Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
31 May-01 June 1907
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/230
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    39 40 4] 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 were added between pp. 42-3, and nine leaves after p. 74. These latter contain the extra poems, Dryden appearing amongst them. THE ABOVE COPY IS IMPORTANT, AS IT SHOWS THE BOOK AND. THE TITLES IN BOTH STATES, and hesicles: has also inserted sig. F 1 and F 2, containing a “ postscript” and the “Marvell” poem (which a. also been given previously). These two leaves are extremely rare, and were cancelled in the majority of copies. Dryden (John) A D1ALOGUE CONCERNING WoMEN, being a Defence of the Sex written to Eugenia (By W. Walsh), FIRST EDITION, or iginal calf, fine copy 1691 *,* A SCARCE VOLUME, edited by Dryden, and having a Preface by him. Ingleby’s Praise of Shakespeare, p. 412, quotes from a later found on pp. 60 and 119 of above. | Dugoure (J.) Healthful Sports for Young Ladies, plates bie eeticbee n. d. Monstrous Sin of Pride in Dress and Apparel, folding frontispiece slightly defective, old calf J. Dunton, 1683 Elisée (R. Pere) Sermons, 4 vol. blue morocco extra, gilt back and border on the sides composed of fleurs-de-lis, with the arms of the Duchesse de Berry on each side, silk linings, g. e. by Bradel, fine copy Paris, 1785 Fielding (Henry) MISCELLANIES (consisting of Jonathan Wild, Poems, Plays, etc.) 3 vol. FIRST EDITION, @ fine clean copy in the original marbled paper boards, leather backs, EDGES TOTALLY UNCUT For the. author, 1743 *,* EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS REMARKABLE CONDITION. Fielding (H.) Examples of the Interposition of Providence in the Conclusion, both written by H. Fielding, FIRST EDITION, original binding } A. Millar, 1752 Fitzgerald (Edward) Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances, FIRST EDITION, clean copy, original cloth, scarce W. Pickering, 1852 Fowling, a Poem, Descriptive of Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, Woodcock, Duck and Snipe Shooting, original boards, uncut, clean copy 1808 Memoir by W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere, 2 vol. LARGE PAPER, proof portraits, original cloth, uncut ~ Pickering, 1872 Fuchsius (Leonhardus) De Historia Stirpium Commentarius insignes, adjectis earundem Vivis, etc. numerous woodcuts, signature of “Gu. Harveus” (Wm. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood?) on title, and many MS. notes in the same hand, old calf (some ll. wormed )- Lugd. B. Arnolletus, 1551 Gay (J.) Fables, with Life of the Author, Stockdale’s edition, 2 vol. in 1, illustrated with 70 plates by W. Blake, Skelton, Wilson, etc. old red morocco Stockdale, 1793
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