Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:: 28 July 1930

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/866

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

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$514 Hobbes (T.) Leviathan, First EpITIoN, engraved title, margin py}. 2. frayed, contemporary calf, worn 1651 4 515 Porms. Pore (A.) Wrypsor Forest, FIRST EDITION, name on title, tear in middle of last leaf, and margin mended, 1713— Congreve (W.) A Pindarique Ode humbly offer’d to the Gisey p 1706—[Prior (M.)] The Conversation, a Tale, title stained> 1720, FIRST EDITIONS; and 11 other pieces in 1 vol, old half calf, 1706-33 | | : 516 | ApAM (JOHN), architect. Thirteen original Drawings, for the “-wwensi Custom House at Edinburgh, in sepia and outlined in colour: , (1) South front of a new designed square; (2) Section through” ; the Custom House; (3) Plans of Drains; (4) Plan for two WL} ) Printing Houses; (5) Plan of two dwelling Houses; (6) Plan - of the Exchange Coffee House and shops; (7) Plan of the yi r~) _~+s Drawing room Story of the Dwellinghouses and 2nd story of (Vv % ah the Custom House; (8) Plan of the Cowgate District of Edin- ya burgh, ete. guarded and mounted in their original half calf binding with the ex-libris of the architect, John Adam, inside the front cover . c. 1780 517, Biste (Hoty). Book of Common Prayer and Psalms, original black morocco, very elaborately tooled, round the sides runs a ‘+ | broad frame made up by six repetitions of a chain of small : circles, each chain is made up of two rolls of semi-circles, and is stamped at the corners with a fleur-de-lys; inside the frame ‘) C are six triangular and one diamond-shaped designs, built up | : with a variety of tools mostly of spiral shape, the outer lines LA plain, and the inner dotted; the back is also fully gilt with Ayn AM various ornamental tools, two silver clasps with elaborate pierced \ — ~ and engraved catches, g.e.; sold as a binding, not subject to return | Cambridge, T. Buck and R. Daniel, 1638 * A Cambridge binding of very unusual type and design in very fine condition. Its most unusual feature lies in the elaborate _ construction of the concentric frames. For similar bindings with the frames built up of plain lines cf. Bibliographica, vol. II, p, 148, and the Vernon Library Sale Catalogue (June 10, 1918), lot 76 (illustrated). The First EDITION contains the famous incorrect reading in Acts VI, 3. [See InLusTRATION. | . 518 Hooker (Richard) Of the Lavves of Ecclesiastical Politie. Eyght Bookes, parts I and II (containing books I-IV and Y), sprinkled calf, inside borders, 9. é. (1594)-1597 =, % First eEprtion of books I-V, no more was published till 1648.4$

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