Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
01-04 December 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/432
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Che Property of a Gentleman. SIZES MIXED. 270 Acts of Parliament passed in the first and fourth years of the reign of King James, 2 vol. black letter, vellum, with strings folio. London, h. Barker, 1604-7 271 [Anstey (Christopher)] An Election Ball, in Poetical Letters, curious frontispiece, Bath, 1776—Woodhouse (James, a Journeyman Shoemaker) Poems on Sundry Occasions, / printed for the author, 1764—-Prior (Matthew) Solomon de 4 mundi Vanitate, poema latine redditum per Guil. Dobson, / Oxvontae, 1735—Dalton (John) Two Epistles, R. Dodsley, 1745—Tunbridge Epistles from Lady Margaret to the Countess of B. 1767; and 5 others, poetical 4to (10) “UY ot\~ 972 \Aretaeus Cappadocis de Acutorum ac diuturnorum morborum ~“ as “causis eb signis Theophili de Hominis fabrica, lib. V, Ori- ee __basii Colleetaneorum Artis medice liber (graeco), vellum, oy ok / Parisiis, 1554-6—Bacon, Novum Organum Scientiarum, aan VOR oe engraved title, sheepskin, Lugd. Bat. 1650—The Town and wnt Ee Country Almanack for 1791, old calf gilt, Kdinburgh, J. ‘ Ruddiman, 1791 sm. 8vo. (3) a 1 Aulus Gellius: Noctes Attica, engraved title, Lugd. Bat. 1666 = / —Quintus Curtius Rufus: Historia Alexandri Magni, engraved title, vellum, Amst. ex officina Elzeviriana, 1664— Seneca (L. A.) Opera, quae exstant, vol. I-II (vol. LIT want- ing), engraved titles, old calf (rebacked), Amst. apud D. Hlsevirium, 1672 8vo. (4) 274 Bentley (Richard) A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, with an Answer to the Objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esquire, FIRST EDITION, :-modern red morocco, gilt borders, g. é. 8vo. 1699 275 Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, 6 Wl. of Table, and folios ii and 111 wanting, vellum sm. 4to. Impressa in Vinegia per Gregorio de Gregori il mese di Maggio dell? anno 1516 * HE FIRST QUARTO EDITION of the Decameron, and the first in which it was sought to restore the integrity of Boceaccio’s original text. ‘ i 276 | Boethaave (Hermannus) Aretzi Cappadocis de Causis et signis bmn | | acutorum et diuturnorum morborum, libri quatuor, vellum, / damaged ‘folio. Lugd. Bat. 17 35 277 Boyse (Samuel) Deity, a Poem, FIRST EDITION, 1739—Gay (J.) Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, de/ec- tive at foot, London, printed for Bernard Lintott (n. d.)— The Case of the Hanover Forces in the Pay of Great Britain impartially and freely examined, 1742; and 2 others 8vo. (5)
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