Sales catalogue 462: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/34
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 462: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Peacham (Henry)—continued. 1285 ——_— The Compleat Cent!eman. Jo which is added the Gentlemans Exercise. With engraved title and numerous heraldic woodcuts, many coloured. Third Impression much enlarged, especially in the Art of Blazonry, by a very good Hand. Small 4to, calf. London, Printed *by Waa 1 yile7, 1O0le (lin, holein ile.) 1 oS *** Treats of Angling, Military Drill, Painting, Travel, Heraldry, Music, etc. 1280 PEEDLE (Thomas) and COZBIE (Thomas). The Falacie of the ereat Water-Drinker discovered. Fully representing what are the Ingre- dients that provoke him to so wonderful a vomit, and by what Art one Glass seemeth to be of one colour, and another of another. With a remarkable woodcut portrait of Floram Marchand, Le grand Loyeur de Lours performing his feat, on the reverse of the title. 38 pp., square 8vo, boards. London, Printed by B. Alsop, 1650. £4 4s 1287 PENDRAGON: or, The Carpet Knight his Kalendar. ‘Why let the strucken Deer go weep; The Hart ungall’d go play: For some must watch, while some must sleep : So runs the World away.’’—Hawmilet. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, full blue morocco, gilt back, g. eé. London, Printed for John Newton, 1698. £3 10s *** A curious poetical volume, written in Hudibrastic measure, intended as a satire on that active and mercenary writer in the cause of arbitary power, Sir Roger L’ Kstrange. One of the earliest pieces to contain a quotation from Shakespeare on the title-page. There is also a reference to Hamlet on page 97 :— ‘‘ Hamlet, because he was a Prince The Lord Polonius could convince, That the same Cloud was like in all T’ a Camel, Weezel, and a Whale: And make another (spite of Thought) Say as he pleas’d, ’twas Cold or Hot.’’ ;288 PENN (William). A Perswasive to Moderation to Church Dissenters, In Prudence and Conscience: Humbly submitted to the King and his Great Councel. 52 pp., small 4to, zew boards. N.D. £1 10s * * * Written to obtain ‘‘ Liberty of Conscience to Dissenters.’’