Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
October 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/965
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    746 | Cocles (Bartholomeo della Rocca, alias) In Chiromantio a Andree Corvi Mirandulensis, woodcut of a cheiromancer reading the hand of a client, and 160 full-page woodcut diagrams of the hand, hatf calf 12mo. Venice, 1520 747 [Gough (J.)] The Strange Discovery: a Tragi-Comedy, FIRST EDITION, some margins cut into, boards, 1640— Hemans (Felicia) Tales and Historic Scenes, in verse, FIRST EDITION, contemporary morocco gilt, 1819— Dodsley (Robert) The Oeconomy of Human Life, First EDITION, calf extra, uncut, 1751—Scogins Jests; full of Witty Mirth and pleasant Shifts, done by him in France and other places, portrait, half morocco gilt, 1796 (4) 748 Ales (Alexander) Cohortatio ad Concordiam Pietatis, vellum, ; 1544; Omnes Disputationes, cum Prefatione P. Melan- chthonis, morocco, 1554; ete. (5) 749 More (Sir Thomas) Idée d’une République Heureuse: ou PUtopie, plates, calf, Amst. 1730—Hall (Bp. Joseph) The Invisible World, discovered to Spirituall lyes, calf, 1659—Fielding (H.) Tom Jones. Historia Galante e Divertida, FIRST EDITION IN PortuGuESE, 4 vol. Lisbon, 1812; and others (13) 750 Shakespeare. Edwards (Thomas) Canons of Criticism, half morocco, 1765; and two other editions, 1758 and 1750; Concordance to Shakespeare, calf, 1787; Baker’s Bio- graphia Dramatica, 2 vol. calf, 1782; ete. (7) 51 Farmer (Richard) Sale Catalogue of his Library, priced throughout, half calf, uncut 1798 ** Thirty-six days sale, including Old English Poetry and Plays. %52 Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron; translated by J. M. Rigg, 2 vol. illustrations, with the extra plates, red morocco gut, g.t. 1903 753 Johnson (Samuel) Works; together with his Life and Notes on his Lives of the Poets by Sir John Hawkins, 11 vol. portrait, half calf gult, g. e. 1787 754 Bryce (Viscount) The American Commonwealth, FIRST EDITION (with the Chapter on the Tweed Ring), 3 vol. half morocco gilt, g.e. 1888