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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    70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 73 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. 9 Treasurer and Lord Bolingbroke . . .” (The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, 1714). Probably Dunton’s reference to the “‘Billingsgate Rascal’? who wrote The Examiner had provoked Swift. There are few contemporary figures in politics or journalism who escape Dunton’s flail; even Defoe’s Mercator is labelled “‘the very worst and Knavishest Paper Britain ever produced... .” EARTHQUAKES. A Dissertation upon Earthquakes, their Causes and Con- sequences; comprehending . . . Nature . . . of subterraneous Vapours, their amazing Force... Sentiments... of... Philosophers . . . different Kinds of Earthquakes . . . Collection of authentick Relations . . . the greater Part... in Great Britain. Together with a distinct Account of ...an Earthquake...in... London and Westminster, Feb. 8, 1749-50. Printed for James Roberts, gry : £12 10s 8vo, unbound; 1 leaf, pp. 70. EARTHQUAKES, HAtEs (Stephen) Some Considerations on the Causes of Earthquakes... . read before the Royal Society, April 5, 1750. Printed for R. Manby and H. S. Cox, 1750. £16 8vo, unbound, pp. 23. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy, with. half-title. EARTHQUAKES. A Letter to the Lord Bishop of London, On Occasion of His Lordship’s late Letter to the Clergy and People of... London and Westminster [i.e. on the earthquake, Feb. 1750] By a Citizen of London. Printed for 7. Robinson ..- &. Cook... and G. Woodfall, 1750. £5 10s 8vo, unbound, pp. 23. ELECTIONEERING IN 1769 ELECTIONS. Moore (William) The Infamy of Justice Kelynge, Justice ----- i; and John Broughton, Bruiser: Or, The Transactions of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor’s Secret Committee, From the Twentieth of December last to this Day. Tuesday, Jan. 31, 1769. Printed for and Sold by W. Moore [1769] £5 5s Folio, pp. 6, unbound. Sir William, alleges Moore, had connived at the bribing by Kelynge and others of a gang of ruffians whose “instructions were to clear the way for Sir William Beauchamp Proctor’s friends, and prevent Serjeant Glynn’s friends polling”. These thugs had caused riots and violence more than once; Moore refers to what he calls the ‘“‘Massacre at Brentford’’, 8 Dec. 1768, and to a gang hired to go to Northampton, following which one M’Quirk was tried and found guilty of murder. Others, of whom information had been laid before Sir JOHN FIELDING, had ever since been paid a guinea a week—with public money, Moore seems to hint darkly. If the unfortunate PENLEZ was executed, concludes Moore, why not such as M’Quirk—on whom, he notes, sentence has unaccountably not yet been carried out ? ELOGY (The) of NOTHING, dedicated to Nobody; with a Postface. By T. Trifler, Esq.; Of the Middle Temple. Sold by T. Cooper, 1742. £21 8vo, unbound; pp. viii (including title), 24. No prize is offered for counting the number of times the word Nothing occurs in this strange tour-de-force. SCARCE. ELWES (John, Celebrated Miser) The Life of... with Singular Anecdotes. Written by Captain Topham. Glasgow: Printed for Stewart & Meikle [ca. 1796]. £4 10s 12mo, cloth. ERASMUS,. BuTLER (Charles) The Life of Erasmus: with Historical Remarks on the State of Literature between the Tenth and Sixteenth Centuries. John Murray, 1825. £6 10s 8vo, original boards uncut. Butler, well-known Catholic, reviews the whole field of literature and learning from A.D. 600 and Erasmus’s great services to it. ESSAY (An) On Morality, and on the Establishment of the Moral Principle. Printed for T, Cadell and W. Davies, 1810 [with] An Answer to the British Critic, being a Defence of the Essay on Morality, same imprint, 1812. £3 10s 12mo, unbound, pp. viii, 86 and [2], 92. He denies that what he has said is merely that “the Principle of. Morality is human welfare” and that this need only be demonstrated, for all men to be moral. Discusses expediency, man’s religious nature, Dr. Paley, etc.
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