Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
17-18 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/979
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    f fm, wo. 3.3 435 437 438 439 440 441 Mead (Richard) A Mechanical Account of Poisons, plates, contemporary red morocco gilt, g. é. 1745—Allan Cr Mineralogical Nomenclature, original boards, Edinburgh, 1819—Dictionnaire Médical et Thérapeutique, original cloth, Paris, 1889; and another (4) Akenside (Mark) Pleasures of Imagination, plates by Stothard (two plates in two states), old red morocco, g. e. 1795—Bunyan (John) Pilgrims Progress, facsimile re- production of the first edition, half ait vac! [c. 1880] —Cowper (W.) Works, with Life of Southey, 3 vol. por- trait, ‘half calf gilt, 1836; and others (10) Cowper (WILLIAM) PoEMs, 2 vol. plates after Stothard, pasted on to the end-paper of vol. I, a sheet of notepaper containing four lines of verse mn the handwriting of the Poet, a note states tt was gwen to the Rev. Henry Tacy by John Johnson, July 5th, 18238, calf gut, rubbed, each volume bears the book-plate of the Rev. Henry Tacy 1800 Woolstonecraft (Mary) A Vindication of the Rights of Women, FIRST EDITION, title and preliminary leaves stained, and a few slight stains occur, a nail has pierced through the lower cover and a few leaves, original boards, broken, and one cover detached, uNcut J. Johnson, 1792 [GoLpDsMITH (OLIVER)| The Life of Richard Nash of Bath, Esq. FIRST EDITION, with 4 ll. of advertisements at end, portrait, old calf, one joint broken J. Newbery, 1762 Swift (Dean J.) Works and Letters, With Notes by J. Hawkesworth, 22 vol. plates, old calf 1768-9 Tracts. Brief Account of the Causes that have retarded the Progress of the Colony of Georgia in America, unbound, 1743; A Letter to Governor Johnstone on Indian Affairs, unbound, 1783; A New Description of Merryland, un- bound, Bath, 1741; A New Treatise upon the Disorders of Potatoes, by a Planter, unbound, Chester, 1784; and others (15) Playford (John) An Introduction to the Skill of Musick, portrait, calf gilt 1672 Burhill (R.) Pro Tortura Torti contra M. Becanum Jesuitam, last two leaves partly stuck together, half calf, London, 1611—Buggs (S.) Davids Straight, A Sermon, half calf, 1622—Boyle (Hon. R.) Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God, old calf, arms on sides, 1670 (3)
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