Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
Dec 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/724
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 Harrisse (H.) John Cabot the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian his son, no. 1 of 25 copies on hand-made paper, original cloth 1896 Tancoigne (J. M.) Lettres sur la Perse, 2 vol. coloured plates, half vellum, Paris, 1819; The Babees Book, &c., edited by F. J. Furnivall, half morocco, Karly Eng. Text Soc. 1868 (3) Patrick (S.) The Hearts Ease, old smooth morocco, gilt panel, 1699; The Polite Lady: a Course of Female Edu- cation, frontispiece, original calf, 1760—Coleridge (S. T.) Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, Pickering, 1840; and others (15) Moore (Francis) The Age of Intellect, frontispiece, boards, back wanting, 1819—Mayhew (Augustus) Paved with Gold, plates by H. K. Browne, cloth gut, back mended, 1858—Malet (H. HE.) Annals of the Road, coloured plates, cloth gilt, F876: ete. (4) Giraffi (Alessandro) An Exact History of the late Revolu- tions in Naples ... Rendred to English by J[ames] Howell], 2 parts in 1 vol. frontispreces (one coloured), calf gilt, 1664-63; ete. (4) Shakespeare. Plays, from the Text of Malone, 7 vol. por- trait, vol. 1 wants pp. 31-4, old calf (worn), 1790—Sterne (L.) Works, 8 vol. portrait, old half calf, Edinb. 1803; sold not subject to return (15) English Poets. The Works of the, with Prefaces biographical and critical by S. Johnson, 75 vol. portraits, contemporary calf, worn, backs of six vol. slightly defectiwe IQ [Cowper (W.)| and J. Newton. Olney Hymns in three Books, FIRST EDITION, modern half calf Ewes Binding.—Sherlock (W.) Discourse concerning Death, smooth black morocco, tooled borders and centrepiece, g.e. 1718 —Forms of Prayer, etc., smooth blue morocco, floral orna- ments and centre, g.e—Little Flowers of St. Benet, stamped calf, with painted centrepiece of St. Benet by Chivers, 1901; and others (6) Binpinc- Miscellanies, &c. in Prose and Verse, George Palmer, Script. Dec. 2, 1790, MS. much of which is wm shorthand, written within a“ Blank Paper Book” bound
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