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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    8*Advice from a Larlj^ of Quality to her Children, by Glasse, 2 vol. the dedication copy' to Queen Charlotte^ green mo¬ rocco, - - - 1778 9 Anacreon, Bion and Moschus, by Stanley, only 100 copies printed, - *• - 1815 10 Apuleius’s Golden Ass, by Taylor, large paper, ow/w very few printed, fine copy, in green morocco^ by Lewis, gilt leaves, ' 1822 11 Abelard and Eloisa’s Letters, feaues, 1802 12 Acajou et Zirphile, Conte, 1744. Triomphe de I’Amour on Heures de Cythere, cuts, 1783, 2 vol. in 1. 13 Address to the French Nation, French and English, only 24 copies printed, of which 12 were on fine paper, of which this is one. Queen Charlotte's copy, morocco, 1793 14 Annales Poetiques, ou Almanach des Muses depuis I’Origine de la Poesie Fran^oise, 40 vol. Portraits, and many duplicate Proofs, very fine set, in elegant French binding, gilt leaves, - _ _ Par. 1778 This Collection was made and edited by Sain- tereau de Marsy and Itnbert, wlio have prefixed to each author very interesting Biographical and Cri« tical Notices, and subjoined to the old Poets very useful Glossarial Notes. 15 Anquetil, Vie du Marechal Due de Villars, 4 vol. Par..-I784 16 Ariosto, Opere Poetiche, 6 vol. - - Bass. 1*^98 17 Alxinger, Doolin von Maynz, - - Leipz.1797 18 —-Blioinberis, - - ib. 1791 19 Blackwell’s Life of Homer, large paper, - 1735 20 Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides. Mrs. Piozzi's copy, with some Manuscript Notes by her, - 1813 21 Burnet’s Life of Lord Rochester, elegayitly bound, gilt leaves, 1680 22 Burnet’s Life of Queen Mary, Portrait of the Queen, gilt leaves, - - - 1695 ] 22*Bernardi’s Memoirs of his Life, written in Newgate, where he has been near 33 years a State Prisoner without ob¬ taining a Tryal, Portrait, gilt leaves, - 1729 23 Blackwell.—Account of Dr. A. Blackw^ell’s Plot, Tryal, and Execution at Stockholm, gilt leaves. 24 Bankes’s Life of Peter the Great, elegantly hound, gilt leaves, 1740 25 Barksdale’s Nympha Libethris, or the Cotswold-Muse, only 100 copies printed, - - ,1816“ 26 Brathwait’s Drunken Barnaby’s Journal, edited by Hasle- wood, 2 vol. only 125 copies printed, - ^ 1820