Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
24 March 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/840
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lor 199—continued. Maiesties persone and estate, full-page woodcut on verso of title, Edinburgh, R. Waldegrave, n.d. [? J. Wreittonn, ? 1626]; [Calderwood (David)] Perth Assembly. Con- taining 1.'The Proceedings thereof (in Aug. 1618). 2. The Proofe of the Nullitie thereof, ete. [Holland], 1619 : A re-examination of the five articles enacted at Perth anno 1618, n. p. 1636; A Breife Relation of Certaine speciall, and most materiall passages, and speeches in the: Starre-Chamber, 1638 ; The Triall of the English Liturgie, 1638; in 1 vol. old calf; sold as a collection, and not subject to return ~, - Abo 200 Tracts. A Letter ballancing the Necessity of keeping a Land- Force in times of Peace, 1697; The Art of Abuse: or Satyr in Disguise, 1705; Bellers (John) An Essay towards the Improvement of Physick, with an Essay for implying the Able Poor, 1714; Een schoone ende wonderlijcke Historie van Valentyn en Oursson, gothic letter, woodcuts, some leaves discoloured, tot Utrecht, J. van Poolsum, n. d.; and 7 others, in 1 vol. half calf; sold as a collection and not subject to return Ato: 202 ‘Tracts. Wallis (J.) A Discourse of Gravity and Gravitation, folding plate, 1675; Papin (D.) A New Digester or Engine for softning Bones . . . its Make and Use in these- Particulars : viz. Cookery, Voyages at Sea, Confectionary, Making of Drinks, Chymistry, and Dying, folding plate, 1681; The Natural History of Coffee, Thee, Chocolate, Tobacco . . . And also the way of making Mum, 1682; Evremont (Sieur de Saint) Mixt Essays upon Tragedies, Comedies, Italian Comedies, English Comedies, And Opera’s, 1685; Strode (T.) A Short Treatise of the Com-. binations, Elections, Permutations & Composition of Quantities, 1678; and 3 others, in 1 vol.; sold as a col- lection, and not subject to return 4to> 203 Tracts. Walter (J.) An Address shewing the great improve-. ment he has made in the Art of Printing, by logographic: Arrangements, 1789; Tracey (W.) Narrative of the Operations used to raise H.M.S. Royal George, coloured folding frontismece, Portsmouth, 1785; Jones (W.) Six Letters on Electricity, 1800; and 3 others, in 1 vol. half calf ) 8v0- 204 'Traots. Wotton (Sir H.) A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, 1642; Raleigh (Sir W.) The Prince, or Maxims of State, 1642; The: Merchants Remonstrance. Wherein is set forth the in-- evitable miseries which may suddenly befall this King- dome by want of Trade, and decay of Manufactures. By J. B. of London Merchant, 1644; A Discourse of a true:
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