[ELLIS (Sir Henry)] Editor.

A Catalogue of Manuscripts, Formerly in the Possession of Francis Hargrave... now Deposited in the British Museum.

Printed by G. Woodfall. 1818. First Edition, 4to, [iv],188pp., a British Library duplicate with a couple of their small faint stamps, orig. boards, upper cover detached, uncut. The collection of 499 manuscripts was purchased of the representatives of Francis Hargrave, together with his library of books, by a Vote of the House of Commons, passed July 1st, 1813. It consists almost exclusively of Law.

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Book number: 24418

Keywords: MANUSCRIPTS LAW ANTIQUARIAN

[MASON (G. E.)]

Catalogue of an Important and Valuable Collection of Books, Containing Numerous Rare and Curious Articles Relating to the Discovery, Early History, and Religious and Political Controversies of America and West Indies... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... on Friday, the 25th of May, 1860. London: J. Davy and Sons, 1860. [2],214pp., the property of G. E. Mason according to a cont. note in ink on title, orig. printed wrappers, 2628 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of a Large and Extremely Curious Collection of Theological Books, Consisting of Versions of the Holy Scriptures... being the Third Portion of the Entire and Extensive Collection of Books, Formed by Mr. G. E. Mason, Which will be sold by Auction, by Messrs Puttick and Simpson, on Wednesday, December 12th, 1860.

London, 1860. [ii],89,[1]pp., orig. printed wrappers, 1461 lots. Bound with 1 other Puttick & Simpson catalogue which appears to be imperfect, 3 works in one, cont. half vellum over marbled boards.

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Book number: 28218

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[JAMES (Brian)]

A Catalogue of the Tract Collection of Saint David's University College, Lampeter.

Mansell, 1975. Folio, xx, 316pp., orig. cloth.

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Book number: 31536

Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY WALES A Catalogue of the Tract Collection of Saint David's University College, Lampeter.

[WALPOLE (Horace) & VERTUE (George)]

A Catalogue of Engravers, Who have been born, or resided in England; Digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the MSS. of Mr. George Vertue; To which is added an Account of the Life and Works of the latter.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley. 1786. Second edition, [4],306,[6]pp., cont. calf, rubbed, covers detached.

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Book number: 32444

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[BÉDOYÈRE (Henri Huchet, Comte de la)]

Catalogue des Livres Rare et Précieux de la Bibliothèque de M. le Comte de la B***.

Paris: Silvestre, 1837. 8vo (240 x 158 mm), [6], x, 214, [2]pp., partially priced, orig. blue paper wrappers, spine chipped, lower wrapper detached, 1750 lots. Blogie II, col. 45.

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Book number: 35739

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[MACPHERSON (Alexander)]

Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, Etc. Forming the Geographical and Topographical Collection attached to The Library of His late Majesty King George the Third, and Presented by His Majesty King George the Fourth to The British Museum.

London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of The British Museum, 1829. Folio (430 x 320 mm), [4], 373, [3], liii, [1]pp., printed for private circulation only in 200 copies, early armorial bookplate to front paste-down, cont. half blue morocco, marbled boards, slightly rubbed otherwise a very good copy indeed. Printed uniformly with the catalogue of books and, like that work, printed only for presentation. The map collection was an important constituent of the Royal library (Samuel Johnson recommended buying maps locally in his famous letter to Barnard); The King's Topographical Collection of around 50,000 maps, charts, prints and drawings formerly owned by George III and donated to the Library by George IV, included antiquarian drawings by William Stukeley, large collections of views by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, the Bucklers and Edward Blore, and the drawings from Captain Cook's voyages or Robert Hay's of Egypt. It was reprinted in 2 vols. 8vo in the same year for commercial distribution. Martin, Privately Printed Books, p. 259.

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Book number: 35854

Keywords: CARTOGRAPHY FINE ARTS PRINTS MAPS BRITISH MUSEUM TOPOGRAPHY

[MARTIN (T.)]

A Catalogue of a Valuable Portion of the Library of a Gentleman, Deceased. Among them are a Fine Collection of the Delphini Classics, in red morocco, gilt leaves, also the Philosophical Transactions, in ditto. Which will be Sold by Auction...

London: Leigh and Sotheby, 1811. 16pp., partly priced in cont. hand, stitched as issued, uncut.

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Book number: 38921

Keywords: BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUES DELPHINI CLASSICS

[SALISBURY (William)]

A Catalogue of the Brompton Botanic Garden, being a List of such Plants as are cultivated therein. To which is added, a List of the Subscribers. Part I. containing hardy Plants. [all published].

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for Curtis and Salisbury, Brompton Gardens, 1803. First edition, part I all published, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), [12], 116pp., with the half-title and half-title, 5pp. list of subscribers, original boards, uncut, spine a little chipped, but still a very nice copy. This private botanical garden was originally opened by William Curtis in 1779 at Lambeth, but due to smoke pollution, he moved the plants to the larger gardens in Brompton. According to the Survey of London, "in 1789 William Curtis, the author of Flora Londinensis and the founder of The Botanical Magazine, took over from Rubergall as tenant and moved the botanical garden which he had opened in Lambeth in 1779 to this spot. The Brompton Botanic Garden, as it was known, covered about three and a half acres, almost exactly conforming to the area which is now occupied by the streets and houses on the hospital's estate, while the remaining four and a half acres to the north were used for experiments in agriculture. After Curtis's death in 1799 his partner William Salisbury kept the garden here until 1808 when he moved it to Sloane Street, Chelsea. He continued to use the ground at Brompton for a nursery, however, until 1829 when he was succeeded there by David Ramsay, whose establishment was known as the Queen's Elm or Swan Lane nursery." Rare; JISC locating just 3 copies (Oxford, Kew and Royal Horticultural Society Libraries).

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Book number: 39318

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[BROWN (Arthur) CARY (Henry) & HACKMAN (Alfred)]

Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi. [With:] Catalogus Impressorum Librorum Quibus Aucta Est Bibliotheca Bodleiana, Annis MDCCCXXXV-MDCCCXLVII.

E Typographeo Academico, Oxford. 1843-51. 4 Vols., folio, x,834; [ii],924;[ ii],896; [iv],1024pp., from the library of Professor Birrell, with an attractive vignette on each title-page, later buckram, nice clean set. A monumental and influential catalogue which some thought should be the model for the new British Museum catalogue. This was rejected by Panizzi who had already embarked, and in fact was well underway with his own cataloguing project. Includes the supplementary volume published eight years later.

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Book number: 28201

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[Gayot de Pitanal]

Causes Celebres et Interessantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont decidees.

Paris: Veuve Delaulne, 1738-40. 15 vols., (unfortunately lacking volume 5), 8vo, finely bound in contemporary calf, spines tooled in gilt, a very nice set.

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Book number: 39671

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[MORGAN (McNamara)]

The causidicade. A panegyri-satiri-serio-comic-dramatical poem. On the strange resignation, and stranger-promotion. By Porcupinus Pelagius.

London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743. Fourth edition, 4to, 29, [1]pp., without half-title, title a little dusty to margins, terminal leaf with old repair to closed tear, disbound. A political satire on the appointment of William Murray as Solicitor-General.

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Book number: 39960

Keywords: POETRY ENGLISH LITERATURE POLITICS

[TAIT (John)]

The Cave of Morar, the Man of Sorrows. A Legendary Tale. In two parts.

London: Printed for T. Davies, 1784. First edition, 4to, [vi], 31, [1]pp., with the half-title which is often missing, disbound. Jackson, p. 26.

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Book number: 32706

Keywords: POETRY ENGLISH LITERATURE PAMPHLETS

[EDWARDS (Dr George)]

A Certain Way to save our Country, and make us a More Happy and Flourishing People, than at any former period of our History.

London: Printed for the Author, 1807. First edition, 24pp., disbound. Based on writings of Dr. George Edwards. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 19527.

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Book number: 33889

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[MATHEW (John)]

Certain Material and Useful Considerations about the Laws Positive, and Laws of Necessity, relating to the unhappy Distractions of the present Times.

London: Printed at London, in the Year, 1680. Folio, [4], 13, [3] pp., with the final blank leaf C2, disbound. The dedication to "Theodidactus" is signed "Philatethes". Wing, M1288A; Not in Sweet and Maxwell.

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Book number: 40054

Keywords: LAW

[MORE (Hannah)]

Cheapside Apprentice; or, The history of Mr. Francis H****. Fully setting forth the danger of playing with edge-tools; shewing also, how a gay life may prove a short one; and that a merry evening may produce a sorrowful morning.

London: Sold by J. Evans & Son (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts); J. Hatchard; J. Binns, [c. 1805.] 8vo (175 x 115 mm), 16pp., woodcut vignette to title, disbound. A Cheap Repository Tract.

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Book number: 40076

Keywords: CHAPBOOKS CHEAP REPOSITORY TRACT RELIGIOUS TRACT EDUCATION HAWKERS NEWSMEN JUVENILE CHILDREN'S BOOKS