Sales catalogue 120: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/27
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 120: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    550 Wheare (Degory, Camden Reader of History in Oxford) The Method ‘and Order of Reading both Civil and Ecclesiastical Histories . . . To which is added, An Ap- pendix concerning the Historians of Parti- cular Nations, as well Ancient as Modern, by Nicholas Horseman. The Second Edi- tion. With Mr. Dodwell’s Invitation to Fan. London, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 15s Sm. 4to. 151 pp. Original cloth. First Edition. 558 [Wilkes (J.)]. — (Boulanger (N. A.) The Origin and Progress of Despotism in the Oriental, and Other Empires of Africa, Europe, and America. Amsterdam, 1764 Gentlemen to acquaint themselves with £7 LCs Antient History. Made English, and En- 8vo. Old calf. 284 pp. a2 > This work was translated from the French by John a hy Be BON ton i oye < e publiched He Pre cdi ne ee Charles Brome, 16)4 £2 10s vate press in 1763, and it is almost certain from the 8vo. 362 pp., 6 leaves. Calf (joints cracked). typography of this book that this English edition was 551 Whittier (John Greenleaf) The Tent on also printed there. the Beach, and other Poems. Boston 559 (Wilkes). —The Conduct of the Adminis- icknon and ields. 1867 30s tration, in the Prosecution of Mr. Wilkes. 8vo. 172 pp. Original cloth. Fine copy. London, J. Wilkie, 1764. 10s First Edition. 8vo. 31 pp. Unbound. 552 Wilkes (Revd. Mr. Wetenhall) A Letter] 560 (Wilkes).—The Battle of the Quills: or of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young < f Wilkes Attacked and Defended. An Im- oo ie Fourth Edition. paar ve partial Selection of all the most Interesting itch, 1746 as Pieces, Argumentati Decl I Tall 12mo. 198 pp. Calf (1 cover loose). Ss par aoe Humourous, in Prose and Verse, Relative 553 Wilkins (John, late Lord Bishop of| to John Wilkes. Esa. : ‘ Chester) A Discourse concerning the Gift eee ree eRe aaa 2s Se of Prayer . . . whereunto may be added, London. J: Williams, 1768 _ £2 Ig Feslesiastes: or, A Discourse concerning the Gift of Preaching, by the same Author. London, J. Lawrence, and <A. Churchill, 1690 30s 8vo. 232, 328 pp., 8 leaves. Old calf Goints weak). The second treatise (‘‘ Ecclesiastes ’”) has a separate title-page, dated 1693. This book is a remarkable achievement in bibliographical references. The fly- leaf bears the autograph of ‘‘ Richd. C. Trench Bursledon, 1833 ” (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin)’ 554 (Witchcraft). — Glanvill (Joseph) Sad- 8vo. 74 pp. Old marbled boards, new back. 561 [Williams (Sir Charles Hanbury)] A Second Dialogue between Gfile]s Efarl]e and Blub]b Dfodingto]In. London, W. Webb, 1743 10s 6d Folio. 8 pp. Unbound. 562 Williams (Sir Charles Hanbury) The Odes of. The Second Edition. London, S. Vandenbergh, 1780 15s ducismus Triumphatus: or, A Full and Sumo ye: Meee leat Balk eae, . . ’ 2 r 3 s Plain Evidence concerning Witches and 5024 Muson (Thomas) The Arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence, sette forth in English by Thomas Wilson, 1553, and now newly set forth again, with a prologue to the reader. London, J. Kyngston, 1580 £18 18s 4to. Old calf, rebacked. 8 Il., 225 pp., 5 ll. Black letter. Woodcut border to titlepage. A good copy of this famous book, which treats of the “* Kinges English ”? and which may have given Shake- Apparitions. In Two Parts. The First Treating of their Possibility. The Second of their Real Existence. The Fourth Edi- tion, with Additions. London, A. Bettes- worth, and J. Batley, 1726 £2 15s 8vo. 498 pp. Calf, rebacked. Frontispiece to each part (the first mounted), and plate. 555 Welch (Saunders, One of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex) A Proposal to render effectual a Plan, to remove the Nuisance of Common Prostitutes from the Streets of this Metro- polis; to prevent the Innocent from being seduced ; to provide a decent and comfort- able maintenance for those whom Necessity or Vice hath already forced into that in- famous Course of Life; and to maintain and educate More Children of the Poor, who are either Orphans, or are deserted by wicked Parents. London, C. Henderson, 1758 £3 3s 8vo. 68 pp. Half calf. 556 Whitehead (William, Poet Laureate) An Essay on Ridicule. London, R. Dodsley, 1743 12s 6d Folio. 20 pp. Unbound. First Edition. 557 Wilde (Oscar) The Importance of Being Earnest: a Trivial Comedy for Serious People, by the Author of Lady Windermere’s speare hints for Dogberry. A rare edition of which only two copies are recorded in the S.T.C. (25804), Credulity and Incredulity . . . wherein, (among other things) a true and faithful account is given of the Platonick Philo- sophy, as it hath reference to Christianity : as also the business of Witches and Witch- craft, against a late Writer, fully Argued and Disputed, London, Samuel Lownds, 1670. 208 pp.—{Glanvill (Joseph)] A Blow at Modern Sadducism, in some Philosophical Considerations about Witchcraft. To which is added, The Relation of the Fam’d Dis- turbance by the Drummer, in the House of Mr. Joseph Mompesson. London, James Collins, 1668. 160 pp.—A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of a Sober Religious Man, Found Drown’d in a Pit, Not long ago. London, Will. Crook, 1670. 111 pp., 4 leaves £8 8s 3 vols in 1. Calf.
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