Sales catalogue 119: Browne & Browne

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/30/3
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 119: Browne & Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    491 JOHNSON (Samuel, LL.D.) Prayers and Meditations, composed by Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and published from his Manuscripts by George Strahan, A.M. First Edition, 8vo., original half calf, A FINE Copy, £6 1785 JONSON (Ben, 1616-40). The WorKES of BENIAMIN JONSON, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, engraved title by Hole, folio, calf antique, the engraved title bears the autograph inscription, ‘* Harry Cary’s booke.” This is Sir Henry Cary, first Lord Falkland, created 1620, and on whom Jonson wrote a sonnet contained in the vol on page 786 (there are a few worm-holes in the preliminary leaves and engraved title, the title is cut close and laid down), tt has the very rare imprint, — London, printed by W. Stansby and are to be sould by R. Meighen, ano d. 1616—The Works of Ben Jonson, Vol. II. Rare general title, dated 1640. Contains Bartholmew Fayre, The Staple of Newes, The Divell is an Asse, 1631; Masques, Underwoods and Mortimer, 1640-41; Horace his Art of Poetrie, English Grammar, 1640; Discoveries, 1641; The Magnetick Lady: a Tale of a Tub, 1640; The Sad Shepherd, 1641; ald the separate titles are there and it ts one of the tallest copies known, being 114 by 74 in., a fine unpressed clean copy, in old calf, rebacked, the 2 vols as described, not uniform in size, Vol. I. being smaller, £40 Shakespeare is twice mentioned asa player in the first vol. In the second vol, in ‘‘ Discoveries,” Jonson makes his famous reference to him, beginning: ‘‘I remember the Players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare,” &c. 494 KEATS (John) Poetical Works. With a Memoir by Richard Monckton Miles, sm. 8vo., original cloth, portrait, First Edition, with this Memoir, leaf of adverts. at end, and Moxon’s list at front, £2 1854 495 KEENE (Charles) The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene (the Celebrated Punch Artist), by George Soames Layard. 8vo., original cloth, illustrated with a great number of 492 reproductions of Keene’s drawings, £3 1892 Joseph Crawhall, one in colour. 497 KIPLING (Rudyard) Kim. catalogue at end, FINE Copy, £4 498 KIPLING (R.) Puck of Pook’s Hill. catalogue at end, FINE COPY, AS NEW, £2 FINE Copy, £2 1901 1906 First Edition, post 8vo., original red cloth, A 1910 500 KIPLING (Rudyard) Stalky & Co. adverts. at end, FINE COPY, £3 501 KIPLING (Rudyard) The Works of. Riviere, etched portrait by Strang, £6 1899 1899 486 JAMES (Henry) The Finer Grain. First Edition, er. 8vo., original cloth, 10s 1910 487 JAPAN.—Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: an Account of Travels in the Interior, including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko and Ise, by Isabella L. Bird. 2 vols, 8vo., original cloth, maps and illustra- tions, FINE COPY, 7s 6d 1880 488 JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTS.—Hiro- shige, XIXth Century Master of the Japanese Colour Print. 8 reproductions in colour, and an Introduction by Jiro Harada, 4to., orz- ginal binding, FINE, 5s 1929 489 JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTS: being an Introduction to the Study and Collection of the Colour Prints of the Ukiyoye School of Japan, by Basil Stewart. 8vo., orzginal cloth, tllustrated, 6s 1917 490 JOLY (J.) Reminiscences and Anticipa- tions, by J. Joly, M.A., Professor of Geo- logy in University of Dublin. 8vo., original cloth, plates, 5s N.D. Perpetual Motion, Foze Rocks, British Educational Mission in America, Inspection of Irish Light- houses, Origin of Submarines, Trinity College during Sinn Fein Rebellion. 493 KASHMIR.—The Charm of Kashmir, by V. C. Scott O’Connor. Sm. folio, orrginal cloth, with 16 coloured plates and 24 ilustra- tions from photographs, NHW, 268 6d (pub. 42s) 1920 496 KINGSLEY (Rose G.) In the Rhone Country, by Rose G. Kingsley, Author of ‘* A History of French Art.” Cr. 8vo., ore- ginal cloth, illustrated, 5s 1910 502 KIPLING (Rudyard) The Five Nations. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, post 8vo., ori- ginal buckram, A FINE COPY, 12s 1903 Methuen’s 38-pp. catalogue at end, dated July, 1903. 503 KIPLING (Rudyard) The Years Between. FIRST EDITION, post 8vo., original buckram, with wrapper, FINE, 7s 6d 1919 Methuen’s 32-page catalogue at end. 504 KIPLING (R.) They. Wath «llustrations in colour by H. F. Townsend, First Edition, original white buckram, FINE Copy, 18s 1905 505 KIPLING (Rudyard) Traffics and Dis- coveries. FIRST EDITION, post 8vo.. original red cloth, A GOOD CLEAN COPY, 25s 1904 Maemillan’s 22-page catalogue at end.
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