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Credit: Sales catalogue 101: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Diseases of London. He lived in Bloomsbury Square, and Elizabeth Sayers, of Great Ormond Street, petitioned the Governor of the Foundling Hospital in 1804 that Dr. Willan had put up a railing separating his pew from hers, and had been insulting and violent. Holy Warre. London, Thomas Buck, 1639 £2.25 Sm. folio. 286 pp., 14 leaves. Contemporary calf. Lacks leaf before title (‘‘ Declaration of the Frontispiece ’’), and map. Bottom of, printed title defective (affecting two or three letters and border) and repaired with blank paper. Inside the cover is the autograph: “‘ Eliz: Pepis.’’ This is quite possibly the wife of the Diarist, but it is a point difficult to prove or disprove. Under 3 Nov., 1661, there is this entry in Pepy’s Diary: ‘‘ Lord’s Day. This day I stirred not out, but took physique, and it did work very well, and all the day as I was at leisure I did read in Fuller’s Holy Warr, which I have of late bought.”’ Pepys himself owned a copy of the Fourth Edition, 1651, now at Magdalene. (Thomas) A _ Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testa- ment Acted Thereon. London, J. F. for John Williams, 1650 £2 5s Folio. 441 pp (misnumbered 434), 202 pp., 9 leaves. Calf, rebacked. Engraved frontispiece, plate of coats of arms, maps and plates. One of the most attractive of Fuller’s books on account of the maps and plates by Marshall, Cross, Vaughan, and Goddard, and the long preparation of these delayed publication. There is something very Fullerian about them. In the map of Jerusalem, for instance, in one corner may be seen Ager Fullonum, Fuller’s Field; and the dedication to each form an index to his patrons and friends. that Mary.Grey was the True Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales. Together with an Account of the Private Messages and Letters Sent by the French King, King James, the late Queen, and other Persons of Quality to their agents in England. London, Printed for the Author, 1696 15s 8vo. 46 pp. Half calf. Top edge marbled, other edges uncut. or, Directions for the Education of Youth as to their Breeding at Home and Travell- [London], In the Savoy, Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for John Starkey, 1678 [SoLpD] 8vo. 102, 196, with 4 pages of advertisements of Histories, and other Curious Discourses, fit to be Read by young Gentlemen. Complete with the Imprimatur leaf. Contemporary calf. A fine copy of this rare Behaviour and Educa- tion book. The author states on his title-page that he ‘‘ hath been Tutor abroad to several of the Nobility and Gentry,’’ and he does write easily and entertainingly of life on the Continent and how the English should comport themselves there. Nor is he less informative on the earlier business of education. In Two Volumes. London, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, [etc.], 1757 15s 8vo. 2 vols in 1. Calf rebacked. Frontispiece, and vignettes by Van der Gucht after Gravelot, Kent and Wootton, or, The Ceremonies Used in Marriages in all Parts of the World. Very Diverting, Especially to the Ladies. Translated from the Italian. The Second Edition. To which . is Added, Some Remarks upon Marriage, Written by Mr. Tho. Brown. London, Abel Roper, 1698 £1 5s 12mo. 118 pp., 3 leave . Recent half calf. Being an Enquiry Physico-Critico-Patheo- logical-Moral into the Nature and Efficacy of Gold: Shewing the Wonderful Power it has over, and the Prodigious Changes it” Causes in the Minds of Men. With an Account of the Wonders of the Psychoptic Looking-Glass, lately Invented by the Authox, Joakim Philander, M.A. ,London, M. Cooper, 1744 15s 8vo. 243 pp. Calf, rebacked. Lacks leaf before title-page. This amusing satirical book is not in Lowndes, Halkett and Laing, or Stonehill and Block. Nash, Esq. ; late Master of the Ceremonies at Bath. Extracted Principally from his Original Papers. The Second Edition. London, J. Newbery, [etc.], 1762 15s 8vo. 237 pp. Calf. Portrait. Sir Edmund Gosse points out (‘‘ Gossip in a Library ’’) that the Second Edition of this book is preferable to the First (published in the same year), as Goldsmith added a number of amusing anecdotes. from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire. London, S. Baker and G. Leigh, T. Davies, and L. Davis, 1769 e225 8vo. 2 vols. Contemporary calf gilt. Very pleasant copy. First EDITION. See also No. 314. or, A Companion for a Man of Sense... Now made English from the Best Edition of the -Original, and Illustrated with the Sieur Amelot de la Houssaie’s Notes, by Mr. Savage. London, Daniel Brown, 1702 15s Inner top 1779 8vo. 280 pp. corners stained. Autograph of Sir Egerton Brydges, (lightly scored through), on fly-leaf. Calf, rebacked. in the Mountains East of Rome, During the Year 1819. London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1820 10s 8vo. 305 pp. Half calf. 6 pleasant aquatint plates by (Sir) Charles Lock Eastlake (P.R.A.). Mrs. Graham in 1827 married Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, the painter. She is best known as the author of Little Arthur's History of England. Minstrel: A Poem. London, Published by John Richardson, by A. Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, and by the Liverpool Booksellers, 182] 10s 8vo. 55 pp. Half calf. Printed by A. Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33159312_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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