Sales catalogue 101: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/13
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 101: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S.T.C. 18667. John Northbrooke, in another book of his, is the author of the earliest systematic attack on stag>-plays. The present book is a kind of scriptural anthology directed against the Church of Rome. 297 Observations on Mundane Affairs. Lon- don, B. Tiffin, 1795 £1 5s 8vo. Not paginated, and without signatures. About 80 pp. Recent half calf. Uncut. This is in its way a remarkable pamphlet. It is a defence of and a plea for the better treatment of women, especially in the married state. The author not only cites examples and cases from history, but gives many anecdotes from contemporary divorce cases and society scandals. 298 Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of. Rendered into English Verse. London, Bernard Quaritch, 1872 15s Sm. 4to. xxiv, 36 pp. Quarter roan. Name on title-page and a few MS. notes in margins. 299 Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of; and th® Salaman and Absal of Jami; Rendered into English Verse. London, Bernard Quaritch, 1879 15s 8vo. XV, Original quarter roan. Frontispiece. 300 Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of. Rendered into English Verse. New York, George Munro’s Sons, N.D. 7s 6d 8vo. 91 pp. Limp cloth. 301 Omar Khayyam, Selections from the Rubaiyat of. Cairo, As-Salam Printing 2 pp: Office, 1895 8s 6d Sm. 8vo. Pp. (59)-72. Half bound. Translated by E. A. Johnson. Presentation inscription on title-page. Possibly an excerpt, but apart from the pagination appears to be complete in itself. 302 Omar Khayyam, The Quatrains of, Now first completely Done into English Verse from the Persian, in Accordance with the Original Forms, with a Biographical and Critical Introduction, by John Payne. London, Villon Society, 1898 £1 5s 8vo. Ixxi, 206 pp. Half morocco gilt, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Fine copy. Harris: or, The Town to the Country Pomona. An Heroic Epistle. London, S. Bladon, 1773 15s 4to. 11 pp. Recent boards. Reade, Registorum Librorum Eroticorum, notes (No. 3364) a New Edition in the same year, gue ates that it is probably by John Courtney, 304 Otway (Thomas) Titus and Berenice, a Tragedy, Acted at the Duke’s Theatre. With a Farce Called the Cheats of Scapin. London, Richard Tonson, 1677 £4 10s Sm. 4to. 62 pp., 1 leaf. Recent boards» Clean copy, but a few blank corners of bottom margin Recs Epition: First issue, with 37 lines to C1 (p. 17) instead of 41. 305 [Owen (John)]| Indulgence and Toleration considered in a letter unto a Person of Honour. London, 1667 12s 6d 4to. Unbound. 31 pp. CABLE ADDRESS : 25 A plea for religious liberty by John Owen, D.D. (1616-1683), one of the most prominent of the Puritan divines. It was published anonymously. 306 Oxberry (William) The Actor’s Budget ; Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, and Tales, Serious and Comic : Together with a Rare and Genuine Collec- tion of Theatrical Anecdotes and Comic Songs. London, W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1820 12s 6d Tall 12mo, 346 pp. Calf, rebacked. 307 (Oxford, Magdalen College]. An Impartial Relation of the Whole Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Oxon, in the year of Our Lord 1687. Containing only Matters of Fact, as they occurred. Printed in the year 1688 Sm, 4to. 39 pp. Two names are usually associated with the authorship; of this pamphlet: Charles Ald- worth, Vice President, and Henry Fairfax, Fellow, of Magdalen. with : An Impartial Relation... The Second Edition, to which is added the Most Remarkable Passages, Omitted in the Former, by Reason of the Severity of the Press. London, Richard Baldwin, 1689 Sm. 4to. 66 pp., 1 leaf. and : Ae Vindication .of. the, Proceedings. ..; against the Bishop of London, and the Fellows of Magdalen College. London, Richard Janeway, 1688 £1.5s Sm. 4to. 78 pp. The three pamphlets, unbound. These three pamphlets tell the contemporary story of the expulsion of the Fellows of Magdalen by James IT. 308 [Oxford.| An Address to the Worshipful Company of Barbers in Oxford ; Occasioned by a late Infamous Libel, Intitled, The Barber and Fireworks, a Fable highly Reflecting on One of the Honourable Mempbers., «By, a s:Barber.). The Whird Edition. ‘Oxtord,. «Printed .in the year 1749 15s ' 4to. 12 pp. Recent half calf. 309 [Oxford.] Trinity Garden: a Poem. With Some Remarks on a_ Scurrilous Pamphlet, lately Publish’d by the Sons of Dullness. By A.G. Barber. London, Printed for Mynheer Hibergin, and Sold in many Parts by many.People, 1754 15s 4to. 20 pp. Recent half calf. 310 Packwood (George) Packwood’s Whim. The Goldfinch’s Nest; or, The Way to Get Money and be Happy. Giving a general account of his Diverting Advertisements, with other Useful Observations. Reader, when you have Perused this Book and Assert that you were Neither Excited to Cry, Laugh, or Grin—you must not Expect to be Ranked among the Most Favourite Customers. London, Printed July 23, 1796.
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