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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    184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 OPERA LIBRETTO [ ?Ausert (Mrs.)] Harlequin-Hydaspes: Or, The Gresham- ite. A Mock-Opera. As it is Perform’d at .. . Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields. Printed, and Sold by 7. Roberts, 1719. £15 8vo, unbound; pp.viii (incl. half-title, etc.) 55. FirsT EDITION. A satire on Italian opera. Not a ballad opera, but to a slight extent a precursor of the form, with a few resemblances to the Beggar’s Opera; see Gagey, Ballad Opera, p. 22. OPERA LIBRETTO. La Generosita d’Alessandro: A Serious Opera... As performed at the King’s Theatre . . . Hay-Market. The Music entirely new, by Signor Tarchi. Printed by L. Wayland... 1789. £6 10s 8vo, unbound; pp.51. English-Italian parallel text. From Metastasio’s Alessandro nell’ Indie; but this version not among the many in the L. of Congress Catalogue under his name nor the composer’s, Angelo Tarchi, whose 26 works there include an Alessandro . . . but of 1791. Nicoll notes it, but as of 1790 and the composer as *Varchi’’. At the end are added 2 pp. of Subscribers to the Boxes, 1789, on the King’s Side, the Prince’s Side, etc. It is pleasantly evocative to note Mrs. Damer, Fox, Pitt, Mrs. Fitzherbert, General Paoli, Mrs. Robinson, etc., and the distribution of their seating, amongst the opera-patronising peerage, in the 100 or so boxes. OPERA LIBRETTO. Songs, Duets, Trio, and Finales, in No Song No Supper. As performed ... Drury-Lane. 7.p. 1792. £4 4s 8vo, unbound; pp. 17; with half-title. Text by Hoare, music by Storace and others. L. of C. Cat., p. 800. [PATERSON (Samuel, bookseller & auctioneer)] Speculations upon Law and Lawyers; applicable to the Manifest Hardships, Uncertainty, and Abusive Practice of the Common Law. Printed for Messrs. Robson and Clarke (etc.), 1788. £4 10s 8vo, unbound; 4 Il., pp. 103-+[1]. ““A man for whom I have long had a kindness” said Johnson, who was godfather to Paterson’s son. Paterson was one of the best and most careful cataloguers of his day. PEARSON (Anthony) The Great Case of Tithes Truly Stated . . . With an Appendix. Printed and Sold by the Assigns of F. Sowle . . . 1732. £3 10s 8vo, unbound; pp. viii, 124; some headlines and page-numerals cropped. PHILLIPS otherwise MUILMAN (Teresia Constantia) A Letter Humbly address’d to .. . the Earl of Chesterfield. Printed for the Author; And sold at her House, 1750. £10 10s 8vo, unbound; half-title, title, pp. 41. With her MS. signature “Your Lordships most Obedt. humble Servt. T. C. Muilman. April ye 5.1750”, as found in copies of her Apology. Whether her claim on Chesierfield had any substance or not, she here uses the early alias ““Thomas Grimes’’, under which he had found it convenient to be known on certain private occasions. PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA and PASCAL. The Lives of Picus and Pascal, Faithfully Collected from the most Authentick Accounts [with] A Parallel between those two Christian Worthies. By Mr. Jesup. Printed by W. Burton, for F. Hooke, 1723. £30 8vo, contemporary calf, joints cracking but a very good copy. Scarce. The Life of Picus is taken from SIR THOMAS Morer’s (first published ca. 1510); the Life of Pascal (with separate title, paging, and signatures) from Gilberte Perier’s, Pascal’s sister. We note with mild surprise that, while Edward Jesup signs the Dedication and (presumably) supplies the Parallel at the end, the 14-page Preface to Pascal is by the shadowy W. Bond (perhaps identical with “Henry Stanhope’) who continually occurs in the Pope-Curll context; and the HpgHse verse rendering of the Latin epitaph to Pascal is by George Sewell. PIGEONS. [Treatise] on Domestic Pigeons. Printed for the Proprietors, n.d. [early note in MS “Bristol 1798’’]. £3 10s 12mo, half pigskin (recent). Folding frontispiece (torn but complete). Pp. iv, 13-140. The word “Treatise” on title cropped. The running headline to text reads The Complete Pigeon Fancyer. The date looks about right. Probably a popular version of J. Moore’s Columbarium: or the Pigeon House.
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