Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/514
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 1698, by Mr. Motteux ; The Widow Ranter, 1690, by Mrs. A. Behn, and many others. Other authors represented are: G. Etherege, J. Crown, T. D’Urfey, T. Shadwell, N. Rowe, J. Dennis, C. Cibber, C. Hopkins, Sir F. Fane, J. Dilke, E. Ravenscroft, W. Taverner, S. Pordage, J. Smith, J. Webster, N. Tate, R. Brome, 8. Centlivre, Mary Pix, N. Brady, Oldmixon, Sir S. Tuke, E. of Orrery, N. Lee, etc. The Collection is bound in 24 vol. calf; sold not subject to return Prospect (A) of Hungary, and Transylvania, 1664; A Des- cription of Tangier, frontispiece, 1664, in 1 vol. original vellum—Boschinus (M.) L’ Arcipelago, plates, calf, Venetia, 1658—Ysbrants Ides. Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land to China, plates, calf, 1706 . (3) R[owley} (W.) A Match at Midnight, rrrst mpITIon (2 Il. without signature, B-K2 in fours), some Il. cut into, unbound A. Mathewes, 1633 R[OWLEY] (S.) THE NoBLE SOULDIER, FIRST EDITION (A2- H4 in fours), uncui at fore-edge and tail, one leaf torn but perfect, unbound for Nicholas Vavasour, 1634 Shirley (J.) The Bird in a Cage, FIRST EDITION, wants first leaf (title on recto, list of persons on the verso), 2 ll. slightly defective, a few Ul. slightly cut into, with the leaf The Printer to the Reader at the end, unbound (1633) Shirley (J.) The Wedding (A2, B-K2 in fours), 2 Il. slightly defective, several headlines cut into, unbound for J. Crone, 1633 Shirley (J.) The Wittie Faire One, FIRST EDITION, some head- ~ lines cut into, unbound 1633 SHIRLEY (H.) THE Martyr’D SOULDIER, FIRST EDITION, (A—K in fours, with the last blank), woodcut device at the end, a few headlines cut into, unbound I. Okes, 1638 Shirley (J.) The Constant Maid, FrRsT EDITION, headlines cut into, first leaf torn across, unbound J. Raworth for k. Whitaker, 1640 FOLIO. Ashmole (F.) The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, plates, calf 1672 Zisopus. Vita et Fabelle, cum interpretatione latina . . . Gabriz fabelle, etc., anchor device on the title and at the end, old calf Venetiis, apud Aldem, mense Octobri, 1505
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