Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1938
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/24
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | 47 MORMONS.—[CoNYBEARE (REV. WILLIAM JOHN)| MORMONISM ; reprinted from the | Edinburgh Review, No. 202, for April, 1854, post 8vo., wrappers, 1863 5/= The Traveller’s Library, No. 67. : LYON (JOHN) The Harp of ZION: a Collection of Poems, &c., First EDITION, portrait, post 8vo., cloth gilt (binding soiled), Liverpool, 1853 6/- “Published for the Benefit of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund.” | 48 149 : SMITH (JOSEPH, Funr.) The Book of MORMON : an Account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of HEPHI, FIFTH EUROPEAN EDITION, fcap. 8vo., half calf, Liverpool, 1854 6/- : TURNER (PROF. J. B.) MORMONISM in all AGEs : or the Rise, Progress, and Causes of Mormonism ; with the Biography of its Author and Founder, JOSEPH SMITH, Junior, fcap. 8vo., half calf, New York [1842] 8/- : 51 PETHERICK (Epwarp AuGUSTUS) CATALOGUE of the YORK GATE LIBRARY formed by Mr. S. WILLIAM SILVER. An Index to the Literature of Geography, Maritime and Inland Discovery, Commerce and Colonisation, SECOND [AND BEST] EDITION, with 18 ) 50 facsimiles, thick imp. 8vo., parchment, 1886 £1/-/- Includes over 1000 entries under the heading “‘ America and the West Indies,” pages | 284-323. |}52 PRICE (Major Sir RosE LAMBART) The Two Americas ; an Account of Sport and Travel, with Notes of Men and Manners in North and South America, with illustrations, 8vo., cloth, 1877 6/- |53 ROBERTS (Browne H. E.) History of the COLONIAL EMPIRE of GREAT BRITAIN, cr. 8vo., ! cloth, 1861 6/- CONTENTS :—British North America ; West Indies ; Africa and the Islands of the Atlantic ; Regions of the Southern Ocean ; Remaining Colonies [excluding India]. 54 ROBERTSON (WILLIAM) History of AMERICA [an Account of the Discovery of the New World, and of the Progress of the Spanish Arms and Colonies there], First EDITION, 2 maps and a plate of Mexican antiquities, 2 vols, 4to., old rebacked calf (worn), Printed for ; W. Strahan, T. Cadell, and . Balfour, 1777 £1/5/- 1 55 FIFTH EDITION, with 4 folding maps and a plate of Mexican antiquities, 3 vols, 8vo., contemp. calf gilt (neatly restored at joints), 1788 £2/2/- From the library of Edward Gibbon, the historian, with his book-label. 56 SENIOR (Nassau W.) STATEMENT of the PROVISION for the Poor, and of the Condition ) of the Labouring Classes, in a considerable portion of AMERICA and EUROPE: being the Preface to the Foreign Communications contained in the Appendix to the Poor-Law Report, 8vo., half calf (rubbed), 1835 £1/1/- Senior’s writings upon the subject of Poor Law show his thorough familiarity with the his- tory and actual working of the laws. Beneficial measures of his time must be assigned to him. 57 SLAVERY.—The HIRELING and SLAVE [in Verse, with illustrative Notes], 8vo., calf, Charleston, John Russell. 1854 12'- Dedicated to James L. Petigru, LL.D. Inscription on fly-leaf, ‘‘ Amelia Matilda Murray The gift of Mrs Holbrook (? the Authoress), Charlestown, South Carolina, Feb. Ist, 1855.” The general theme is that the African Emigre Slave in America receives an improvement in his condition not possible in his own country. Vide CivIL War and WEsT INDIES, post. 58 TATE (RosertT, Clergyman’s son) A PRACTICAL TREATISE upon several DiFFERENT and | USEFUL SUBJECTS, in which are contain’d I., An EFFECTUAL METHOD to AUGMENT SMALL Livincs .. . II., A PROPOSAL to make the CORPORATION of CLERGYMAN’S SONS more USEFUL to its MemBers. III., A SCHEME for the RELIEF of the SOUTH SEA SUFFERERS in DISTRESS ; together with PROPOSALS to Buy LANDs in AMERICA ; and to make the same Useful and Profitable, as well as to employ great Numbers of His Majesty’ s poor Subjects. IV., A RATIONAL Way for the PROMULGATION of the GOSPEL in AMERICA ; and for having a sufficient Number of Bishops there to Compleat Baptism, with the means to provide a sufficient Support for their Dignity, by Money to be laid out in our own Manufactures. V:; A METHOD to PREVENT FIRES ; to which are added, . . . a List of the ARCHBISHOPS, BisHors, etc.. .. In the SPANISH WEST INDIES, 4to., unbound, Printed for. f. prs Hor