English books
Group of English imprints, 17th-18th century
£1,071
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
[Monsey, R.]. Scarronides: or, Vigile Travestie, a Mock-Poem. Being the Second [ … Seventh] Book of, Virgils Aeneis, translated into English Burlesq. London: Thomas Mabb, for Robert Clavel, 1665. First edition, 8vo, 102 [2] pp., contemporary blind-ruled sheep, section-title to p. [45], advertisement leaf to rear, binding worn, title-page spotted and chipped without loss of text, early ownership inscription of Anthony Murray [Wing M2455];
[Tasso, Torquato]. Godfrey of Bulloigne: or the Recovery of Jerusalem. Done into English Heroical Verse, by Edward Fairfax. London: J. M. for Ric. Chiswell [and others], 1687. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, worming and damp-staining, K2 torn across upper fore corner, Murray family ownership inscriptions [Wing T174B];
[Neo-Latin]. Carminum proverbialium totius humanae vitae statum breviter delineantium. London: excudebat R. N. impensis Richardi Thrale, 1654. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked at an early date, Murray family ownership inscriptions, bookplate (Murray Esqr of Crieff) [Wing I11];
Barclay, John. Joannis Barclaii Argensis. Editio Novissima. Cum clave. Oxford: excudebat I. L. impensis Thomae Huggins, 1634. 12mo, [30] 705 [9] pp., contemporary blind-ruled calf, lacking endpapers, loss to head of title-page, small holes in F1 and L10 [STC 1391];
Barber, Mary. Poems on Several Occasions. London: C. Rivington, 1735. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf [Rothschild 345 for the first edition, 1734];
[Goldsmith, Lewis]. The Female Revolutionary Plutarch. London: for John Murray, 1806-6-5. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, stipple-engraved portrait frontispieces of Josephine Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette and the Princess of Lamballe, 4 pp. advertisements, contemporary bookseller's ticket (A. & I. Black and H. Parry, 7 Leadenhall Street) to front pastedown of volume 1;
[Gregory, John]. A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man, with those of the Animal World. London: J. Dodsley, 1766. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf;
and 16 others (all in contemporary calf, not collated, including: John Barclay, Euphormionis Lusini, Oxford, 1634, defective, with loss to a few leaves; Shaftesbury, Characteristicks, 1749, 3 volumes, engraved title-page; Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1771, 4 volumes in 2, engraved frontispieces; Parnell, Poems on Several Occasions, Glasgow, 1748; The Muses Library, or a Series of English Poetry, 1741; Pufendorf, An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe, 1728; Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1795; Tooke, The Pantheon, representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, 1784, engraved frontispiece; and similar) (31)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.