Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes].

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[1824]
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Credit: Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 66] Pe a 3m ae 1160 Epistolarum Grecarum Collectio, Greece, Aldus, 1499 ered Ya) —.. 4161 Faber’s Origin of Pagan Idolatry, ascertained from His- torical Testimony and Circumstantial Evidence, 3 vol. _ ne elegantly bound, gilt leaves, - - 1816 LO Qi yas Face, Mrs. Mary. Fame’s Rous, or the Names of our dread Soveraigne Lord King Charles, his Royall Queen Mary, and his most hopeful Posterity ; together with the names of the Nobility, Bishops, Privie Coun- sellors, Knights of the Garter, and Judges of England, Scotland, and Ireland, anagrammatized and expressed by Acrosticke lines on their Names. A Porticar VoLuME OF EXTREME RARITY. - - 1637 *,* Sir Mark Sykes has noted the Extreme Rarity of ’ this Book at the commencement of the Volume, and queries if it be not unique. The following is a spe- cimen of the Lady’s Quaint Poetry. “To the Right Honourable Walter, Earle of Buckleugh, «© Lord Eskdaill. ** WaLTER ScoT. «* Anagramma, “ Art Trew Cost! ‘« With true cost are you stored, whose delight “© Attendeth still upon the way that’s right ; ** Living indeed with such a noble care, “« That those who know you very well are ware, -“ Each of them seeing well that you may bost, “* Rightly to be compos’d al of true cost. ‘© So noble Scot, sith you doe so abound, “* Cost truly true most trewly in you found ; “0 then you'l easily pardon my amisse ; “ True cost al nobly in your honour is.” ie 1163 Fale’s Art of Dialling, al vagy 1598 rahi is aan 1165 Fatall Vesper, or lamentable and fearfull accident that happened by the fall of a roome in the Black-Friers where a Sermon was to be preached by Drurie a Jesuite, e 2 4 frontispiece, - - - - 1623 * *“—~= 1166 Fauchet de l’Origine de la Langue et Poesie Francoise, Ryme et Romans, fine copy, bound in red morocco by R. 3 Payne, - - - Paris, 1581 ~~ —---—= 1167 Fenton’s Tragicall Discourses, no less profitable than plea- sant, very fine copy, from Col. Stanley’s Library, 1567 *,* In point of Selection, says Warton, perhaps the most capital is Fenton’s books of Tragical Novels. Most of the Stories are on Italian Subjects, and many from Bandello. 2... -~=a’-—«41.168_ Fawkes’s Chronology of the History of Modern Europe, Ky PA a2 ZF a OC OTT e ‘i — @ syeF? ye Cra hart ?