Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
6 June 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/597
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    189 190 191 192 193 194 ‘By FOLIO Ligon (Richard) A True & Exact History Of the Island of Barbadoes, map (torn) and plates (one torn, one slightly defective), old sheep, 1673—-Wright (Michael) An Account of Roger Earl of Castlemaine’s Embassy to Innocent XI, LARGH PAPER, portrait ey White and plates, panelled calf worn, 1688 Lydgate (John) The Life and Death of Hector, title within woodcut border, old calf T. Purfoot, 1614 MatTHeR (Corron) Magnalia Christi Americana, or the Kcclesiastical History of New-England, FIRST EDITION, map and 2 Il. of advertisements, minute hole in H2, two words on Aaa3 have failed to print, otherwise a fine large copy (375 by 233mm.), panelled calf, joints breaking 1702 PIRANESI (J. B.) Works, vol. 2-23, wants vol. 1 of “‘ Le Antichita romane’’ and vol. 24-26 of the complete works, a few vol. water-stained at top; Vrbis Auternae Vestigia, portrait by Francisco Piranesi, frontispiece and 74 plates, 1779; together 23 vol. original boards, green vellum backs with red labels, mostly somewhat defective ; ‘lot sold not subject to return (23) PorE (ALEXANDER) WINDSOR FOREST, FIRST EDITION, date erased from title [1713]; Of The Use of Riches, FIRST EDITION, EARLIEST ISSUE with the misprint “‘ ypon’’ line 13, p. 18, date erased from title, 1732; The First Satire Of The Second Book Of Horace, FIRST EDITION, EARLIEST ISSUE with no comma after “‘ Pope” on title, 1733; An Essay on Man. Part I, FIRST EDITION, EARLIEST ISSUE with “‘ Part 1” on title and no headlines [1733]; An Essay on Man. Epistle Il, rrrsT EDITION, EARLIEST ISSUE with lines numbered throughout. [1733] ; An Essay on Man. Epistle III, FIRST EDITION, EARLIEST ISSUE with open book ornament on title [1733]; An Essay on Man. Epistle IV, Frrrst EDITION [1734]; An Kpistle [of the Knowledge and Characters of Men] to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham, FIRST EDITION, 1733; and nine others by Pope, all FIRST EDITIONS, 1734-8—Swift (Jonathan) The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift. Written by Him- self, FIRST EDITION, mostly spurious, but includes some lines of Swift’s poem ‘first published in 1739, 1733 ; Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift, FIRST AUTHENTIC EDITION, 1739 ; and eight others, in all 27 vol. in 1, old calf, defective and rebacked Pope (Alexander) The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated in a Dialogue, earliest issue with no comma after the word “‘ Pope”’ on title, 1733 ; An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1734 ; Of the Char- acters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady, 1735; An
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