Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
23-25 November 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/971
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lor 1521—continued. concerning the Lord Mayor’s Going to Meeting-Houses with Sword Carried before him, 1697—L’Estrange’s Case in a Civil Dialogue betwixt *Zekiel and Ephraim, 1680-—Hickeringill calf: Ato 1522 Barclay (John) The Mirrovr of Mindes, or Barclay’s Icon animorum Englished by T. M. [ie. Thomas May] (4, 6 Jl.; B-P 6, Aa-Kk 6 in twelves; A1, P6 and Kk6 blank; Kk 4 can- celled, Kk 5 signed Kk 4), FIRST EDITION, the cancelled leaf removed, signature and catchword on a4 shaved, original vel- lum l2mo. 1631 1523 Barker (Jane) Poetical Recreations ... Part II. By several Gentlemen of the Vniversities, FIRST EDITION (A, 8 /l.; a, 4 Ul.; B-H in eights; aa, 411.; Bb-Tt in eights), calf 8vo. 1688 1524 Barker (J.) A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies; or, Love and Virtue Recommended: In a Collection of Instructive Novels . interspersed with Rural Poems (4, 6Jl.; a, 12 1l.; [a], 6 Ul.; B-G wm twelves), FIRST EDITION, the second and third sheets masbound, sprinkled. calf gilt 12mo. London; Printed for E. Curll . . . 1723 ae RaReE. [a] 6 is a cancel leaf for B1, but both are present here. There is no mention of Mrs. Barker (who published at least two other volumes of novels) in Lowndes, Allibone or the D.N.B. 1525 Barker (J.) A Patch-Work Screen, another copy, the cancelled leaf B 1 removed, calf, defectwe 12mo. 1723 1526 [Barksdale (Clement) |, A Remembrancer of Excellent Men, rirst EDITION, (A-L 4 in etghts), original calf 8vo. 1670 1527 {| Bane (Joshua) Gerania: a New Discovery of a Little sort of 1 People Anciently Discoursed of, called Pygmies . .. their Stature, Habit, Manners, Buildings, Knowledge, and Govern- ment, FIRST EDITION (A, 4/1.; B-14 in eights; advertisements on H 8-14), frontisprece, small defect in 11, original sheep, rebacked 8vo. 1675 * One of the more amusing of the forerunners of Gulliver. 1528 Baron (Robert) Epororaéyvwov Or the Cyprian Academy, FIRST EDITION, portrait shaved and mounted, engraved title wnserted loose from a smaller copy, wants the blank leaves E8 and G4, headlines shaved on pp. 49 and 82, sprinkled calf gilt 8vo. 1648 “y Another copy, was sold in the second portion of this Library (15th-16th June, 1931), lot 958, where a fuller account of the book is given,
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