Premium pages left without account:

Auction archive: Lot number 126

JOHNSON, Richard. Grammatical Commentaries being an apparatus to a new national grammar by way of animadversion upon the falsities, obscurities, redundancies and defects of Lilly's System , London: for the author and sold by S. Keble [and 6 others], ...

Auction 20.09.1996
20 Sep 1996
Estimate
£250 - £350
ca. US$389 - US$545
Price realised:
£402
ca. US$626
Auction archive: Lot number 126

JOHNSON, Richard. Grammatical Commentaries being an apparatus to a new national grammar by way of animadversion upon the falsities, obscurities, redundancies and defects of Lilly's System , London: for the author and sold by S. Keble [and 6 others], ...

Auction 20.09.1996
20 Sep 1996
Estimate
£250 - £350
ca. US$389 - US$545
Price realised:
£402
ca. US$626
Beschreibung:

JOHNSON, Richard. Grammatical Commentaries being an apparatus to a new national grammar by way of animadversion upon the falsities, obscurities, redundancies and defects of Lilly's System , London: for the author and sold by S. Keble [and 6 others], 1706, 8° in half sheets, FIRST EDITION, with folding letterpress table and final errata leaf (E1r soiled), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked), 19th-century armorial bookplate of William Markham -- Giuseppe Marc Antonio BARETTI. An Introduction to the Italian Language , London: for A. Millar, 1755, 8°, FIRST EDITION (lacking half title, title slightly soiled, quires R-S heavily browned, also soiled), contemporary calf (rebacked). [Courtney & Smith p. 73] With the first edition of Charles Burney's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio (3 vols., London, 1796), and 6 other works in 5 volumes. (10)

Auction archive: Lot number 126
Auction:
Datum:
20 Sep 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

JOHNSON, Richard. Grammatical Commentaries being an apparatus to a new national grammar by way of animadversion upon the falsities, obscurities, redundancies and defects of Lilly's System , London: for the author and sold by S. Keble [and 6 others], 1706, 8° in half sheets, FIRST EDITION, with folding letterpress table and final errata leaf (E1r soiled), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked), 19th-century armorial bookplate of William Markham -- Giuseppe Marc Antonio BARETTI. An Introduction to the Italian Language , London: for A. Millar, 1755, 8°, FIRST EDITION (lacking half title, title slightly soiled, quires R-S heavily browned, also soiled), contemporary calf (rebacked). [Courtney & Smith p. 73] With the first edition of Charles Burney's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio (3 vols., London, 1796), and 6 other works in 5 volumes. (10)

Auction archive: Lot number 126
Auction:
Datum:
20 Sep 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Try LotSearch

Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!

  • Search lots and bid
  • Price database and artist analysis
  • Alerts for your searches
Create an alert now!

Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.

Create an alert