Sales catalogue 461 : Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/33
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 461 : Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Locke (WJohn)—continued. 971 ———— Two Treatises of Government. Another Edition. 8vo, contemporary morocco gilt, g. e. London, Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 16908. £1 10s 972 ——— Works. With Alphabetical Tables. Fine impression of the por- trait of the Author by Gec. Vertue. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 3 vols., folio. Fine copy in original calf gilt backs. London, Printed for John Churchill, 1714. £4 4s LONDON. 973 An Act for the Preventing of the Multiplicity of Building in and about the Suburbs of London and Within Ten Miles thereof. Black Letter. 24 pp., folio, zew boards. London, 1657. £5 5s — * * * An interesting Cromwellian Act stating that :— ‘Whereas the Great and Excessive Number of Houses, Edifices, Out-houses and Cottages erected and new built in and about the Suburbs of the City of London, and the parts thereunto adjoyning, is found to be very mischievous and incon- venient, and a great Annoyance and Nuisance to the Commonwealth. . . And whereas by the Law the said Houses and Nuisances ought to be abated, and the Builders, Occupiers, Continuers and Tenants thereof ought to make fines for the same. ; 974 An Act of Common Council for Regulating the Election of Sheriffs and for Repealing the Treasonable and Disloyal Acts and Proceedings of that Court in the Time of the Late Rebellion. In black and roman letters. Folio, zew boards, uncut. London, 1683. 10s 6d 975 Brydall (J.). Gamera Regis; or, A Short View of London, containing the Antiquity, Fame, Walls, Bridge, River, Gates, Tower, Cathedral, Officers, Courts, Customs, Franchises, etc. 8vo, orzginal calf. London, 1676. 15s.
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