Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes

Date:
1930s
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/3/6
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    48 877 Smollett (Tobias) Miscellaneous Works, with Memoirs by Dr. R. Anderson. | Fifth Edition, with portrait, 6 vols., 8vo., half morocco (yubbed). Edinburgh, 1817 £4/4/- Vol. I. is rather used. 878 The Adventures of Launcelot Greaves. With engravings by Corbould. Cooke’s Edition, 18mo., calf. N.D. (1793) 879 Adventures of Sir Launcelot Graves. Frontispiece by Burnet after Woodward, 8vo., half bound (pages 7 and 8 wanting). Edinburgh, 1809 10/6 880 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. With engravings by Corbould, 2 vols., 18mo., calf. (1809) 7/6 See also No. 10. Socrates. See Church History, Hanmer. Somerset. Sce Billingsley. 881 Sonnerat (P.) Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des Lieux, des Observations physiques et morales, et des détails relatifs a 1’ Histoire Naturelle dans le Regne Animal et le Regne Végétal. With 120 fine plates, many of birds, plants, fruits, etc., 4to., calf gilt (joints weak). Paris, 1776 35 /- 882 South (Rob.), Public Orator, Oxford, and Prebend of Westminster. Sermon at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Nov. 9, 1662, before the Lord Mayor, etc. 4to., sewed 7/6 In his Dedication he says this was one of the belly ‘stoln from me in the King’s Chapel.’ Autograph of Jo. Dove. Southey (Robt.).. See H. Kirke White. 883 Spain.—War in Spain. 19 pieces in Spanish, printed at Sevilla, Cadez, Isla de Leon (1 in French printed in London) during 1809-12. 8vo., half calf wait Spain. See Antonio, G. Moore, Faxado. Gallois. $84 Spanish.—Gramatica de la Lengua Cas- tellana. Compuesta por la Real Academia Espanola. 4 edicion, Corregida y aug- mentada. Fcap. 8vo., half calf. Madrid 1796 5 /- 385 PINEDA (Peter) A New Dictionary Spanish and English, and English and Spanish. Containing the Etymology, the Proper and Metaphorical Significations of Words. Together with the Arabick and Moorish Words. Nowcommonly received in the Spanish Tongue Folio, calf, rebacked 1740 10/6 Prof. W. W. Skeat’s copy, with bookplate. 886 Sparrow (Ant.), Bp. of Norwich. A Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. With his Caution against False Doctrines. Fcap. 8vo., contemporary black morocco, sides and back gilt, g.e. 1684 15/- Engraved and letterpress titles, Portrait of Richard Hooker. Fine copy. 887 Spectator (The). 8 vols., fcap. 8vo., half calf. British Classics, 1803-12 21/- 888 With a Biographical and Critical Preface and explanatory notes. 4 vols. in two, thick cr. 8vo., half calf. 1860 7/6 889 Speed (John) The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans. Their Originals, Manners and Habits. Second Edition, revised, thick folio, old calf (worn). 1623 10/6 An indifferent copy with the earlier pages damaged and wanting at the end the Index after Walbrooke. 890 Spence (Jos.) Polymetis ; or, An Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Re- mains of the Antient Artists. Portrait of Spence by Vertue, and 41 plates, and tail- pieces. Second Edition, LARGE PAPER Copy, diced russia gilt (joints cracked). 1755 10/6 —— See Virgil (Holdsworth). 891 Spencer (Edmund) The Shepheardes Calendar. ‘The original illustrated edition of 1579 in photographic facsimile, with an introduction by H. Oskar Sommer. 4to., boards, calf back (slightly sotled). 1890 10/6 Limited edition of 500 nurabered copies. 892 Sperling (Ottho) De Nummo. Svecico Aereo per errorem Francicorum Sevennen- sibus Adscripto nunc vero detecto et ab errore liberato monstrante. 4 cuts. Hau- niae, 1703. . (2) De Nummorum Bractea- torum et Cavorum Nostrae ac superioris aetatisf{Origine et progressu. 1 double plate. Lubecae, 1700. Thetwo, sm. 4to., sewed 7/6 Thos.), of Rochester. Second Letter to the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, Lord Chamberlain of H. M.’s Household. In the Savoy, 1689. (2) Sermon before the K. and Q. at Whitehall, April 6, 1694. In the Savoy, 1694. The 2, sm. 4to., sewed 7/6 See Waller. 894 Staehlin (Jacob) Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great, Collected from the con- versations of several persons of distinction at Petersburg and Moscow. 8vo., calf. 1788 5/- 895 Stanhope (Dr. George), Dean of Canter- bury. Of Preparation for Death and Judgment : Sermon at Whitehall, Jan. 27 1693. (2) The Perfection of Scripture stated, and its Sufficiency argued in a Sermon at Cambridge, July 4,1697. The 2, sm. 4to., sewed 7/6 One of the great preachers of his time. 896 Steele (Sir Richard) La Crise. Ot Dis- cours ou l’on demontre par les Actes les plus Authentiques les Justes Causes de VHeureuse Revolution... Traduit de l’- Anglois par Mr. Boyer. boards. 1714 5/- —— See Swift, Tatler, and No. 12 S8vo.,