Sales catalogue 78: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:
Autumn 1961
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/4
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue 78: Peter Murray Hill Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    79 80 81 82 73 SLOANE AVENUE, CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W.3. 17 concerning the Times. Nos. II and V, Feb. 6 and 27, 1717-18. Printed by S. Redmayne, and Sold by W. Boreham, 1717-18. £5 5s 2 ORIGINAL NUMBERS, FOLIO, UNCUT FINE COPIES; A SCARCE WEEKLY; the Bodleian list records a run from No. III (Feb. 13, 1717-18) only; Crane and Kaye (1406) record no copies in America. Entirely different from Flatman’s Heraclitus Ridens (1681-2), or the Heraclitus Ridens of 1703-4. AN UNRECORDED EARLY “*‘ COMMUNISTIC ”” PAPER HERALD OF PROGRESS (The). Progression is the peculiar attri- bute of man; and an indication of his ultimate destiny. Price 1d. Printed by J. G. Hornblower, and Published by J. Watson and H. Hetherington, 1846. [continued as] REASONER (The): and “ Heraid of Progress.” Price 2d. [ibid] 1846. £7 10s Large 8vo, half roan. 14 ORIGINAL ISSUES, comprising Nos. 10-14, 16, of The Herald of Progress, Feb. 28; Mar. 14, 28; April 11, 25; May 23, 1846, and Nos. 1-4, 6-9, of The Reasoner, June 3, 10, 17, 24; July 8, 15, 22, 29, 1846. The first of these two extremely left-wing papers is UNRECORDED IN THE TIMES HANDLIST. It was almost certainly edited by G. H. Holyoake, as was its larger weekly successor The Reasoner, which is hailed as being *“‘ communistic in social economy, utilitarian in morals, republican in politics, and anti-theological in religion.” It ran until late in the century and played an important part in the development of socialist philosophy. HERMIT (The). Or, A View of the World, by a Person retir’d from it [complete file of 30 nos.]. Printed for John Morphew, 1711-12. £65 Folio, unbound; 30 ORIGINAL WEEKLY ISSUES, Nos. 1-30, Aug. 4, 1711—Feb. 23, 1712. Crane and Kaye, 300 (giving only the Yale file, and nos. 12-19 only at Texas). Bodleian list, p. 225. HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE (The), or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge [general title:—] Containing the Greatest Variety of... Subjects in every Branch of Polite Literature. January 1781— December, 1783. Dublin: Printed by Thomas Walker, 1781-3. £7 10s 36 ORIGINAL MONTHLY ISSUES, and Appendix for 1781, in 3 vols., 8vo, CONTEMPORARY HALF CALF; engraved general title and frontispiece to the 1781 volume, and portrait or view to each part (none for Jan..and Sept. 1782) with some additional folding and other plates; the latter part of the 1782 volume damaged at lower edge, affecting text at foot towards end. Crane and Kaye, 301. Graham, p. 182. The Bodleian list records one issue only (Sept. 1789). AN UNRECORDED CONTRIBUTION FROM ROBERT BOYLE. HISTORY OF LEARNING (The): or, an Abstract of Several Books Lately Published, as well abroad, as at home. By one of the Two Authors of the Universal and Historical Bibliotheque. [No. 1]. Printed for Abel Swalle, and Timothy Childe, 1691. £18 4to, unbound, UNCUT, with leaf of book advts. at end. A VERY FINE, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST (AND ONLY) ISSUE OF THIS RARE LITERARY PERIODICAL, OF WHICH CRANE AND KAYE (313) RECORD ONLY THE CHICAGO COPY IN AMERICA. It was edited by Jean de la Crose, an important but a prickly journalist, who launched it with high hopes, as set out here in a long preface. Several further issues seemingly followed under his name, but these were in fact piracies; after No. 1, de la Crose transferred his labours to The Works of the Learned, which first appeared in August 1691