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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    578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 LANG (ANDREW) PICKLE the Spy, or the Incognito of Prince Charles, SECOND EDITION 6 illustrations, 1897 ; The COMPANIONS of PICKLE: being a SUPPLEMENT to “ Pickle the Spy,” First EDITION, 4 illustrations, 1898 ; 2 vols, 8vo., cloth, 1897-98 ($7) £1/15/: LAWRENCE (D. H.) APOCALYPSE, FIRST EDITION, portrait, 8vo., boards, uncut (lowe cover slightly soiled), Florence, 1931 ($3.60) 18/: LEGAL.—BracTOn or BRATTON (HENRY of) NOTE BooK: a COLLECTION 0: Cases decided in the KING’s Courts during the REIGN of HENRY the THIRD. annotated by a Lawyer of that time, seemingly by HENRY of BRATTON, editec by Prof. F. W. MAITLAND, 3 vols, 8vo., buckram, (binding soiled), VERY SCARCE 1887 ($76) £19/-/- Bracton’s great work, “‘ De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliz,” was the first attempt to treat the whole extent of the law in a manner at once systematic and practical. His influence has been effective in moulding the existing common law of England. Ir 1884 Professor Vinogradoff, of Moscow, discovered among the additional MSS. ir the British Museum (Addit. MS. 12269) the “‘ Collection of Cases ’’ evidently compilec for Bracton’s use, and actually used and annotated by him for the purpose of his work In editing and publishing them for the first time Professor Maitland cites proofs that thi was the actual collection on which Bracton’s treatise was founded. LEICESTERSHIRE.—BvurTON (WILLIAM) THE DESCRIPTION of LEICESTERSHIRE containing Matters of Antiquity, History, Armoury, and Genealogy, SECOND EDITION enlarged and corrected, folding map and 2 plates of arms, folio, contemp. half calf, Lynn 1777 ($10) £2/10/- Inserted is the original folio sheet ‘‘ Proposals for Printing by Subscription.” [LEIGH (RICHARD)] POEMS, upon SEVERAL OCCASIONS and to several Persons, by the AUTHOR of the ‘‘ CENSURE of the Rota,”’ First EDITION (text a little soiled ; some leave: cropped close by the binder), sm. 8vo., early XTXth Cent. calf, RARE, 1675 ($14) £3/10/- The author, younger son of Edward Leigh, of Rushall, Staffordshire, became an acto in the company of the ‘‘ Duke of York,”’ where other actors bearing the same surname. from whom he is to be carefully distinguished, were engaged at the same time. He attacked Dryden in “‘ A Censure of the Rota in Mr. Dryden’s Conquest of Granada,”’ published at Oxford, 1673. [LELAND (THoMas)] LONGsworD, Earl of Salisbury, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, FIRST EDITION, frontispieces, 2 vols in 1, sm. 8vo., modern morocco, gilt over rubricated edges. 1762 ($4) £1/-/: LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS.—Epwarps (EDWARD) LIvEs of the FOUNDERS of the BRITISH MUSEUM ; with Notices of its Chief Augmentors and other Benefactors, 1570- 1870, illustrated, thick 8vo., cloth, 1870 ($4.20) £1/1/- : FLOWER (SIR WILLIAM HENRY) EssAys on MUSEUMS, and other subjects con- nected with NATURAL History [mainly BIOLOGICAL and ANTHROPOLOGICAL], zllustrated 8vo., cloth, out of print, 1898 ($3.60) 18/- An important work on museums, quoted in the Bibliography given at the end of the article ‘‘ Museums (Science) ”’ in Encyclopedia Britannica. : FRANKLIN (ALFRED) PRECIS de L’HISTOIRE de la BIBLIOTHEQUE du Rol, aujourd hui BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE, DEUXIEME EDITION, corrigée et trés-augmentée, iJlustrated post 8vo., cloth, Paris, 1875 ($2) 10/- One of 400 numbered copies. _ : Guppy (HENRY) THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY, MANCHESTER, 1899-1924, a Record of its History, with Brief Descriptions of the Building and its Contents, 62 view: and facsimiles, roy. 8vo., wrappers, 1924 ($1.40) 7/- : MacrRAY (WILLIAM D.) ANNALS. of the BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, with ¢ Notice of the Earlier Library of the University, SECOND EDITION, enlarged, and continued from 1868 to 1880, with 4 illustrations, 8vo., half roan, Oxford, 1890 ($2.40) 12/- LINCOLNSHIRE.—Curzon of KEDLESTON (MARQUIS) and Tippinc (H. Avray) TATTERSHALL CASTLE, LINCOLNSHIRE, with 3 plans and 26 plates, 4to., buckram, t.e.g.. 1929 ($4) £1/-/- ———— ; —-——- SPECIAL EDITION, printed on hand-made paper, 4to., half morocco, t.e.g.. 1929 ($6) £1/10/- One of 100 numbered copies.
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