Sales catalogue 423: Maggs Bros

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 423: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2210 Pisa. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. change Grasshopper (in verse). FIRST EDITION. Folio, boards. London, 1608. 18s The Poet’s Ramble after Riches, with Reflections upon a Country Corporation. FIRST EDITION. Folio, boards. London, 1698 (one leaf slightly imperfect). 10s 6d The Wars of the Elements; or, a Description of a Sea-Storm, &c. 8 pp., small 4to, boards. London, 1709. £2 2s WARD (Thomas). England’s Reformation (from the Time of Henry VIII. to the end of Oates’s Plot). A Poem in four cantos. Numerous curious copperplates. BEST EDITION. 2 vols., small 8vo, paned calf, red edges. POUL OIL TAG 18s WATER-DRINKER. The Falacie of the great Water-Drinker Discovered. Fully representing what are the Ingredients that provoke him to so wonderful a vomit, and by what Art one Glass seemeth to be of one colour, and another of another: and what he doth when he taketh the Rose-water and the Angelica-water. By Mr. Thomas Peedle and Mr. Thomas Cozbie, who brought him over into England from Tours in France: and after Wednesday next being the 26 of this present June, will be constantly readie every A fter- noon, if desired, in their own persons to make an experimental proof of what is here declared. Published for the satisfaction of many of the Nobilitie and Ladies of this Nation, and many eminent Gentlemen who have offered great sums of money to have the misterie discovered. As also to undeceive many thousands, who having seen the manner of it, have been amazed at the wonder but could not discover the secret. With a full-page woodcut portrait of Floram Marchand, the great Water-Drinker, on reverse of title; also inserted as frontispiece the rare portrait by Hollar of another Water-Drinker, Blaise de Manfre. 6 pp., small 4to, AZalf calf. Printed by B. Alsop for T. Dunster, and are to be sold at the Red Lion in Grubstreet, 1650. £5 15s