Volume 1

Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day.

  • Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    112 Tragus (Hieronymus) De Stirpium, maxime earum, quae in Germania nostra nascentur Commentariorum lib. Ill, nunc in Latinum conversi, interprete Davide Kybero, numerous woodcuts of plants, vellum thick sm. 4to. Argent. Wendel. Rilielius, 1552 113 Turner (Dr. Wm.) The First and Seconde Partes of the Herbal of William Turner Doctor in Physick lately oversene, Cor- rected and enlarged with the Thirde Parte lately gathered . . . Here unto is joined a Booke of the Bath of Baeth in England, etc. tlark Irttrr, numerous cuts of plants and figures and figured and ornamental initials, title mended, backed and scribbled on, with signature of Wm. Herbert, modern calf, g. e. sm. fol. Imprinted at Colin by Arnold Birckman, 1568 114 Westmacott (Wm.) Historia Vegetabilium Sacra, or a Scripture Herbal, old calf, T. Salisbury, 1694—Archer (John) Every Man his own Doctor, compleated with an Herbal, printed for the Authour, 1673-—Grew (Dr. Nehemiah) The Anatomy of Vegetables, plates, 2 vol. (not uniform), 1672-3 8vo. (4) 115 White (Rev. Gilbert) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, with Engravings and an Appendix, first edition, views and other plates, neiv half morocco gilt, y. e. 4to. T. Bensley for B. White & Son, 1789 116 White (Rev. G.) A Naturalist’s Calendar, never before published, coloured plate of the Hybrid Pheasant, calf, B. & J. White, 1795—First Report of the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, half calf, York, 1842 ; etc. 8vo. (6) OLD AND MODERN WORKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE. 117 Academiae Cantabrigiensis Moestissimae ac Laetissimae Affectus, decadente Carolo II, succedente Jacobo II (includes 20 English Poems), Cant. Jo. Hayes, 168|—Musarum Canta- brigiensium Luctus & Gratulatio; ille in Funere Oliveri Protectoris ; haec de Ricardi Successione Felicissima ad Eun- dem (including 7 English Poems), Cant. Jo. Field, 1658— Mercurius Romanus No. 3 (2 ll. in Latin), B. Bragge, 1706 sm. Ato. (3) 118 Akenside (Dr. Mark) The Pleasures of Imagination, a Poem, in three Books, first edition, half morocco, R. Dodsley, 1744 —Scott (Sir W.) The Vision of Don Roderick, first edi- tion, thick paper, half calf , Edinb. 1811—Maurice : Grove- Hill, a Descriptive Poem, woodcut vignettes, by J. Anderson, haly calf, 1799—[Ritson (Jos.)] Observations on the Three First V olumes of the History of English Poetry, J. Stockdale, 1782 4 to. (4)