Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/691
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    130 131 132 133 135 136 137 138 139 140 Nemesius. The Nature of Man ... Englished and divided into Sections ... by George Wither, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black, waterstains at end, sheep, defective M. F. for Henry Taunton, 1636 Pipe Roll Society. Publications, vol. I-X XI, cloth gilt 1884-96 Psalmanazar (George) Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, plates, panelled calf, jownts broken, 1704; Memoirs of * * * Commonly known by the Name of George Psalmanazar ; A Reputed Native of Formosa, portrait, calf, 1764 (2) Quevedo (Francisco) Comical Works, portrait, panelled calf, 1707 —Butler (Samuel) Hudibras, portrait by Van der Gucht, plates by Hogarth, panelled calf, 1732—Thomson (James) Edward and Eleanora. A ‘Tragedy, FIRST EDITION, contemporary panel- led red morocco gilt, top cover loose, 1739; and another (4) Selden (John) Brief Discourse touching the Office of Lord Chan- cellor, portrait (torn), sheep, jownt broken, 1677; The Privi- ledges of the Baronage, sheep, cover loose, 1642—Britton. The second Edition. Faithfully corrected ... by Edm. Wingate, two or three headlines shaved, calf, defective, 1640—Shepheard (William) Of Corporations, Fraternities, and Guilds, original sheep, worn, 1659 (4) Shakespeare (William) Works, with Notes by Mr. Theobald. The Second Edition, 8 vol. portrait, plates by Van der Gucht, after Gravelot, calf gilt, joints broken 1740 Spenser (Edmund) The Fairy Queen, 2 vol. plates, calf gilt for J. & R. Tonson, 1758 Swift (Jonathan) Works, 12 vol. plates, calf gilt, 1755—Sterne (Laurence) Works, 4 vol. portrait and vignettes, mottled calf, joints weak, 1803 (16) [Walker (Obadiah)] Of Education, Especially of Young Gentle- men. In Two Parts, FIRST EDITION, original calf, FINE COPY Oxon. At the Theater Ann. 1673 QUARTO. Addison (Joseph) Works, 4 vol portrait, panelled calf, joints broken for J. Tonson, 1721 Anson (George) A Voyage round the World, FrrsT EDITION, 42 plates, calf, 1748; duplicates of the plates separately bound, half calf, 1748 (2)
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