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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    157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 73 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. 19 MILITARY. Seasonable and Affecting Observations on the Mutiny-Bill, Articles of War, and Use and Abuse of a Standing Army... Printed for W. Qwen, 1750 £8 10s 8vo, unbound; title, pp. 1-67. Detailed and particularised. A “‘Standing Army, in... absolute Subjection to the Will & Pleasure of their Officers’? might threaten the Constitution. MILL (John Stuart) England and Ireland. Longmans, Green . . . 1868. £3 10s 8vo, unbound, stitched as issued; stain on title. Pp.44. First EDITION. MILLAR (George) Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, delivered in the University of Dublin. Dublin [and] for fohn Murray, London, 1816. £4 10s 2 vols., lge. 8vo, original boards uncut; fine copy. [MORE (Hannah)] Sacred Dramas: Chiefly intended for Young Persons. The Subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added Sensibility, a Poem. Printed for T. Cadell, 1793. £3 3s 8vo, contemporary tree calf. THE TAKING OF GIBRALTAR: ROOKE VINDICATED NAVAL. A Review of the Late Engagement at Sea, Being a Collection of Private Letters, never before printed, (one of them from Sir Cloudesly Shovell) Contain- ing, the Truest ... Accounts: With some Remarks on... our Admirals, particularly Sir G[eorge] R[ooke]. Printed, and Sold by Fohn Nutt, 1704. £15 Ato, half calf; 2 ll., pp. 23. Rooke, Byng, Leake and the Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt had taken Gibraltar (July 24)—largely because it was clearly impossible to take Cadiz, as requested, and they felt Gibraltar would do instead—and had left a thinly-armed force in possession. They then met the French Fleet under the Count of Toulouse, and a bloody, ill-planned and indecisive battle ensued, with heavy losses on both sides (Aug. 13). The French, and the Marlborough party who resented any hero-worship of Rooke as likely to dim the Duke’s lustre, called it a British defeat; these present letters, needless to say, a British victory. But at least it made Toulouse withdraw and abandon any idea of re-taking Gibraltar—giving Rooke time to put in there again, re-fit, and leave further arms and supplies. Several letters are graphic accounts of the battle by those who served, written home to wives, parents and friends from ships “in Gibraltar Road’, during this time. Rooke, when he got home, was relieved of his command and never given another. Such is public gratitude—or rather party politics. NEWCASTLE. The Life of Ambrose Barnes, sometime Alderman of Newcastle. Newcastle [upon Tyne]... 1828. £3 10s 8vo, wrappers; pp. vi, 353; folding pedigree. Edited, by “‘C.S.”, from a large MS of 1716, preserved in the library of the Lit. & Phil. Soc. of Newcastle. Barnes (1627- 1710) was a famous Northern Puritan, and knew Calamy, Caryll, Baxter and others. NEWNHAM (William) A Tribute of Sympathy Addressed to Mourners. Printed for F. Hatchard, 1817. £4 10s 12mo, contemporary half calf. FIRST EDITION (it reached an 8th by 1842). A doctor, and an early member of the British Medical Association, for whose Benevolent Fund he did valuable work, he wrote also on mental states and the interaction of body and mind. His views on the value of giving reasonably free rein to natural grief (he lost his first wife within a year of marriage) are thus of some interest. NOVEL. ArGENS (J. B. de Boyer, Marquis d’) Chinese Letters. Being a Philosophical, Historical, and Critical Correspondence between a Traveller at Paris, and his Countrymen in China, Muscovy, Persia, and Japan... done into English. Printed for D. Browne... and R. Hett, 1741. £25 12mo, contemporary calf gilt; one joint beginning to split but a pleasant copy. First ENGLISH TRANSLATION. CBEL, Minor Fiction, II, 552. NOVEL. AuLNoy (Marie Catherine de la Mothe, Comtesse d’) The History of John of Bourbon, Prince of Carency. Containing a Variety of entertaining Novels, Viz. 1. The Surprize ... 2. The Mutual Mistakes . . . 3. The Secret Rival [etc., 10 in all] .. . Translated into English. The Second Edition. Printed for 7. Peele, 1723. £38 8vo, contemporary calf, hinges cracked, but a good copy. Scarce. Esdaile p. 256. McBurney 106b.
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