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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    461 GARDENING.—LawreENcE (JOHN) THE CLERGY-MAN’S RECREATION: shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening, FIFTH EDITION, engraved frontispiece, 1717 ; THE GENTLEMAN’S RECREATION or the SECOND PART .. . SECOND EDITION, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, 1717 ; THE FRUIT-GARDEN KALENDAR, First EDITION, folding frontispiece, 1718 ; bound together in one volume, 8vo., contemp. calf, 1717-18 ($7) £1/15/- 462 GARRICK (Davin), by JOSEPH KNIGHT, LARGE PAPER Copy, printed on hand-made paper, with etched portrait by W. BOUCHER, roy. 8vo., cloth, 1894 ($2.40) 12/- Only 100 numbered copies issued. 463 GASKELL (Mrs. WILLIAM) WIVES and DAUGHTERS, an Every-Day Story, First EDITION, with 18 rllustrations by GEORGE Du MaurIEgR, 2 vols, 8vo., orig. cloth (binding dull and repaired), 1866 ($5) £1/5/- 464 GAY (JOHN) PoLLy : AN OPERA, being the SECOND Part of the BEGGAR’S OPERA, FIRST OcTAVO EDITION, with 16 pages of music, 8vo., modern boards, Printed for T. Thomson, 1729 ($7) £1/15/- Never acted and was suppressed at the instigation of the Lord Chamberlain. 465 GELLERT (CHRISTIAN FURCHTEGOTT) FABELEN en WERTELSELS in NEDERDUITSCHE vaerzen gevolgd, vignette on titles, frontispiece, and 140 fine plates by A. Buys, engraved by ALLART and VANDER MEER, 3 vols, 8vo., contemp. half calf, Amsterdam, 1781-74 ($6) £1/10/- Cohen, “‘ Guide de L’Amateur de Livres a Gravures,”’ page 1101, gives dates as 1781- _ 85, but in the above, Vols. 2 and 3 are dated 1774. 466 GEMS.—MIDDLETON (J. HENRY) THE ENGRAVED GEMS of CLASSICAL TIMES, with a Catalogue of the Gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum, roy. 8vo., buckrara, Cambridge, 1891 ($1.60) 8/- 468 GLANVILLE (JosEPH) ScEPSIS SCIENTIFICA : or Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion, edited, with INTRO- DUCTORY Essay, by JOHN OWEN, fcap. 8vo., cloth, 1885 ($1.40) 7/- 469 GOUPIL’S SPLENDID SERIES OF HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES, by the foremost historical writers : ANDREW LANG, A. F. POLLARD, FREDERIC Masson, SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, SIR JOHN SKELTON, and others 5 well printed in large type on Art Paper, each fully illustrated (mainly in photogravure), with beautiful Coloured Frontispieces reproduced from Miniatures or Paintings by Famous Artists: VANDYCK, SAMUEL COOPER, HOLBEIN, PAUL VAN SOMER, ROBERT WALKER, etc., 11 vols, roy. 4to., uniformly bound in light brown calf gilt, gilt panelled sides, with their respective arms in gilt on each cover, and monograms, crowns, etc., in panels on backs, gilt tops, mice set, Goupil and Co., 1893-1906 ($110) £27/10/- CONTENTS.: QUEEN ANNE, by HERBERT PAUL, 1906; CHARLES I., by Sir JOHN _ SKELTON, 1898; CHARLES II, by Osmunp Arry, 1901; PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD, by ANDREW LANG, 1900; OLIVER CROMWELL, by SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, 1809 ; HENRY THE EIGHTH, by A. F. POLLARD, 1902; JAMES IL AND VIL., by T. F. HENDERSON, 1904 ; JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS AND QUEEN, by FREDERIC Masson, 1899; MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE DAUPHINE,—The QUEEN, by PIERRE DE NoLHAc, 2 vols, 1897-98 ; MARY STUART, by JOHN SKELTON. These remarkable works form one of the most beautiful series of illustrated books ever produced ; their literary and historic value being equal to their artistic merit. 470 GRAY (THOMAS) POEMS ; to which are prefixed Memorrs of his LIFE and WRITINGS by W. Mason, First EDITION, portrait, 4to., contemp. calf (joint cracked), York, 1775 ($4) £1/-/- ANOTHER Copy, First EDITION, contemp. calf, zbid. 1775 ($3) 15/- Has the leaf of errata but lacks sub-title to “* Memoirs.” 472 GRILLIONS CLUB: a CHRONICLE, 1812-1913, compiled by the Secretaries, with 2 facsimiles of autographs, 4to., half vellum, uncut, Oxford, 1914 ($4.20) £1/1/- Only 200 copies printed. . 473 GROUSE (THE) in HEALTH and in DisEasg, being the Final Report of the Committee of Enquiry on Grouse Disease, ORIGINAL and BEsT EDITION, with 59 full-page plates, mostly in colour, and 31 illustrations in the text, 2 vols, 4to., buckram, 1911 ($9) £2/5/- 471
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