Lot 89
Hume, David
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
The history of England. London, 1792. 8 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece; Smollett, T. The history of England [continued]. 1791. 5 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece; [Idem] The miscellaneous works. Edinburgh, 1790. 6 volumes, 8vo, frontispieces, all contemporary tree calf gilt, rubbed; Swift, Jonathan Letters written by the late Jonathan Swift. London: T. Davies [&c.] 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed, [ESTC T154629]; [Idem] Political tracts. London: C. Davies, 1738. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, two covers detached, [ESTC T43973]; Rousseau, Jean Jacques Confessions. Geneva: [no publisher], 1782. Part 1 & 2 only, 12mo, [2], 252; [2], 286; contemporary half calf, head of titles excised, lacks half-titles, worn, lower margin slightly wormed at end of volume 2 (25)