Catalogue of books, prints, and books of prints; being the collection of a gentleman of distinguished taste, which will begin to be sold by auction, on Monday the 29th of April, 1799, by James Vallance, at his Sale Room, No. 6, Eustance-Street; Among which are the following: Hume's history of England, Bower's superb edition, 37 nos. with first impressions of the plates. Grose's England and Wales, 8 vol. - English armory, 2 vol. - Ancient armory with plates, fine impressions, bound uniform. Ireland's medway-Thames and Avon, proof impressions. Memoirs of Count Gramont, with 70 plates, fine impressions. ... Naturalist's magazine, 7 vol. plates, coloured. Donovan's British birds, 3 vol. plates, coloured. Stockdale's editions of Thomson's seasons,-Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol.-s̆op's fables, 2 vol. and gay's fables, with fine plates, elegantly bound. Lavater's essays on physiognomy, 3 vol. with plates, elegant. A fine collection of the most correct and valuable editions of the classic authors, among which are those published by Barbou-Elzevir-Mattaire-Wakefield-Heyne-Hawkey-Baskerville Brindley, &c &c. The British classics, published by parsons and cook, &c. A very curious and elegant collection of English and Scotch poetry. Johnson's edition of the poets, with their lives, 75 vol. elegantly bound. - and Stevens's Shakespear, 15 vol. best edition, elegan. Dodsley's old plays, 12 vol. elegant. Minor Theatre, 7 vol. with plates, bound in blue Morocco. With a number of others equally valuable, and the whole in very elegant bindings. The sheet prints consist of a selection, after the pictures of the first Italian, French, Flemish and English masters. Gentlemen who cannot attend the sale, may have their commissions executed by James Vallance.-Hours of sale from 12 o'clock until 4 each day.

  • Vallance, James.
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