Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/556
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    595 596 597 598 600 603 604 605 Notes, Printed but not Published, calf gilt, Grantham, S. Ridge (1850), 2 copies—Lilley (W.) History of his Life and Times, plates, calf gilt (broken), 1822—The Florence Miscellany, WS. inscription on title: “A present from Mrs. Piozzi from Florence, 1786,” calf gilt, Florence, 1785 ; ete. (13) Operas. Gay (J.) Achilles, FIRST EDITION, musical notation, 1733—Cibber (C.) Damon and Phillida, frontispiece, musical notation, 1737; and others, in 1 vol. calf Oppian. Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes, translated by J. Jones, contemporary red morocco, gilt ornamental frame sides, full gilt back, g. e. Oxford, 1722 Orrery (Earl of) Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, portrait, calf, 1752—Observations upon Lord Orrery’s Remarks on Swift, ca//, 1754 (2 copies) ; ete. (17) Paper. A Collection of nineteen Samples of Different Papers, tinted, each with the name of the paper in French within rules, bound in a volume, calf gilt n.d. [Pascal (B. de)] Les Provinciales (en Francais, en Latin, en Espagnol et en Italien), 7x parallel columns, English red morocco gilt, g.e. Cologne, 1684—Lettres d’une Angloise escrites & une de ses amies, contemporary red morocco, gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt latticed back in compart- ments, g.e. Brentford, 1769 (2) Pegge (S.) The Forme of Curry, a Roll of ancient English Cookery, portrait, calf gilt, 1783; ete. (3) [Perrault (C.)] Labyrinte de Versailles (explications en vers par I. de Benserade), plan and 40 plates by S. Leclerc, old red morocco, gilt line fillets on sides, gilt back in compart- ments, g.e. Paris, 1677—Topham (E.) The Life of John Elwes, portrait, author's autograph presentation copy to Sir M. M. Sykes, bookplate of the latter on inside cover, red morocco gilt, g.e. 1805 ; and another (3) Philidor. Chess rendered familiar by Tabular Demonstrations, edited by J. G. Pohlman, frontispiece, numerous diagrams, calf gilt, 1819—Sarratt (J. H.) A New Treatise on the Game of Chess, 2 vol. calf gilt, 1821 (3) Philips (Mrs. K.) Poems, portrait, diced russia, 1710— Chaucer (G.) Canterbury Tales, turn’d into Modern Lan- guage, by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Pope, etc. frontispiece, some leaves foxed, calf, 1737; ete. - (9) Pickering’s Diamond Editions. Petrarca, Horatius, Virgil, Dante, 2 vol.; Tasso,. 2 vol. ; Cicero, Terentius, Catullus ; Walton and Cotton, together 11 vol. allin red morocco, g. e. ; Novum Testamentum Graecum, blue morocco, g.e. together 12 vol. 1820-28—Pindar, Olympia, 4 vol. red morocco gilt, g.e. Glasguae, R. and A. Foulis, 1754-8 (16)
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