Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
c.1873
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in his pocket, and secure a copy. In Mr. Williams’s sale it sold for £14. 14s; in 1863, Corrie’s copy, mor. by De Rome, fetched £17. . 5401 Appzson (C. G.) The Knights Templars, 8yo. plates, cloth, 7s 6d: 1842 5402 ALEMAN (Matheo) The Rogue, or the Life of GUZMAN pz ALFA- RACHE, 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, cf £3. 3s for Hdwin Blount, 1622-28 First edition of the translation, which was apparently made by Edward Blount, for whom it was printed, and which is highly praised by Ben Jonson in the verses prefixed to the volume. The first date of publication known to Lowndes is 1623, and I have no trace of any other copy of the first edition than the above. 5408 ALEXANDER (William) [Hart of Srrrtine] The Tragedie of Darius, 1604—The Alexandraean Tragedie, 1607—Tragedie of Julius Czsar, 1607—Tragedie of Croesus, no title, ? 1607—Paraenesis to the Prince, 1604—Aurora, containing the first fancies of the Author’s youth (Sonnets), 1604~—in 1 vol. sm. 4to. hf russia,’ EXCESSIVELY RARE, £10. 10s | 1604-7 These beautiful Poems are so very rare, that but few collections contain them. In the Darius, Act 3, Sc. 3, some lines of the monarch’s soliloquy bear a strong resemblance to the celebrated passage in the Tempest, beginning with “ The cloud- capped towers.” The Tempest, in all probability was written long subsequently to Darius, so that Shakspeare appears to have borrowed the idea from Lord Stirling, The lines in Darius begin with “ Let greatnesse of her glascie scepters vaunt.”’ 5404 ALISON (Sir A.) History of Eurorn from the commencement of the French Revolution to 1815, 10 vols. 8vo. bds. 30s 1842 5405 ——-— the same, 14 vols.. 8vo. portraits, calf gilt, marbled edges, £6. 10s 1860 5406 ——— Epitome of Alison’s History of Europe, p. 8vo. cloth, 3s 6d 1848 5407 Amatory Poetry; or the Banquet of Bacchus and Venus, 24mo. port. calf extra, 108 1811 5408 ANNALIA DVBRENSIA. Upon the yeerely celebration of Mr. Robert Dover’s Olimpick Games upon the Cotswold Hills, written by Micuartt Drayton... Bren Jonson... Owrn FretrHam... Tuomas Hxywoop, etc. sm. 4to. original edition, with the reprint of the very rare frontispiece, red morocco extra, gilt edges, £4. 4s R. Raworth, 1636 Fetched at Bindley’s sale, £12. 12s ; at Saunders’, £13. 12s 6d ; Midgley’s, £8. Priced in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, £7. 7s ; by Thorpe, £10. 10s. 5409 ARABIAN NIGHTS, Pictorial Edition, new and improyed Translation, with Notes illustrative of the Language, Manners and Customs of the Egyptian Arabs, by Lanz, 3 vols. impl. 8yo. BEST EDITION, illus- trated by upwards of 1000 beautiful wood engravings, (pub. at £4. 4s) cloth, £3, 10s 1839-41 5410 Anapran Nrauts’ Entertainments, translated, with Introduction and Notes by Scort, 6 vols. sm. 8vo. frontispiece by Smirke, £2, 5s 1811 5411 ARCHAICA, containing a Reprint of scarce old English Prose Tracts, with Prefaces, critical and biographical, by Sir 8. E. Brypaxs, Bart. 2 vols. 1815—HELICONIA, comprising a Selection of English Poetry of the Elizabethan Age, edited by T. Park, 3 vols. 1815— together 5 vols. 4to. calf extra, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, £12, 12s A beautiful set ; these works are becoming rare, especially fine copies. 5412 Armtn’s Italian Taylor and his Boy, reprinted from the edition of 1609, Ato, facsimile woodcuts, bds. 5s 7 ‘1810 5418 ARNOLD (T.) History of Rome, 3 vols. 1845—History of the later Roman Commonwealth, 2 vols. 1845—together 5 vols. 8vo, (pub. £3.) cloth, 32s | 1845 5414 Antuur (King) History of, with the Valiant Acts of the Knights of the Round Table, 2 vols. 18mo. dds. 7s | 1816
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