Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/791
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    D1 52 56 Scriblerus and Notes Variorum, calf, 1743—[‘“‘Swift (J.)”] The Gamblers, a Poem, 1777—| Whitehead (W.)] The Goat’s Beard, a Fable, 1777—[Coombe (W.)] Anti-Diabo-Lady, 1777; The Diaboliad, part the second, 1778; and two other pieces, half calf—[Woleot (J.)| Peter Pindar, Lyric Odes, The Lousiad, and other pieces, top margins burnt, calf, 1787—Reynolds (Sir Joshua) A Discourse at the Opening of the Royal Academy, with inscription from the author on title, 1769 ; A Second Letter from a Gentleman in Town to his Friend in the Country, on Account of the late dreadful Earthquake, 1750; A Proposal for Improving and Adorning the Island of even Britain, 1755; and five other Tracts ; 1 vol. half calf, 1763-9 iy (4) Scott (Sir W.) Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, 2 vol. LARGE PAPER, plates, proofs on india paper, straight- grained red morocco, broad gilt borders, g. e. rubbed, 1814 Worlidge (T.) Collection choisie de Desseins tirés de pierres precieuses antiques, 2 vol. portrait and plates, contemporary straight-grained red morocco, etruscan border with inner border of figures, birds, sprays, etc. g. e. 1768 } -] 9/'s]- FOLIO. Blome (R.) Britannia, maps and coats of arms, a few of the former slightly torn, some mended, the latter frayed at lower corners, original calf, worn ee ee 1673 Bunbury (H.) An Academy for Grown Horsemen by Geoffrey Gambado, plates, margin of frontispiece and letterpress Cas calf gilt aif 1787 Burton (\W.) Description of Leicestershire, second edition, map, contemporary calf, Lynn, 1777; The Trial of Elizabeth, Duchess Dowager of Kingston, for Bigamy, vellum, 1776 (2) [Calprenede (G. de Costes de la)| Hymen’s es or Love’s Master-piece, rendered into English by R. Lov eday, 2 vol. contemporary calf BO! . 1674 Costume of Great Britain, by W. H. Pyne, 60 plates ; Austria, 50 plates: Russia, 73 plates; Turkey, 60 plates ; Military Costume of Turkey, 30 plates; China, 60 plates ; Punish- ments. of China, 22 plates; all in colour, iain straight-
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