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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    The 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 Jolio. London, Rh. 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 thetuthor, 1764—-Prior (Matthew) Solomon de mundi Vanitate, poema latine redditum per Guil. Dobson, Oxoniae, 1735— Dalton (John) Two Epistles, 2. Dodsley, 1745—Tunbridge Epistles from Lady Margaret to the Countess of B. 1767 ; and 5 others, poetical 4to (10) Aretaeus Cappadocis de Acutorum ac diuturnorum morborum causis et signis Theophili de Hominis fabrica, lib. V, Ori- basii Collectaneorum Artis medice liber (graeco), vellum, Parisiis, 1554-6 —Bacon, Novum Organum..Scientiarum, engraved title, sheepskin, Lugd. Bat.1650—The Town-and Country Almanack for 1791, old calf gilt, Edinburgh, J. Ruddiman, 1791 sm. 8vo. (3) 273 Aulus Gellius: Noctes Attice, engraved title, Lugd. Bat. 1666 —Quintus Curtius Rufus: Historia Alexandri Magni, engraved title, vellum, Amst. ex officina Klzeviriana, 1664— Seneca (I. A.) Opera, quae exstant, vol. I-II (vol. 7 want- ing), engraved titles, old calf (rebacked), Amst. apud D. Elsevirium, 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. e. 8vo. 1699 275 Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, 6 l/. of Table, and folios ili and ili wanting, vellum sm. 4to. Impressa in Vinegia per Gregorio de Gregori il mese di Maggio dell anno 1516 * * THE FIRST QUARTO EDITION of the Decameron, and the first in which it was sought to restore the integrity of Boccaccio’s original text. 276; Boethaave (Hermannus) Aretzei Cappadocis de Causis et signis damaged Folio. Lugd. Bat. 1735 277 Boyse (Samuel) Deity, a Poem, FIRST EDITION, 1739—Gay (J.) Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, defec- 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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