Sales catalogue 580: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/124
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 580: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [55] BOYLE (Robert). GrneraL Heaps ror THE Natura History oF a Country, Great or SMALL; Drawn out for the Use of Travellers and Navigators. To which is added, other Directions for Navigators, &c. with particular Observations of the most noted Countries of the World: By another Hand. First Epirion. 12mo. Original calf. London, John Taylor, 1692. £5 158 Sabin 7139. Small rust hole in one leaf. A scarce little work of considerable American interest. Containing many amusing tales which Boyle and his editor (possibly Denis Papin) had apparently received from navigators. Pp. 102-6, for example, are headed “ Enquiries for Virginia aad Bermudas,” in which he asks for a “ par- ticular Account of the [well known] Spider in the Bermudas, said to be Large and Beautiful for its Colours,” etc. He also desires further information concerning the ‘“‘ Gigantick Natives of Cheasapeak ”’ and the particulars of that sea water “‘ where ships do soonest rot as in the Streights of California the Sea looks red, with innumerable Worms that are in it.’ Contains also “‘ En- quiries for Guaiana and Brasil,” ‘‘ Enquiries for Suratte, &c.,” ‘‘ Enquiries for Poland and the adjacent Countries, especially such as are more Northerly,” ete. [56] BRAMSTON (J.).. THe Man or Taste. Occasion’d by an Epistle of Mr. Pope’s on that Subject. Wuth engraved frontispiece on reverse of the half-ttle. First Epition. 20 pp., folio. Unbound. London, J]. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1733. | AI 5s Half-title little worn where folded. [57] BRIGHT (Timothy). A Treatise or MELANcHoLIE. : Containing the causes thereof, & reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies: with the phisicke cure, and spirituall consolation for such as have thereto adioyned an afflicted conscience. First Eprrion. 12mo. Calf (old style). Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier, dwelling in the Black-Friers, 1586. £18 18s On this quaint book Burton is said to have founded his more famous treatise on the same subject. Natural defect on the first leaf of Dedication affecting one or two words. BROADSIDES. [58] ALL COVER, ALL LOOSE: Or, a New Game or Carns. To the Tune of, Ye Gallants that Delight to Play, ¢xc. Curious woodcut. Broadside in verse. Printed in four columns on one side of an oblong quarto sheet, uncut. London, E. Smith (c. 1682). AI 10S [59| THE ANSWER TO THE BUXOME VIRGIN, Or, THe FARMER wELL- FITTED, for slighting his first Love Honest Joan. Wauth two curious woodcuts. Broadside in verse. Printed in Brack Lerrer in three columns on one side of an oblong quarto sheet. Printed by ]. Deacon (c. 1690). 18s This scarce broadside is slightly imperfect and has been mounted. [10]