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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    226 Collection of Oddities ; or, new World of Wit, being a selection of jests, bon mots, witticisms, epitaphs, etc., compiled pur- posely for the dispersion of the Blue Devils, by Democritus, Jun. Plates, post 8vo., original boards. Stamford, [jJ. Dvakard], N.D. 5/- College (Stephen). See L’Estrange. 227 Collins (Wm.) Poetical Works, with Commentary of Langhorne, and Life of Collins by D. Johnson. Engravings from designs of R. Westall, post 8vo., calf 1804 , 12/- _ Printed by Whittingham. A Large Paper copy. 228 Colman (George) the Younger. Broad Grins. With cuts, feap. 8vo., half calf. 1807 5/- Colman (George). See Horace. 229 Gombe (Taylor) A Description of the Collection of Ancient Terracottas in the British Museum. With 40 full-page en- gravings, roy. 4to., half calf (top of back broken). 1810 15/- Collected by Chas. Towneley. 230 [Comber (Thos.) Dean of Durham] A Letter to a Bishop concerning the Present Settlement and the New Oaths. Sm. 4to., sewed. 1689 5/- 231 Gommon-Place Book of Literary Curio- sities, Remarkable Customs, Historical and Domestic Anecdotes, etc. With 6 plates by W. Heath in colour, 12mo., boards, re- paived. London, 1825 7/6 Congreve (Wm.). See Addison. 232 Consecration.—Forme and Maner of Making and Consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons. Black Letter, folio, unbound. London: R. Barker, 1607 7/6 With woodcut border to title, and initial letters. row 2d. 233 Conciones et Orationes ex _ historicis Latinis excerptae. argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, quae causam cCujusque et summam ex rei gestae occasione explicant. Opus recognitum resensitumque in usum Scholarum Hollandiae et West-Frisiae. 48mo., calf. Oxon. 1663 7/6 Bookplates of the Rt. Hon. Charles Lord Halifax 1702 (Statesman and Poet, : 1661-1715), and I. Hunger- ford, Esq. 234 Cooper (J. Fenimore) The History of the Navy of the United States of America. With 2 portraits (foxed), 2 vols., 8vo., half calf (joint loose). 1839 10/6 235 Copy of the Petition of both Houses of Parliament concerning the Militia, etc. Presented to H.M. at Theobalds, 1 March, 1641, with His Majesties Answer thereunto. Sm. 4to., sewed. 1641 7/6 236 Cowell (John) The Interpreter or Booke, containing the Signification of Words. A Worke not only profitable, but necessary for such as desire throughly to be in- structed in the knowledge of our lawes, statutes, or other antiquities. 4to., old calf. 1697 12/- Bookplate of Thomas Dixon, Cockfield, 1794. Title- page and dedication page,damaged. Costume. See Moses. Cotton (Charles). See Montaigne. 237 Goxe (Wm.) Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America. To which are added the Conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China. With folded plans and maps engraved by T. Kitchin, 4to., old calf, rebacked. 1780 14/- 238 Crabbe (George) The Borough, 1810 Tales, 1812. Tales of the Hall. 2 vols. in 1, New Edition, 1819. Poems, Third Edition, 1808. 5 vols. in 4, 8vo., half morocco 10/6 239 Craig (Wm.) of Glasgow. The Reverence which is due to the Name of God. A Ser- mon, before the Societies for the Reforma- tion of Manners at Glasgow, Jan. 13, 1761. Feap. 8vo., unbound. Glasgow: Foulis, 1761 5 /- Grashaw (W.). See Perkins. 240 (Croft (Sir Herbert)] The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the year 1780. Eighth Edition, with considerable additions. The Two Parts. 4to., half calf. 1780 10/6 A satirical collection of epitaphs on a number of persons famous or notorious in that age. 241 [Croft (Herbert) Bp. of Hereford) The Naked Truth; or, the True State of the Primitive Church. By an Humble Modera- tor. Sm. 4to., sewed. Printed in the Year 1675 7/6 Wood says ‘‘ the appearance of this book at such a time was like a comet.’’ It was printed at a private press and addressed to the Lords and Commons in Parliament. It caused a controversy between Dr. Francis Turner, Andrew Marvell, Dr. Peter Gunning, Dr. Gilbert Burnet and others, A corner of the last page (55) bas been torn away. Cromwell (Oliver). See Waller. Crusades. See Maimbourg. 242 Guchler (Elias) Florilegium Variorum Epigrammatum in Centurias distributum interprete. 4to., calf. Gorlicii: Johannis Rhambae, 1608 — 18/- Autographs of John and Arthur Salwey. Fine armor- ial bookplate of Thos. Salwey of Richards Castle, Salop. With a MS. Index Rerum of the Five Centuries, and of the Titles of the Epigrams. 243 Cumberland (Richard) The Observer, Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays. Eighth Edition, 3 vols., 12mo., calf gilt. 1808 12/- Cumberland. See Gilpin. 244 Curtius (Quintus) History of the Wars of Alexander. With Freinshemius’s Supple- ment. Translated by John Digby. Plates, and map, Second Edition, 2 vols., fcap. 8vo., calf. London, 1775 7/6 Cyprus. See Drinkwater. Dacier (Madame). See Terence. 245 Dalrymple (Sir John) An Essay towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain. Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, fcap. 8vo., old calf 7/6 The imprint is so lightly printed that it cannot be read. The first edition 1757. Praised by Hume.
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