPER, engraved title and numerous beautiful plates of the Erricizs of the Wivzs of the CHSARS, FINE COPY, vellum very neat, £1 1s Venet. (ALDUs) 1558 This is a rare Aldine production, sea Renouard. Copies have sold as high as £10. The impressions of the beauti- ful plates are very fine, and extremely ornamental. 68 AASCHYLUS, Gr. et Lat. cum Scholiis, Gre et Comment. Stanleii ; LARGE PAPER, 4 vols, 4to, HANDSOME copy, calf gilt extra, marb. edges, £1 1s (cost £10 10s) Cumb., 1809 —16 ‘The most popular edition of Hschylus in this countay, a copy in 4to is worth £10 10s. It is now becoming a scarce book.” —Dispin. 69 AESCHYLUS Acamemnon, in Greek, German, and ENGLISH, by James Kennedy, roy. 8vo, LARGE PAPER, HANDSOME COPY, calf gilt extra, marb. edges, 68 6d (cost £3 3s) Rivington, 1829 70 AASCHYLUS Acamemnon, a Tragedy, in Eng- lish Verse, by T. Medwin, Pickering, 1832.— Prometheus Bound, by Medwin, both First EDITIONS, 26., 1882, in 1 vol, 8vo, HANDSOME copy, calf gilt extra, 6s 1832 71 AESOP’s Fables in English Verse, by John Ogilby, 2. vols in 1, folio, numerous curious plates by HouiaRr, half calf neat (title slightly dumaged) £1 8s 1668 Many of these prints bear Hollar's name. Phillips’ copy sold for £8 18s 6d, Hirst copy sold for £9 9s. 72 A&SOP’s Fases, English, French and Latin, with Life by Bartow, folio, front. and 143 fine large and curious plates, many full page, brown calf gut nt, RARE, £1 5s 1703 The Poetry under the engravings and the Life of so are by Mrs. BEHN. Hirst copy sold for £6 6s. k 73 4SOP.—The Beauties of, and other Fabulists, adorned with cuts by THos, BEWICK, 8vo, calf gilt, gilt top edges, by RIvIERE, 10s 6d 1822 74 AFFAIRS of Strats, Poems on, from the time of OLIVER CROMWELL to JameEs II., by the greatest of Wits of the Age, 4 vols, 8vo, in the fourth volume are some curious engravings of Political Caricatures, FINE COPY, old brown calf nt., old Hoare bookplate, RARE TO FIND PERFECT, £1 10s 1703 —7 This collection contains a great many humorous pieces from the pen. of Rochester and kindred spirits of the age of Charles II. Stanley's copy sold for £7 10s, and in Longman’s catalogue a copy is priced £8 8s. 75 AGRIPPA (H. C.) Opera, de Maata, Astrolo- gia, Chiromantia, etc., thick 12mo, portratt, old calf binding, RARE, 7s 6d Col. Agr., 1598 76 AIKIN (J.) Description of the Country Thirty Miles round Mancuzster, thick 4to, large maps and many beautiful plates of Mansions, BRIL- LIANT PROOFS, with open letters, VERY HANDSOME copy, rich old gilt green morocco extra, gilt edges, £1 15s 1795 Contains many. fiue Views of Mansions in Cheshire and Lancashire. Hartley’s copy sold for #3 10s,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33157364_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
