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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    209 READ (John, of Knightsbridge, London) A Summary View of the Spontaneous Electricity of the Earth and Atmosphere. . . Causes of Lightning and Thunder... Constant Electrification of the Clouds and Vapours .. . explained. With some new Experiments... to illustrate . . . Atmospherical Electricity {and] the Atmospherico- Electrical Journal, kept during two years, as presented to aM published by the Royal Society. Printed by the Author, of whom it may be had... 1793. £28 8vo, contemporaiy calf; folding plate. Experiments, mnaphines meteorological observations, comments on Peart’s book, etc. Scarce. 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 Whigs, and Dissenters &c. Printed for F. Roberts, 1739. £4 4s 8vo, unbound; title, pp. 1-58. RETZ (Cardinal de) Memoirs . . . containing The Particulars of his own Life... Secret ‘Transactions (etc.). Printed for facob Tonson, 1723. £12 10s 4 vols., 12mo, contemporary calf; Shaftesbury copy, with name on fly-leaves. First ENGLISH EDITION, translated by P. Davall, who dedicates it to Congreve. RICHARDSON (Jonathan) The Works of . . . Consisting of I. the Theory of Painting. II. Essay on the Art of Criticism . . . III. the Science of a Connoisseur. All corrected... by his Son, Mr. J. Richardson. Printed for T. Davies, 1773. £8 10s 8vo, calf rebacked; some slight water-staining. The first one-volume edition. ROLAND (Jeanne-Marie, Wife of the Ex-Minister of the Interior) The Works (never before Published) Containing her Philosophical and Literary Essays. . . Correspondence . . . Travels . . . Documents relative to her Imprisonment and Condemnation .. . Preliminary Discourse . . . with notes, by L. A. Champagneux. Translated from the French. Printed for F. fohnson, 1800. £5 5s 8vo, contemporary half roan, rubbed; portrait. The judicial murder of Mme. Roland, when she was 39, was “the most unpardonable crime’? committed during the Terror, says Champagneux. RUSSELL (Lady Rachel) Letters of . . . from the Manuscript . . . at Woburn Abbey [with] an Introduction Vindicating the Character of Lord Russell against Sir John Dalrymple, &c. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. £6 10s Ato, qtr. calf rebacked. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy. SCANDINAVICA. Frithiof’s Saga . . . Translated from the Swedish Poetic Version of Esaias Tegner... with Copious Notes... by The Rev. William Strong. F. Wacey ... W. Straker (etc.), 1833. £8 10s 8vo, cloth, hinges beginning to split. Portrait of Tegner. SCOTLAND. LETTER (A) from a Gentleman in Town to His Friend in the Country; Containing A Copy of some Authentick Papers relating to the Conduct of the Presbytery of DUNFERMLINE, in the. . . Settlement of Inverkeithing. Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Lumsden . . . 1752. £3 3s 8vo, unbound; pp. 15. SCRIPTURE and Antiquity in a Collection of Testimonies, concerning the Doctrine of the Church . . . To which is prefix’d, The Continual Succession of Popes... In the End is a Brief Account of the Eighteen General Councils . . . also the Concessions of several Learned Protestant Writers . . . Printed in the Year 1748. £7 10s 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, hinges cracked. A scarce Catholic work. SCROPE. The Local Martyr; Or, The Life of . . . Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York. Cruelly put to Death by King Henry IV. for adhering to his Rightful Sovereign. Printed for T. Payne, 1732. £3 10s 8vo, unbound, pp. 40; margins dust-soiled. SERIOUS Reflections on the Present State of Things in These Nations, Being the Conclusion of Dr. LELAND’s View of the Deistical Writers. Now published separately, On Occasion of the General Fast . Seventeenth of February next. To which is prefixed A Preface By the same Hand. Printed for Benjamin Dod, 1758. £3 10s 8vo, unbound, pp. 32.
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