Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:: Spring 1967

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/3

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

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$250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 73 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. 29 VIRGIL. Publii Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum Libri Quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English Translation and Notes. By JOHN MARTYN, F.R.S. Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. The Second Edition. Printed by R. Reily for T. Osborne, 1746. £5 5s 8vo, calf (joints cracked). Plates (plain). WALES. A Brief Account of the Life of Howell Harris, Esq; extracted from Papers written by himself. To which is added a Concise Collection of his Letters... 1738 to 1782. Trevecka: [Brecon, Wales], Printed in the Year, 1791. £6 6s 8vo, qtr. calf, joints cracked; some old library stamps. Howel Harris, a somewhat turbulent preacher, “aroused the whole principality’? (DNB). With Daniel Rowlands he virtually founded Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, but later a split developed between ‘“‘Harris’s People’? and “‘Rowlands’s People’. His so-called “family”? at Trevecca, of over 100 persons, was a sort of Protestant monastery. WALES. Davies (Richard, Welsh Quaker, 1635-1708) An Account of the Con- vincement, Exercises, Services, and Travels of .. . with some Relation of Ancient Friends, and the Spreading of Truth in North-Wales, &c. The Third Edition. Printed and Sold by Mary Hinde, 1771. £3 3s 12mo, contemporary sheep. WALPOLE (Robert) An Authentick Copy of the Last Will and Testament of the R——t Ho ble R***** E—l1 of O*****, With Remarks. Printed for 7. English [1745]. £6 10s 8vo, unbound; title; pp. [3]-8, 1-20. A genuine production. “WALPOLE (Robert)”’ [in fact spurious] The Last Will and Testament Of the Right Honourable R——\t E of O d... Printed for W. Webb, 1745. £8 10s 8vo, unbound; title; pp. [3]-28. Anti-Walpole satire. [WARBURTON (William)] A View of Lord BOLINGBROKE’s Philosophy; In Four Letters .. . Letters First and Second. Printed for fohn and Paul Knapton, 1754. [with :] [CHURCH (Thomas)] An Analysis of the Philosophical Works of the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Printed for 7. Whiston and B. White, 1755. £5 5s 2 in 1 vol., 8vo, contemporary half sheep, rubbed; internally excellent copies. Warburton’s Letters 3 & 4 were published a year later. [WARD (Edward)] The Secret History of the CALVES-HEAD CLUBB, or, The Republican Unmasqu’d: Wherein is fully shewn the Religion of the Calves-Head Heroes, In their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of January, by them called ANTHEMS: For the Years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, 1697. Now Published, To demonstrate the Restless, Implacable Spirit, of a certain Party still among us, who are never to be satisfied till the present Establishment in Church and State is subverted. Printed, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1703. £25 4to, qtr. roan; pp. 22. FIRST EDITION. Troyer, Ned Ward, gives a chapter (pp. 108- 20) to this pamphlet and to the question (with interesting examples) of how far the Calves Head Club existed outside the imaginations of Tory pamphleteers. WHITEHEAD (Paul) Manners: A Satire . . . Printed for R. Dodsley . . 1739. £10 10s Folio, unbound. A tall copy. FIRST EDITION, with two ornaments on p. 3 and with a half-title. (See Iolo Williams, Points, p. 103). WRAXALL ([Sir] Nathaniel [Wm.]) Memoirs of the Kings of France, of the Race of Valois . . . To which is added, A Tour through . . . Provinces of France. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. S. Price (etc.), 1777. £5 5s 2 vols., 12mo, contemporary calf. First Dublin edition, the same year as the London one. WYCHERLEY (William) The Works of the Ingenious Mr. WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, Collected into one Volume: Containing Plain Dealer, Country-Wife, Gentleman- Dancing-master, Love in a Wood. Printed for Richard Wellington, 1713. £12 10s 8vo, contemporary calf. Third and last few leaves slightly stained, and the third also frayed at edges.$

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