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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    1 ADDRESS (An) to Friends and Foes. Numb. [ [and] Numb. II. Dublin: Printed in the Year 1754. 10% £5056 2 issues (?all published), 8vo, wrappers, each of 16 pages. RARE AND APPARENTLY UNRECORDED; NOT IN CRANE AND KAYE, THE BODLEIAN, OR THE HUNTINGTON LISTS. On the political situation, on which No. I contains an obvious allegory, ‘‘ Camilicks Vision.”” No. If concludes with a 24-line poem. CONTEMPORARY MARBLED BOARDS, UNCUT. 2 ADVENTURER (The). Volume the First [—Second]. (Nos. 1-140, complete). Printed for J. Payne, 1753-4. £50 140 ORIGINAL ISSUES (Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1752-Saturday, Mar. 9, 1754, twice-weekly), in 2 vols., folio, CONTEMPORARY QUARTER-CALF, MARBLED SIDES, ENTIRELY UNCUT— the colophons at the foot of the last page of each issue are thus preserved throughout; FINE COPIES AND RARE IN THIS STATE. Edited by Hawkesworth, who wrote perhaps half the numbers, AND WITH MANY NUMBERS BY JOHNSON (probably the 29 signed “T,” though his authorship, or sole authorship, of some is questioned). Crane and Kaye 4. C.B.E.L., I, pp. 619, 664. Courtney and Nicol Smith, Bibliography of Johnson, p. 39, and Supplement by Chapman, pp. 136-7. This copy is without the contents leaf to Vol. I. 3 ADVENTURER (The). Volume the First [—Fourth]. The Fourth Edition. Printed for C. Hitch (etc.), 1762. | £3 3s 4 vols, 12m0, CONTEMPORARY CALF, GILT BACKS. 4 ADVICES FROM PARNASSUS. By Trajani Boccalini. Trans- lated from the Italian. With Observations, Reflections, and Notes. By Mr. Earbery. Numb. IV. For the Month of June 1727. Printed for the Editor, 1727. £3 10s Folio, unbound; ORIGINAL MONTHLY ISSUE. Contains five “‘ Advices ”’ (each with comment), numbered 16-20, also a list of the previous 15 “* Advices ” which would have appeared in Nos. I-III, March-May, 1727. Presumably an imitation of the 1681 *“‘ Advices.’* Scarce. Crane and Kaye knew only of No. I (March 1727) and RECORDED NO COPIES IN AMERICA. NOT IN THE BODLEIAN LIST. NOT IN C.B.E.L. 5 ALNWICK PUNCH. Nos. 1-14 [all published]. Alnwick: Printed and Published by and for John Lamb Luckley, 1851-2. £3 3s Sm. 8vo, half morocco; 14 nos., April 1851-December 1852 (published irregularly). Nos. 1-7 are described as “‘ Second Edition.’ A scarce provincial farrago mostly by Luckley himself, a local wag. 6 ALTER ET IDEM, a New Review. No. I [all published]. Printed (but not for publication), Reading, 1794. £5 10s 4to, original boards (rebacked), uncut. By Robert Deverell, whose writings *“ decidedly proved insanity... yet he was the best tutor I could have had,” according to his pupil, Sir Robert Heron. 3 plates (showing some of Deverell’s odd inventions, etc.). Crane and Kaye 7 (L. of C. only). 7 AMERICAN MUSEUM (The), or, Universal Magazine: containing Essays on Agriculture — Commerce — Manufactures — Politics — Morals — Sketches of National Characteristics — &c., &c. Phila- delphia: Carey, Stewart, and Co., 1789. £4 10s 4to, unbound, UNCUT, PARTLY UNOPENED; RARE THUS. SIX ORIGINAL MONTHLY ISSUES, JULY-DECEMBER 1789. Lacking the Supplement and Index published at the end of Dec., but with the General Title, LEAF OF DEDICATION TO WASHINGTON, AND 17-PAGE LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND THEIR HOME TOWNS—HEADED BY THE NAME OF THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF. Kress (B. 1148) records only the Harvard run of this magazine.