Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/855
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    26 ov ot CO 09 60 61 62 66 Weston (J.) Stenography, portrait, engraved throughout, stain on title and frontispiece, old calf gilt 1730 Goldsmith (O.) Works, edited by P. Cunningham, 4 vol. engraved. titles, frontispiece damp-stained, calf gilt extra, 1854—Smollett (T.) Present State of All Nations, second edition, 8 vol. engraved frontisprece, maps and engrav- ings, contemporary calf, 1768-9 (12) Defoe (D.) Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol. plates by Stothard, lower margins of titles and frontispieces sugtiy torn, tree calf gilt, stained, rubbed 1790 Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-5, 1736 (Jan.-June), 1737-9, 1740 (Jan.-June), 1741-2, 1743 (Jan.-June), 23 vol. a few pages damp-stained and margins wormed, contem- porary calf gilt, v.y.; and another (31) Kipling (R.) Stalky & Co. name on end-paper, 1899; 'Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, FIRST EDITIONS, original cloth, bs CG, (2) [Smollett (T.)] The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, First DUBLIN EDITION, 2 vol. in 1, some pages stained or thumbed, old calf, rubbed Dublin, 1771 Voltaire (F. M. A. de) Letters Concerning the English Nation, calf gilt, 1733; History of the War of 1741, half calf gut, 1756; Select Pieces of M. de Voltaire, translated by J. Collyer, margin of one page torn and repaired, old calf gilt, rubbed, 1754: (3) Collier (J. P.) The Poetical Decameron, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. half calf gilt, Edinburgh, 1820; and others (6) Swift (J.) Works, with Memoir by Roscoe, 2 vol. portrait, calf gilt extra, 1856—Boswell (J.) Letters to W. J. Temple, smooth morocco gut, 1857 ; and others (6) Spencer (J. A.) Sketches of Travels in Egypt, ilustrated, calf gilt extra, 1850—Richardson (J.) Travels in Sahara, 2 vol. ulustrated, calf gilt extra, 1848—Forbes (F. E.) Five Years in China, colowred frontispiece and wlustrations, calf gilt extra, 1848; and another (5) STERNE (LAURENCE) Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, 9 vol. second edition of vol. II, FIRST EDITIONS of vols. III to VIII, later edition of vol. I, and the spurious issue of vol. LX described by Lowndes as not written by Sterne,
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