Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1941
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Folklore and Mythology—continued. LasT EDITION, COMPLETE WITH SUPPLEMENT. 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 Religion, THIRD AND BEsT EDITION, revised and enlarged, 13 vols, 8vo., cloth, uncut, as new, 1936-38 ($24) £6/-/- net of the Soul; Part 3. The Dying God; Part 4. Adonis, Attis and Osiris, 2 vols ; 3 Part 5. Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, 2 vols; Part 6. The Scapegoat; Part 7. Balder the Beautiful: the Fire Festivals of Europe, and the Doctrine of the Eternal Soul, 2 vols; Part 8. Bibliography and General Index; Part 9. Aftermath: a Supplement to ‘‘ The Golden Bough.” In the “ Aftermath’? the Author discusses many subjects alceady, dealt with in the “ Golden Bough,” adducing fresh evidence on many points from the recent literature on primitive beliefs and customs in all parts of the world. FOUCART (Pau) Les Mystéres D’ELEusis, roy. 8vo., nalf red morocco, Paris, ae ($5) £1/5/- A nice copy cf this important work. GOMME (ALIcE B.) THE TRADITIONAL GAMES of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND and IRELAND, with Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom, 2 vols, 8vo., cloth, SCARCE, 1894-98 ($16.80) £4/4/- Forming Part One of an intended “ Dictionary of British Folklore.”” Name in ink on serial title-pages, but a nice copy. ; HULL (E.zanor, Editor) THE CUCHULLIN SAGA in IRISH LITERATURE : being a Collec- tion of Stories relating to the Hero Cuchullin, translated from the Irish by various Scholars, with Introduction and Notes, map, post 8vo., boards, cloth back (Grimm Library Series], SCARCE, 1898 ($10) £2/10/- JACOBS (JosEPH) ENGLISH Farry TALEs, illustrated by JOHN D. BATTEN, 8vo., cloth, 90 ($1.40) 7/- KENNEDY (PaTrRICK) LEGENDARY FICTIONS of the IRISH CELTS {in Five Parts], frontis- piece, cr. 8vo., cloth, 1891 ($1.60) 8/- Part 3 contains chapters on Witchcraft, Sorcery, Ghosts and Fetches. LARMINIE (WILLIAM) WEsT IRISH FOLK-TALES and ROMANCES, collected and trans- lated by, with Introduction and Notes, and Appendix containing Specimens of the Gaelic originals phonetically spelt, [Camden Library Series, edited by G. L. GOMME and T. F. OrpIsH], 8vo., half roan, 1893 ; ($1.60) 8/- MACCULLOCH (J. A.) THE CHILDHOOD of FICTION: a STupy of FOLK TaLzEs and PRIMITIVE THOUGHT, 8vo., cloth, (some marginal pencil scorings), 1905 ($1.60) 8/- MAX MULLER (W.) EcypTiaN MyTHOLOGY, frontispiece and 232 text-illustrations, large 8vo., cloth, 1924 ($1.40) 7/- THORPE (BENJAMIN) NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY, comprising the Principal Popular Tradi- tions and Superstitions of SCANDINAVIA, NORTH GERMANY, and the NETHERLANDS, compiled from Original Sources, frontispiece, 3 vols, post 8vo., half roan, 1851 ($3.60) 18/- WILLIAMS (Rev. Rosert, Editor) SELECTIONS from the HENGwWRT Mss. preserved in the Peniarth Library.—Y SEINT GREAL, being the Adventures of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table .. . originally written about the year 1200, Edited, with a Translation and Glossary, 1876—CAMPEN CHARLYMAEN, PURDAN PADRIC, BUCHEDD MEIR WYRY, EVENGYL NICODEMUS, Y GROGLITH, BREUDDWYT PAWL, .. . etc., edited, with a Trans- lation, and the Translation continued by the Rev. G. HARTWELL JONES, 1892 ; 2 vols, stout 8vo., cloth, 1876-92 ($7.60) £1/18/- FOUNDLING HOSPITAL : AN Account of the HospiTat for the MAINTENANCE and EDUCATION of ExPOsED and DESERTED YOUNG CHILDREN, including the Charter, Act of Parliament, By-Laws and Regulations, and Annual Accounts . . . from the Commence- ment of the Corporation, 17th Oct., 1739, to 3lst Dec., 1758. By Order of the Governors of the Hospital, emblematic device on title, 8vo., half morocco, 1759 ($6) £1/10/- The first authentic account of the Hospital, originally set up in Hatton Garden, London, at the instigation of Captain Thomas Coram.
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