Sales catalogue 477: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/43
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 477: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    54 ASHMOLE (E£.). Tue Instirution, Laws anD CEREMONIES OF THE Most NosBLeE OrpDER OF THE GARTER. A work furnished with variety of matter relating to Honour and Noblesse. With portrait, double-paged plates, and Coats of Arms. Larce Parer Cory. Thick folio. Fine copy bound by Clarke ¢» Bedford in full dark blue morocco extra, full gilt back, g. e. London, 1672. £9 Ios 55 ——— Memorrs oF THE LIFE oF THAT LEARNED ANTIQUARY, Exias AsHMore, Esg.; Drawn up by himself by way of Diary. With an Appendix of original Letters. Publish’d by Charles Burman, Esq. First Epirion. Small 8vo. Original calf. London, Printed jor]. Roberis, 1717. tS: Elias Ashmole has been described as ‘‘ the greatest virtuoso and curioso that ever was known or read of in England before his time.’ His memoirs are a quaint and curious record, narrating matters of great personal importance to him in the same dry style as the most trivial particulars of his numerous ailments: how he cured himself of an ague by hanging three spiders about his neck, and how on the ever-memorable 14 Feb. 1677 ‘I took cold in my right ear.”’ 56 ASTELL (Mary). Aw Essay 1s DeFENcE oF THE FEMALE SEx. In a Letter to a Lady: Written by a Lady. With engraved frontispiece of THe Compreat Beau. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf. Lendon, Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696. £6 6s On page 47 we read :— ‘‘ English Books the best helps to Conversation,’’ and on page 48 occurs the following Shakespearean reference : — ‘‘ Where is Love, Honour and Bravery more lively represented than in our Tragedies, who has given us nobler, or juster Pictures of Nature than Mr. Shakespeare P ”’
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