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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    74 Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey, with Notes and Illus» 1 rations by Singer, 2 vol. large paper, - 1825 75 Caulfield’s Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Per¬ sons, 3 vol. in 1, many portraits, elegantly hound hy Hering, gilt leaves, - - 1813 76 Clarke’s Rival Princes, 2 vol. portrait, - 1810 77 Chesterfield’s Characters of Eminent Personages, gilt leaves, 1777 . 78 Chubb’s Life and Character, portrait inserted, gilt leaves, 1747 79 Bp. Carleton’s Life of Barnard Gilpin, hound hy Lewis, gilt leaves, - - - - 1636 80 Mrs. Clarke (Colley Cibber’s Daughter)’s Narrative of her Life and Mad Pranks, portrait, - 1755 81 Lord Clarendon’s Essays, by Clarke, 2 vol. Presentation Copy to Queen Charlotte, red morocco, gilt leaves, 1815 82 Colman’s Prose Works, 3 vol. Queen Charlotte's Copy, red morocco, - * - - 1787 83 T. Chalmers on the Extent and Stability of our National Resources, gilt leaves, - - 1808 84 City and Country Recreation,/fowtispiecc, - 1705 85 Carpenter’s Experience, Historic and Divinitie, portrait hy Marshall, green morocco, joints, and gilt leaves, - 1^42 86 Cuffe's Differences of the Ages of Man’s Life, hound in 7110^ rocco, hy Lewis, gilt leaves, - - 1607 87 Bishop Cleaver On the Rapid Decline of the Clerical Credit, 1/82. Letter to the Bishop of Chester (Cleaver) 1782. Bishop, of Chester’s Vindication, 1782, a curious Manuscript Note, hy Gough. 88 Clark’s England’s Remembrancer, with a Narrative of the Spanish Invasion and Hellish Powder Plot,/ro?2^i5picce, gilt leaves, - - - 1677 89 [Case’s] Praise of Musicke, with its Antiquitie, delectation, &c, and its lawfull use in the Congregation and Church of God, VERY RARE, the Duke of Marlborough's Copy, green morocco, - - Oxenford, 1586 90 Camus’s Loving Enemie, a true History, title dirty, gilt leaves, - - - » IGSO 91 Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution, hound in russia, gilt leaves, - - - 1813 92 Catalogue of Dr. Farmer’s Library, large paper, only 12 copies printed, with the Prices and Purchasers' Names. Dr. Dihdins Copy. Elegantly hound in red morocco, with joints, tooled inside, gilt leaves, 1798 93 --of the Duke of Roxburghe’s Library, with the Supplement, large paper, with the Prices and Pur- chasers' Names, hound in russia, hy Hering, gilt leaves, 1812