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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    166 NOVEL. [BROWNLEE (William Craig)] The Whigs of Scotland: Or, the Last of the Stuarts. An Historical Romance of the Scottish Persecution. New-York: Printed and Published by Ff. & F. Harper... 1833 £25 2 vols., 12mo, original cloth, printed labels (rubbed) on spines. First EDITION: PRESENTATION Copy, with author’s signed inscription in each volume to “his old... dear .. . beloved friend, the Revd. John Ritchie, D.D., from his affectionate old class mate, N. C. Brownlee, the Author. New York: Nov. 15, 1833”. Wright, American Fiction, 435. 167 NOVEL. [CUNNINGHAM (John William)] Sancho, or The Proverbialist. Printed by Ellerton and Henderson ... for T. Cadell (etc.), 1816. £4 10s 12mo, qtr. roan. A flyleaf roughly torn out. FIRST EDITION. 168 NOVEL. D’IsRAELI (Benjamin) Coningsby; Or, The New Generation. Henry Colburn, 1844. £18 3 vols., 12mo, binder’s cloth, lacks one label. SCARCE FIRST EDITION of this influen- tial political novel. 169 NOVEL. D’IsRAELI (Benjamin) Tancred: Or, the New Crusade. Henry Colburn, 1847, £10 10s 3 vols, 12mo, original cloth-backed boards uncut, the printed labels defective, one flyleaf torn and joint shaken, another inner joint repaired. Adverts. at end of Vol. ITI. FIRST EDITION. 170 NOVEL. Du Nover (Anne Marguerite Petit) Letters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at Avignon, Containing a Particular Account of the City, the Politicks, Intrigues, Gallantry, and Secret History of Persons of the First Quality in France... Second Edition. To which is Added, An Account of the Author’s Person and Writ- ings. Printed, for W. Mears... and #. Browne, 1716. £6 10s 8vo, unbound; 6 Il., pp. 1-239. McBurney 83a. Introduces real persons (the Pre- tender, Mme. de Maintenon, etc.); and ends with a few fairly coarse rhymes attributed to the Duchess of Maine. The Account is not in the Ist edition. 171 NOVEL. Haywoop (Eliza) Lasselia: Or, The Self-Abandon’d. A Novel. Printed for D. Browne junr... and S. Chapman... 1724. £50 8vo, unbound; pp. viii, 80; with half-title, bearing published price, 1s. 6d., and advertising her works on verso. THE RARE FIRST EDITION. A nice copy. Esdaile, p-239, gives only a second edition of the same year. Whicher, Eliza Haywood, No. 35, and McBurney, Check List Eng. Prose Fiction 1700-39, 144 & 144a, both identify the first edition from advertisements (appearing late in 1723) and do not locate a copy. In her Dedication to the Earl of Suffolk and Bindon she indulges in some self-justification, defending her books and their moral purpose. 172 NOVEL. Injur’d Innocence; Or, Virtue in Distress. An Affecting Narrative, founded on Facts; containing the History of Miss Adams, and Lord Whatley, By his Lordship’s Chaplain. Printed for W. Clements . . . 1790. £4 10s Sm. 8vo, unbound, pp. 48. A short popular tale. 173 NOVEL. Lauper (Sir Thos. Dick) Legendary Tales of the Highlands. Henry Colburn, 1841 £3 10s 3 vols, 8vo, early binder’s cloth. Plates (rather foxed); the bindings slightly loose. FIRST EDITION. RARE ““CRUSOE”? NOVEL 174 NOVEL. [LONGUEVILLE (P.)] The Hermit: Or, the Unparalled [sic] Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll ... upon an uninhabitated Island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years . . . and will not come away . Westminster: Printed by F. Cluer and A. Campbell, (etc.) 1727. £ 8vo, contemporary panelled calf rebacked. Engraved frontispiece; map of the island with leaf of “Explanation”; plate of shipwreck at p. 154. Some slight staining especially of first few leaves. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED *“CRUSOE” NOVEL, in which the hero’s Man Friday is a monkey, “‘Beaufidell’’ (see frontispiece).
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