Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes

Date:
1930s
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/3/27
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Hertford ; 1815-27 420 [JACOB (Giles)] The Poetical Register ; panelled calf, neatly vebacked, A NICE COPY, Fens.—continued. 530 Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds between the Cam, Ouse, and Mildenhall Rivers, and bounded on the S.E. by the Hard Lands of Isleham, Fordham, Soham, and Wicken, and for impowering the Conservators of the Bedford Level, to sell certain Lands, 1758 5/- 531 Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds lying in the South Level, part of the Bedford Level, and between the Cam, West, and the Hardlands of Bottisham, Swaffham-Bul- beck, and Swaffham Prior, East, etc., [1767] 3/6 532 Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual the above Act, 1779 5/- 533 Act to Amend and render more effectual, an Act made in the 22nd year of the reign of George II., intituled, An Act for the more effectual draining and preserving of several Fen and Field Lands, in the Bounds of Whittlesey, Cambs., 1772 3/6 534 Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from Wisbech River at or near a Place called the Old Sluice in Wisbech, to join the River Nene in Outwell, and for improving and maintaining the navigation of the said River from Outwell Church to Salters Load Sluice, 1794 5/- 535 Act for draining and preserving certain Lands and Grounds in the Parishes of Tid Saint Giles and Newton, in the Isle of Ely, and in Tid Saint Mary’s in the County of Lincoln, N.D. 3/6 5386 Fens.—MILLER (S. H.) and S. B. J. SKERTCHLY. The Fenland: Past and Present, coloured frontispiece (edge repaired), folding map (vepaired), engravings and diagrams (plate of Swan marks missing), roy. 8vo, Wisbech, 1878 27/6 _537 Ferguson (A.) History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic, folding maps, 3 vols, 4to, contemp. calf, 1783 10/6 £2/2/- [with Preface], FIRST EDITION, title vignette, 15/- a Series of English Sketches, FIRST EDITION, 30/- £3/3/- or, the Lives and Characters of the English SCARCE, [ Vol 1] Printed for E. Curil, 1719, 538 Field (Michael, [ Katharine Bradita and Edith Cooper)| Wild Honey from various Thyme, FIRST EDITION, cr. 8vo, 1908 4/6 539 Flaubert (G.) The Temptation of Saint Anthony, trans. with an Introduction by D..F. Hannigan, illustrated with 9 original — designs after S. Gorski, cr. 8vo, front cover a little damp stained, 1895 6/- 540 Fleehier (Esprit, Evéque de Nismes) Recueil des Oraisons Funebres, sm. 8vo, calf, Paris, 1774 6/- These orations put the author on a level with Bossuet. 541 Fox (C. J.) History of the Political Life | and Public Services, as a Senator and a Statesman, of the Rt. Hon. Charles James © Fox, 8vo, contemp. calf, 1783 7/6 542 Garrick.—Davirs (T.) Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq., interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of his — Theatrical Contemporaries, the whole form- ing a History of the Stage, which includes a Period of Thirty-Six Years, portrait, 2 vols, 8vo, contemp. calf, gilt backs ( Vol 1 slightly damaged by worm), 1780 21/- 543 Gascoigne (George, 1530-1577) Works, Vol I. The Posies, edited by J. W. Cunliffe, sm. 8vo, Camb., 1907 5/+ 544 Geoffrey of Monmouth.—British History in Twelve Books, translated by A. Thomp- son, revised and corrected by J. A. Giles, 8vo, quarter morocco, 1842 8/6 545 George III. —Oath of Allegiance, Oath of Abjuration [of James III.] and [Anti- © Papist] Declaration, printed on parchment sheet (size 22 by 16 inches), with 23 signa-— tuves and dates, 1785-89 5/- 546 Gildas and Nennius.—Works, translated, — with the former translations carefully compared and corrected, by J. A. Giles, facsimile, 8vo, quarter calf, 1841 10/6 547 Gillies (J.) History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies, and Conquests, including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, 2 folding maps, name on titles, 2 vols, contemp. calf, 1786 7/
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