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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    ——————————————————a 73 74 or the EXTRAVAGANT MYSTERIES of the CABALISTS [or Rosy-CRUCIANS], exposed in FIVE PLEASANT DISCOURSES on the SECRET SCIENCES, done into English by P[HILrp] A[yREs], with Short Animadversions, 12mo., neatly rebound in old style sheep, Printed for B. M., Printer to the Cabalistical Society of the Sages, at the Sing of the Rosy-Crucian, 1680 | ($14) £3/10/- First English translation. RUSSIA. ALEXANDER (Cart. JAMES EDWARD) TRAVELS to the SEAT of War in the East, through RussIA and the CRIMEA in 1829, map, frontispiece, and 19 plates, 2 vols, 8vo., half calf, 1830 ($3.20) 16/- BREMNER (ROBERT) EXCURSIONS in the INTERIOR of RuSSIA ; including Sketches of the Character and Policy of the Emperor Nicolas, Scenes in St. Petersburg, &c., with frontis- pieces, 2 vols, 8vo., half calf (backs dull), 1839 ($3) 15/- DIGBY (BasseTT) TIGERS, GOLD, and WiTcH-DoctTors, [WANDERINGS in SIBERIA], 15 plates containing 47 illustrations, 8vo., cloth, 1928 ($1.60) 8/- FRANKLAND (Capt. C. COLVILLE) NARRATIVE of a VISIT to the Courts of Russia and SWEDEN in 1830 and 1831, map and folding plate, 2 vols, 8vo., contemp. half calf, 1832 ($3) 15/- GILLIARD (PIERRE, formerly Tutor to the Czarewitch) THIRTEEN YEARS at the RUSSIAN CouRT (a PERSONAL RECORD of the LAST YEARS and DeraTH of the CZAR NICHOLAS II. and his FAMILy), translated by F. APPLEBY HOLT, with 59 illustrations, 8vo., cloth, SCARCE, [1921] | ($3.60) 18/- HOWARD (B. Douctas) LIFE with TRANS-SIBERIAN SAVAGES, cr. 8vo., cloth, 1893 ($1.60) 8/- LYALL (RoBERT) The CHARACTER of the RUSSIANS and a DETAILED History of Moscow, with a Dissertation on the Russian Language ; and an Appendix containing ‘Tables, Statistical and Historical . . . Progress of Architecture in Russia, etc., folding plan of the City of Moscow and 18 (should be 22) plates, of which 7 are FINELY COLOURED AQUATINT VIEWS, and 2 other plates in colour, mostly engraved by FINDEN after drawings by LAVROF, 4to., half morocco, 1823 ($5) £1/5/- Cheap copy; lacks 4 plates ; 6 leaves of text and a few plates are waterstained. MANSTEIN (GENERAL C. H. BARON DE) Memoirs of Russia, Historical, Political, and Military, from 1727 to 1744, ... with a SUPPLEMENT ..., Translated from the Original Manuscript [with Recommendatory Address, by Davip Hume], First EDITION, 10 folding maps and plans, 4to., contemp. half calf, 1770 ($5) £1/5/- ** A work of authority.” —LOWNDES. [MLASSON (CHARLES F. P., 1762-1807, French Diplomat)| SECRET MEMoirRsS of the CouRT of ST. PETERSBURG, particularly towards the End of the Reign of CATHERINE I]. and the Commencement of that of PAaut I., translated from the French, LIBRARY EDITION, with portrait, 8vo., cloth, Nichols, 1895 ($2) 10/- PALLAS (P. S.) TRAVELS through the SOUTHERN PROVINCES of the RUSSIAN EMPIRE, in 1793-94, translated from the German [by F. W. BLAGDON], SECOND EDITION, with 121 fine plates (mostly coloured), drawn and engraved by G. GEIZLER, 2 vols, 4to., contemp. russia, 1812 ($12.60) £3/3/- PARES (BERNARD, Prof. of Russian in Univ. of London) A History of Russia, with 8 maps, 8vo., cloth, 1926 ($2) 10/- PINKERTON (RoBERT) RussIA, or Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present State of that Country and its Inhabitants, with 8 fine COLOURED LITHOGRAPH PLATES, roy. 8vo., boards, cloth back (binding worn), 1833 ($4) £1/-/- [SALMASIUS (C.iauptius)] DEFENSIO REGIA pro CaROLI I. ad Serenissimum Magnae Britannia Regum Carolum II. filium natu majorem, Heredem & Succes®brem legitimum, 12mo., old English red morocco extra, gilt floral centre, corners with floral scrolls, gilt borders, g.e., Sumptibus Regis, 1652 ($8.40) £2/2/- Small discolouration to title and first few leaves caused by water.—Salvaged from a “‘ blitz.” Salmasius is best known through his controversy with Milton, savagely coarse on both sides. Milton answered this work in his ‘‘ Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio.”’
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