Catalogue of the splendid and valuable library of an eminent collector [i.e. W. Prest] ... which will be sold by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 14, and two following days / [William Prest].

  • Prest, William.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Catalogue of the splendid and valuable library of an eminent collector [i.e. W. Prest] ... which will be sold by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 14, and two following days / [William Prest]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A A ' - CATALOGUE OF.THE CHOICE AND ELEGANT LIBRARY ■ ' . OF AN EMINENT COLLECTOR. • r FIRST DAY’S SALE. # « [Each Days Sale will commence at half past twelve.] Octavo et Infra. ' » ' - .'-w . • - w 1 Ingeniously Tormenting, frontispiecej calf, extra, - gilt leaves, - • - - 1805 9, Archbp. Abbott’s Description of the Whole World, fron¬ tispiece, (containing Abbott's Portrait^) by Marshall, 1642 3 Aikin’s Letters on English Poetry, gill leaves, 1804 4 JSsop's Fables^ with their Morals, in Prose and Verse, to¬ gether with iEsop’s Life out of the original Greek, a- ^ i scarce edition,frontispiece, and many cuts, gilt leaves, 1691 5 Pleasant Art of Money-Catching, and the Art of Thriving, ‘ frontispiece,- - -- . Glasg. 1784 6 Afiothegins. Witty' Apothegms of King .fames. King Charles, Bacon, and Sir T. Moore, gilt leaves, 1658 7 Ash well and Joye.—Letters of Johan Ash well, Priour of Newnbani Abbey besydes Bedforde, sente secretly to the Bp. of Lyncolne in 1527, accusing Joye, felow of - Peter College Cambridge, of fower opinyons, with Joye’s answer. The title is inlaid, the date is cut off, black letter, a scarce Tract, in russia. 8 Austin’s Hiec Homo, or Excellency of Women, with the ” Portrait of Mrs. Mary Griffith, and frontispiece, extra bound-; gilt leaves, . - • ” 1637 B