Book Auction Records, Volume 8Frank Karslake Wm. Dawson, 1911 - Autographs A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions. |
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... July 1st , 1718 , the Leeds Mercury was started by John Hirst . During the first two years of its career , the journal consisted of twelve small quarto pages , printed in large type , and the price was 14d . The editor of that day seems ...
... July 1st , 1718 , the Leeds Mercury was started by John Hirst . During the first two years of its career , the journal consisted of twelve small quarto pages , printed in large type , and the price was 14d . The editor of that day seems ...
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... July , 1895 , the Mercury was turned into a limited company and sold on the first of July , 1901 , to Messrs . Haimsworth who carry on the name of Baines & Co. , although that family relinquished all interest in the newspaper after the ...
... July , 1895 , the Mercury was turned into a limited company and sold on the first of July , 1901 , to Messrs . Haimsworth who carry on the name of Baines & Co. , although that family relinquished all interest in the newspaper after the ...
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... July , 1754 , the Leeds Intelligencer was issued in opposition to the Mercury . It consisted of four pages and seven columns . The printer and publisher was Griffith Wright , who succeeded to the business carried on by James Lister , at ...
... July , 1754 , the Leeds Intelligencer was issued in opposition to the Mercury . It consisted of four pages and seven columns . The printer and publisher was Griffith Wright , who succeeded to the business carried on by James Lister , at ...
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... July 19th , 1713. He was apprenticed to Mr. Carnan , printer and proprietor of The Reading Mercury , and married his master's widow . His shop was at the sign of " The Bible and Crown , " in the Market Place , where the offices of The ...
... July 19th , 1713. He was apprenticed to Mr. Carnan , printer and proprietor of The Reading Mercury , and married his master's widow . His shop was at the sign of " The Bible and Crown , " in the Market Place , where the offices of The ...
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... July 26th consisted of a series of autograph letters by R. W. Buss to Joseph Mayer , the Liverpool antiquary ( 1803-1886 ) Buss was the artist selected to fill the place of Seymour , who committed suicide after making the first 7 plates ...
... July 26th consisted of a series of autograph letters by R. W. Buss to Joseph Mayer , the Liverpool antiquary ( 1803-1886 ) Buss was the artist selected to fill the place of Seymour , who committed suicide after making the first 7 plates ...
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Page 53 - Paradise lost. A Poem written in Ten Books By John Milton. Licensed and Entred according to Order. London printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate ; And by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgatestreet ; And Matthias Walker under St. Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet 1667.
Page xvii - Position of the entire criminal cause ' Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman, ' With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay, ' Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to death ' By heading or hanging as befitted ranks, ' At Rome on February Twenty-Two, ' Since our salvation Sixteen Ninety Eight: ' Wherein it is disputed if, and when, ' Husbands may kill adulterous wives, yet 'scape 130
Page iv - I can see no good reason to alter my opinion, for excluding suche bookes, as almanackes, plaies...
Page iv - What a place to be in is an old library ! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade.
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Page viii - Theon to his father Theon, greeting. It was a fine thing of you not to take me with you to the city! If you won't take me with you to Alexandria, I won't write you a letter, or speak to you, or say good-bye to you; and if you go to Alexandria I won't take your hand or ever greet you again. That is what will happen if you won't take me. Mother said to Archelaus, 'It quite upsets him to be left behind.
Page lxxx - DESCRIPTION DES FESTES DONNÉES PAR LA VILLE DE PARIS, à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France et de Dom Philippe,. infant et grand amiral d'Espagne, les 29 et 30 Août 1739.
Page xi - When they were come to St. John's, they first viewed the new building; and that done, I attended them up the Library stairs ; where, so soon as they began to ascend, the music began, and they had a fine short song fitted for them, as they ascended the stairs.
Page lvii - Books, which may be profitably read on each of those points," &c.; the other, "Apostolic Charity, its nature and excellence considered, in a Discourse upon Daniel xii. 3., preached at St. Paul's, at the Ordination of some Protestant Missionaries to be sent into the Plantations. To which is...
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