Sales catalogue 10: Andrew Block

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/26/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 10: Andrew Block. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    103 Economics.— [Fleetwood (William)] Chronicon Preciosum, or an Account of English Money, the Price of Corn and other Commodities for the last 600 Years, Lond., 1707, contemp. cf., gt. back, fine, lst Edn. £2 104 Economics.—Monts de Piete and Pawnbroking, containing a Statistical Account of the Operations of the Mont de Piete of Paris, Statistics of the Irish Monts de Piete, a Sketch of Pawnbroking in England, with some Suggestions for its Improve- ment, by A. Keeson, Lond., 1854, 8vo, orig. cl. (worn), SCARCE. 15/- 105 Economics.— Observations and Facts relative to PuBLic Housss, interest- ing to Magistrates in every Part of Great Britain, by a Magistrate (Colquhoun), Lond., 1796, 8vo, sewn. &1 106 Economics.—Observations in Explanation of the Provident Institutions, usually called Savings Banks, by J. J. Dillon, Shaftesbury, 1817, 8vo, sewn, SCARCE. 21/- 107 Economics.—Revelations of the Pension List (Birmingham, c. 1880), 8vo, sewn. 6/- 108 Education.—Ascham (Roger) The Schoolmaster, or a Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching Children to Understand, Write and Speak the Latin Tongue, corrected and revised by James Upton, Lond., 1711, with the half-title, 8vo, old cf. (back broken). £1 1o9 Eliot (George) Daniel Deronda, 1st Edn. 4 vols, Zain. and Lond., 1876, 8vo, orig. redcl. £4 4/- 110 Eliot (George) Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe, rst Edn., 8vo, orig. cl., uncut, Lond., 1861. £10 10/- With the 20 pp. of Blackwood’s adverts. at end. 111 Engravings and their Value: a Guide for the Print-Collector, by J. Herbert Slater, 5th Edn., revised and enlarged, s/us., Lond., 1921, orig. cl., fine. £2 2/- The standard book for the collector. 112 Fielding (Henry) Works, with an Essay on his Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, 14 vols, port., Lond., 1808, 12mo, contemp. cf. £12 12/- 113 Firbank (Ronald) The Princess Zoubaroff, with front, and decoration by Michael Sevier, 1st Edn., Lond., 1920, 8vo, orig. cl. &1 114 Fitzgerald (Edward) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami, rendered into English Verse, front., Lond., 1879, sm. 4to, orig. hf. roan. £4 The 4th Edn., but the 1st Edn. to contain the ‘ Salaman and Absal.” Rare. 115 Fitzgerald (Edward) Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam, with their Original Persian Sources, collated from his own MSS. and literally trans. by Edward Heron- Allen, front., Lond., Quaritch, 1899, 8vo, orig. cl., uncut, fine copy, SCARCE. 35/- 116 Flecker (James Elroy) Hassan: the Story of Hassan, of Bagdad, and how he came to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand, a Play, in Five Acts, Ist Edn., Lond., 1922, 8vo, orig. cl. 35/- Flecker’s most important work. 117 Folklore as an Historical Science, by G. Laurence Gomme, witZ 28 illusts., Lond., 1908, The Antiquary Books, 8vo, orig. cl. 10/- 118 Folklore.—Hartland (Edwin Sidney) Primitive Paternity: the Myth of Supernatural Birth in relation to the History of the Family, 2 vols, Lond., 1909-10, 8vo, orig. cl. 30/- 119 Forel (Auguste) La Question Sexuelle Exposee aux Adultes cultives, 8vo, orig. wrapps., uncut (back broken), SCARCE. 12/6 120 Forster (E. M.) A Room with a View, rst Edn., Zond., 1908, 8vo, orig. cl., uncut (one end-paper missing), SCARCE. £3 3/- 121 Fraser (Lovat) The Luck of the Bean-Rows: a Fairy Tale, trans. from the French of Charles Nodier, tlws. by Claude Lovat Fraser, lst Edn., Lond. (1921), 8vo, orig. bds. £3 3/- Aceompanying the above are the original drawings for the covers and the end-papers ; also the original proof-pulls of the illustrations. 122 Fraser (Lovat) The Original Poster for “The Beggar’s Opera” at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 1920, fine, VERY RARE, size 30 by 20 in. £2 2/-
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