Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
September 1877
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/29
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India. 3815 Transactions, 8 vols. complete, 1829-41; Procznpinas, Feb. 1839 to June 1842 (the last) ; Journan, Vols. I-XII part 3, 1842-62 _ 8vo. with numerous maps and large tables, showing the English and Native names of the plants, fifteen vols. in hf. calf, one in cloth, the rest in numbers, excessively rare, £10. Caleutta, 1829-62 A set of this very important periodical so complete as the above has seldom been offered for sale. The Proceedings, which commenced to be issued in 1838, are of great scarcity. Vol. VIII of the Journal wants number 2 (the last). The whole set is remarkably clean and sound. All the most eminent English, German, and other botanists resident in India have contri- buted to this work. 316 TRansacTions, 8 vols. complete, dds. 1829-41—Proceedings, Jan. 1840 to May, 1840, in 27 parts—Journal, Vols. I-IV, V (with- out part 8), and Vol. VII (wanting about 24 leaves), 5 vols. hf. russia, rest in parts, 1842-9—in all 18 vols. and 30 parts, as described, £5. 1829-49 Agri-Horticultural Society of the Punjab. 317 Papers and Proceedings, 3 parts, 8vo. sd. 10s Lahore, 1865-7 Containing, amongst others, two articles on Tobacco. Almanacks. 818 GREEN (John, Beadle and Bellman) A copy of verses humbly presented to all my Masters and Mistresses, in the Parish of Sr. Mary, Istrneron, continued by W. Colley, R. Deacon, and J. Cotton, 19 annual folio sheets, from 1780 to 1789, ’91-98, ’95-98, 1802 and 1807, surrounded by a border of woodcuts of Scriptural subjects, £7. 10s T. Bayley, H. Reynell, § S. Bayley, 1780-1807 A yery rare series of Broadsides, comprising the annual addresses of the London Bellmen on the Feast Days of the Christian Church, to the King, to the Queen, to young men and maids, etc. concluding with an epilogue. 319 M. F. (Philomath) Almanacs printed for the Company of Stationers, 1756 to 1760, and 1772 to 1815, 49 sheets, atlas folio, in a hf. green morocco portfolio, £2. 10s London, 1756-1815 320 —— the same, 1772 to 1815—44 sheets, 30s 321 WING (Vincent) Almanacks printed for the Company of Station- ers, for the years 1740-42, 1744-50, 1752, 1756, 1761-2, 1765-6, 1768 and 1770-1822, on 70 sheets, atlas folio, in hf. green morocco portfolio, £3. 10s London, 1740-1822 322 ———— the same, 1772 to 1809, 1811 to 1819, 1821 and 1822— together 49 sheets, 80s 1772-1822 823 The Stare of the Cuariry for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of necessitous Clergymen, ete, within the Archdeaconry of Coventry, 1773 to 1811 (without 1776 and 1804), 37 sheets, atlas folio, annual lists of the amounts subscribed and collected, and of the disbursements, with lists of the Officers for each year, a collection probably unique, £2. 10s Birmingham, 1773-1811 324 Anmanacnh DE GOTHA, pour les années 1818, 1825, 1826, 1834-87, 1839-47, 1849-57-1859-66, 1868, and 1869-75 ;--together 42 vols. half calf, cloth, and boards, £8. 10s 1818-75 G *