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Credit: Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![05 HOMER. THE WHOLE Works of Homer ; Prince of Poets, in his ILIADS and ODYSSES, translated according to the Greeke by GEORGE CHAPMAN, beautifully printed on handmade paper, with portrait, and woodcuts by JOHN FARLEIGH, 5 vols, folio, orig. half morocco, buckram sides, uncut, 1930-32 ($24) £6/-/- The text is that of the first edition of the whole works of Homer, printed by Richard Field [? 1616]. The edition is set in the new Centaur type designed by Bruce Rogers, and is printed on Batchelor’s handmade paper. Only 450 sets printed. ILIAS et ODyssEA (editio impensis DD. BUCKINGHAM et GRENVILLE excusa, curis | Tu. GRENVILLE, R. PoRSON, RANDOLPH, CLEAVER, et ROGERS), printed in handsome Greek type, 4 vols in 2, sm. 4to., green morocco, gilt over marbled edges, Oxomnzi, 1801 ($10) £2/10/- : This appears to be the text of the edition of 1800 with Preface terminating thus.—Da- | bamus ex Addibus Clarendonianis Mart. 27, 1801. The Odyssey has received particular illustration from the Collation of a Harleian MS., no. 5674, by the celebrated Richard Porson. 507 HOPKINS (E. W.) OrIGIN and EVOLUTION of RELIGION, roy. 8vo., cloth, Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 1924 ($2) 10/- Vide INDIA, post. 508 HORNE (RicHarD HEnGISsT, “‘ Farthing Horne’’) A New Spirit of the AGE [contain- | ing Biographical and Literary Notices of Eminent Writers, including CHARLES DICKENS, LEIGH HUNT, ROBERT BROWNING], SECOND EDITION, with 8 portraits, 2 vols, post 8vo., orig. cloth, uncut, 1844 ($2) 10/- HORSES AND HORSEMANSHIP. 509 BROWN (CapTaIN THOMAS) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES and AUTHENTIC ANECDOTES of Horses, and the ALLIED SPECIES, with 9 engraved plates (slightly foxed), post 8vo., contemp. half calf, Edinburgh, 1830 ($2) 10/- 510 GENTLEMAN’S JOCKEY (THE), and APPROVED FARRIER : Instructing in the NATURES, CAUSES, and Curss of all DISEASES incident to HorsEs, with AN Exact and EASsIE METHOD of BREEDING . . . THIRD EDITION, folding frontispiece (backed), sm. 8vo., \ar oreo ri 511 GIBSON (WILLIAM) THE FarRIER’s NEw GUIDE, containing first, THE ANATOMY of the Horsk, .. . with 7 copper-plates ; secondly, AN ACCOUNT of all the DISEASES incident to Horsss ;. . . FOURTH EDITION, 8vo., contemp. panelled calf, rebacked, 1725 ($3.60) 18/- A NEw TREATISE on the Diseases of Horsgs, FirsT EDITION, 32 copper-plates, Ato., orig. calf (binding broken and shabby), 1751 ($4) £1/-/- THE TRUE METHOD of DiETING HorsEs, containing many Curious and Useful . Observations concerning their MARKS, COLOUR and EXTERNAL SHAPE;. .. as also OB- SERVATIONS concerning the right ordering of TRoop Horsks, with a Discourse of Breeding {etc.], THIRD EDITION, 8vo., old calf, neatly rebacked, 1731 ($3.60) 18/- 514 GREY (THOMAS DE) THE COMPLEAT HoRSE-MAN and EXPERT FERRIER, in Two Books : The first, Shewing the BesT MANNER of BREEDING good Horsks, with their CHOICE, NATURE, RIDING and DIETING, as well for RUNNING as HUNTING, ... 5; The Second, DIRECTING the most exact and approved manner how to KNow and Cure all MALADIES and DrsEasEs in Horses [etc.]; FouRTH EDITION, corrected, with some Additions, fine : SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. 906 engraved frontispiece, sm. 4to., contemp. sheep, 1670 ($12.60) £3/3/- 915 FIFTH EDITION, corrected, with some Additions, sm. 4to., old rebacked panelled calf, 1684 ($5) £1/5/- Some stains ; one leaf of “‘ Table ” repaired ; lacks frontispiece. 516 HILLS (Major-GENERAL SiR JOHN) Points of a RACEHORSE, illustrated with 104 portraits of celebrated horses that have figured in the most notable races, folio, cloth, SCARCE, 1903 ($40) £10/-/- _ “ Not only has the writer appended examples lavishly as proofs, but has given portraits of some well-known ‘sires in different stages of their career, and further, in order to complete the study of proper conformation, has appended in close array some por- traits of the most celebrated sires ; together with two or three portraits of their most illustrious offspring.’’—Introduction.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3085927x_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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