Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:
Spring 1967
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/3
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    97 98 99 100 101 102 103 GREEN (John) Grace and Truth Vindicated, or The Way of Heaven Manifested, from Scripture and Experience. Printed by H. Cock ... for the Author... 1752 [with] An Appendix to Grace and Truth Vindicated ...H. Cock... 1756 [and] Characteristicks of a Believing Christian in Paradoxes ... By Francis Bacon... With a Preface by a Clergyman [i.e. John Green] Printed in the Year, 1758. £5 10s 3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo, contemporary sprinkled paper boards simulating leather. Despite the differing dates, evidently issued together, the Contents list referring to the whole work. The Baconian excerpt is of 8 pp., added because Green seems to think highly of his lordship as a Christian philosopher. At the end are four Hymns, and on p. 64 of the first part an odd diagram illustrating the mystery of the Trinity. Not of course John Green the Bishop of Lincoln. HARRIS (James, ‘“Hermes’’) Philosophical Arrangements. A New Edition. Printed for F. Wingrave ... 1799. £4 10s 8vo, contemporary calf. Frontispiece. HAWKINS (Laetitia Matilda) Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs. Vol. I [all published] F. C. and #. Rivington, 1822. £10 10s Lge. 12mo, boards, mid-19th century, cloth back, UNCUT. With half-title, portrait of Sir John Hawkins, and plate of Twickenham Common in 1760. Garrick and other actors; G. Steevens; Hogarth; Dr. Mead; Akenside; Reynolds; Horace Walpole; many other figures who lived in and around Twickenham; her famous father, whom she defends against Boswell’s strictures; Bennet Langton, of whom she gives an appreciative note; all these and many more appear. She adds Poetic Trifles by Henry Hawkins, and a final extra leaf announcing the death, while the book was printing, of Mrs. Garrick. Distinct from her 2-volume Memoirs, etc., of 1824. A fascinating volume of Twickenham—and general—reminiscence. HAYLEY (William) An Essay on History; In Three Epistles to Edward Gibbon, Esq., with Notes. Printed for 7. Dodsley, 1780 [and] The Triumphs of Temper; a Poem. In Six Cantos. Same imprint, 1781. £15 4to, contemporary calf gilt; joints cracking but still firm; the two long poems in 1 vol., both FIRST EDITIONS; with half-titles. The Willoughby de Broke copy. HILDROP (John) Free Thoughts upon the Brute Creation: Or, An Examination of Father Bougeant’s Philosophical Amusements, &c. In Two Letters to a Lady. Printed for R. Minors, 1742. £12 10s 2 parts in 1, unbound; half-title and title to each, frontispiece to Part I, pp. 64 and 88. “A style unusually nervous, easy, and entertaining’? (DNB). His treatment of Descartes, Locke, and the Jesuits, on the souls of animals and men, is probably lightweight, but it is more readable than most. [HILL (Sir John)] A Narrative of the Affair between Mr. BROWN, and the Inspector. Wherein all the Facts are set in their True Light. With some observations on the Inspector’s own Accounts of it. Printed for S. Clay, 1752. £5 5s 8vo, unbound, uncut; slight tear in top margin. Pp. 24. One of Hill’s many squabbles. Hill had attacked Brown on 30 April, 1752, in one of his Inspector papers for no very clear reason. Brown tried, unsuccessfully, to get Hill to retract. Eventually they met by chance at Ranelagh, where a scene took place (according to the DNB, Hill was ‘publicly thrashed” by Brown). Hill, after putting out versions of the affair (here denounced as misleading and inconsistent) hauled Brown before Mr. FIELDING (or, says this pamphlet, Brown betook himself there voluntarily, with many worthy gentleman to support him). HISTORY (The) of France, From the Origin of that Nation to the Year 1702. Containing, Besides all the Material Transactions in Peace and War, A Particular Account of the Steps taken by their Late Princes, to subvert their Civil Liberties, and to extirpate the Reformed Religion . . . To which is added, The Antient and Present State of France... With the Effigies of all their Kings, curiously Ingraven. Printed for Daniel Brown . . . and Andr. Bell, 1702. £12 10s 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf rebacked. Frontispiece and plates (heads of the kings). The compiler seems unknown.
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