Catalogue.

Date:
[between 1840 and 1849?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    25 Ascanius, or the Young- Adventurer Edinb. 1774 26 Ashe’s (T.) The Spirit of the Book, with autograph letter 1811 *** Ashe was committed to Newgate for sending a letter to the Duke of Cumberland, threatening to shoot his Highness. 28 Astle’s Origin and Progress of Writing, a large paper and uncut copy, illustrated with a large collection of additional plates, and beautiful specimens of various handwritings fol. 29 Aubrey’s (J.) Miscellanies . . 1784 30 Autobiography, a Collection of Self-written Lives, 56 Nos. (wanting Nos. 20 and 39) 12mo 31 Bacon’s History of the Reign of Henry VII folio, 1622 32 Bailey’s English Dictionary . folio, 1730 33 Ballads:—Ballads and Songs, MS. 4to, 1720 34 — A very large Collection of single sheet Ballads of the present Century . . . 4to and 8vo 35 — Six Antient Dutch Ballads;—an Account of the Birth of the Pretender, &c. . . folio 36 Balloons:—Faujas de Saint-fond des Experiences de la Ma- chine Aerostatique de Montgolfier, Paris, 1783—Lunardi's Account of his first Aerial Voyage in England, with his au- tograph, 1784—Cavallo on Aerostation, 1785—Baldwin’s Narrative of a Balloon Excursion from Chester in 1785, Chester, 1786 — Urquahart’s Philosophical Essay on Air Balloons, 1786—Roberts’ History of Balloons, 1802—The Grand Balloon Improved, 7 vol. In Qaurto. Blanchard’s Authentic Narrative of his third Aerial Voyage from Rouen in Normandy, in 1784 — Jeffries’ (Dr.) Narrative of two Aerial Voyages with Messrs. Blanchard, 1786—MS. Lecture on Aerostation To this collection is added a very large assemblage of Anec- dotes relative to Balloons, cut from the various Newspapers and other publications. It is also illustrated with an innu- merable Collection of Prints: together with an autograph letter of James Sadler (the aeronaut), to Lord Midgrave, offering to convey secret intelligence on the continent, 1808. 37 Bampfylde Epistola Poetica Familiaris, Jiguris 4to, Bath, 1776 38 Bank Notes :—Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts &c. relative to the Mode of Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes, plates, 1819—Specimens and Description of Perkins and F’airman’s Plan to Prevent Forgeries, with plates and a forged note, 1819 39 Bank Restriction:—Letter of Daniel Hardcastle, 1819—Ana- lysis against Forgery, 1820—Reports of the Society ot Arts on the Forgery of Notes, 1819 ; 3 vol. 40 Barbary:—History of the Piratical States of Barbary 1750 41 Barber’s More Last Words of Dr. Johnson 1781