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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    62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 CRITICISMS ON THE ROLLIAD, A Poem, being a more faithful Portraiture of the Present Immaculate Young Minister and his Friends, than any extant... Printed for 7. Ridgway, 1784. £10 10s 8vo, STITCHED AS ISSUED, UNCUT. FIRST EDITION. This celebrated skit (there was of course no such poem as the Rolliad, though pretended ‘“‘quotations” from it feature in the Criticisms) was a huge success and went through over 20 editions, the later ones extended to several parts. The authors, who included R. Tickell, Joseph Richardson, Henry Bate Dudley and others, were aiming though John Rolle at Pitt and Dundas. CURIOSA [DELOLME (John Louis)] The History of the Flagellants; otherwise of Religious Flagellations among different Nations, and especially among Christians. Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the HISTORIA FLAGELLANTIUM of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Cannon of the Holy Chapel, &c. By One who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne. The Second Edition. Printed for G. Robinson, 1783. £5 5s 8vo, calf rebacked. Plates. CURIOSA. Tryal (The) of Colonel Francis CHARTERIS. For a Rape... Of Anne Bond... found Guilty ... Fryday the 27th of February 1729-30. London Printed, Dublin Reprinted by and for Sylvanus Pepyat, 1730. £8 10s 8vo, unbound, pp. 16. First DUBLIN EDITION of this notorious trial, [DEFOE (Daniel)] Queries to the New Hereditary Right-Men. Printed and Sold by the Booksellers .. . 1710. £45 8vo, the original sheet folded as issued, unstitched, uncut, and unopened; rare thus. Moore 191. DOUGLAS CAUSE. The Speeches, Arguments, and Determinations of .. . the Lords of Council and Session . . . with an Introductory Preface, giving an impartial and distinct Account of this Suit. By a Barrister at Law. Printed for FJ. Almon, 1767. £8 10s 8vo, calf rebacked. Title and 391 pp., the Preface taking 77. DRAKE (Nathan) Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. Printed by C. Whittingham .. . for Fohn Sharpe, 1805. £7 10s 3 vols., sm. 8vo, contemporary half calf. 3 frontispieces. FIRST EDITION. [DUCKETT (George)] A Summary of all the Religious Houses in England and Wales, with their Titles and Valuations at . . . Dissolution. And a Calculation of what they might be worth at this Day . . . with an Appendix concerning the several Religious Orders that prevail’d in this Kingdom. Printed ca James Knapton ket), 5 1717. £6 8vo, unbound, pp. xxiv, 100. ““The Monks [he seeks to prove] were Masters of above Fourteen Parts out of Twenty of the whole Kingdom”, over £14 million out of a total (at 1717 prices) of £20 million per annum, the “‘value of all the lands of England”. The Appendix concludes with a grim warning of the consequences should the Society of Jesus become masters of the West-Indies; they are already possessed of “‘a vast Tract... called Paraguay . . . between Brasil and Rio de la Plata’, where the Jesuit Mission, fearful that the King of Spain might seize back the territory, has armed the natives. [DUNTON (John)] Neck or Nothing: in a Letter to the Rt. Hon. the Lord [Oxford] Being a Supplement to the Short History of the Parliament. Also The New Scheme which the English and Scotch Jacobites have concerted for bringing in the Pretender, Popery and Slavery. With the True Character or Secret History of the Present Ministry. Written by his Grace John Duke of [Marlborough]. Printed by T. Warner, 1713. £10 10s 8vo, unbound. FIRST EDITION, Probably Dunton’s most successful venture into politics. Even Swift bothered to attack it, under a mask of ironic approbation, calling it “the shrewdest Piece, and written with the most Spirit of any which hath appeared from that Side .. . It is indeed a most cutting Satire upon the Lord
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