Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/939
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1029 1030 1031 1032 1033 1034 1035 CHAMBERLAIN (RoBeRT) Nocrurnaty Lucusrations ... Where- unto are added Epigrams and Epitaphs (A-H im eights) FIRST EDITION, wants A1 (? blank or with signature only), corner of title repaired (rules affected), otherwise a good copy, calf UES inside borders 8vo. London, Printed by M. F. for Daniel Frere. . . 1638 1904, The only others recorded in modern auction records were in the Huth and Van der Weyer collections, the former of which wanted the last leaf, on which is the Imprimatur. There are poems on Sack (“ Whereof the Silver Swans before they sing Doe alwaies drink”) and on Tobacco, the latter beginning : “Thou hell-bred lump of sin, infernall drink, Pernicious, damn’d, soule-fascinating stink.” Chambers (R.) The Book of Days, 2 vol. illustrations, extra- illustrated by the insertion of a number of portraits and other prints, half calf, 1863—Strutt (Joseph) Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, coloured illustrations, manuscript motes and additions bY the late owner, cloth, 1831; ete. 4to. and 8vo. (4) Character (The) of a Country Committee-man, with the eare- marke of a Sequestrator, 6 1/. 1649—The. Character of an Ox- ford Incendiary, Huth copy, for R. White, n.d. etc. quarter bound Ato. (4) Character (The) of a Town-Misse, 4 ll. in prose, for W. L. 1675 —An Answer to the Character of an Exchange-wench: or a Vindication of an Exchange-woman, 4 J//. in prose and verse, for Thomas Croskul, 1675, full calf — - 4to. (2) Character (The) of a Quack-Astrologer: or, the Spurious Prog- nosticator anatomiz’d, 1673—Mercurius Menippeus. The Loyal Satyrist, or, Hudibras in Prose, 1682, both in quarter buck- ram—Horse-Flesh for the Observator : Being a Comment upon Gusman, ch. 4. v. 5. held forth at Sam’s Coffee-House, un- bound, 1682; and another Ato.- (4) Charles I. Psalterium Carolinum. The Devotions of his sacred Majestie in his Solitude and Suffering rendered in Vers [by _J. Wilson] (A-N 1), modern morocco tooled in blind to an old design with the royal arms on upper cover folio. 165% Charles IJ. Complementum Fortunatarum Insularum, P. II. sive Galathea Vaticinans. Being part of an Hpithalamium upon... Charles II and... Catharina Infanta of Portugal. With a Description of the Te aca Islands. Written origin- ally in French by P. D. C. Gent. With the Translations also of the Description of 8: James’s “Park, and the late Fight at S. Lucar, by Mr. Ed. Waller. The Panegyrick of Charles II. By Mr. Dreyden, portrait of Charles II (shaved at side) and — Queen Catherine, olive morocco, e. g. 8vo. Printed for the Author, 1662